Randy Bryant

I wanted to wait until I had played the game for any significant amount of time before leaving a review. A bit more accuracy in all fairness to the game as a whole. With that said, it is my honest opinion that Ghost of Yōtei capitalizes on everything that its predecessor had and somehow rises to that challenge and exceeds it. Rarely does a spinoff makes us feel like we did with the original but I am happy to say that Ghost of Yōtei has all of those special elements and more. The storyline is another about family, friendship, love, loneliness, loss and revenge that tugs on your heartstrings all throughout. This is a beautiful game both visually and emotionally.

These reviews blow my mind. I really cannot tell if people are just easily impressed or incapable of intelligent thought. The Lost Bus (2025) was not a bad movie, per se. It was this overwhelming, in your face, “feel bad” opening for the main protagonist. He’s fallen on hard times. Living at home with him mom, caring for her. He’s a single father and his son literally tells him that he wishes he would “die.” He’s working a dead end job where I guess every employee there is completely miserable and just ride him all day. Even his dog was sick. With cancer no less. All of this misery is established within the first ten minutes of the film. I mean give me a break. How lazy are writers these days? I mean, did we really need all of that over exaggerated “blah” just to enjoy a movie about escaping a wild fire, with a school bus full of children? The movie could have started right in the middle of the fire and still have been just as good. Honestly, it would have probably been better. A lot better.

If Tom Pelphrey is not the best actor you have seen in ages then I don’t know what you are doing with your life. Everything he is in is incredible and the series Task is no different.

What happened to the Coen’s? Somehow we went from The Big Lebowski to whatever this Honey Don’t garbage is. Ten minutes into the movie and there has been a lesbian couple, a gay couple and a preacher having “mass” in the bedroom with one of his female pupils. Hollywood has become a cesspool.

A solid Star Trek series. Having Pike, Spock, Uhura, and others, back in the saddle again is as welcoming as the positive message each episode inspires to bring. I just finished watching Season 2 Episode 5 and I laughed, I felt angry, I felt love, excitement, anxiety and I even cried. All in one episode too. What a wonderful thing it is, to finally have a Star Trek series back to its awe inspiring roots. I just finished season three and it was even more incredible than the first two. It has been a long time since I have truly enjoyed a Star Trek series this much. Since the days of TNG, DS9 & Voyager.

It is about what you’d expect. An average movie but then again, the entire series is average. It does have a nice twist at the end. Some will like it and some won’t. I thought it was at least original and risky. For that alone it’s worth the watch.

The eighth and final Mission Impossible (maybe), is not necessarily a bad movie. I think the series has just run its course at this point in time. You can only see Tom Cruise perform so many wild stunts before you simply grow numb to it all. There’s also a lot of miscasting in this series. What started off strong gradually shifted gears and tried to convince us that someone like Simon Pegg is as capable as 007. The Final Reckoning had no more enemies to beat, at least not of the “human” variety, so AI is the danger this time around. What threat does AI bring to the table? The same one that it has since the days of Terminator 1 & 2. Nuclear holocaust. That is unless Ethan can save the day.

Confusing mess. *bangs head* Why must these production companies, such as Disney, take the simplistic and make it overly saturated? Case in point, Alien (1979) was simple, yet effective. Now we have Alien: Earth (2025). It is supposed to take place before the original film yet somehow is eons more advanced. The scenes jump around as if they were pieced together from multiple different sources. Nothing flows. All of the humans/androids? Have the mind of a child. A violent child. Yes, really. It’s just a jumbled mess. Honestly, it’s not interesting enough to even waste time trying to make sense of. I rather enjoyed Alien: Romulus and had high hopes for Alien: Earth but I digress.

It’s disappointing that they left this movie just hanging without a sequel because it was so good. It explained the backstory in wonderful detail. Dracula Untold (2014) set the story up for future movies with unlimited potential. I am not sure what the disdain was towards this film but it is gravely unjustified.

I purchased Rise of the Ronin about a year ago and, for whatever reason, I put off playing it until just recently and I must say, I had no idea the fun that I was missing out on. I love the artistic style of the game design. The storyline is compelling and rich with unique, and interesting, characters. It’s challenging, but not in a stressful way. Quite the contrary actually. I find ROTR to be an enthralling, yet relaxing, game. There’s plenty to unlock byway of skills, weapons (both melee & guns), attire for your character and side quests scattered throughout. I chose to create a female protagonist for my first play through. So far, I am loving that decision. I am not sure how the experience would have differed, or in a better way, had I chosen a male protagonist instead. So far it seems that playing as a female has felt more attuned to the story’s theme. All in all, Rise of the Ronin is a beautifully crafted piece of art that I am thankful to have chosen to finally play. It is quickly becoming one of my favorite games of all-time.