2025 has finished and it kinda went quick. I felt started off well doing toys reviews at the start o the year, but then, I got a PS5 and whew! What a time sink that was. More on that later though.
The toys this year:
So there you go, a not terribly exciting bunch.
2025 turned out to be a pretty expensive year with the amount of good shit to buy. Most of this wrapup was written while the things were still fresh in my mind so it's a bit longer than normal. Let's get into it then!
Here I have a review of mostly MArion from Link Travelers due to bad luck on the rest of the rolls.
If You're curious, here are the instructions for the build:
A.K.A This is not the Spiderman you are looking for.
After finally nabbing a Playstation 5, I wandered around and grabbed a copy of Marvel's Spiderman 2. I rather enjoyed the first one on PS4 and thought the disc based DLC of Spiderman: Miles Morales was pretty well done. Even though it used the same map and engine, and the story was extremely predictable, it did a lot to enhance the swinging mechanic of the first game (which was already pretty good) and I felt satisfied with its budget price.
Now, Spiderman 2 is loaded in and I've spent about bhours messing about with it and feel like I have a pretty good feel for it.
To be completely honest, it feels like a bit of a downgrade from the first.
Let me justify my thoughts:
Ah Nintendo DS. It wasn’t doing much for me initially - none of the games seemed interesting and that phat original hardware wasn’t very appealing at all. On the other hand, the PSP looked cool as fuck and had Wipeout Pure, which basically the instant I saw, completely sold me on getting one. I got that in Japan on September 15 2005, when the white model came out, although Wipeout had to wait until I returned to Australia since I couldn’t find a copy over there! Anyway, I was firmly in the PSP camp in those early days.
Everyone remembers how Nintendo showed off that “realistic” Zelda back at Spaceworld 2000, only to come back a year later with The Wind Waker and piss everyone off for a good while. They had a bad habit for a while there. No one remembers that the Wave Race shown at the same event looked like a silky smooth update to the original but came back as the not-quite-that Blue Storm. And later at E3 2001, they’d pull the same shit with Mario Kart for Nintendo GameCube too.
