#horizon reviews

[notbecauseofvictories]

it would be funny in a horrible, helpless way, if I've spent all month in a funk---trying various things to break out of it, or at least do something productive---when I just needed to go back to my parents' house for a second visit and insist I leave early, refusing to take no for an answer.

[jvgsjeff]

My Nintendo Switch 2024 Year in Review

[anime-grimmy-art]

With the FTIYS results going to be the big blast at the end of the year, thought I'd post my Art Year in Review today!

Imma be honest, I am so suprised how much I drew this year. With me starting my first full time job plus celebrating and therefore working for my music group's anniversary, I thought I'd neither have the time, energy nor motivation to draw a bunch. Glad to see I proved myself wrong lmao.

Gotta hand it to Haikaveh for having a chokehold on me for HALF A YEAR. That is so long for me. But come June it seems my brain couldnt properly latch onto anything. Well, MH Wilds is coming in February, soooo, I have a feeling next year is gonna have a MH phase XD

Also a big suprise is the many animations/vids I did this year. Last year was pretty comic heavy, which was the case this year too, even if most never got posted, but to think I would make a, for my standards, proper 2:30 minutes long video, never would have guessed. I also probably made my best animatic yet. While the Harpy Hare animatic is my pride and joy of this year, I gotta hand it to the UT video for getting the best comments Ive ever gotten. To this day, I still get so many "How dare you?!" and "Ouch, didnt need you to break my heart." Not to mention how often Ive been uninvited from UT themed birthday parties.

All in all, I did not really make many improvements, but I think i took it a bit easier this year and through that found some new techniques and brush settings that make work a lot easier now.

Aaaanyways, lets see what 2025 is gonna bring!

[ecargmura]

Pokemon Horizons Episode 66 Review - School Hacking Incident

We’re closing in on the finale of Terastal Debut, and we’re seeing some major growth for our young protagonists. The difference between the penultimate episode of Terastal Debut and the penultimate episode of Shine of Terapagos is very major. While both involve the Explorers, the kids are now more capable.

Like with the end of the Basics test, Clavell lets the students have fun by hosting another battle tournament. I do like that they’re so eager to let the students battle so often. The failed students are still allowed to Terastal, but it’d be the last time they do it as failed students would have to return their orbs after the day is over. Other than Liko, the only other known person who failed is Bocco, the Dot look-alike.

I do like that there are lots of callbacks of episodes 43 and 44 in this one. Episode 43 had Liko and Roy do a Multi Battle against Sidian and Coral with Liko vs Sidian and Roy vs Coral, but the battle was called off. In this episode, the same matchup from before happens, but Liko and Roy are more experienced now. Floragato is no longer a Sprigatito and Liko even uses Terastal to beat Sidian. Even though she failed her exam and is only supposed to use Terastal during the battle tournament, but Sidian used it illegally, so Liko did the same.

With Roy and Coral, no one used Terastal, but it’s nice to finally see Fuecoco get a win from Glalie after battling against it twice. One little detail I like from the Roy battle is that it was originally in the art room, but he didn’t want to destroy the artwork, so he used Kilowattrel to move to another location. It’s really sweet that he’s so considerate of the students’ hard work when it comes to their schoolwork. Coral didn’t really care if it gets damaged or not, but still followed Roy to the new location.

There also seems to be a budding rivalry between Dot and Chalce now that Dot is more involved. I hope that they’ll get another battle in a future arc; it does suck that Dot’s essentially the only one who “failed” her battle. I do like that the kids know that “Sandwich”, “Onigiri” and “Agepan” are Explorer members, but they never knew their names until now. Sidian gives Liko his name while Coral and Chalce reveal theirs to Roy and Dot. I do like that giving their names is like a sign that they acknowledge them as worthy opponents or something…

Remember what I wrote in my review of Episode 63 in that Grusha was being harsh towards Liko because he wanted her to prove him wrong? I was right! Liko did prove Grusha wrong, but in a different way, however. He was there to witness her battle against Sidian and saw that she used Terastal despite being forbidden from doing so because she has something to protect. He even mentions that Liko fights better when she’s battling for self-defense or to protect something rather than competitively. It was nice that he went all the way to Clavell’s office to change his mind about failing Liko since she protected the school from the Explorers and did not allow the incident to escalate into something disastrous. I think it’s a nice reward for Liko’s efforts. People might see it as a “pity badge” sort of thing like how Ash got some badges in Kanto out of pity, but sometimes, hard work deserves good rewards.

I was a tad disappointed that Penny wasn’t more involved with the episode. Sure, she did try to prevent Chalce from hacking the system, and that her role in the story is to be the school and league’s tech person, but it does feel odd that she seemed like she’d play an important part, but does get sidelined as the story is about Liko and co. Still, it was nice seeing more of Penny.

