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Akinator [Netflix]

This might not be a fully fledged game per say in the most conventional way but it is an interactive play if you break it down. After watching the Reactors of FBE on Youtube playing it themselves, I was intrigued to 'play' it myself. I'm putting play in quotes because you don't actually play with the game but instead it is the other way around with the game AI playing with you, or more specific your chosen character for that round. For every round you are required to think of an individual or just an entity in the wide world of pop culture and stick with it while the mind reader would ask you a bunch of questions from basic and broad and even random to eventual surprising detailed and specific, all in effort to try to cover all possibilities and delete them one by one until finally he actually get the exact answer. Whether you are playing just for fun or trying your hardest to come up with the most obscure talent imaginable to stump the Akinator, it is always a fun journey to see from start to finish. Give it a go and let me know how it went! I got one character that stumped him ... what could be yours?

Little Witch Academia s01e01-e02

<Yoh Yoshinari> [Studio Trigger]

When I was told that this series is just the anime version of Harry Potter and Hogwarts in particular, that is not a wrong simplification but this anime series is so much more than that. Having just watched the first two episodes, it is about a girl with a dream and trying to follow it the best that she can even with her own limitation. There is some elements from J.K. Rowling masterpiece that made its way into Yoh's world such as the Muggle situation and 'the Chosen One' trope but I am really intrigued to see where they could go since I love the animation style and the heart they show with their colourful characters. There are more than that simple comparison makes it so I implore you to give it a go.

Mute

After the aftermath of Bright, the full features venture by Netflix would now have to work harder to build up their prestige with their current crop of offerings full of buy-ins and originals and Mute was just another example of that unfortunate trend. After the lackluster reception of Warcraft that I quite adore for a faithful game to move adaptation with wrong storyline to focus on, Duncan Jones tried to go back to the genre that treated him the best before and while the premise and the world is interesting on paper, the execution left a lot to be desired in the end. The prolonged runtime is the perfect example of how no restriction sometimes can be a bad thing for some projects and even though he uses the time to delve into the characters to see their motivations depth, you can say that they are not magnetic enough to warrant that amount of screentime. The cyberpunk universe that won't be hard to be mistaken with Blade Runner and even their own Altered Carbon is being put in backseat to cater for the flawed character piece the director is trying to go on. It had a lot of potential but just couldn't live up to it. I'm sure the streaming giant would finally get a homerun eventually, right? 

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Well, that's all folks! Thank you for your time and please do come back for my future posts! :-)