Anon Anon

A fun comedy action adventure romp that requires 0 prior knowledge. The film has a decent story to tell and some impressive action sequences, but it doesn't take itself seriously at all, going from serious dramatic scenes to funny ones and back again quite often. The pacing of the film keeps your interest. Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Hugh Grant and Regé-Jean Page all gave memorable performances. There was a terrible movie in 2000 also called "Dungeons & Dragons" that this has nothing to do with and probably caused it not to be a box office success. This is a shame because it should be more widely enjoyed in my opinion. Probably they should have just called it "Honor Among Thieves" and left out "Dungeons and Dragons". D&D fans would have appreciated it anyway and more people would have gone to the cinema.

Breathtaking music (I am still listening to the music long after finishing the game and all optional content), the story manages a couple of good twists despite being a very old school turn based JRPG about the 4 heroes of light with magic crystals. The characters are simple but likeable and the game manages to create emotion at some crucial moments. The battle system is complex and rewards imagination and intelligent analysis, allowing all kinds of insanely broken combos between abilities of different jobs. In general, brute force character level is largely irrelevant compared to intelligent strategy and countering the enemy abilities by customizing your team by changing jobs and sub jobs. I quite enjoyed the process of tinkering with my party after losing to a boss and then crushing them with a perfect counter strategy. On hard, most major story battles were a decent challenge most of the way through the game requiring some kind of logical setup and play to defeat them (but many different strategies are viable), though once you have the full toolkit of jobs unlocked, it's hard for the AI to be balanced against all the shenanigans you can pull off.

One of the best turn based tactics game since Ogre or FFT and a remarkable achievement for such a small team. You can (and on higher difficulties will need to) customize your team extensively, changing classes at any time and mix-and-matching abilities to make powerful cross class combos. The higher difficulties are punishing and the AI does not pull any punches, murdering your team with all the tricks and combos you use, but the standard veteran difficulty is a good balanced challenge for genre fans. The difficulty has many customizable options, so it shouldn't be a barrier to anyone.

Stylish sci-fi adventure and overall excellent JRPG. The game respects your time. No random battles, no grinding, non-active party members get full XP so you can switch them at any time. The story is nothing exceptional, but it's a decent and fast moving thriller and I enjoyed exploring the different planets. You eventually get a roster of 10 ragtag exotic party members and they play very differently. The art and cutscenes are great, with a Phantasy Star 4 feeling. In general the game feels a lot like a cross between Phantasy Star 4 and Chrono Trigger, although it's combat system is unique. The turn based combat with Style, Hyper and Abilities that can be used once and then need to be refreshed, can be highly strategic and challenging, with an emphasis on planning ahead and timing abilities, but there are lower difficulties if you don't enjoy tactical min maxing. The character's abilities load out can also be switched at any time and at heroine difficulty , it's necessary to do this to counter the optional bosses and dungeon. I really enjoyed this game .

Caladan and Arrakis were breathtakingly atmospheric (I went to a 4DX screening), A list actors were all really well cast and managed to make an exciting action sci-fi while still being extremely faithful to the book to the extent a movie can be. The only criticism is it ends a bit abruptly but for part 1 of 2, that seems fair.