I also like that the kids’ second Pokemon were used in the episode. Liko let Hattrem out of her ball to heal the security guard and his Psyduck while she went on ahead. Hattrem was also the key figure to let Grusha stay back and witness Liko fight against Sidian. Roy used Kilowattrel to move locations. Dot used Tinkatink to destroy the computer, but got the wrong one. It’s nice to see their other Pokemon be more involved now that the kids have grown as capable Trainers.

I think we were long overdue for an eventual Liko vs Roy match, but it seems that the finale will finally showcase it. I think it’s the perfect way to end off this arc. They’ve been training buddies, but now they’re opponents for the friendly battle tournament. Both were rookie trainers, but now have grown so much. Who do you think will win? I honestly think it’ll be a draw.

[bidoofcrossing]

Review - LEGO Animal Crossing: Bunnie's Outdoor Activities (77047) LEGO Animal Crossing: Bunnie's Outdoor Activities (77047) offers a delightful blend of the popular Animal Crossing video game and the iconic LEGO building experience. With meticulous attention to detail, this set captures the essence of the beloved game, and you can view our thoughts below!

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[simonbreeze]

Movie Night!

It's October, 80s movies all done. I thought I would kick off with something a bit scary.... Event Horizon.

Infinite space - Infinite terror

Event Horizon is about a rescue crew that investigates the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years. The crew discovers an unimaginable interstellar horror that tests their sanity and souls. 

Event Horizon has aged well. Still a great looking, well acted and poop your pants scary movie! Having seen this movie more than once over the years, it still surprises me how Event Horizon still manages to be creepy, tense and engaging. Yes, the story and acting can be a little cheesy in places, but generally, a very solid science fiction horror movie.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[videogamesnails]

Okay to start us off, first up: animal crossing new horizons.

Thicc. Rotund. Slimy. All things you want in a snail.

It always makes me sad when you fail to catch them how they roll down the bush and bounce on the ground. Be careful of their shell!!!

Rating: ⭐️S tier (snail tier)⭐️

[kellelkallel]

AETHER recovered (love the stylization of the names, by the way)! Did this yesterday but oh well.

Beta secured (finally).

Stillsands Tallneck done! So so fun, bringing down a Tallneck was truly a magical experience considering how absolutely impenetrable and monolithic they were in Zero Dawn. Can't wait to do more.

[hangfiretales]

quite possibly the best trade review feedback i could hope for 🌟

"i hope this series resolution doesn't happen too quickly" no chance of that, i am the Slow Burn guy 🌟🌟

[jupiterswasphouse]

WASP REVIEW - WASPS (ANIMAL CROSSING)

[Image ID: An image of the wasp in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, an orangey-yellow and black paper wasp]

This one is, while not perfect, pretty accurate, pretty standard! Very clearly a paper wasp from antenna to abdomen, very nice! I've seen the New Horizons model compared to Polistes dominula (Including by Nookipedia) and I was honestly tempted to say the same, however after some searching I'm actually more inclined to say this lady is closer to Polistes jokahamae!

[Image Source: KENPEI, Wikimedia Commons | Image ID: A photo of a black and almost orangey yellow paper wasp of the species Polistes jokahamae, also known as Polistes jadwigae /End IDs.]

Meanwhile, in City Folk and New Leaf, the model has a closer appearance to the Asian giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia.

[Image Source: First image, Yasunori Koide, Wikimedia Commons | Image IDs: First, an image of a black and orange Asian giant hornet, followed by its equivalent model in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which is very similar in City Folk /End IDs.]

Quite the charming model if I do say so myself! However, I do have to deduct some points, as while in the original Japanese version of the games this is apparently referred to with a term representative of hymenopterans in general, until New Horizons the English version referred to this critter as a Bee, which is, obviously, inaccurate.

The menu icons also appear a bit different to the species being represented here, with the City Folk icon looking especially like a honey bee

[Image ID: The illustrated menu icon for the "bee"/wasp in City Folk /End IDs.]

Now, in Animal Crossing, this species is one of the few species of insect that can actually harm the player, and while you may think I'd be arguing for a more positive representation of the animal here, while I would like if their benefits were put across in the game, the way they do things here is actually a perfectly understandable representation! In fact, the representation of wasps here may be more accurate than the game's representation of tarantulas and scorpions. The wasps here only attack specifically upon being provoked, when you shake the tree and the nest falls out, which I do think would in fact cause a nest of wasps to become quite agitated!

