Last week on The Entertainment Dome, Attack on Titan prompted me to pull out the conspiracy board once more, James had opinions to share on some new games he played and we weren’t particularly impressed with some of the new Pokémon announcements.
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The Entertainment Dome Episode 113 – Starring Bill Nighy as Mewtwo
This week on The Entertainment Dome, the latest Attack on Titan episode leaves me questioning what could happen next, James has a good old rant about the Game of Thrones finale and we both praise the Detective Pikachu movie.
The Entertainment Dome Episode 112 – Recap on Titan
This week on The Entertainment Dome, James and I finally resume our Attack on Titan recaps and cover three episodes, before moving on to sharing our quick thoughts on both Persona 5 Royal and Persona 5 Scramble.
The Entertainment Dome Episode 111 – We’re Out of the Endgame
Last week on The Entertainment Dome, James and I went into Avengers: Endgame, and came out the other side with all sorts of emotions. So enjoy our spoiler-filled, hour-long, unstructured ramble of this grand, cinematic finale.
Nier: Automata – My First Yoko Taro Game
“Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of life and death. Is this a curse? Or some kind of punishment? I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle…and wonder if we’ll ever get the chance to kill him.”
These are the first lines of dialogue you hear in Nier: Automata, and if this doesn’t immediately tell you what kind of game you’re about to experience, then you are in for one hell of a trip; one that could only have come from a director like Yoko Taro. Anyone familiar with his work kind of had an idea for what to expect but for a newcomer like myself, no amount of research into his previous games could prepare me for what this one had in store. I thought I knew after listening to those opening lines, but that was, appropriately and obviously, only the beginning. First, though, let’s get some backstory out of the way. Continue reading
The Entertainment Dome Episode 110 – The Rise of Joker
This week on The Entertainment Dome, we share our thoughts and theories on the new Star Wars trailer and get appropriately hyped over the gameplay trailer for Joker’s appearance in Super Smash Bros.
Favourite Moments in Fiction #18 – Peach Joins the Party (Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle)
WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
It’s very easy to make fun of Princess Peach considering her track record for being kidnapped, so I greatly appreciate any game that allows her to be more than the damsel-in-distress and actually take part in any sort of ass-kickery. Take Ubisoft’s strategy RPG crossover – I was already on board with seeing Mario packing heat but even arming sweet, innocent Peach? The image of her holding a giant shotgun is amazing on it’s own but Ubisoft went one step further. Continue reading
The Entertainment Dome Episode 109 – Persona 5 Battle Royale
This week on The Entertainment Dome, we try (and fail) to not get distracted from our talks about the Persona 5: The Royal teaser, the announcement of a Vampire: The Masquerade sequel and James becoming a fan of PlayStation VR.
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle – The Best Crossover No One Wanted
I remember when this game was first leaked. So many people refused to believe it was even remotely true. A strategy-RPG crossover game starring Nintendo’s beloved Super Mario and Ubisoft’s iconic Raving Rabbids? Admittedly, it did sound so ludicrous that it just had to be fake but cut to E3 2017 and Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was officially announced. It was all real. But what was even more surprising was that it looked really good.
The Rabbids’ name had certainly got a bit of a bad rap over the years due to many finding them obnoxious and annoying (before the Minions came along and managed to somehow be worse), but even some of the loudest dissenters couldn’t help but admit to being intrigued by this bizarre union between Nintendo and Ubisoft.
The game went on to become the best selling title on the Switch that wasn’t published by Nintendo and, as of September 2018, has sold over 2 million copies. This surprise smash hit won a lot of peoples’ hearts and I’ve been meaning to write up a review of it since the DLC came out last year. So let’s not waste any more time and dive right into the wonderfully, weird world of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. Continue reading
The Entertainment Dome Episode 108 – The Mandatory “Why Anthem’s Bad” Episode
Last week on the Entertainment Dome, James and I had a very rambly session, where we discuss the newly announced Pokémon games, James expresses his disappointment with Anthem and I try not to talk about the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie.
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