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REVIEW: Pokemon Unite – An Easy to Learn MOBA
When Pokemon Unite was revealed back in 2020, the fandom went on a rampage. Fast-forward nearly two years later, and the pocket monsters have their own version of League of Legends. The gameplay is exceptionally simplistic. Each match contains a fight between two teams of five players, using different fighters. There is an option of either playing randomly or having enough friends to form a squad. During these 10 minutes battles, each team needs to fight wild Pokemon and gather points to throw in the opposing team’s goalposts. While it is a requirement for every playable character, for characters like Venusaur, Gengar, or Greninja, those players start as the first…
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REVIEW: Mario Golf Super Rush
After close to 20 years, we’ve finally been given another Mario Golf title on a Nintendo console: Mario Golf: Super Rush. During the reveal trailer, they introduced several modes such as a campaign, like the fan favorites on Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance, on top of two new methods of play called Speed Golf and Battle Golf. In comparison to previous versions, Super Rush‘s way of incorporating a story mode is rather disappointing. Unlike its predecessor, there are no original characters. The closest thing to a newly introduced character is the Mii that players can choose for their savefile. In this story mode, the player gets access to different challenges…
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Suki Alone Review – Avatar: The Last Airbender
This review contains spoilers for Avatar: The Last Airbender Books Two and Three. Set during Book Three: Fire of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Suki Alone serves as a side story; answering questions left by the original series. We follow Suki after her encounter with Azula seen in the episode Appa’s Lost Days. Azula takes Suki to the boiling rock and that’s where the story takes place. We see Suki’s time in prison all the way until the events of the two-part episode, The Boiling Rock. Faith Erin Hicks serves as writer with illustrators by Peter Wartman and Adele Matera. The trio have written a series of books in the Avatar…
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I AM NOT STARFIRE Book Review
Spoiler Alert: This review contains minor spoilers of I Am Not Starfire. I Am Not Starfire is a young adult novel written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Yoshi Yoshitani. We follow Mandy, the daughter of the legendary superhero, Starfire, who tries to navigate the struggles of being a teenager. Being the daughter of a former Teen Titan has its fair share of problems. Mandy is supposed to have superpowers or her mother’s dazzling personality, but she’s nothing like Starfire and seems to be a disappointment to everyone around her. This novel has all of the typical story beats you’d expect to see in a coming-of-age story. Mandy is a…
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FLASH SPOILER Review: Episode 7×17- “Heart of the Matter, Part 1”
The Flash (7×17)- “Heart of the Matter, Part 1″ Written by: Eric Wallace & Lauren Barnett Directed by: Eric Dean Seaton So we left off with Nora and Bart coming to 2021 from the future. This episode opens with the two still in the future and chasing Godspeed through the streets of Central City. Heart’s doing a running monologue about acquiring infinite velocity when he’s lassoed by Nora making interesting use of her lightning. Two can play at this game but Heart’s more of a traditional “UN-LIM-I-TED POOOOOOWWWWAAAARRRR!” Guy with his lightning attacks. However, just as Nora’s about to pay the price for her lack of vision, Bart quite…
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FLASH SPOILER Review: Episode 7×16- “POW”
The Flash (7×16)- “POW” Written by: Kristen Kim & Dan Fisk Directed by: Marcus Stokes The episode opens on Barry watching the news coverage of the Godspeeds rampaging through Central City. Only a few seconds pass before he decides to head back out. He yells up the stairs to Iris to tell her he’s leaving. (Guessing no Candice Patton again this week.) Before he can leave Nora appears to him again and tells him something’s wrong with the future before she starts fading out of existence and he starts choking. Fortunately this is just a dream but chances are it’s not a good sign anyway. Did I mention rampaging…
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FLASH SPOILER Review: Episode 7×15- “Enemy at the Gates”
The Flash (7×15)- “Enemy at the Gates” Written by: (Teleplay by) Thomas Pound (Story by) Joshua V Gilbert Directed by: Geoffrey Wing Shotz This week opens in Barry’s in CCPD, he’s hard at work when his daughter Nora appears before him with good news; Everything’s going to work out. The pair have a hug before Barry wakes up from the dream, still in his lab but Nora is nowhere to be seen. He calls Iris and tells her he thinks she might be pregnant. Well that’s certainly an interpretation! The next morning, Barry’s gathering up some samples from Iris and explaining that meta-DNA could make a pregnancy test unreliable…
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FLASH SPOILER Review: Episode 7×14- “Rayo de Luz”
The Flash (7×14)- “Rayo de Luz” Written by: (Teleplay by) Jonathan Butler & Gabriel Garza (Story by) Jess Carson Directed by: Danielle Panabaker Episode directed by a member of the cast… Let’s see how this goes, because Tom Cavahagh directed an episode and made sure to include a scene of HR Wells nearly successfully negotiating a three-some. Anyway the episode opens with Allegra taking a beating from Ultraviolet before flashing back twelve hours to Barry and Iris taking off to the middle of nowhere for a sex vacation cause they’re trying to have a baby. However, they still haven’t told the gang so he decides to make things awkward for…
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FLASH SPOILER Review: Episode 7×13- “Masquerade”
The Flash (7×13)- “Masquerade” Written by: Sam Chalsen & Christina M Walker Directed by: Rachel Talalay We open in the West Home with Joe going over Kramer’s files while Cecile gets ready to go in for work. Job’s a little annoyed at all the blacked out stuff he’s finding (which I would assume would be pretty normal for any defense department files a retired cop could get his hands on) but Cecile has something interesting. One of her clients served with Kramer but apparently that isn’t in her file. It’s a bit flimsy but it’s a place to start. Joe leaves and Cecile immediately goes into some creepy psychic vision…
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96,000 Reasons to Watch In The Heights
Lights up on Washington Heights! Mike and John review the musical event of the summer in their spoiler-free episode! Check out our review of John M. Chu‘s In the Heights. In Washington Heights, N.Y., the scent of warm coffee hangs in the air just outside of the 181st St. subway stop, where a kaleidoscope of dreams rallies a vibrant and tight-knit community. At the intersection of it all is a likable and magnetic bodega owner who hopes, imagines, and sings about a better life. Watch In the Heights in theaters now.