Joshua Bennett

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The game up until morgott (endgame) is 4.9 out of 5 stars. It's gorgeous, has great gameplay and most of the bosses are well designed, exploration is incredibly fun. The endgame however, is a 2 out of 5. It is absolutely miserable, tedious and unfair. Most of the endgame bosses aren't even difficult, they're just painfully drawn out. This game desperately needs a balance patch for endgame, and it blows my mind that rather than fixing the broken bosses, from soft is screwing around nerfing the actual good ones like radahn. Once endgame is fixed I'll give it a higher score, but until then I'll be playing bloodborne instead.

I don't know if this is aimed at kids or adults, but i suppose it's just as bad either way. By far the best scene is where (spoiler) Cruella's mum gets purposely pushed off a cliff by a pack of trained attack dalmations. It's a tragic and wholly understandable reason to skin pet puppies and wear them as a coat. Easily the funniest joke in the whole movie. Irreparable damage has been dealt to my already fragile psyche. I can no longer count to 10, and the entire left side of my body is unresponsive. My few remaining brain cells are struggling to survive. I no longer fear dying, for only in death will all memory of this movie be erased.

I read this purely so that I could get some insight into the state of Australia's far-right, and I can comfortably say that there is very little of substance to be found here. This charmless, misguided discourse is about as engaging as a brick, and half as informative. To call this literature would be an insult to kindergarteners all over the world, who undoubtedly apply more effort to learning the alphabet than Kevin Donnelly has exerted over the course of his entire political career. This book poses a greater threat to brain cells than crystal methamphetamine, and is statistically more likely to cause haemorrhaging than blunt force trauma. On a more serious note, this book is rife with logical inconsistencies and unsubstantiated claims, underlined by very thinly veiled prejudice, particularly against the LGBTQ+ community. The concept of cancel culture in and of itself is something I am extremely critical of, particularly for it's tendency towards extremism and a pervasive "guilty until proven innocent" mentality. Bearing that in mind, I'm unsure that an accurate definition or example of cancel culture is ever even given in this book. It's main purpose in this text is to act as a political "straw man" with which the featured writers can argue against without acknowledging any opposition. By this logic any valid criticisms directed at the political far right can simply be brushed off as 'cancel culture' simply because critics seek discourse or even simple accountability. This is the political equivalent of a child hitting their younger sibling, and then throwing a tantrum when they get hit back. All in all, this book and the featured essayists are ineffectual, and very clearly out of touch. The insensitive handling of sensitive topics demonstrates a clear lack of human empathy, and the incessant demonisation of the LGBTQ+ community is indicative of a deep running distaste for those who don't conform. If this is the best fight Australia's far right can put up, then I suspect the "Left's Long March" to victory might not be quite as long as you anticipate, Mr Donnelly.

This game is phenomenal, and I truly believe it is an absolute essential for anyone with a playstation. There's almost nothing to criticise, save for a few lacklustre boss fights, Which are heavily outweighed by some of the best bosses FromSoft has ever made. There's so much depth to the lore that isn't apparent from a surface level, which means that both people who do and don't care about the story can enjoy the game alike. Overall it's just a great experience and easily the best Game of it's type, although DS and Sekiro are awesome too.

SPOILER ALERT This game is genuinely a letdown, despite the high hopes I held for it. First, The gameplay, graphics and sheer detail in this game is astonishing, something that I and many critics Laud it for. The way Ellie (or Abby) interacts can interact with the environment is astonishing, and the attention to detail, as always belies great passion and hard work. The story, however is littered with gaping plot holes, characters lack depth, and the bittersweet magic of the original has vanished, leaving only a perpetual sour taste, that continues to build into a joyless, bleak and dissatisfying resolution that feels like a cold slap to the face. Abby is the primary antagonist of the game, a title that she deserves due to her brutal, violent and soulless character. Several of the best characters are unceremoniously killed by her hand, Including Joel, but we are still expected to empathise with her despite her inherent lack of positive attributes. Abby is horrible not only because of her actions, but her portrayal. After recklessly running into a horde of walkers for no real reason, Abby is saved by Tommy and Joel, (who give her their names for no real reason). They then return to the ski lodge with Abby, where as thanks, she and her band of inconsequential characters blow Joels leg to pieces and beat him to death with a golf club. Joel has no character whatsoever and is used simply as a plot device. Abby later celebrates her cowardly victory in a tasteless sex scene with her (now taken) ex, a scene which serves no purpose other than to further our rapidly growing disgust for her character. The player is expected to play as Abby, for approximately half the game, and it this point, all motivation to finish the game evaporates, as there is no motivation whatsoever for the player to try and keep her alive. After much filler and a few more unnecessary character deaths, we reach the ending, where Ellie chooses to leave Abby alive, rendering virtually the entire game pointless, and in the process loses the only things still left to her, being Dina, J.J. and her ability to play the guitar. when compared to the original games' bittersweet and simple ending, TlOU 2 just feels like an unnecessarily bleak and sour resolution, more like a fizzle than a bang, with Ellie gathering her things and setting off alone, presumably to commit suicide because of how bad the story was. There are so many more things wrong with the game (not to mention the dirty false advertising) but frankly, it's late and this thing is too long for anyone to read anyway. Suffice to say, TLoU 2 is a passion project let down only by it's immensely frustrating story.