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nt labels marathon played lately monday january 27 2025 top five video games of 2024 when i wrote about how 2023 was an interesting year i didn t realize that i was cursing 2024 at least there were some very good games to enjoy like a dragon infinite wealth any new release from rgg studios is a contender for this list and this game was no exception the follow up to yakuza like a dragon infinite wealth is both a continuation of the story of ichiban kasuga the hero of yokohama but also a nother sendoff for the original protagonist kazuma kiryu like the prequel game this is again a turn based rpg the four years since the prior installment have meant a number of improvements to its systems where is lacks is in the story s heart much like the different in judgment and lost judgement we have received a better game with a story that does not hit the same serialized fiction is just like that i guess nonetheless everything about this game plastered it to this list from the jump and i enjoyed every madcap minute of it elden ring just when you think you re out they pull you back in the they in this case is my daughter who likes to hang out with me while i play video games i had banged my head on elden ring before giving up on my sorceror in frustration even though the received wisdom is that sorcery builds were the good kind of broken instead i felt constantly annoyed by fromsoftware s particular brand of systematic petulance but she wanted to see me adventure and struggle in that fantasy world and so i answered the call favoring a greatsword build this time a favorite choice of the likes of vinny caravella and patrick klepek i found myself having a much more satisfying time of it so much so in fact that i promised that if i beat the prerequiste boss i would purchase the dlc expansion and so i did much like prior fromsoft games i love everything about them except the bosses but i was able to persevere and became elden lord i just had to promise my daughter that if i finish the game with my sorcerer i show her the ranni ending ufo 50 i ve had my eye on this game for some time the concept is fascinating a collection of games hailing from a bygone time for a fictional console as with any collection not every game is going to hit but it was fascinating to play through the history of this fantasy developer and see how ideas and themes would expand over time my absolute favorites of the collection were warptank and chameleon both more thinky games than action there are some that i haven t devoted enough time to like the strategy and rpgs but the shear audacity of ufo 50 has me entralled for days earning its rightful place on this list hitman world of assassination in many ways hitman is an intimidating game as it exists now there are the three primary campaigns several dlc missions as well as the live service missions it is almost overwhelming to come to the game to be faced with all of that though i ve tried a time or two before i still haven t completed all three campaigns instead what brought me back to the game was addition of the run based mode freelancer from back in 2023 of course i m slow at discovering these things so i picked it up this year and had a blast now make no mistake i am very bad at the freelancer mode but i love getting dropped into a mission where the target s could be anyone anywhere adding an endless mode like this is a stroke of genius on io interactive s part indiana jones and the great circle one of the benefits of writing this list so late is allowing end of the year releases like this a proper chance to be noticed and notice i did indiana jones and the great circle get so many things right on one hand it could very well be a lost film in the franchise slotted between raiders and last crusade on another it is an amazing adventure around the globe each environment though built around the precepts required of the game feels unique such as the claustrophobic warrens of the vatican or the open desert of egypt finally it is an effective indiana jones simulation letting you inhabit the well known character so thoroughly it is hard to be effusive enough about the decisions machinegames made in bringing this game to life i m going to be thinking about my time with great circle for some time and i can t wait for the forthcoming dlc to give me an excuse to put on the leather jacket and fedora again honorable mentions marvel s midnight suns xdefiant cyberpunk 2077 i spent quite a lot of time with and each held a spot on this list until they were finally forced off but being able to list so many almost games says a lot about how this year went and that s it for 2024 i think i ll actually get this out at a resonable time i guess 2025 is looking up already right right oh shit posted by marty runyon at 1 27 2025 08 53 00 pm 2 comments labels like a dragon top five yakuza year end sunday september 22 2024 watched lately hamilton hollywood pantages theatre september 14 2024 i m not 100 sure when i fell in love with musicals but i have a strong suspicion buried in my parents record collections was an old album that my mother would occasionally play when the mood struck the soundtrack to the film paint your wagon i had never seen the film nor the musical upon which it was sort of based but the songs were so evocative to my young ears that i could see those gold miners singing their hearts out eventually i met my wife and she introduced me to broadway musicals in a big way i still remember sitting with her front row at les misérables with tears welling in my eyes as the overture began i ve been hooked ever since it s not really any surprise to me that i enjoyed hamilton the hip hop inspired retelling of the life of alexander hamilton is absolutely fascinating in its construction it should never have worked but i find myself enthralled with its catchy tunes and clever loops the narrative runs on and although i notoriously detest most second acts hamilton has enough drama and conflict to carry the story aptly to its conclusion of course i ve seen the filmed version of the show numerous times before we had the chance to attend ourselves but instead of retreading points that have been written a million times over the last decade i d like to share the three things that enchanted me the most about seeing the show performed live and yes the ten duel commandments ran through my head as i wrote out these points number