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People using the word "tedium" for having to engage with mechanics is hilarious. You could sum up anything as tedium that you dislike. Walking in Zelda = tedium or I could say, exploration. Losing Souls in Elden Ring could be called tedium, or a negative penalty to increase the fear of death leading to hightened immersion. These people hate anything that detracts from them rolling their face across their keyboard. Rolling and dodging attacks is defensive, they want pure offense. It's great we have options though. They can go play PoE1 or D4 and spam 1ability forever. Me? I'll be playing the superior game that isn't one dimensional. PoE2 is a masterpiece in ARPG design. Demon Souls when it first launched on PS3 was reviewed as "tedius" by the same type of gamers. It was also a masterpiece. Well done on moving the genre forward in ways that gets more people interested in ARPGs who felt the experience was far too 1 dimensional and boring. GGG you are legends.

Amazing game. If you liked Chrono Trigger or Mario and Luigi and enjoyed the characters in The Messenger it's not to be missed. It takes inspiration, but is it's own game entirely. It is a very rare case that I like an RPG as much as the two I mentioned and this one nails it. It also relies on you using it's mechanics which are quite in depth and strategical while being insanely fun. You feel good during every fight when you pull everything off perfectly and stratagize. In fact, I'd say this does combat better than the other two games I mentioned. Story is fun and takes you on a true adventure.

Game was faithful as far as I remember. The problem for me was really that I loved this game as a kid, but as an adult I look to 100% these types of games. Spyro felt amazing, it was a good game years later, but Crash? Idk, its just a bunch of linear levels and to 100% you have to find oddly placed boxes (where you literally cant see them and just have to guess or look up a guide to even know they exist) and its just not a fun or challenging thing to do. The movement is also weird, but so was old Crash. Its really just a game better left to Nostalgia and my tastes have majorly changed towards 3d open style platformers like Mario 64, Sunshine, Odyssey, Spyro, Hat in Time. Sometimes Nostalgia does indeed hold up, for many people this game will absolutely be what they were looking for, but for me I hadn't fully understood why I ever liked this game, and as it turns out, I was just a kid who hadn't played many games and this was great compared to the very limited number of games I had played at that time.

For me, this was a very pretty, but subpar platformer. It has nothing on Spyro a 25 year old game, or even Mario64. Its more a cutesy, insanely easy (to the point it would make Mario blush), adventure kind of made for 2 or more people, and that's one of the major issues. I don't have a friend, I am a 30 year old man, im not inviting anyone over for Sackboy, nor do I want too. Many of the levels, being made for 2, makes a single person have to backtrack through the opposing area made for the second player. Its a really bad experience for solo play, not to mention you can't even 100% the game without 2 people, its locked behind a second person playing. Really unfortunate experience, and honestly everything it has thrown at me has been mediocre. The jumping, platforming (if you can call it that, its more like just walking and pulling or throwing things), it all feels pretty bad and boring. A major part of playing is getting new costumes you unlock in the levels, but for some reason when I bought the game it had unlocked like 40 costumes baseline, so I already had tons of cool costumes for doing nothing, which devalued getting new costumes, so now there is no excitement for even finding secrets in levels. It all adds up to a very drab experience that in no way respects itself or the player. It assumes you are 5 years old, which is fine, but Mario does a much better job of appealing to little Jimmy and Uncle Tom.

Wow, just saw this film and its one of the best, most unique horror movies I have seen in a long time. The film is about a man who finds a strange women knocking on his door at night and the suspense and buildup throughout the engagement trying to figure out (much like the characters) what the hell is going on is EXACTLY what I love in a horror film, when its wrapped up in a mystery as well. Now for the ending that I have yet to see anyone actually understand (im sure theres a few of you), which has seemingly caused it to get mediocre reviews (outside of those with bad taste) shows that you honestly cant put too much thought into a movie or the masses deem it bad because they simply didn't get it. SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So the ending. People think he just "died" as someone put it. That it was all a dream and "nothing really happened and nothing was explained" as another put it. "Was nonsense" as another put it. It wasn't, if anyone bothered to watch the movie and listen, it was given, when the girl mentions God that the old man says "God doesn't exist, the closest thing is your conscious, that tiny voice inside your head". He had stayed up for days, not sleeping. He was paranoid, wracked with guilt, he wanted to disappear and that thing, his conscious, God, whatever you want to call it, brought him to justice. In the throws of delusions from overwhelming guilt + lack of sleep, his sub conscious does exactly what he knew he should have done the whole time, what he really wanted, what he DESERVED, and he put his GHB into his Whiskey and drank. He falls over because he drank enough GHB to kill 5 people. No one did find him, he found himself, that part of him, when he was a kid, and life was good, found him and put an end to him. The point being there are 2 sides to every person. Not everyone is born evil, but things happen that can change you. The good and the bad side of you are in a battle, sometimes the bad wins and stays winning, sometimes the good comes out and does what it knows it should when the bads gone too far. This was an extraordinary film and tapped into a line of psychology rarely used in horror movies. It was completely unique and well done in every aspect. Its exactly the kind of gem I hope to find when browsing these lesser known films. I give a well deserved 5 stars.

