city of the wolves
Yeah, I bought Fatal Fury: City Of The Wolves, and what's worse, I LIKE IT
I’m only two thousand words in and I finally get to talk about how the game plays!
David Cabrera
mahjong
An even and unbiased review of various online mahjong clients by the second-place winner of the 2025 Riichi City Tenkaichi tournament (2/2)
Niche mahjong choices, and therefore, Sega.
games
An even and unbiased review of various online mahjong clients by the second-place winner of the 2025 Riichi City Tenkaichi tournament (1/2)
Not to brag or nothin’, I just want to get that out of the way so we’re all clear.
movies
Bonus: I should probably get out what’s in my head about Sinners
"Everything in the film centers on this one ecstatic moment that everyone builds and inhabits together, unashamed, loving, exuberant, free, and so powerful as to call the spirits out to play."
anime
Isekai isn’t always bad; two atypical and fun isekai series from last anime season
"The thing I hate most passionately about isekai slop is the false modesty of a fake underdog."
anime
Bonus: Momentary Lily Spoiler Space - what if a post-apocalypse didn't make any sense
As the guy from Hand Shakers says, this stuff just won't mesh.
anime
Unfortunately, GoHands' Momentary Lily is the boring kind of bad anime
...like a conversation between robots programmed only to spout catchphrases like Pokemon babbling out their own names at one another.
Tohai settles gang wars with mahjong, and maybe also some spare organs
(As a general content warning, Tohai— yes, this mahjong anime— contains frequent graphic violence, including dismemberment, mutilation, torture, and sexual violence. Do not watch this series unless you are ready for anything; the violence escalates as the show goes on.) All the different Japanese manga magazines have a brand, and
anime
What do we know about the connections between GQux and Gundam? A Missing Persons Investigation
(There’s no video release for Beginning, so I am running a bit off memory of a movie I saw last week. I will get things wrong; forgive me.) GQux Beginning wants to fit its whole alternate One Year War onto film, but as it only has so much time
anime
I can't explain GQux without spoilers, so you might just want to go see it yourself, but just in case I wrote 2000 words on it
This is not Hideaki Anno's Gundam, everyone please stop calling it that
arcade games
I’d tell you more about the Fatal Fury: City Of The Wolves beta if I hadn’t spent half my time waiting for a match
I had a great time playing City of the Wolves over the weekend and I’m looking forward to the completed game, but whether I buy it on launch or wait until it’s on sale depends entirely upon whether or not this online matchmaking experience improves.
arcade games
Bonus: Some of my favorite characters in Virtua Fighter 5 REVO
Now that the review-vital stuff is out of the way, I want to talk about the point that actually makes VF so fun and so rewarding to return to. That’s the characters, and how well-defined they are. I get that they don’t have the lore and story modes