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I don't find HiDive's video quality too bad, but their audio quality is awful. That's especially damaging for a show like Oshi no Ko where music and voice performance are major parts of the story. I've wanted to support HiDive, but their catalogue has become so anaemic over the last couple of...

There are a few factors at play here. First, there's a difference in cultural standards about what constitutes 'good' acting. Those of us in the UK have primarily grown up exposed to US media (whether by choice or osmosis), and the US standard is that realism/naturalism are the only correct ways...

Mickey 17 Interstellar travel. Colonising another world. Aliens. Cloning. How is it possible for a movie containing all these things within the first half hour to be so boring? It doesn't help that the characters range from annoying to despicable. I can't say I had any remaining faith in...

I've made a few attempts to play The 3rd Birthday, but always get bored and give up within a couple of hours. The body-swapping combat sounds interesting on paper, but quickly gets tedious in practice. Speaking of body-swapping horror games, I tried Slitterhead a few months ago. It's so close...

The main roadblock for Parasite Eve is that Square never owned the IP. The first game is a sequel to a Japanese novel of the same name. That's the incident in Japan that you hear them refer to in the game. There was a live-action adaptation of the novel back in the 90s too. As I mentioned, the...

MVM are releasing Lycoris Recoil next year. I guess Aniplex finally started answering their emails! https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-10-03/mvm-announces-new-acquisitions-for-2026-including-lycoris-recoil/.229604

Sonic Racing Crossworlds This is the most fun I've had with a kart racer in over a decade. The dimension-hopping crossworlds system is the best new mechanic I've seen added to the genre since vehicle transformation; with so many tracks that you can be teleported to for the second lap, you'll...

Yeah, it's the storyboard book that kills it for me too. It's a shame because it's otherwise a nice-looking CE, but my amount of remaining storage space is so limited that I have to really mull over how I allocate every last centimetre.

I contacted AL about the odd situation with the Call of the Night pricing. They confirmed that the standard edition price was an error and they have corrected it, so it's now at the intended pre-order price of £30.

Usagi is known for being late.

We have Parasite Eve at home. Seriously though, this looks pretty good. Considering that Squenix had probably lost the licence to the Parasite Eve name by the time the awkwardly titled The 3rd Birthday was released on PSP, we will likely never get a new or remade official game.

Call of the Night early bird is up, but for some reason both versions are listed with the same SRP of £70 and discounted price of £40.

Was it Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps?

Looks like the Kickstarter campaign was in October 2021, so four years ago. The original planned shipping date was August 2022! Yikes, I hadn't heard about that.

The other issue is how long is left on Nozomi's licence. Considering how long it took to complete the Kickstarter set, I wouldn't be surprised if the rights expire before they could put out a general release version, even if there was any will within Crunchyroll to produce one. Despite having...

Speaking of jiggle, I'm currently playing Turret Girls. It's essentially 3D Space Invaders with a tower defence twist and some fan service. The gameplay is a lot of fun, and it doesn't hurt that the heroine's clothes fall off when she gets hit. The Earth defence force in this game is called...

My superpower strikes again!

I didn't back the Dirty Pair Kickstarter (and it wouldn't have made a difference if I had...), so I figured it was time to fill in the gaps in my collection. This is the second half of the TV series and the Flash OAVs. I find that I enjoy the Dirty Pair anime more than I used to. Back in the...