#first kill review

[izzyzalezbian]

[mousewife-stash]

also since this is a blog where i obviously have a lot to say about both creature design + smt, i thought it'd be fun to show off my personal array of favorite demons/personae from the franchise...i'm still kinda iffy on doi as lead designer (and, like, I don't even think it's his fault, he has big shoes to fill and it seems to me atlus kinda wants him to be everything at once) but adramelech is soooooooo slay

[inflammatoryfandomblog]

"killmonger is an example of the writers making the person advocating for change crazy so the audience couldn't take him seriously" did people actually watch Black Panther or

[demadogs]

im really upset ellie didnt have a heartfelt coming out with joel

[xxplastic-cubexx]

on the absolute highest of keys james mcavoy does pull off bald charles really well and i wish we got another movie with bald james mcavoy

[review-anon]

Who will catch it?

I'm not sure, first we don't even have Pokeballs.

You didn't bring any with you?

Well sorry for not bringing them when going to a Godzilla world, because that would be clearly a place for me to find Pokemon.

There's also the question who's gonna have it.

I already gave that Emboar I got back in the Christmas Concert to Yuki, and I have Tyranitar so its a question if one of you guys could have it.

I pass, Snorlaxes require a lot of food to keep happy.

I also don't think it really suits me per say. Same with Makiroll.

I think when Harakawa and Hanato bring Iruma over here we can ask them if they want the Snorlax, as I think having two Dynamax Pokemon could be handy for the Kaiju fight we are going to have.

Actually Sora that Snorlax is Gigantamaxing not Dynamaxing.

Either way it could be helpful to have two of them.

[chromatophorium]

Fuck. There is a Splatoon spinoff coming out. I'm super excited fo that (It looks so cool! ...now I'm kinda glad my brother bought a switch 2 even though I encouraged him to wait for reviews to see if it was worth it) BUT that also means I gotta finish my video showing off my au thing before the spin-off potentially contradicts facts I made up for the au thing!!! And I don't wanna think about it currently, because I'm enjoying my Detco obsession and deltarune might also take up some space currently....

[liebelesbe]

i love those silly little "satisfying" games where you have to like, sort makeup or mow a lawn or clean a rug and stuff. HOWEVER it has happened MULTIPLE times now that there's a level where you have to kill bugs?? These are CUTESY games how is killing bugs cute at all!!

[selkiefinalist]

oh to be a mysterious well-dressed woman living in a cave in the side of a mountain

[the-gayest-show]

Through the Looking Back Glass Thoughts/Analysis

I LOVED this episode. It was very endearing and honestly heartwarming (near the end that is) and overall one of my top episodes in the series!

First off, Sofia leaning on Cedric for help with homework is so fucking CUTE. Their dynamic makes me jump up for joy, and Sofia really trusts HIM to get the job done 🥺 Even when Cordelia appears and offers to help, Sofia is still adamant to only have Cedric do it 🥺🥺🥺🥺

It's a small detail, but I think Cedric's pose changes slightly when his sister is around? Like, he's got that hunch back pose that he had in earlier seasons when she's there, it's crazy. There's probably more screenshots I could gather on this but yeah.

The song that comes up in this scene.... mmmm art. Here's me ranting about it.

I think the saddest part of the episode is really seeing Cedric and Cordelia's past dynamic because I genuinely loved it? Like. When they hugged here it was so heartwarming. The nicknames (Cordy, Ceddy) were so cute as well, I guess when they don't use the nicknames in the beginning it's to show the deterioration of their relationship over time, and somewhere in the end of this episode, Cedric starts using the nickname Cordy again which really cements the mending of the relationship. (I did get taken off guard when Cordelia called him Ceddy in the flashback bc I've always associated it with Calista. Maybe Cordelia said it around Calista and she picked it up? IDK)

Cedric is also shown to be really good at magic here. Bro did a spell that was apparently "too advanced" or something? And let's not even begin to discuss the lore implication for WANDLESS MAGIC. BRO TRIED TO REVERSE A SPELL WITH HIS BARE HANDS. THIS MAKES ALREADY INTERESTING STF LORE MUCH MORE INTERESTING.

