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POKEMON MASTERS - First Impression by Urizen

   Finally! Pokemon Masters has arrived in the app store. I have been waiting for this game. The premise of it seemed pretty interesting when it was announced, and I know there have been people more excited for this than Pokemon Shield and Sword. I don’t know what to really expect with this as I have only watched the first trailer, but I am excited to dive right in. So I’m going to play a bit and see what I think.    I love having to go through multiple menus of choosing languages, entering birthdates, agreeing to terms and services, data usage and all of that. I get it, but man, I like just getting to play my games instead of going through a process. That’s what I hate about buying new games too, can’t just play them. You have to install and update. Renting is near impossible as you have to waste hours installing. This is just me going way off topic.    While I wait for updates, it shows some of the characters. It is cool because I don’t know a l...

ABSORB: ABILITY - First Impression by Urizen

   I feel like I have been disappointed a bit lately. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark wasn’t great. “Fly” wasn’t particularly a good manga for the first chapter at least. The convention I went to was a bit of a disaster, among a few other things. So I am going to try again! I was going to have the next first impressions I did be a television series, but not anymore! I am determined…I am hopeful that the next manga I select will actually be good. I can only sit here with my fingers crossed and hope for the best from this. No more time wasted, let’s go!    Okay, I am reading “Absorb: Ability”. Apparently this is a comedy, supernatural series written by Setsuko Yoneyama in 2007. It is fairly older and has not been fully translated, so I assume it is going to be great and I will never get to read the rest of it. The art looks better than “Fly" did, but not excellent. It sort of has a mix between a Shonen and Shoujo art style which is interesting.   ...

READY OR NOT by Urizen

   When are we getting a duck-duck-goose movie!? I have to be honest, I was going to say a tag movie, but then I suddenly remembered there is a tag movie. So yeah…. Joining the ranks of Would You Rather?, Truth or Dare, and Tag, comes the latest film to have the theme of a children’s game, Ready or Not. Now, I have a soft spot for movies like this. Even when they are dumb, I usually find them incredibly entertaining. Tag is the one of the group I haven’t seen, but I love Would you Rather and Truth or Dare, so when I saw the trailer for this, I was hyped. I actually saw the trailer for it when I went and saw Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and by the end of that movie I was much more excited about this one.    Ready or Not is a black comedy, horror film starring Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien, Henry Czerny, Andy MacDowell, Nicky Guadagni, Melanie Scrofano, Elyse Levesque, Kristian Brunn, and John Ralston. Woo! That’s a cast. Normally I wouldn’t g...

STAMPEDE RAMPAGE: Loveley beasts scaping - First Impression by Urizen

   Apps are at a weird time. It is at that point in life where there is an app for everything. Want to order food? Use an app. Check the weather? There’s an app for that. Learn a new language? Sure! Duolingo can stalk you. It is pretty awesome to think that so much is this easy to access now.    With all of these apps though, we also have the games.   No longer limited to just Snake, now you can play an ever growing assortment of games on your phone and tablet. There had been a time where mobile gaming was made fun of because it was just Angry Birds and Candy Crush style games, but now there are phones run games we play at home on consoles. You can go and play the classic Sonic the Hedgehog games or download and play the more recent battle royal game PubG. It is amazing to see how far things have come in such a short period of time.    To continue my First Impressions series, I decided to go into the Google Play App store and go to the early ...

JOKER By Urizen

   I don’t know what is getting worse at this point, the amount of Batman actors we have had or the amount of Jokers. It is getting insane. Yet here we are again, three years after our last live action take of the character back in Suicide Squad, with a new live action Joker. This time with his own movie.    From the very beginning, I was unsure how to feel about this movie. On one hand, you have a great cast, the trailer looked excellent   and it deals with such a beloved DC character. On the other hand, I think you take away a lot of what makes the Joker great by giving him an origin and removing Batman from the equation. Making it an Elseworld story and not something that takes place in the main continuity helped, but still didn’t fully ease my mind. No matter what, I thought the trailers looked good and I couldn’t wait to see it, so here we are.    Directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Joker takes slight inspiration fr...

FIRST IMPRESSION: FLY - TONDEMO TELEPORT GIRL YUMI - by Urizen

   After doing my Tokyo Ghoul chapter reviews and comparisons, I decided I wanted to figure out a good way to talk about manga and such, but full story reviews could take forever given the amount of chapters. Thinking a bit about it all though,   I ultimately decided on an idea of something new I could do for some write ups. A first impressions series of sorts. No longer just limited to manga, I will go through and watch a random first episode of a television series or read the first chapter of a manga. Maybe play the first hour of a game, or check out the first couple tracks on a cd even. From there, I will do a little write up of my impressions,   thoughts, theories,   etc. Depending on how I feel about whatever I’m writing about,   I may continue and do more write ups on it, developing into a possible full review, or I may just drop it. So today that's what we start. Continuing with my original plan, it will be a random manga I've never read before. ...

SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK by Urizon

Spooky scary skeletons may send shivers down your spine, but will PG 13 horror do the same? I know I know, this is a horror movie based off from children’s horror books, so I really shouldn’t expect Guillermo Del Toro's best work or a horror masterpiece. Even still, I couldn’t help but feel a bit disappointed by the big screen adaption of Alvin Schwartz's “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark."    Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark tells the story of a group of teens who, one Halloween while visiting a haunted house, stumble upon the story book of one of the daughters who lived there, Sarah Bellows. Sarah was mostly kept as a secret from the rest of the world. No pictures existed of her and she was kept in a hidden room. Children would go up to the wall and she would tell them stories, though all of the children that heard them went missing. Upon finding her book in present time, the teens are now caught in a deadly situation as stories have begun writing themselves ...