Reviews November 2021 part THREE
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alias_sqbrI think I'm up to three? Something like that.
Movies: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Live Action TV: Word of Honour
Anime: Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan
Games:
Mushroom Cats
Antichamber
Cat Quest
Thimbleweed Park
Movies:
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: This is great, a really fun and funny superhero movie about a Chinese American slacker who is dragged back into the life he escaped as the son of an immortal warlord and has to team up with his wacky female bff to save the world. Lots of funny jokes, likeable characters, cool action, and engaging drama with a basically all-Asian cast. Still a MCU movie, but not as empty as they tend to be, and while definitely focussed on it's male main character it treats it's female characters pretty well (also there's no het romance beyond the parents, and some mild femslashiness). Some of the CG didn't work for me but the characters pulled it through. Also the cast is very pretty, especially Tony Leung as the emotionally complex, morally grey dad.
Live Action TV:
Word of Honour: The Chinese censored slashy TV adaptation of the m/m fantasy romance novel Faraway Dreamers (which I have not read). The main character is an angsty ex-assassin who is trying to live out his final days in drunken lassitude, but meets a mysterious and charming man and gets dragged into violent supernatural shenanigans. I've only watched a few episodes because subtitled live action hurts my brain, but it's pretty good so far. The fights are a bit over the top for my taste but I'm getting used to it. I hear it's very good, and very slashy, but not great to it's female characters, so we'll see how that goes.
Anime:
Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan: A dark comedy about the depressed host of a kid's tv show. A lot of the humour is the contrast between his cheery host demeanor and the times he cracks and expresses the despair within. It got repetitive pretty quickly, I didn't find it that funny, and it apparently doesn't have a lot of plot, so I gave up. Some people find it very funny and cathartic.
Games:
Mushroom Cats: A small, free, cute, free hidden object game. I enjoyed this until the final object which required fast reflexes >:(
Antichamber: A surreal non-linear room escape puzzle game, where things change depending on weird stuff like what direction you're facing or how fast you're walking etc. Very interesting, and fun to explore for a little while, but I have a bad enough sense of direction at the best of times so eventually got frustrated and confused and gave up.
Cat Quest: a generic fantasy RPG, but everyone is talking cats. Cute and (from what I saw) easy to play, but very slight, and I got bored.
Thimbleweed Park: Retro pixelated murder mystery point and click adventure game. It seems fine and is well reviewed but didn't click for me.
Movies: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Live Action TV: Word of Honour
Anime: Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan
Games:
Mushroom Cats
Antichamber
Cat Quest
Thimbleweed Park
Movies:
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: This is great, a really fun and funny superhero movie about a Chinese American slacker who is dragged back into the life he escaped as the son of an immortal warlord and has to team up with his wacky female bff to save the world. Lots of funny jokes, likeable characters, cool action, and engaging drama with a basically all-Asian cast. Still a MCU movie, but not as empty as they tend to be, and while definitely focussed on it's male main character it treats it's female characters pretty well (also there's no het romance beyond the parents, and some mild femslashiness). Some of the CG didn't work for me but the characters pulled it through. Also the cast is very pretty, especially Tony Leung as the emotionally complex, morally grey dad.
Live Action TV:
Word of Honour: The Chinese censored slashy TV adaptation of the m/m fantasy romance novel Faraway Dreamers (which I have not read). The main character is an angsty ex-assassin who is trying to live out his final days in drunken lassitude, but meets a mysterious and charming man and gets dragged into violent supernatural shenanigans. I've only watched a few episodes because subtitled live action hurts my brain, but it's pretty good so far. The fights are a bit over the top for my taste but I'm getting used to it. I hear it's very good, and very slashy, but not great to it's female characters, so we'll see how that goes.
Anime:
Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan: A dark comedy about the depressed host of a kid's tv show. A lot of the humour is the contrast between his cheery host demeanor and the times he cracks and expresses the despair within. It got repetitive pretty quickly, I didn't find it that funny, and it apparently doesn't have a lot of plot, so I gave up. Some people find it very funny and cathartic.
Games:
Mushroom Cats: A small, free, cute, free hidden object game. I enjoyed this until the final object which required fast reflexes >:(
Antichamber: A surreal non-linear room escape puzzle game, where things change depending on weird stuff like what direction you're facing or how fast you're walking etc. Very interesting, and fun to explore for a little while, but I have a bad enough sense of direction at the best of times so eventually got frustrated and confused and gave up.
Cat Quest: a generic fantasy RPG, but everyone is talking cats. Cute and (from what I saw) easy to play, but very slight, and I got bored.
Thimbleweed Park: Retro pixelated murder mystery point and click adventure game. It seems fine and is well reviewed but didn't click for me.