The museum curator of the Animal Crossing franchise, Blathers, also makes quite the fuss about wasps, however, he does this for quite literally any arthropod you present to him! While his comment in New Horizons could be worded better, it's fairly accurate! Blathers states that these paper wasps are aggressive predators, who hunt and eat other insects as well as almost any other kind of meat. This could be made more clear as the adults do not eat the meat themselves, however, it is specifically mentioned at the end of his paragraph that the wasps do in fact bring their prey home to their larva!

Oddly, despite the existence of honey bees as a separate species in New Horizons and the more accurate translation, their nests (Which are fairly accurately representative of Vespid nests, especially Polistes nests) are used in crafting recipes for honey bee related items like the Beekeeper's hive, Honeycomb wall, and Honeycomb flooring (Interestingly enough, the only other recipe it's used in the medicine used to fix stings)

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Overall (New Horizons): 8/10

Overall (Prior to AC:NH): 7/10 or 6/10 depending on version

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This wasp was suggested by @pizzaback , leave your wasp review suggestion in the replies or askbox!

[system-threat-detected]

Horizontober Prompts 2023

Horizontober is a bit like Inktober, but it's all about the wonderful world of Horizon! Posting the list a little bit early so ya'll can ruminate on that.

Favorite Machine

Oceanic

Recognize

Preserve

"Oh dear..."

Shine

Pass

Slump

Cruel

Favorite Tribe

Royal

Retire

Lounge

Array

Train

New

Facet

Tarot

Float

Favorite Outfit

Haze

Weave

Magic

Criminal

Wobble

Authority

Redo

Tree

Beam

Favorite Weapon

Future

For anyone wanting to participate, the tag I’ll be using for this year is #horizontober2023

I’ll try check out that tag every day in October, and I’ll absolutely be reblogging everything I find, though the fandom is getting so large that I might not be able to see every entry!

All art forms are welcome in Horizontober! Fic, poetry, gifsets/gifs, digital/traditional, animation, music, photomode, videos, nail art, Horizon flavored memes, cosplay, jewelry, mood boards, tattoos you wanna show off…. Uhhhhh, scrapbooking?? Horizon themed meals! Staged scenes of any figurines or Funkos you have?? Flower arrangements! Infodumps about plants found in the game! And other things I can’t think of right now! As long as it’s something you created or captured and relates to the prompt and the Horizon world somehow!

All participation levels are also welcome! You wanna try for every single day? Awesome! You just wanna do one or two prompts that speak to you? Fantastic!! You discover this event halfway through October and wanna catch up on all the ones you missed and post 3 a day for a week? I actively encourage it! I made one of my best internet friends that way! :)

[mylifeincinema]

My Week in Reviews: June 30, 2024

The Bikeriders (Jeff Nichols, 2024)

It's not often that we—in 2024—get films that simply let you live in its world for a while. A film that doesn't worry about where its plot is headed, but rather allows its characters to lead the way. A film that understands a lifestyle and its specific role within an often misunderstood counter-culture, and revels in the comradery and romance of said lifestyle while neither condemning nor sugar-coating the unfavorable aspects associated with it. Jeff Nichols' The Bikeriders is one of these films, and its insightful approach, phenomenal cast, and Nichols' interesting interpretation of Danny Lyons' photo-book capture a cinematic feeling we too rarely get to experience nowadays. - 9/10

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (Kevin Costner, 2024)

Should’ve been a Limited Series. Don’t get me wrong, it’s really quite good; a very enjoyable, well-crafted, old-fashioned western with epic aspirations and a sprawling cast boasting very few weak spots. But the number of threads at play, the imminent overall length, and the storytelling mechanics and pacing would’ve all worked significantly better within the structure of a 12-Episode Limited Series. - 7/10

Enjoy!

-Timothy Patrick Boyer.

[acnh-villager-a-day]

Day 16 of reviewing every Animal Crossing New Horizons villager

Todays villager is ANNALISE

This is such an interesting look in my opinion. I LOVE this skin and hair colour combo so much, mixed in with the very dark eyes too! There's something very Littlest Pet Shop about her design which she wins nostalgia points for. I can't quite think of anything I would do to improve this look, but I do know that it's not blowing my mind or anything. It's just pleasant!

Annalise is a snooty villager which is pretty evident in her look and hobby being fashion but what I really appreciate about her snootiness is that beneath it all is actually a pretty brainy and methodical character. Her goal is to be a chef which undoubtedly requires patience and following recipes, so I can only imagine she loves working by the book. Her special skill is brainteasers which I really love for her character if I'm being honest. Between such a goal and a skill, I can't help but think that Annalise just loves an itinerary! I think this is kind of cute.

When I looked at her music taste, most notably K.K. Love Song, I begun to better understand how sophisticated Annalise really is. If you really wanted to read into her, I think the kind of real-life person Annalise would be like is the kind of woman in her early 30's who just discovered sudoku so she bought a book of such puzzles and does them on her break at the salon. I like this, quite a bit.

