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Split Fiction (2025) Takes the co-op systems of It Takes Two pushes them to their limits with numerous really solid mechanics, set pieces, bosses, and platforming. The finale especially is such an insane flex that Hazelight should arguably win GOTY again.

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Monster Hunter Wilds [Story/Low Rank] (2025) Pretty damn good. Story and its various big moments were impressive if a bit cliche in spots. Cool how they address common criticisms people would have with the concept of MH. Also, it's only about 11-12 hours, complaints feel beyond overblown.

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Dragon Ball Daima (2025) The most consistent and best animated DB thing we've ever gotten. Toriyama's fingerprints everywhere from all the gags, designs, and vibes. Needed another 9-10 eps I think to keep it from feeling rushed in the back, but still great. Another fun post-Z AU like GT and Super.

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Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Beginning (2025) The first 3(?) episodes of the new Gundam series. Its probably the best introduction to a series I've watched in years beyond just Gundam. Designs, music, action are all aces. A lot of the things I liked the most I cannot talk about.

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Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii (2025) Pretty great. Just like the previous Gaiden game the story is pretty short, but this time its fleshed out with more side activities and the Pirate stuff. Good story, great writing for Majima. Final battle was fantastic. Common RGG W.

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Bad Boys: Ride of Die (2024) Have a lot of nostalgia for 2, but this might be the best one. Under two hours, builds on the previous and does some cool switch-ups to the Smith/Lawrence dynamic. Some of the best jokes and some genuinely great/inventive cinematography somehow? There's a gator.

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Bad Boys For Life (2020) 17 years later they came back with two Bad Boys films. First one is pretty good, but took a bit to get going properly as it has establishes a new secondary cast Chemistry between Lawrence and Smith still solid. The weakest entry because I've deleted Bad Boys 1 from my mind

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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2025) Wasn't expecting much from this but I actually liked it quite a bit. Nice to see more street-level crime fighting, and I kinda wish this is what we got from the main MCU Spidey. Lonnie Lincoln also was pretty damn compelling as a B-Plot.

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Bioshock (2007) Still one of the GOATs tbh. A game that got me into shooter, though mostly the more fantastical kind. Guns feel so punchy, and the powers are fun. Map is a bit wonky and the final level is mid but overall the experience is pretty tight. Story is still quite good.

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Severance Season 1 (2022) Immaculate slow burn thriller. The mystery is so tantalizing, and the main concept is horrifying and dystopian. Also the score is so so good. Made it feel so immersive. Didn't know Ben Stiller had such impressive directing chops.

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Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) This is a better trilogy than The Lord of the Rings.

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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) This all actually happened.

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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) Eri speaks exactly like Bill and that's real rough. Peak film. I am so high I just said "butt shit" help me. I'm freaking out rn

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Captain America: Brave New World (2025) They made a sequel to 2008's The Incredible Hulk. Harrison Ford turns in a pretty great performance. If you liked FatWS you'll probably like this. Never really hits the highs of the Russos Cap films at all, but I had fun. Middle of the road MCU.

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Doom Eternal + DLC (2020) Fantastic. Probably my favorite shooter. Fast paced and satisfying, a metal album cover being made multiple times per level. Great resource management loop. Marauders kick ass. The Ancient Gods Part 1 boss is really bad but aside from that basically peak the whole way.

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Doom (2016) Holds up pretty well. Even if I prefer Eternal's speed this still had the DNA of strong encounter design and great feeling guns. Not a big fan of the second hell visit since teleporters and crypts were a bit lame but still really solid. Micro-missiles are king.

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Your Honor (2020-2023) Two really fantastic seasons of television. Bryan Cranston eats up a role that does harken back to Breaking Bad in some ways but is way more empathetic. Expertly tense interactions, the kind of good TV Drama that turns me into a ball of anxiety as things play out.

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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (2024) A big jump forward in terms of the RPG mechanics, and the main cast in general. Ichiban is still great, the Kiryu stuff was fantastic and I enjoyed the story. If they're gonna keep making RPGs they /should/ make the jobs do anything besides "damage/heal" tho.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy (2005) Sometimes I forget David Cage was way more insane pre-Heavy Rain. This game was mostly terrible to play but every insane sequence made it worth it.

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Castlevania Nocturne S2 (2025) They absolutely delivered the strongest animation across both Netflix series this time. Gorgeous, amazing choreography, and overall it ends so so strongly. Liked it more than S1. Still not 100% my thing since I think it strays a bit too much from the games, but fun!

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What If...? Season 3 Probably my favorite season. Some great one-off episodes, main plot still let down by its heroes, especially Carter. The entire show is justified for the Bucky/Red Guardian episode and the episode where they had Kat Dennings lay an egg after fucking Howard the Duck.

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What If...? Season 2 Like S1, this is generally pretty good. Has a couple episode ideas that hit really well for me and some mixed results on when the "main plot finale" kicks in. The issue boils down to me liking the antagonists, and the outline of it but the protags just aren't great.

