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  • Elis James & John Robins Podcast Review 2 –

    03/04/2019
    Episodes Reviewed:         01-264 Average Episode Length:     1:25:00 Release Schedule:     Finished   The Elis James & John Robins Podcast is special. To me and to thousands of other people who call themselves PCDs (Podcast Devotees). It’s special for a number of reasons. Reasons that I’ll struggle...

  • Bittersweet Endings

    20/03/2019
    In the last few months I’ve really blasted through some shows. Quite a few to say the least; many of which I have written about for this very site. I think in this age of binge media we are all familiar with the bittersweetness of getting to the end...

  • Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

    13/03/2019
    Following on from my earlier article, The Dark Side of Alchemy, I’m now in a position to share some thoughts on Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood as a whole. I wrote the earlier article after I had finished “Part 1” which is the first 13 episodes; this time I’m writing having...

  • SSSS.GRIDMAN

    06/03/2019
    Kaiju are giant. Enormous. They are impossible to miss. You’d know if you saw one, you would just know. Yet in SSSS.GRIDMAN a lot of them manage to fade into the background. Standing like mountains in full view yet seemingly almost invisible. After a few episodes I realised that...

  • Goblin Slayer

    27/02/2019
    The trouble with goblins is, nobody takes them seriously. They’re just goblins after all; little more than an irritation. How many games have you played, or stories have you read/watched, where goblins are a monster enemy? 10, 20, 100? What proportion of those treated them as anything more difficult...

  • Out of Rupees – 99 Things To Talk About

    24/02/2019
    Join Francis, Lucy & Andy as they wade through the mountain of Nintendo news that has built up since their last episode. Who hasn’t bought Super Smash Bros for the Switch? How are the Ubisoft collaborations going? Are there any games not made using Unreal Engine 4? Find out...

  • Connecting with Bumblebee

    20/02/2019
    The Transformers cinematic franchise is a funny old beast. Seeing the first one, directed by Michael Bay, all those years ago was truly breathtaking. He made these giant transforming robots, not only look good but look like they belonged in the real world. It’s an amazing feat of CGI...

  • The Dark Side of Alchemy

    13/02/2019
    Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood caught me out big time. I really wasn’t prepared for what would happen in Episode 4. I don’t think I could have been less prepared for it if I’m honest. “What happened?” you ask; I’m not going to tell you as that would spoil it. What...

  • You Spin Me Right Round

    06/02/2019
    The clouds are thick, and threatening. The rain is hammering down. I can barely hear the rumbles of thunder or the rumble of the afterburners over the constant beeping from my cockpit. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. It never stops; not even for a moment as the missiles close in....