Flip Wars Review
Flip Wars is a relatively new eShop title for Switch that puts you in the boots of a character donning one of four colors and your goal is to flip tiles on a board to match your color. A few modes of play are included, and this is clearly meant to be played in local or online multiplayer, but Flip Wars is so flat that it’s hard to recommend. To be blunt, there’s not a lot to Flip Wars....[Read More]
Kung Fu Yoga
Jackie Chan and director Stanley Tong team up for another raucous adventure in Kung Fu Yoga. Their previous film together, The Myth, is coincidentally one of the few Jackie movies I have yet to see. Kung Fu Yoga has Jackie playing a history professor who is also a noble treasure hunter. Noble in as far as he, like Indy, believes that artifacts belong in museums or should otherwise be retrieved for...[Read More]
Shooter: Season One
In 2007, Mark Wahlberg starred in a great movie called Shooter that was based off of Stephen Hunter’s novel “Point of Impact.” The film was about an expert marine sniper who gets framed for assassinating the president, and his determination to seek justice and clear his name. Wahlberg is an executive producer along with Stephen Levinson on the TV series that began airing last Nov...[Read More]
Layton’s Mystery Journey (iOS) Review
Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires’ Conspiracy — is the latest in the long-running Layton game series from Level-5. The Professor Layton series comes to mobile first for the first time ever, with a 3DS release in the West slated for October. We also see Professor Layton’s daughter, Katrielle take the spotlight as the whereabouts of the good Professor and his helpe...[Read More]
The Final Master
New from Well Go USA is director Haofeng Xu’s The Final Master. This is a martial arts story that takes place in the 1930s and is about a tremendously skilled bladesman (to call him just a swordsman seems unfair) who wishes to open a Wing Chun school in the city of Tianjin. However, to open a new academy, there are some very old requirements including defeating eight other schools — so...[Read More]
T.J. Hooker: The Complete Series
In between Star Trek and Boston Legal, William Shatner also found success in another TV series that ran from 1982-1986 called T.J. Hooker. Thomas J Hooker was the character Shatner would play for all eighty-nine episodes. Morally sound and tough on the bad guys, Hooker played the good cop that brought justice to the city. This TV series comes to DVD completely now for the first time thanks to Shou...[Read More]
Hey! PIKMIN Review
After having made the jump to hyperspace only to come out in an asteroid field and crash land on a strange, yet somehow familiar planet, Captain Olimar finds himself stranded and unable to get home. His ship’s computer locates a fuel leak, but otherwise the ship can be repaired. The problem is, Olimar must find 30,000 Sparklium to get the ship ready for flight. To do that, he’s going t...[Read More]
Crash Bandicoot: N.Sane Trilogy
When Crash Bandicoot burst onto the scene effectively becoming the mascot for PlayStation in its early years, I was a pure PC gamer. I did not own a PlayStation until the PS2 and not even that until about 2004. Around then, and ever since, I have become a collector of videogame systems and games, old and new, and in my collection and backlog (if you can even call it that) are the original Crash Ba...[Read More]
The Pink Panther Collection
Shout! Select is a collection of releases by Shout! Factory featuring some cult hits that don’t always get a chance in the spotlight. Films like Red Dawn, Nighthawks, Car Wash, some Bruce Lee classics, and now, The Pink Panther Collection, arriving on Blu-ray this week. The Pink Panther franchise is a large one no matter how you slice it. In full scope, it spans decades and includes about el...[Read More]
Damascus Gear: Operation Tokyo HD Edition
Just over two years ago, I played through and enjoyed a Vita-exclusive title from Arc System Works known as Damascus Gear: Operation Tokyo. That review is still live except for the in-line images missing at this location. Recently, Damascus Gear got the HD Edition treatment and was re-released on the PS4. Between E3 and some other issues I have not yet played all the way through the HD Edition, bu...[Read More]
Ever Oasis
New from GREZZO (makers of Zelda re-makes on 3DS) and produced by Koichi Ishii, and available now, is Ever Oasis. A light-hearted, accessible, town-building ARPG, Ever Oasis offers an appealing, inviting, and enjoyable experience on your 3DS. The adventure begins by selecting your gender and naming your character, and then you learn about how a once lush and peaceful world was overcome by Chaos, a...[Read More]
Railroad Tigers
Out tomorrow on Blu-ray/DVD Combo pack from Well Go USA is Railroad Tigers, starring the incomparable Jackie Chan. Directed by Ding Sheng, Railroad Tigers is a historically based action comedy with epic train battle scenes and some of Jackie’s trademark action humor. Set in December 1941, Jackie plays Ma Yuan, the leader of a ragtag group of Chinese resistance fighters who are forced to work...[Read More]