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Quite entertaining overall, although let down by a bit of dubious casting and appealing acting. This ranges from the excellent (Emma D'Arcy as queen Rhaenyra, Rhys Ifans as Otto Hightower) to the extremely poor (Sonoya Mizuno as Mysaria, Fabien Frankel as Sir Criston Cole) and the Velaryon daughters. Emma D"Arcy flawlessly displays the grace and power of the struggling queen, while Rhys Ifans shows the depth of intelligence and leadership required by a hand. Both of these excellent actors would also be perfect as narrators. Looking at the flip side, Sonoya struggles to show any depth of character, she speaks her lines in a monotone way, with a muddled, distracting attempt of a foreign accent. You would get a better display of emotion from your Google home. This is the case for most of the other characters such as the Velaryon daughters that initially try to sound regal but soon forget and sound like inner city London. The vulpine Ewan Mitchell is perfectly cast as Aemond, whereas every scene with Matt Smith as Daemon shows him furrowing his brow with no eye brows on a rubber like face. His high pitched voice doesn't fit the character, he's hopelessly out of his depth. I find a lot of the other side characters such as Ulf irritating and forgettable fillers. It's difficult to see how any characters in HoTD will have an arc, they are so one dimensional. An exception in my opinion is the witch, Alys Rivers, played really well by Gayle Rankin, interesting in every scene. Game of Thrones seasons 1 to 4 where some of the best TV produced, based on the lore. After reaching the end of season 2 of House of the Dragon, it tries its best to live up to its parent show and in some scenes holds its own.. but for me, it can't get there without the acting talents of Game of Thrones. Disappointed.

Didn't want to leave a review till I had explored it all and seen everything. Here I am 5 years later and I 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 find new things with each play through. This is probably the best gaming experience I have ever had. I'm torn between this and Zelda Ocarina of Time but have to give CD Projekt Red the benefit. Its utterly fantastic, perfectly balanced, perfectly cast and directed, an absolute masterclass in drawing you in to a fantasy full of European folklore... Don't even get me started on Gwent, and Blood and Wine improves on everything somehow. 10/10 every replay.

Pretty disappointing experience. This game was originally released as a 25 year anniversary of Zelda in 2011, I still have my Wii version. I'm not going to bother commenting on the well documented flaws, apart from the frustrating experience I had with the wii mote suddenly reversing directions in flight, or stuck in running in a particular direction resulting in death. So why am I mentioning the Wii problem? Because the issue is even worse on the Switch. It highlights the poor quality of Nintendo's control hardware. They obviously acknowledge this as there is a reset gyro button which you will need to use every few seconds. Any aiming object, such as the beetle or slingshot results in a rapid spin. Button based swordplay is an alternative option, however they decided to use the right joypad, so if you need to do a kill strike, you have to rapidly hit down then up, most of the time I found myself doing a side hit. Forget about trying to spin hit hanging spiders from the back to see the kill point (if you've played this game before you'll know what I'm talking about). Feels like Nintendo put the con in joycon. Plus points: Great temple design. I personally think Windwaker, Ocarina of Time, Majoras Mask and Twilight Princess excel here, however the Lanayru Desert temple is fantastic. Beautiful music throughout, especially Lanayru Desert and Lake Floria Some of the items are a lot of fun and can be upgraded Negatives Controls are very, very poor. Highlights the flaws of the joycon, especially if you have joycon drift Bizarre choice to limit the amount of items you can carry, needing to store excess gadgets in the item shop. Your "item belt" can be upgraded throughout but it feels pointless when you want to explore and try lots of different solutions. Should really have been released as a budget game, or collection of "Zelda greats" even though this title is probably lower down the list of the average Zelda aficionado.

Just binge watched the whole of season 1. Its below average in my opinion, didn't think it lived up to the hype. Even with the brilliant Pedro Pascal and Giancarlo Esporito, it's let down by terrible directing, dull writing and poor acting from the supporting cast, especially Gina Carano who is awful as Cara. John Favreau has ignored criticisms of the latest trilogy and lazily filled each episode with pointless action sequences and plot holes. The score is nowhere near the magical John Williams original. Ludwig Göransso's repetitive and annoying track doesn't belong and makes it feel like a cheap action series. Rogue One gave me hope that the Star Wars story wasn't dead and buried, that we could forget about the poor "diversity focused" episodes 7-9. It was not meant to be and feels Disney have hammered yet another nail in the coffin for Star Wars.

Had high hopes for this, but thought it was average. The acting is awful and a boring story line meant we gave up after 5 episodes

If you remember the original Tombraider 1 & 2 on the Playstation 1, they were crammed full of exploring and fiendishly difficult puzzles. Midas Palace, The Cistern, The Oil Rig, The Sunken Ship... you can still download them to see what the fuss was about in the mid 90s. Still as playable and fun as they were when first released. This is a boring. glitchy mess. A copy and paste of every modern "adventure" like the Uncharted series. Non-stop combat with dumb bad guys who somehow got to ancient hidden locations before Lara. Upgrading games with new visuals is possible, look at SNES Super Mario World through Mario Odyssey or GTA through GTA 5 (4 was my favourite)... keep the spirit and basic feel of the original and you have a winner

Besides the the omnipotent pretentiousness, it's jam packed full of terrible acting and writing. Perfect for your channel switching pleasure!