MCU, what else do you need.
I came to visit my parents and received my final Christmas gift: Kimi's Book of Haiku had finally arrived this week! \o/ This is way shorter than I had thought, but hey, also a really unique thing to own, and those lines made me chuckle and smile a lot while reading them. :) And the money went to a good cause, so thumbs up.
January 2019
Top 10 Castles - Easy Allies
A bit boring subject this time, I felt. Propably because all of the entries came from such familiar and big games and series. I don't know. Well put together, anyway.
I've finished now three maps, the journey's taken over 30 hrs so far. A massive game, and in a good sense in my eyes. The story is really good, it's written with great twists here and there and with very solid dialogue. Both in the main story and in minor side events. And the characters are fleshed-out people, you simply like and appreciate them more and more as you go along. Especially Meve just works, I love and respect her attitude and actions (for sure, some / a lot of those are my own choices, but any way). And the voice actor does wonderful work as her, as do pretty much everyone. The story is a joy to live through with this group.
There'll be like two dozen cameos in Death Stranding is my hope. Conan O'Brien etc., and now Max Payne.
Eurogamer gave the game the dreaded "Avoid". No points, though, to affect the scales.
Watching their personal GOTY picks right now. What is the track Damiani played at least twice before the stream? It's like super positive, Smash maybe, brass instruments playing like from Heaven. Edit. It's Gangplank Galleon Remix. :)
That last week was for sure super awkward. I honestly didn't know what the hell was happening. Strowman in the ring, Lesnar & Heyman on the big screen. For a moment I thought there might be like some weird delay in the arena, that it didn't broadcast to them like it did for home audiences. Strowman just stood there, like over ten seconds saying nothing, and multiple times during the whole segment. All eyes on him. He forgot his lines? Super painful to watch, and unlike him, too. Hadn't happened before, if I remember correctly.
The 3rd episode is out. I couldn't find it on Store on PS4, but instead I had to go in the game and start the download from there. That works.
So yeah, finished it just now, the episode lasted around 2,5 hrs. Pretty calm for a long time, but in the end I felt my emotions storming quite hard. Good stuff. And no technical bugs or anything!
The biggest surprise: seeing and hearing Lee again! My God, how I'd missed that voice. :') Honestly, the journey it's been. 2012. A really heartwarming moment.
Spoiler I loved Violet's singing as well, a beautiful end for that night.
Spoiler In the end I stopped AJ from shooting Lily, killing her. That would've messed him up, I feel, like James said he feared. But of course there were repercussions, and so James died. Well, it is what it is, he wasn't my favourite person. A weird zombie lover, sorry to say. But anyway, I wonder if Lily would've really died at that point with the other option. Before the final episode. Well, she's alive in mine, so we'll see how it all ends.
What did you think about RAW this week? Certainly surprising, but also weird. What's the deal with Strowman, is his arm still too injured so they had to take him out of the picture? A super sudden move. But he did flip that limo, so he can't be too hurt or cautious with the arm. Something's happened.
Well, after everything we got Finn Balor in the spotlight after a long while. I'm pretty happy about this. I'm kind of neutral of him, not bad but not my favourite either, but in any case it's good to see different guys at the top level. Not sure what will happen with Lesnar, meaning will Finn just be a quick one-time stop, or will he actually start his road to WM as a new champ. So I'm pretty interested in the situation, actually.
Women's first tag team champs will be crowned at Elimination Chamber. Three teams from RAW and three from SD in a EC match (right?). That sounds cool. And it confirmed that the titles will be shared between both shows. I wonder how that'll work in practise, but it does make sense, as there's not THAT many women for two teams of champs currently.
With Nikki Cross's arrival I was left wondering that isn't it really wearing to play a maniac character in the long run. Others get to be more or less realistic and themselves but you have to keep the act up with double the amount of, I don't know, intensity. And besides, a psycho character like that just feels really outdated for me somehow in 2019.