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Kaze and the Wild Masks (2021) Sick 2D Platformer that blends both DKC series though leans a bit more on the original trilogy for gamefeel. Very good. Quite challenging near the end on "Original Mode" - Only real complaint is bosses on Original can feel a bit long when you only got two hits.

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Overlord I-IV (2015-2022) 52 episodes to establish the dangers of both peer pressure and assuming intent. Also riding the perfect line of comedy, drama, action in a way where all of them work every time they swap to them. Glad I watched now since it seems like Season 5 will likely be the last one.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Bad Boys 2 (2003) A perfect action film now that Michael Bay got his usual large scope, and style down perfectly by this point. This movie is unrelenting for over two hours. Also we started the movie with our most pathetic fumble ever.

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Bad Boys (1995) Its fairly bland action, until the climax where a dude is sent flying through the air screaming and on fire. Also this final fun fact we got from Amazon.

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Creature Commandos S1 (2025) Watched this twice since I felt compelled to show it to friends, it's fantastic. James Gunn at his best with humanizing strange characters, good action, satisfying needledrops, and balancing dark moments with lighter stuff that nothing feels out of place or "too much".

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Golden Sun (2001) Crazy good RPG for the time, and is a real tech showpiece on the GBA. Always hits the sweet spot on balancing dungeons with real puzzles/mechanics while also being a standard turn-based RPG. Some of Sakuraba's best work on display in this too. Story is serviceable enough too.

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Whipped up End of Year ranked lists for TV, Movies, and Games I finished. For shows, I counted stuff that had a recent season in 2024 or seasons that crossed over to 2024. Keeping it to Current Year since I like cataloguing new stuff.

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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) Another stoner comedy that holds up. Way more 00s horny vibes and gross humor. It is also the story of Jordan and Aalto. Anyway here's a short clip of Aalto admiring the clever reference and Jordan being attacked by bees?

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Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) A stoner comedy that I think is pretty timeless. Somehow less problematic than most of the era and beyond. Only some minor transphobia. Also something about Gay Nordics. Shoutout to @brisskitty.bsky.social. Jordan is Seann William Scott. Aalto is Ashton Kutcher.

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Blue Lock Season 2 Reception on this one's animation did keep me off it longer than it should. While I love Sakuga I don't actually care if its a bit weaker if the writing, performances and music are up to par. This was great. Best arc yet, and the finale was one of the best in a sports anime.

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Bleach: Can't Fear Your Own World Started the post-manga light novels for Bleach. Handles the fallout of TYBW, jumps perspectives constantly, and builds up its new villain really well. Its just another arc of bleach but as a book. Very natural, loving it so far. Also new Kubo art occasionally.

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

A Place Further Than the Universe (2018) Very very good show about cute girls taking some chances, going on an adventure, becoming friends. I didn't think it was gonna get me emotionally until they busted out the email scene and ripped my heart out and started doing tricks on it. Would recommend.

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The Apothecary Diaries S1 Imperial China was not ready for a girl with this much charisma and filled with this much poison. Very good, glad Season 2 is dropping next month because I need more. Nice balancing of mystery solving, romance, and Maomao telling a concubine to give the Emperor a titjob.

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Bleach TYBW -The Conflict- Everything I could have wanted. They adapt all but 20ish chapters of the Manga, reorder events, and add numerous new scenes to make this feel fresh and exciting to someone who already read it and fixes most issues with the arc entirely. Part 4 will be a cultural reset.

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

.hack//Quarantine (2003) The final part of the original dot hack games. An insane set of cool moments and boss fights. Mechanically its the same as the others but its probably the worst game to progress in given its abundant focus on Gate Hacking. The highs cancel out the lows of that thankfully.

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Cave Story (2004) Finished this on steam in about 5 and a half hours. First time going through it since like 2007/8? Very very good. Cruel true ending unlocks. Did everything and unlocked Hell, but I ain't built for it. Immaculate vibes, final gauntlet sure does have hands.

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Ranma 1/2 (S1) First time tapping into Ranma and I really really liked it. Very strong comedy, and it's great to see a more vintage visual style tackled in big 2024. Wasn't huge on the last two episodes, but I forgive uses of certain cliches/tropes when it's something from the 80s ya know.

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Dandadan (S1) Great blend of action, comedy, romance. Animation is stellar and some of the plots have a decent emotional punch. Also just the right amount of fanservice to make prudes upset. Season just stops in the middle though which is a crime punishable by death, sadly!

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

.hack//Outbreak (2003) After two games of setting mysteries up, making enemies, causing more harm than good, this game let's Kite and co. come together and mount a real counter attack to the threat inside The World. It's great. Best of the three so far, sets the stage for the finale.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) The Sonic films finally got to adapt a Sonic game that has like a real plot in it. They do well with it. I doubt it'll flip peoples opinions if they don't fw these films, but its the best yet and is aged up a little. Final 30 minutes is a 10/10. Criticisms be damned.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Knuckles (2024) This one lives and dies by whether you like, the GOAT Wade Whipple since he's the co-lead. I thought the jokes/bits in this were pretty good. I think what makes human aspects of the Sonic Movie-verse work for me almost none of them act normal. They're all crazy which helps.

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments