Luigi’s mansion dark moon quick review

Imma keep it real short for this one since the game came out back in 2013.

·         At first the controls are weird without the dual stick but you get used to it after a while.

·         The puzzles are fun to figure out and sometimes stump you.

·         The game is very casual in the sense that you be like “hey I have like 40 mins free let me hit up a mission or two of mansion.

·         Story is comical and light hearted. (Luigi is always dope!)

Overall:

·         Very solid casual game but hardcore stay away

8/10 as a game very Nintendo

Kong: Skull Island Review

So this movie has been getting a bad rep lately from pro film critics. The main complaint I’m seeing is that they watch it expecting super deep and well developed human characters. I personally just don’t see why you would care about the people in a monster movie, I’ve heard it said that “if all you want is to watch giant CGI monsters fight then you must be 12 years old.” Maybe I just want that feeling of being a kid again and mindlessly watching impossible sized monsters fight. Seems fun to me.

The actual movie, as a movie, is not that great, but as a monster movie it’s enjoyable. People also claim that you need to just rate movies as a whole and not to subcategorize them. I also don’t believe this. For example what if little Billy went to see a musical but he hates musicals but the reviews for the movie say it’s amazing but never actually mention that it’s a musical. So he sits down and BAM! Songs start playing and singing starts up. Billy is pissed, but if those reviews had said as a musical then he would have just said ew and moved on with his life. See what I’m saying. my point is people want to know what they getting into.

This is the case for Kong: Skull Island. As a movie, the human characters were bland and boring. The movie does try to write in some personality for all of them but it all comes off as cheesy dialogue. The only well written characters in the film were Samuel L. Jackson and John C. Reillys. Jackson gets a little extra attention for his character because he ends up being the “main villain” and Reilly’s character gets his spotlight in the beginning. People have said that Reilly doesn’t fit well in the film but I believe that his personality and comedy is perfect for the narrative.

Skull Island itself looked pretty aight. There were some times where you could easily tell it was green screen and it did look bad. Some of the creatures that pop up were down right frightening, one in particular had the whole theatre freaking out, it was hilarious.

Now our boi Kong tho. He was LIT. he’s HUGE and when he fights you feel like he is powerful. They gotta size him up for the TBA Godzilla VS Kong reboot. He’s also in the movie for a whole lot of time. If you are going to see this movie for Kong it definitely delivers. He has a good number of fights and he is just the best part of the whole film.

Overall this movie delivers on what it’s meant to do, introduce King Kong. If you are looking for an enjoyable monster movie this film gives you that.

*THERE IS A POST CREDIT SCENE*

TL:DR-  as a film- 5-6/10

·         Bad green screen at times

·         Boring and bland human characters

·         Great fights

·         Great monsters that inhabit the world of Skull Island 

·         Bad logic at times (why can humans out run a monster whose stride is 10x their size???)

AS A MONSTER MOVIE 8/10

·         Main monster Kong in it for a good portion of the film

·         Solid fights

·         Great monster design

HUGE SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY!!!:

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Story review

Man o man! This story! Oh, boi! This will be short. The story itself is not long. The story starts with the old man at the start but once he tells you about the calamity and gives you the paraglider, you can beat the game at that point. The guardians and memories are all optional quests. Do they help? Of course,! But, it doesn’t feel like there is any real reason to dooo them. You do them because they are main quests and you know they are needed to make the fight with calamity Ganon easier. The game does not give you any real motivation to gather the guardians. The most story you get is from the memories Impa sends you out to get once you fix your sheikah slate, but even then, all the cutscenes and story boils down to is “destiny.” The cutscenes focus on Zelda talking about her destiny to be a princess and to not help with the calamity when she wants to help. She is in pain and wants to fight her destiny while she calls you out for following your destiny (being a royal guard).

The divine beast champions who are the people who control their respective divine beast each have great personalities. They are well written and it’s a shame that you only see them for such a short time.

I guess the story ultimately is just fighting to save the land of hyrule and for some that may be enough motivation. For myself, I need the villain to also have a reason to commit heinous acts. Throughout the entire adventure from great plateu to hyrule castle there are no enemies that talk or anyone that summoned Ganon. Ganon just appeared one day. They say he is just calamity incarnate but there had to have been some reason for ganon to appear even 10,000 years ago. Maybe I missed it cuz I’m dumb but I didn’t see any real reason for Ganon to appear.

Welp, to summarize all this:

·         There are no active villains, calamity Ganon just exists.

·         You can skip all the divine beasts thus skipping characters and “story arcs”

·         I felt like Zelda was whiney but yes, she was in pain.

·         It’s your destiny plot. So, if you like that there it is.

·         Well written side characters but are only around for a short time.

TL:DR-

slightly above average 6/10 story.

No motivation to fight Ganon, no true villains.

No villain motivation.  

80% of story is skippable (This was intentional by Nintendo)

Breath of the wild quick impressions

At the time of this writing I have 20 hours logged in Zelda, and wow! It is hands down, one of the BEST game I have played in the past decade. The amount of freedom the game gives you after a quick intro rivals that of skyrim. After some quick trials used to demonstrate the basics of what the game has to offer you are offered a waypoint to a new location and from then on you are on your own. You can choose to follow the waypoint or just explore anywhere. The durability of weapons is a problem in that they break so easily but there are plenty of weapons around that it just becomes a nonissue. Combat is exciting and fast paced, the story so far is interesting but I believe it to be a very long time before completion because there is just too much around the area that can be interacted with that you get distracted.

So overall quick impressions this game is incredible a must buy game for both casuals and hardcore audiences alike. 10/10 

Introduction

WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!

           It's ya boi, PBJ10 here to bring you first impressions, reviews, commentary, and news about gaming. that's pretty much what I am going to be about. This is more for personal fun but i believe discussion among readers could spark and then the real fun can begin. I will be trying to use the same format for all my reviews as follows: 

•  Pros and Cons list for both casual and hardcore game audiences as well as individual numbered rating for hardcore and casual audiences.
• Comments on graphics, art direction, music and sound design
• Gameplay, and overall gamefeel.
• Story 

For now this is what i'm about and hope that this blog will get better and better as time goes on, but for now, i'm probably just going to be writing to myself. If one person reads this I will label it as a success!