m. tarah henry 🌹 @Lobst@scalie.club

OK, I just got to the segment where Goku heads to the Red Ribbon base and single-handedly wastes everyone who gets in his way; while I won't go so far as to call it worth the arc leading up to it, the fact that an entire army and its commanding officers are just a victory lap after a hard-won battle against Mercenary Tao is one of the most welcome and interesting surprises the anime has had for me

(ESPECIALLY since it means I'll be seeing less of Adviser Black from now on)

I feel like the game tries SO HARD to get you to notice that two of its characters look identical to one another, by showing you one of them looking directly at the camera every single time you lose a fight. I have to take the streamers I've been watching at their word that the two faces are similar; to me, they have different hairstyles and appear in different contexts -- if I'd played it on my own in a vacuum, it wouldn't have occurred to me at all

I booted into Windows to update a thing or two, fired this up on max settings, and spent over an hour just idly running around, climbing objects, and looking around at the opening-area environment as night turned to dawn. This game is exhilarating, and for all its political/story/characterization problems, I'm sad there isn't more of it

Atlantica cons: REAL bad move on the game's part to immediately move from a cutscene featuring Part Of Your World, a painstakingly-crafted theme meant to drive the emotional core of a feature film, into an original "it's fun to swim and pop bubbles" song composed for an action-RPG's rhythm minigame

Atlantica pros: At least we haven't heard a third rendition of Under The Sea yet

It might just be my unshakeable '90s-kid nostalgia for hearing Jim Cummings read anything, also, but KH2's use of Pete as a counterpart to the heroes is a welcome surprise, and I hope he shows up with just as big a role in KH3

Donald's "Well, you put everyone down there in that dungeon!" in Beast's Castle and his "...and remember to be good!" in Port Royal both make me think the voiceactor portraying him both absolutely recognizes and is actively leaning into how ridiculous the character sounds saying anything, anything at all