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Merry Christmas, everyone!

 

Video games are referred to as worlds of endless possibility, places where you can be whatever you want to be. Nothing proves that more than the documentary, "The Remarkable Life of Ibelin". Join us while we discuss the story of a young man named Mats, who's suffering from muscular dystrophy but finds a second life playing the character "Ibelin" in World of Warcraft.

 

CONTENT WARNING: terminal illness, political infighting, the loss of a child, old men waxing nostalgic, mild language.

 

Featuring the voices of Marc Athanas, Wayne Bressette, and Nick Mohr.

 

Our theme music was composed by Jack Feerick, and performed and realized by Sam Feerick.

 

Just in time for Halloween, we review "Emesis Blue", a full length psychological horror created with Source Filmmaker and utilizing the assets of Team Fortress 2. The fate of the videogame-to-film adaptation is in the hands of the fans now. Will it survive the experience?

 

Here's a link to the full film on YouTube:

YouTube - EMESIS BLUE

 

CONTENT WARNING: government experiments, paranoia, madness, missed headshots, mild language.

 

Featuring the voices of Marc Athanas, Wayne Bressette, and Nick Mohr.

 

Our theme music was composed by Jack Feerick, and performed and realized by Sam Feerick.

 

We review "Postal", Uwe Boll's ultimate challenge to good taste. If you think you've seen the bottom of the Boll, you have NO IDEA.

 

CONTENT WARNING: 9/11, racist stereotypes, mass shootings, kidnapping, exploiting the disabled, baby manslaughter, religious cults, explicit language... look, this whole episode is a trigger for SOMEBODY. Don't blame us if you listen to this one!

 

Featuring the voices of Marc Athanas, Wayne Bressette, and Nick Mohr.

 

Our theme music was composed by Jack Feerick, and performed and realized by Sam Feerick.

 

We review "Five Nights at Freddy's", where a man is tricked into working night security at a haunted children's playhouse, and must survive against a collection of evil animatronics. It may be based on the original game, but this film arrived so late it feels like Coke Zero compared to Willy's Wonderland.

 

CONTENT WARNING: child murder, neglectful parents, greedy relatives, Matthew Lillard overacting, mild language.

 

Featuring the voices of Marc Athanas, Wayne Bressette, and Nick Mohr.

 

Our theme music was composed by Jack Feerick, and performed and realized by Sam Feerick.

We review "Heavenly Sword", a Chosen One™ story with worse presentation than the 2007 PS3 game it's based on, and even less engagement with its audience. The title may promise heaven, but we found something else entirely.

 

CONTENT WARNING: raping/pillaging, deaf sentries, murdered villagers, re-murdered villagers, mild language.

 

Featuring the voices of Marc Athanas, Wayne Bressette, and Nick Mohr.

 

Our theme music was composed by Jack Feerick, and performed and realized by Sam Feerick.

We review "Ni No Kuni", a story about a fantasy world linked to our own by the worst thing possible: a "chosen one" anime hero with an IQ equal to his age.

 

CONTENT WARNING: jealous boyfriends / mass murderers / multi-dimensional terrorists (and that's all just one guy!), mild language.

 

Featuring the voices of Marc Athanas, Wayne Bressette, and Nick Mohr.

 

Our theme music was composed by Jack Feerick, and performed and realized by Sam Feerick.

We review "Gran Turismo", the true story of a Nissan exec who watched The Last Starfighter too many times and thought "Why not this, but with race cars?"

Can video game skills translate to a real race track? Don't cheat and look up the story on Wiki, experience it with us! 

 

CONTENT WARNING: reckless management, car crashes, father and son conflict, anti-"Nick" propaganda, mild language.

 

Featuring the voices of Marc Athanas, Wayne Bressette, and Nick Mohr.

 

Our theme music was composed by Jack Feerick, and performed and realized by Sam Feerick.

We review "The King of Fighters", where a young Japanese boy out for revenge trains to become a white man and travel to another dimension for a chance to become the KING OF FIGHTERS™ because... something to do with a floating, pulsating ball of slithering energy snakes? 

Yeah, we're not sure how to process that one, either. 

 

CONTENT WARNING: mind control, secret lesbians, snake orgies, mid-movie whitewashing, mild language.

 

Featuring the voices of Marc Athanas, Wayne Bressette, and Nick Mohr.

 

Our theme music was composed by Jack Feerick, and performed and realized by Sam Feerick.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE!

 

This spooky season we watch "Detention", a haunting mystery about two students trapped inside a hellscape that may well be of their own making. Is there anything scarier than going back to school? How about a 1960s Taiwanese school at the height of the White Terror... and also ghosts?

 

CONTENT WARNING: military oppression, icky student-teacher relationships, teenage jealousy, damnation loops, mild language.

 

Featuring the voices of Marc Athanas, Wayne Bressette, and Nick Mohr.

 

Our theme music was composed by Jack Feerick, and performed and realized by Sam Feerick.

It's our last stop on our Franchise Tour, and we're wrapping things up with something special: our first sequel!

 

We review "Final Fantasy: Advent Children COMPLETE", a feature length CG cutscene that tries to follow up one of the biggest video games ever.

 

Are you curious what happened after the events of Final Fantasy VII? Do you want to know more about your favourite character, perhaps Barret or Yuffie or even Cid? Well, so do we, and that's AFTER watching this film...

 

Prepare yourself for a cinematic Ultimate Weapon, with the longest version of an already too long story.

 

CONTENT WARNING: dilly dallying, shilly shallying, Marc trying to make sense of FF7, stealing your boy's ghost-girl, mild language.

 

Featuring the voices of Marc Athanas, Wayne Bressette, and Nick Mohr.

 

Our theme music was composed by Jack Feerick, and performed and realized by Sam Feerick.