Good actors, I really enjoyed the characters, but it really wasnt a show about a Serpent, as the title would have you believe, its a show about just love and stuff. Its a well done Hallmark movie essentially. Some of the over the top "A man WILL not tell ME what to do" and "Marriage is a ROPE around a womens NECK and is THE REASON progress has stagnated!" sayings are a little much. Its hard to find a show that isn't full of feminist or woke ideology today, its a bit cringe how they go about it tbh, especially when the entire angst against "terrible men" was this woman and her doctor friend doing something on a fathers daughter he wasn't aware of, which isn't "a man telling YOU WHAT to DO!!" its just having basic respect for kids and parents that aren't yours? Then of course it goes into Communist ideas and promotes it as the positive change we need. Wcyd, woke garbage everywhere.

Wow, this was definitely a freak show man, but I enjoyed it. The actors were great, I think they pulled off what they wanted, for a particular person, in the end I was laughing hysterically at what these guys had gotten themselves into and how they handled it, or.... fumbled it. Honestly though. It takes a real special personality to pull this off and be likeable by the end, so I commend the actors. They were very likeable and believable and had major balls to even be in a movie like this. So mad respect to those guys.

Overall a fantastic show. I enjoyed the story, the characters, they presented the killer in a way I didn't expect. I do wish Clive Owen would get roles that let him shine more often, he was kind of a typical rich maniac type. If you have seen him in The Knick he would immediately become one of your favorite actors, but I digress. Below will contain SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!! DONT LOOK BELOW!! So the ending, I almost want to give this a 2 stars, but not for who the killer was, but because I thought they did a terrible job showing why Andy was bad. He was just an overprotective dad? He spoke poorly to his AI? The wife, who a thief and kidnapped their kid not once, but twice is deemed the good person? Did she ask the kid what he wanted? Isn't she just as controlling then? She wants the kid to be around poor people I guess(considering she cant work) and see lots of people, the Dad wanted him more enclosed and "safe". Im sorry, but as a kid id be ultra pissed if my Mom ripped me away from my rich dad because she was upset I couldn't ride my back outside and instead had to do it in the hallway. That she would take me away from my own father, when she has a record and cant work is completely selfish. This movie trying to spin that as some romantic ending didn't cut it, it wasn't. Shes just as bad as the Dad, if not worse. At least he gave her the option of divorcing and sharing custody, and considering how forthcoming he was about so much personal stuff, I believe him. Great show, but I really cant stomach the idea of "man does bad thing = bad" "woman does bad thing = justified", that this was spinning. It felt unnecessary. If you want to expose why the Dads option wasn't healthy, give the woman the same treatment, dont coddle her and play happy ever after tunes.

Phenomenal movie. Weaves you through multiple emotions as the movie goes on, as A24 films typically do, and hits perfect notes of comedy, into fear, into sadness, into reflection. One of Cages best performances and one of A24s best since Beau is Afraid.

I just watched this, I had heard of it before, but after seeing it was actually made by Ari Aster, who made the best horror movie ever in Hereditary, I decided to give it a shot. Well, now to review it. For one this movie was an absolute comedy and so much more. Its hard to completely pin what it is, but I will say this is the most thorough trolling of a man I have ever witnessed and for that it was hysterically funny. It accomplishes on top of this a complete sense of imaginitive exploration that I could only describe as having felt in childhood by movies like Neverending Story or Willow. Things that make you feel interested at what is set before you with no understanding of where its going or why. This maybe the single best movie I have ever seen. I mean that sincerely. I say this because to even think of a movie like this is already a wild accomplishment, but to execute it this flawlessly and make 3 hours interesting to the extent that my mind never wondered off even once, is something rarely accomplished by film. I was glued to my TV wanting to see what creation was coming at me next. I can't believe this was actually funded, it gives me hope for what cinema can become and it showcases just how amazing our imaginations can run. Oh, and Bill Hader was in this movie, as a throwaway side character, because why the hell not. That's awesome. This is a triumph and one I will recommend to anyone who will listen. I patiently await Ari's next movie and I hope he isn't told to reel it in, but to run free with wherever his mind is taking him. Absolutely wonderful, a cult classic in the making. To people trying to make sense of it, why? Just let it be, much like Beatlejuice, it is what it is. Enjoy the experience.