Erik Johannes Jung

The humor is pretty good, in an awkward way that helps transport even the older audience back to those awkward teen years. The jokes are good and usually pretty smart, bringing up polemic and important themes in a way that I believe is good for kids. The pacing is only ruined every time the janitor character comes up, with the lazy "I pooped myself" jokes that just feel out of place in a usually witty series. It is very well-done and could have much broader success if they removed the janitor character. I would give this 5 stars, but the janitor honestly pushes it down to 3. It;s the main reason many people I showed this to didn't like it, and I agree with them.

A badly executed movie telling the old washed-out story about how far people will go to hurt others as long as they have a justification like "following orders". But not only does it re-use this old trope, it manages to completely miss the point of a story told so many times before. The point that stories like these usually try to make is that things like the holocaust could happen again, executed by normal people, as long as they have some justification like "just following orders". In this movie, however, the evildoers are portrayed in the typical backward light that some people have about what kind of people are capable of evil: - drug users; - mentally unstable people; - poor people; The holocaus was not executed by drug users, criminals or the mentally unstable. It was executed by public servents following orders, often even proud in their work. Releasing a movie in 2010 in which the reason the guard is evil is because he get's turned on by power is about as shallow as it gets. While originally the the point of stories like these used to be along the lines of: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." While this movie takes a hard right and seems to say: "The only thing that can cause evil is if a crazy guard with a hard-on wants to rape you, normal people would never do that." I give this 2 stars because Adrien Brody does an ok job, though it feels more like a hopeful sailor on a sinking ship.

A very interesting story told in a heartwarming setting that manages to feel real and, above all, hopeful. All characters are given real depth, conversations feel natural and not out of place, which all helps draw us into the story of this genius woman. The attention to detail in conversations and interactions is what puts this series apart from so many others. It is beautiful to see a story told by a team that puts real effort into making characters feel believable, fragile, and honest. The series could focus more on how she changes the way men around her see women (by doing what she does) and less on copy/paste comments like “they only like me because I am a woman”, which often feel out of place. And of course: the actors all do an amazing job, there is so much more to compliment in this series, from the costumes to the music, but I really wanted to focus my review o what I think really stands out: An astonishing screenplay supported by empathic actors. I would like to know who picked out this team to work together.

I love the graphics and the gameplay, but I have no idea what I am supposed to do. And since there is no in-game chat, you cant even ask other players and depend on going through forums. Also, why do weapon lvls go up so fast to 800, just to then be "stuck" there? A slower progression would have made much more sense IMO. I think I played for about 30 hours. Did the storyline, did all matchmaking content, but then the game locks and progression is only possible if you organize a party in real life, and then go online together, somehow get into the same group and then FINALLY being able to communicate in game. Good look trying to invite people to a party if you cant TALK TO THEM or at least say "this is the content I'm inviting you to". Took me a whole while to get through the basic stuff, then they released some expansion and I honestly don't feel like purchasing more content will allow me to progress more without first getting invited to some Clan.

While an upgrade in graphics and gameplay from it's predecessors, I had a much stronger sense of exploration playing "Rise of the Tomb Raider". The world feels very "convenient", giving the game a vibe like: - yes, we are looking for this artefact for 500 years, can you help us? - yeah sure, found it. Was lying not 200m from you dude - oh yeah that's where we left it The abandoned temples are also not very believable, more often looking like something out of a futuristic transformers movie and not remnants of ancient civilizations. I know the tomb raider games always have fiction but I think this time they went a bit over the top. And the story doesn't help much either: - where is my mom? - she is dead - well that sucks, but no time for that, let's move on. Also, when I first started playing I felt this fear of being attacked by jungle creatures. You realize pretty fast the jungle has almost no predators, making the whole immersion just disappear. There aren't even enough predators to upgrade your weapons, making hunting them a repetitive task with no tension whatsoever, since they die after 2 shots anyway. A bit disappointed, I super loved the last game, so this one feels rushed and done without attention to detail.

It should be a Samurai game, with speed, lightnight reflexes and precise movements, right? Instead in this game characters move slowly, there is limited mobility, jumping feels heavy/slow and heroes keep "attacking the air". A nice VISUAL "upgrade" of an old 80s platformer, but with none of the gameplay improvements I expect of a game like this nowadays. It seems to try to hard to keep old gameplay mechanics in there for old players and therefore ends up bringing nothing new to cater to newer players who expect INTUITIVE CONTROLS in 2019. Love the graphics, love the theme. But gameplay is lacking.