I find it so interesting that the incident (despite having no known cause at the time) was quite literally blamed on Cedric almost immediately and everyone went with it? Like Cordelia shouts "he ruined it" and no one questions this??? Not even Cedric fending for himself worked? Whoever said in a Tumblr post that this implies that Cedric was treated like some kind of bungler/looked down upon even before this is probably right. Because why else is it just normal for everyone to jump to this conclusion? His parents don't do SHIT about it, and I'm assuming that Goodwyn holds this grudge too (if eps like Mystic Meadows mean anything). Why are they holding onto this for so long? Literally I get holding a bit of resentment but everyone makes mistakes....

Idk this went off, but basically, oof living in your father's shadow was hard AF especially with one mistake people reference in your presence.

Despite this event happening over 30 years ago, it's still somehow the ONE thing people defined him for for years. This episode really further contextualizes his motivations for wanting to become king before season 4. Imagine being rejected from society for YEARS, being belittled and made fun of, people tearing you apart for a mistake you made when you were 9-10 YEARS OLD, it's crazy. 100% that took a toll on him, something you can see in this episode and literally most episodes. It's just really sad.

I'm glad that Sofia and Calista were able to help the both of them realize that it wasn't actually Cedric's fault (something Cordelia should've realized years ago, but seeing the event happen as it did was more a confirmation for Cedric than anything). Cordelia and Cedric forgiving each other was a bit too fast considering everything but I'm glad their relationship is mending.

Credit where credit is due, she sticks up for him after this and lets Cedric do his thing and lets him help Sofia without any ifs and buts, it's sweet.

Personally, I feel that Cedric and Cordelia probably still have a semi-strained relationship after this ep (your sister being the reason you were made fun of for years, and that reason wasn't even valid to begin with defo is not smth you can recover fast from in a 22 min episode)

Also, it's not hard to believe the circumstances wouldn't have changed if the incident were truly Cedric's fault, but Cordelia needed a wakeup call I guess, that works.

Want to mention King Roland for a second because dude. Why is your first reaction to blame Cedric (again), instead of the 2 other magic users in the room (ESPECIALLY THE CHILD. Look I'm a Calista fan thru and thru but logically the blame would be shifted there to an extent??)

King Roland I thought we were over with this since Day of the Sorcerers?? What happened to being NICER to Cedric and maybe NOT blaming him for every little thing? Idk that kinda pissed me off. The fact that Cordelia was the only thing stopping Roland from interrogating the guy... THIS BEHAVIOUR IS WHY CEDRIC TRIED TO TAKE OVER YOUR KINGDOM!!! ROLAND THE 2ND YOU IDIOT!!!

In conclusion, love me a character focused episode that develops a backstory as well as a slight resolution. 1000/10 would re-experience this again.

[irmakkockan]

THE KILLING VOTE: IS IT REALLY A RED FLAG IF HE KILLS PEOPLE?

I’M DONE WITH THE HOT KOREAN PSYCHOPATHS. PLEASE. I NEED TO KEEP MY SANITY.

Why must I sit through YET ANOTHER show and hope that the child killer survives and also gives me another deranged smile? THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS AND IT WANTS THIS MURDERER.

The show itself? If you look up wasted potential in the dictionary, it’s just a still from The Killing Vote. As if it wasn’t enough that they completely fumbled the bag after Lee Minsoo’s death - THEY HAD TO KILL JIHOON TOO?! The AUDACITY.

I’m not even asking you to kill off Min Jiyoung (even though I HATED the ending), but at least take Joomin out or something? Every breath she took felt like a personal attack.

Honestly, BRING BACK MINSOO AND JIHOON YOU COWARDS.

Anyway, in short, the last 2 episodes should’ve stayed in the drafts.

