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Okay so, Kingdom Hearts is a big pond to jump into, so I want to lay some ground rules for this review first. I’m a huge Final Fantasy fan, having played every mainline entry in the series since Final Fantasy VII, I would like to consider myself a big Final Fantasy fan boy. I played Kingdom Hearts back in 2002 on my cousins’ PS2 and found it to be tremendously boring and I just didn’t understand anything going on... This will be addressed in the review so don’t go crazy yet. Close to the release of Kingdom Hearts 3 (KH3), at the time I was working in a game store and it’s always required that you keep up to date with the new releases so I needed to know something about this series going into the third instalment (well… it’s actually the 12 th or so game in the series but whatever). It should be noted, in preparation for the release of KH3 to the general adoring public, they released every single KH game in packages that tie into the story culminating epic that is KH3. King...

Let’s go back to 1998, we’ve just finished playing Final Fantasy VII and we’re blown away about how amazing that was and we’re eagerly awaiting the release of story-telling epic, Metal Gear Solid. Surely PlayStation can’t get any better than that? On January 21 st , 1998 the most anticipated sequel to the best-selling survival horror game of all time, Resident Evil 2 was released. Now, how exactly do you follow up the critical hit that was Resident Evil? Resident Evil 2 was directed by Hideki Kamiya and produced by Shinji Mikami, who directed the original Resident Evil, and featured a troubled development feature over 50 members of staff over around 21 months. Development started one month after Resident Evil was released in early 1996 and was first shown at the “V-Jump Festival” in July of that year. This was the publics first look at what would later be dubbed by the community as “Resident Evil 1.5” as it featured a similar narrative to the first game as two months after ...

    Capcom first released Resident Evil all the back in 1996 as a spiritual successor to Sweet Home (1993) to huge critical acclaim. As of December 31st, 2019 Resident Evil has sold 95 million units worldwide and as such spawned an incredible franchise with many ups and some downs. Having just recently entered a publishing deal with Nintendo, Capcom seen to recapture some of the success of the original game and completely remake Resident Evil from the ground up in a brand-new engine with improved graphics, gameplay and voice acting. When the original game was released back in 1996, the voice acting at the time was incredible! To achieve two full campaigns with a fully voice acted cast and strikingly beautiful pre-rendered backgrounds and to compress and fit it all onto the Playstation’s 650MB Compact Disks was a technical achievement and firmly planted Capcom and Resident Evil ahead of the curb. However, communication between Capcom’s English and Japanese speaking depart...

The Assassins Creed main series is verging on 12 games and Odyssey is the latest in the massive Creed franchise. Hot off the heels of 2018's Egyptian Adventure, AC: Origins. Odyssey for the main part takes all of Origins mechanics and tweaks them to fit the Ancient Grecian setting. For the first time in the series you can actually choose the character you want to play as through the main story. Choose either Kassandra or Alexios to unravel a massive island spanning Spartan story featuring love, betrayal, loss and redemption. I chose Kassandra so for the rest of the review I will acknowledge the main character as such, although everything I say can be applied to Alexios too. When I originally started Oddyssey I actually rolled Alexios but his voice acting was so laughably forced that I then decided to start again as Kassandra and it did not disappoint. That's not to say we wont be seeing Alexios but we'll get to that shortly. The story begins on the mountaintop peaks ...

So here's the facts. Halloween is a humble-horror movie directed by the now legendary John Carpenter for release in 1978. It follows an extremely simple premise of a faceless serial killer, Michael Myers, hunting down innocent student and all round goody-two-shoes Laurie Strode, played by Jamie Lee Curtis. The movie makes a point to show the transformation, albeit briefly, of how Myers becomes the serial killer he is so known for being however it never takes strides to over-explain itself and this plays entirely to it's advantage of being a spooky movie full of unknown terrors. The film itself is a well paced, tension filled ordeal although not much happens until the thrilling third act. The movie very much prides itself in it's character building, mounting tension and character archetypes as it then concludes with a highly climactic and satisfying finale. So on the 30th October in 2018, I seen Halloween (1978) for the very first time ever. And how did it go? Undoubted...