Not so long ago, I was playing Star Wars Fallen Order and I typed this post as I struggled at the start of the game. The other day I finished it and I shall continue with my thoughts and my final wrap up.
It was decent enough, probably a 7/10 if I were to score it.
Once again, I am here with more pictures of my addiction, er collection of Blokees. This time though, I 'm looking at Series 03, entitled "Autobot Run," for reasons I am not too sure about, but hey, it tickles the memory about the cartoon though, so that ain't bad now is it?
They come in random selection of boxes, but if you buy a case then, you most likely get the whole set. The case boxes looks like this:
This line up consist of a mere 3 Decepticons and 6 Autobots, although 2 of the Autobots are the same dude. They are:
Okay, let's get on with it then.
The EPOS card is a Japanese credit card that often has cool artwork on the cards in a variety of flavours and they have just started producing 2 types of Transformers credit card. One features the comic artwork above and the other is a black card with the Autobot and Decepticon logos on them. To be honest, the cards looking bloody great. However the problem with EPOS and other Japanese CC companies is they don't have the reach that companies like VISA/Mastercard have, so really there is no point (They are also kind of expensive with monthly fees and whatnot).
Obviously I was not so interested in getting a card, already having a few and need only one. Plus, they are hesitant to offer them to non-Japanese people. They were offering some freebies if you applied, but you had to be successfully approved and I believe you also had to actually use the card before getting them. That's a few too many hoops for me to be bothered jumping through, so I didn't bother. Enough ranting about companies capitalistic tendencies...
I went to another pop up shop a bunch of years ago, and that one was just a tiny stand, so I wasn't expecting much.
Here I go with a review of the figures that come with release 02, cleverly called Galaxy Version 02 SOS, I assume a nod to SOS Dinobots episode. In the review and wave, I'll be looking at:
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| Chilling on mah couch. |
I like me some light sabre swinging action and would love a game like The Witcher, but Star Wars-y. Is this the one?
When I was in the peak of my gaming time, a lovely little game captured my imagination and I really, really liked it. That game was Soul Reaver. It played somewhat like Tomb Raider, but had a connection to the action-RPG of Legacy Of Kain: Blood Omen(BO), a cool, edgy vampire story.
Soul Reaver played very differently to BO, but the voice acting of the main characters, was incredible. The main Characters being Raziel (your guy), The Elder God and Kain. Their efforts raised what was a fairly simple premise of betrayal and revenge to something much more epic than it had any right to be.
Development was shaky and the game ended up having a lot of stuff cut from it and a "To Be Continued..." ending. Which is something I always hate. Nevertheless, I did play it on PS1, and then again on Dreamcast. The series did this a bunch of times and the story continues over 5 games and is very convoluted as there is time travel and changing of the future and shenanigans going on all over the place. Even after I finished the final game, I was still fairly unsure of the plot... Who was the main bad guy and what their motivation was to ruin the land of Nosgoth and destroy the Vampire race etc etc.
The games are:
I suspect that there was of course a delay between game releases, would have allowed for me to forget parts of the story which would have added to my confusion.
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| Shining Series 01: Shining Roll Out |
I saw some of these guys on a Transformers Discord chat and thought they seemed decent enough and thought I would like to get at least one to experience for myself. While browsing the website, I saw they actually had a Shattered Glass Optimus Prime version and in the same box is a rather cool looking Grimlock too. Hrm, I says...
And then I had ordered a box with Shatty Prime and this single "Shining Version" of Optimus Prime. Essentially these guys are blind box purakit figures. That is, figures that you need to assemble yourself. I ended up actually using Aliexpress, because these guys don't have a Japanese distributor and even Amazon US seems to have a bit of a spotty range. And so this arrived in the post one day.