Though, I deeply appreciate the homoerotic undertones of Minsoo being so obsessed and in love with Kwon Seok-joo that he LITERALLY killed his daughter just to make sure Seok-joo would focus solely on him. Like? The sheer deranged romantic devotion? YUM. Honestly, is it even a Korean murder drama if it’s not queer-coded?

Stop giving me hot lunatics. I keep giggling and making heart eyes. Pls.

[666glitter]

Code review went well today

[review-anon]

This isn't Jupitar

Alright if everyone's questions are sorted then I say its time for us to load up the consciousness transmitter and get ready to go to Pathos!

First let's get the memory flesh released through the portal.

*Miu goes over to a massive tank of white liquid that's besides the portal and gets the hose attached to it through the portal. Once safelty on the otherside, Miu pushes a button and soon the memory flesh starts to drain from the tank as its being pumped out within Pathos itself. Soon the tank is empty and Miu turns it off*

Alright that's the memory flesh all in Pathos! Now we just need to go into the consciousness transmitter chambers and we will be on the other side.

How do these work?

To make it as user friendly as possible, I've rigged it up so its similar to when we went into that VR world in our Killing Game.

Ah that makes it a lot easier then.

I'm not, as I have no idea how that works.

Yeah I'm lost there, I thought it worked like the Neo World Program.

Of course not, do you think we could fit something as big as that in here?

No this is just a small cubicle which has a chair with some straps and a headset. You strap yourself in to prevent disruption and then put the headset on and then the machine takes care of the rest.

Its not that difficult to use and it won't take long for your counciousness to go into the memory flesh.

And are those cubicles over there the transmission chambers? *Kaito points to 6 cubicles within the invention room*

That's them indeed so no more fucking time to waste, time to go inside and get our consciousness transmitted over!

See ya on the other side! *Miu goes inside one of the consciousness transmission chambers and lights begin to flash indicating her consciousness is being transmitted over*

Yep time to get this mission going. *Yamato also goes inside another chamber*

Welp no time to waste, its time to see an alien planet with my own eyes! *Kaito goes inside a transmission chamber*

*Maki without saying anything is also coming over to a chamber and heads inside*

Are you not feeling nervous about this Hanato?

I admit, I don't get this fancy tech stuff.

But if this means I can fight Kaiju then I'm all for it! *Mai goes inside a transmission chamber*

(Looks like I'm the last one left...if the others are going, I might as well...let's just hope that I remain in one piece)

*Sora then goes inside the only transmission chamber which isn't occupied. Inside as Miu described is a single chair with straps on it and a transmittor headset within it*

Okay...So I need to first sit down on this chair, get myself strapped in and then get the headset on.

*Sora goes over to the chair and sits down, noting its much comfier then she was expecting it to be. The straps were easy enough to find as Sora buckled herself onto the chair, making sure to put the helmet on top of her head but not completely on yet, until she's about to do the final straps, when she does put the helmet completely over her head. Soon the final strap was on, and the only thing Sora can do is push a button, which would seemly transmit her consciousness over*

(Here it goes...let's hope I'm okay.)

*Sora pushes the button and as soon as she did, she starts to feel light headed as her consciousness starts to slip away...almost as if she's leaving her body....

Moments later Sora's consciousness returns to her but she cannot feel any of her limbs*

(Did it work? Or am I...dead?)

*At first it seems as if Sora cannot see anything but then she slowly but surely starting to feel herself. First was her body, then it was her limbs, then her hands and feet got formed, but no movement as of yet, then her neck, head and eventually her face and hair.

Her limbs started to jolt and move and she could feel she was on very hard ground, then her senses aside from touch started to return. First came sound as Sora heard noises of meachincal whirrinlg, some chatter and noises she didn't recongise. Her smell came next which revealed the memory flesh smelled like plastic and the air smelled weird. And then...her sight came as Sora opened her eyes to see a completely alien landscape.

The sky was a werid reddish colour with a single red moon within the sky. Sora swore she could see a evil demonic face on the moon looking back at her, but she brushed this off as her mmind playing tricks on her. But the sky wasn't as weird as the location as the ground was all a rocky blueish colour alongisde jaggered blue mountains as far as the eye can see. Truly they were not on the Voidship or Earth anymore.