I feel like I've said everything I need to say in order to justify my score. How I feel about Annalise as a whole is how I felt about her look in my opening statement. She's interesting, with fun little quirks and although I don't know how I would improve her, I know that there is room for improvement. All in all, I give Annalise a 7/10.

[edgepunk]

I still find it interesting that whenever a ps4/5 game gets ported to pc it gets better reviews and is generally better received

[ecargmura]

Pokemon Horizons Episode 65 Review - Heart To Heart With The Enemy

*Gasp* Liko and Amethio actually escaped the cave on-screen. The writers are actually not shoving everything into off-screen land this time around! Other than that, this episode was filled with surprise twists and intriguing lore that you can’t help but to wonder what’s going to happen next! 

The Liko and Amethio portions are nice because, like Liko, we finally get to know more about Amethio. It’s crazy how he appeared since the beginning and we only learn of his motives and goals 65 episodes in. He wants to get Rayquaza and Terapagos because he wants to be helpful to his grandfather Gibeon and wants him to be proud of him. It feels like an honor thing. Amethio, despite being a villain, does have kindness dwelling within him. If he wasn’t a kind person, Ceruledge wouldn’t have tried to warm its trainer with one of its blade after seeing Floragato try to get some grass for Liko. If Amethio wasn’t kind, he wouldn’t have cooperated with Liko in order to escape the cave, but he did. It’s nice that Liko knows that Amethio isn’t as bad as he appears to be. I really liked their heart-to-heart conversation. The fact that Amethio motivated Liko to not be so down over her failing her Implementation test is something; Liko didn’t even ask Grusha for a possible rematch as she knew there could be other ways she can master Terastal. Sometimes, the most unexpected person and words can be your biggest motivation.

Poor Amethio, the moment he becomes nice to Liko is when Spinel frames him for cooperation against the enemy and that’s when he gets kicked out of the Explorers. I’m assuming a simple act of kindness or cooperation with the enemy is something Gibeon despises? I wonder if something happened to him in the past for him to abandon his own grandson over something miniscule. I’m assuming that’s what happened to Amethio’s father too? Gibeon seems like a cruel person for believing in a fabricated video and not asking Amethio for a concrete answer. People are speculating that Amethio might be going through an anti-hero route akin to Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airibender. While I can see an anti-hero route, I don’t think it’s fair to compare it to Zuko as the circumstances of their turn is different. Zuko is a blueprint for antihero stories, but he doesn’t need to be the pathway.

For the Roy and Dot portions, I’m glad that the kids are sharp enough to realize that Sidian and Coral are deliberately stalling them because they’re targeting Liko. However, what they didn’t expect was that they’re super good at stalling that whatever plan they come up with, the Explorers counter it. People might get angry over the battle, but it’s because the kids aren’t battling seriously. They’re being hasty because Liko is their priority and not the battle. Fortunately, the battle gets called off once Grusha enters the scene as he got a call from Friede about the situation; Friede called him because he knew he wouldn’t get there in time and would need some extra help. I wonder why Grusha mellowed out in this episode compared to how stern he was two episodes ago. Also, I wonder what his Altaria’s beak is made of because it pecked the heck out of that boulder and Flying moves aren’t effective against Rocks.

I do like that Amethio’s words about not giving up has impacted her in a way that she even asked Roy and Dot to go to the Highest Peak with her. Usually, Liko is so passive and the other two seemed okay with not going now that they found Liko and she’s safe, but she still wanted to go. It’s nice that Liko is being a bit more assertive now. I hope to see this more in future episodes.

Also, Terapagos’s anger towards Amethios seems to be more that he reminded him of Gibeon and possibly mistook him for his grandfather, before realizing that they’re different. The way Amethio mentioned his grandfather Gibeon is when Terapagos got another upset reaction. The turtle definitely has beef with Gibeon and it could be a factor to why Gibeon was unusually cruel to Amethio in this episode.

With the announcement of the fourth arc starting in October 11, this means that this arc has three more episodes until then. I honestly can’t wait to see what this new arc has in store as the DLC characters are shown in the key visual. Though, I am a little upset that Arven didn’t show up at all in this arc and it seems that Kieran is going to get that same treatment seeing how he’s not in the poster while his sister Carmine is. What are you thoughts on this episode? By the way, I support Spinel’s rights, wrongs and future beatings.

[bidoofcrossing]

Review - LEGO Animal Crossing: Maple's Pumpkin Garden (30662) The LEGO - Animal Crossing: Maple's Pumpkin Garden set, offers a delightful experience for fans of the beloved video game series. Here's a breakdown of our thoughts of this small, yet joyful set.

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