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I know this out of my normal geeky remit but i saw it and just had to share it

Star Trek Enterprise Season 1 – Review

Enterprise season 1 when it first aired didn’t click with me, I dont know why exactly it may have been due to franchise fatigue seeing as i had watched star trek solidly for years in the past following Voyager all the way through & DS9, and even when i first heard the idea of Enterprise it really didn’t appeal to me in fact I thought it sucked I wanted to go further into the future to the 27 centuery, however i feel that if i was the age I am now I would love the idea. I did watch most of the series however I had forgotten large parts of the series.

When watching through this all again I was actually really enjoying it so much so that I want to plough through the other series, I found the quality of the episode to be mostly good, their is nothing really stand out about the season but they are largely enjoyable and it never feels a slog, their are a few episode where you can notice a dip in quality. My personal favorite episode are normally the ones in which the andorians are around mainly for the coombs factor. They do try and do some over reaching story arcs mainly involving the temporal cold wars now these story elements normally get a lot of hate from people however I secretly enjoy most stories involving time travel especially from the far future.

I would have liked to have seen some more charecter development in the show, it does feel very compact around the main three charecters in the series mirroring the original series however it does feel like I hardly know some characters such as Travis apart from the generic small bits of information such as how he was born on a transporter but you never get a sense of who he is. and perhaps this is where Enterprise mainly falls down, where as in shows like TNG & DS9 there was great character exploration in Enterprise I am never given that sense.

Visually the series is still as appealing as ever it always used to make me chuckle and still does that the series that is set furthest back in the past does look the best. but it is explained in one of the enterprise novels why their is a downgrade in looks of technology, however their is no real idea why suddenly the womens uniform swapped from a normal jumpsuit to a dress.

I have found this series to be very enjoyable and fun and much better than I remember it to be and I am really looking forward to getting the next series.

Star trek / dr who crossover comic

Mother of god make this so, is this not the coolest thing ever matt smith on the enterprise D oh my god i am about to explode this is going to be awesome. 11 with picard & data amy pond with riker, rory with worf this has so much potential you at IDW do not by any means fuck this up here me you must not fuck up potentially the most awesome comic ever, there was talk in 2004 of a dr who / enterprise tv cross over but never got made that could have been good but this has the potential to be great. oh my god this is the most awesome news i have heard this year. I am preordering this

from bleddingcool.com http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/02/10/scoop-doctor-who-star-trek-official-crossover/

Dragon Quest IX – Sentinels of the Starry Skies

I brought this game this time last year, I would often dabble a couple of hours here and there until early in january where in the past month I have but about 24 hours into it. This is my first outing into the Dragon Quest series and wont be my last.

The game in design and the way it plays is a very very very traditional JRPG, apparently the Unique selling points of this game compared to the other games are the online functionality and the customization, I haven’t at the point of writing this completed the extra downloadable quests however if i was to 100% the game like someone i saw online did it would take me 773 hours… However I really did enjoy the customization of this game the ability to design the look and the abilities of your party all the way through the game was actual a great way of helping me connect with the game. However I found the main quest to be fun and engaging, although it is very simple of finding 7 Fyggs ( some other things happen)  and then beating the final bad guy. although it did feel a bit generic I still found it fun enough to play. Their was some good link up for the story line and some threads that was done earlier and i did enjoy how some of it did feel like it all slotted together .

Also there didn’t really feel like long period of grinding required for me to progress yes their we occasions when I had to but i never felt like I have to stay in a field for 6 hours to kill random enemies

Ther enemies in this game are another reason why I felt this game worked with me where as with other JRPG’s I had tried all the monsters and bad guys seemed to be the most serious thing ever, however in this game they all seemed to be somewhat light hearted , By this I mean there were some really fun enemies such as cucumbers with spears and bags of money that attack you. To me this felt great it never felt to overly serious and grave  in contrast to some final fantasy games where every cutscene makes you feel depressed with the state of the world.

Graphically I didnt really like the big heads or DK mode look of the characters I think i would have prefered with people all in regular proportions however i wonder if part of this was due to the DS’s technical limitations and how much was down to options. Also another improvement i would have like to have seen would be allow you to make a full save anywhere you want  I just got annoyed having to run to the church every so often to save.

I would have to say if you have never played a JRPG game before in your life and don’t know if you would enjoy them play this game first the game is just the ultimate game for beginners such as my self, this game is so much fun its all ready in my game of the year candidates 9/10

The Simpsons Arcade game

 

So when i was younger when ever i went on holiday with my parents there was always an arcade nearby on the pier and one of the fun things that i used to love doing as a 4-7 year old was to play on this game with my parents I loved it and for years afterwards i would ask people why had no goddam console version of this game been made yet and i was waiting for the next 20 years but totday the day has arrived I own the simpsons arcade game.

Ok now if you have never played this game before you probably wont get the same level of fun an enjoyment as I got out of it thats because there is a huge nostalgic factor i have with this game, the game keeps its self faithful to the original arcade port with the original graphics et al, and even has a mock arcade game boarder around the screen to make you think that you are playing the game

the game play is side scrolling beatem up game where you have the options to be bart homer, marge and lisa and play though the game ether in multiplayer online with up to 4 people or by your self, I beat the game earlier as Homer, the game takes about 45 minutes to get from end to end, I started the game with 40 credits in the system and still had 30 in the end of it. from my memory homer was the hardest character to play as due to him not having a range attack.

although playing this game i am aware of hell generic it can bee seen just a game with a simpsons skin on it. It does feel like their is very little of the simpsons brand humour in this 😦 and perhaps there could have been more bonuses for winning some of the mini games. but this game as quite a few game modes in this and the ability to play online can lead to a lot of replay value.

Like i said if you have played this game as a kid and were as amazed and wanted more of it as i did you will love this game if you have never played this game and want to see what the hype is about try the demo first but I love it 8/10