This moment of calm was interrupted by some mechiancal whirring as tiny insects or what looked like insects grabbed what looked to be clothing and threw it onto Sora, montioning her to use her limbs for the first time and get herself dressed. It wasn't easy as with Sora being much larger then normal she wasn't used to such force behind her fingers. But eventually she got herself dressed and with a great deal of focus, she was able to stand up on her feet*

Where...where are we?

And why does my voice sound deeper?

Hey Sora! Glad you got over!

*Yamato was waving over to her where the others were gathered all trying to get their bearings and making sure they don't fall over*

Don't just stand there, come over here!

Oh and be careful, your body is much larger then normal so you need some time to get used to it.

*Sora takes a foot out and starts to walk over, her movements are very shaky and clumsy and she has to hold out her arms to prevent herself from falling over

But they are here...they are now in Pathos*

[peaches2217]

Today is a huge day! Why’s that? Why, today’s the one year anniversary of the start of my current hyperfixation!

My girlfriend joked that I’d be that little boy soon enough, and I don’t think either of us realized just how correct she would be 😂 I remember stopping in the doorway while I was leaving the theater, sincerely considering turning around and getting a ticket for the next showing. I hadn’t felt so thoroughly uplifted and comforted by a movie since seeing KFP2 for the first time twelve years earlier. I ended up watching it eight times before it left theaters.

And in about two weeks, I’ll be celebrating another anniversary: the day I finally gave in and succumbed to the Mareach brainrot.

[watchingeverydcmovie]

Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

I am watching every movie based on a DC publication in release order, for more information, see my pinned post.

First movie, Adventures of Captain Marvel from 1941.

Release Date: 3/28/1941 (This is the offical release date but also confusingly not the date the film was released, but instead the date that the sixth chapter was made available to film exchanges.) IMDB Rating: 7.2 Age Rating: Passed Runtime: 3 Hours, 36 Minutes/12 Chapters

GENERAL -

Adventures of Captain Marvel is considered the first comic book character adaptation ever. Captain Marvel (now known as Shazam) was not owned by DC at the time of this serials released.

In general, the plot is about Billy Batson going on an archological expodition with a team, meeting a wizard, gaining superpowers, and then his team steals this artifact and then they're hunted down by a masked villan called the Scorpian who they very quickly realize is a member of their own group.

MY REVIEW -

Is this movie good? Questionable.

It has not aged well, and I wasn't expecting it to have, but oh boy, is there a lot of rascim in this thing. Otherwise, it's engaging enough, if repetative, and it's very often uninentionally funny. The format that serials of the time used means that every chapter ends with a cliffhanger, which often leads to unnecessary drama being added that you can guess the resolution to before watching the next part. This also didn't need to be as long as it is, and there are often plot points that were definitely added just to add runtime.

That being said, I think Frank Coghlan, Jr. as Billy is an extremely likeable lead. He's generally sweet and charasmatic, and I like the movie most when Billy, the female lead Betty, and their friend Whitey are together.

I think the action scenes are well choreographed if a little silly, and all of the actors are pretty good overall.

Final Rating: 4.5/10

Would I watch this again? No. Maybe if it was shorter.

RANDOM THOUGHTS -

Billy Batson spends this entire movie getting knocked unconcious. In fact, all of the characters do. There is so much head trauma in this movie, it's unreasonable, but extremely unintentinally funny. I wish I had coutned how many scenes end with or contain a character just getting knocked on the head and going unconcious, it has to be upward of twenty. Also, when Billy wakes up, he's always gaged, even if other charcters who are with him aren't. This makes sense considered that he has to say the word "Shazam" in order to turn into Captain Marvel. However, it absolutely *doesn't* make sense when you add the knowlege that absolutely nobody knows he's Captain Marvel or that Captain Marvel needs to speak to use his superpowers.

