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Action comedy drama-hybrid shows like The Karate Kid always rely on a set formula: fish out of water, adapts, finds friends and love, sort out their internal conflict, fights a comically evil rival, enters fighting tournament to solve most of the conundrums they're in (and beat up said rival), and they're expected to win. Stuff like this is why web...
Big anime series usually have their publishing & distribution houses show off the first few episodes compiled in movie form, for the sake of drumming up hype and also giving its assigned animators time to finish up the rest of the upcoming season. The latest big anime to experience this common trend is Dan Da Dan, a shonen anime adaptation abou...
Platform(s): PS5 (version reviewed), Xbox Series, PC Genre: Soulslike Survival Roguelike I’ve never slain a single boss in Elden Ring. In fact, I’ve yet to actually touch the game. Or any Soulslike, for that matter. Yes, yes—I can already hear the collective gasp of sweaty keyboard warriors calling for my public execution. But alas, here ...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Xbox Series, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch Genre: Metroidvania, Action-Adventure, Top-Down, Pixel Art, 2D Every once in a while, there comes an indie game that really signals the sign of its influence and time period, to the point where it really feels like a well thought-out tribute. Develope...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed) Genre: Action, Adventure, Co-Op, Food, Southeast Asia Culture In game design, it's normal to crib from existing and established ideas while putting neat spins on it to differentiate it from their own. Case in point, Everquest and World of WarCraft; the latter's creator Blizzard took ideas from an established g...
There’s a good chance that, over two decades on, most people have forgotten just how emotionally charged the original Lilo & Stitch really was. Yes, it’s a film about a blue alien who looks like what you'd get if a Gremlin swallowed a plushie and got electrocuted—but beneath the chaos and Elvis soundtrack, it was also about a family barel...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Xbox Series, PlayStation 5 Genre: Action, RPG, Soulslike, Smithing These days, you really need a standout feature to elevate your future action game with double-A production values. Developer MercurySteam, after their major success with Metroid Dread a few years back, are returning to the days when they made ...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Xbox Series, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch Genre: JRPG, 2D, Pixel Art, Retro 2023's Sea of Stars wowed many, many Japanese role-playing game fans with its art style and gameplay. While its story starts off simplistic and its leads two-dimensional at times, it gets better and more epic as more layers unfold, ...
When you think "Tom Cruise-led action flick", you think big expansive locales and setpieces. The past Mission Impossible films have been exactly that: delivering on big action scenes, mixing them up with some semblance of subterfuge, and a little bit of conversation to set the context straight, with a few ties to past films. In fact, 2023's Mission...
Everything good must come to an end and what a befitting one it was for Andor Season Two. After three arcs comprising of nine, stellar episodes, surely the sophomore season of Andor cannot maintain its magnificent run with its closing, three-episode arc, right? Wrong. They ended it with a flourish, easily earning its place alongside the Break...
Platform(s): PS5 (version reviewed), Xbox Series, PC Genre: Modern Boomer Shooter You know, I’m 25 now—old enough to rent a car, not old enough to pretend I played the original DOOM without lying through my teeth. Back then, DOOM was that game the edgy kid with a pirated PC and absent parents raved about. Me? I was grinding multiplayer matc...
When you see Korean actor Ma Dong-Seok headlining a Korean movie, you can 100% bet that there's going to be a lot of punching and beatdowns courtesy of the actor's character. Whether it's zombies or organized crime, you can bet the Dong will administer punch-filled justice and stuff action sequences in whatever movie he's starring/producing. Hol...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), PS5, Xbox Series, PS4, Xbox One Genre: Roguelite Beat-em Up Over the past few years, the roguelite genre has gone through what can only be described as a second puberty—awkward at times, but surprisingly powerful. Born from the loins of classic RPGs, it’s now known for a very specific cocktail of sufferin...
It has all been building up to this. After 18 episodes of interpersonal conflict, sabotage and subterfuge, the tension reached its crescendo in this third arc as the much dreaded Ghorman Massacre is shown in all of its viciousness to screen. Half a season's worth of planning later, seeds of Dedra's scheme to incite a Ghorman resistance finally b...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), Nintendo Switch Genre: Action, Platformer, Indie From the makers of weird-ass shooter My Friend Pedro comes yet another unique run-and-gun 2D title with a twist: you let your guns do the jumping. In Shotgun Cop Man, made by DeadToast Entertainment, you play as the titular character as your job is to arrest...
Platform(s): PC (version reviewed), PS5, Xbox Series Genre: Open-World RPG Before Skyrim’s dragons or Starfield’s space sims, there was Oblivion—a beautiful mess of radiant AIs, potato-faced NPCs, and accidental godhood via alchemy. Now, it’s back. And it’s not just a slap of makeup—it’s had a full makeover, fake teeth and all. ...
Platform: PC Genre: Action, Adventure, Puzzle, Dark Fantasy, Top Down, Top-down action-adventure odyssey Moroi is what happens when you combine Romanian folklore with heavy metal, dark fantasy mixed with a David Lynch Fever Dream, and janky controls. You play as a bearded amnesiac who has to find his way out of the nightmarish landscape he...
Marvel's Thunderbolts* is out right now, and it's quite a showcase if you're into the 37th Marvel movie that continues the Marvel Cinematic Universe streak of storytelling and superhero theatrics. It is also essential viewing if you want to keep check of what's going on in the MCU film as it ties in to future MCU movies. In this feature, we're j...
In the current landscape where movie adaptations of popular video games are making bank and are doing alright for themselves, a stinker or two will eventually have to slip through the cracks. Be it studio obligations or projects going through development hell, it's only a matter of time when these adaptations don't end up as intended. That's the...
Marvel's Thunderbolts comicbook series is about a bunch of villains pretending to be heroes in what could be one of pop culture's best plot twists kept completely in the dark until its 1997 debut on shelves. Eventually, half of the team end up loving being a hero, eventually turning the fake superhero team legit, with a little help from Avengers' H...