There's one scene where Captain Marvel rescues Betty from a group that kidnapped her and then turns back to Billy before she wakes up. Before she got kidnapped, she was attempting to get to a certain location before the bad guys, and Billy assures that he'll get there faster on his plane, and then brushes her off when she attempts to go with him. I saw this and was thinking "Ah, yes, Billy Batson, who is Captain Marvel, who can fly, does not actually own a plane, and will instead turn into Captain Marvel and simply fly there with his superpowers." Imagine my surprise, when Billy then goes to airport and gets into an actual fucking airplane. Why did that do that?? What was the point??????? The man can FLY.

I think I am far to used to modern superhero comics and movies where, like, "should the hero kill the villain" is posed as a tough moral quandry and the answer is usually "absolutely not", because Captain Marvel kills SO MANY PEOPLE. And not even the main villain, someone else kills the main villain, Billy just throws a henchman off the roof of a parking garage at some point. He gets his powers and immidiately goes lethal.

I'm also extremely used to the Captain Marvel/Shazam narrative of "very young boy gets superpowers and looks like an adult", which means that this movie's "young adult man gets superpowers and turns into a just slightly older but different man" is very funny.

FUN FACTS -

To achieve the special effect of Captain Marvel's transformation, the production team apparently put a trough of flash powder in front of Frank Coghlan, Jr. who played Billy and ignited it, which apparently lead to Frank Coghlan, Jr. losing a few eyebrows if the wind was particularly unfavorable.

Frank Coghlan, Jr. also apparently did not know who Captain Marvel or Billy Batson were before getting the role.

They used a paper mache dummy to achieve the flying effects from far away. It is incredibly obvious when they do this and also very funny.

[royal-misfit]

The Painscreek Killings Review (Spoiler Free)

Vivian Roberts, the wife of the former mayor of the village of Painscreek was found murdered outside her mansion in July 1995. Four years later, the case is still unsolved, and the village has been abandoned. With the auction of the land almost complete, it's only a matter a time before Painscreek is bulldozed and any chance of this crime being solved gone forever. You play as reporter Janet Kelly, it's up to you to find out what happened the summer of 1995 and bring the truth to light. Along the way, you'll dive deeper into the personal lives of the former residents of the village and uncover the dark secrets of the inhabitants.

The Painscreek Killings takes a unique approach to the detective genre. For one, there are no suspects to interview/interrogate. You as the player are all alone in Painscreek, a ghost town full of the belongings of residents that left two years before the start of the game. Instead, you learn more about the people of the village through the diaries you find skewed around the map, alongside keys and other clues to help you progress. There is no quest marker to help you keep track of everything. All you have is a camera, a documents page, and a map screen (that you cannot edit). You are as close to a real life detective the game designers could create for a mystery game.

There is little dialogue in the game itself, as mentioned you came to the village alone, most dialogue that exists comes from the very beginning (a co-worker of yours explains why you're at Painscreek) and a few voicemails left by the villagers before they left. That's not to say the game is silent. The designers knew the importance of music for setting the tone and atmosphere of their game. Every location has a music track that perfectly conveys the dread and tension that comes with exploring an abandoned place. The moments where the sound cuts out completely had me feeling so tense I was tempted to step away from the game entirely, but the story and need to find answers kept me coming back.

It's hard to talk about the story in games like this, because the game is the story. Most summaries of the plot would spoil the twists and reveals that are integral to the mystery genre. I will say that the writers of the game did a phenomenal job keeping me invested in not only the main mystery of the game but also the side mysteries as well. If you pay attention to all the clues, you should have no problem finding the killer. Some players might find fault with the last section of the game due to an admittedly abrupt tonal shift, but the sequence is fairly short and didn't hurt the overall experience I had. Final Score: 8/10

Positives:

Masterful use of atmosphere and tone

Compelling characters and beautifully crafted story

Plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing

Negatives:

Repetitive gameplay loop might be boring to some players

Final sequence of the game can be extremely jarring.

I highly recommend checking The Painscreek Killings out if you are at all interested in mystery games. The game is normally around $20 on steam, but it's currently 75% off until June 24th.