one one of the fun ways that the movie succeeds in bringing the musical to the screen is how it brings you onstage to see the performers from from intimate distance but what the movie cannot replicate is the magic of the proscenium from your viewpoint in the audience you can take in the entirety of the production at once and hamilton is a busy show with the bigger numbers absolutely overwhelming with things to take in the filmmakers in producing what is likely the best reproduction of a stage musical for the screen still understand that they have to take advantage of the convention of movies but that doesn t allow much time to luxuriate in the specticle there was a huge grin on my face through the entirely of the show as i could pick out individual details that weren t important for a camera to focus on number two a corollary to the prior one of the issues with flattening the show for a screen is that leaves not room for the audience it was a little strange to see the performers playing to the audience in ways that don t come across well on film king george is probably the most visible instance in the movie but his antics are heightened on the stage as are several of the other performances that interaction is impossible to capture on film it was so much fun to have the performers acknowledging that there was an audience in rapt attention number three finally the intensity of yorktown the world turned upside down does not come across on television maybe if i had a massively more capable audio system it might approximate the live experience but i doubt that you could reproduce those thunderous booms of cannon fire that you could feel in your chest it is absolutely the high point of the musical but i was not ready for just how intense the scene would be live i m a bit of a snob when it comes to well just about any media that i consume so when something amazing comes along it restores my ardour for the artform seeing hamilton reminded me just how transcendent live theater can be posted by marty runyon at 9 22 2024 03 53 00 am 1 comment labels watched lately monday september 16 2024 top five anime of 2022 2022 was the year that i returned to anime in a big way i had intended to tell you about it but blogging isn t as easy for me as it once was thus here at the end of 2024 are my top five anime for 2022 at last call of the night i can t remember having a series written specifically for my tastes but that seems to be what has happened here so thank you to lidenfilms for this gift call of the night is the story of a teenage boy who has become so unmoored from the his day to day life that he can only find solace after dark yes it heavily trades on the ol vampire trope but it embraces the subtext of why that trope is so seductive as an inveterate night owl myself it was amazing to watch an anime that really understood the beauty of solitude in the night time my dress up darling it really was a close thing deciding which anime would top this list for as much as i love call of the night it s my dress up darling that i can gush over endlessly a tale of two high school kids unable to share the things they love with anyone else finding a way to bond over cosplay for everything that people will tell you this show is about like romance cosplay or lewdness the thing that really draws me in is how the main characters are kids on the verge of adulthood struggling to deal with situations that they are not quite mature enough to handle yet find their way through together all that and they do it with joy and a laugh see i could go on but let s see what else is on the list spy x family this shonen jump megastar came with all of the fanfare one would expect of their next big hit the shock to me was how well that was deserved spy x family is so many things an espionage story a wacky comedy a somber drama and more it shouldn t all work together but the characters are so likeable that i would watch them do just about anything and i m sure they will birdie wing golf girls story there is no reason for a golf anime to go this hard the dichotomous main characters could not be more different except in their passion for the sport this show has some wild swings goddammit but i found myself grinning from the audacity of the show from start to finish i don t even know how to decribe it without sounding ludicrous just watch an episode and take in the madness of peak golf anime kaguya sama love is war ultra romantic aka akasaka s tale of the battle of the sexes reaches its climax here in the third season of kaguya sama love is war the comedy is still peak the character work is on point and the romance is at its height all of the laudets for this series are well earned if you find yourself inclined to see a fun take on the romance genre well don t start here but do watch that first season because you will find yourself here before you know it let s see when i get around to my 2023 list posted by marty runyon at 9 16 2024 11 20 00 pm 1 comment labels anime my dress up darling top five year end sunday september 1 2024 top five video games of 2023 2023 was certainly an interesting year with all of that connotes it would be weird to write about all of the great video games i got to play without mentioning the thousands of people laid off by the games industry due to terribly short sighted corporations as they try to extract every last dollar of profit even at the expense of the people who count on them games don t spontaneously emerge they are the hard work of people who genuinely love them and those people deserve to be treated better by celebrating these games i celebrate the people behind them and hope everyone can find stability in the new year monster hunter world some five years after its release i finally saw the ending of monster hunter world that it took a foray into monster hunter rise to remind me that i never completed the earlier game feels a little silly but i m glad my appetite for fighting those gargantuan beasts brought me back mhw let you explore the world learn how to navigate it and discover how the monsters act there it was neat to get to know those environments and really explore those fantastic ecosytems the legend of zelda breath of the wild it feels a little strange to put a game on this list that i played thrugh to completion previously but botw really earned its return trip to the top five and the reason for that is that i played through the game for my daughter it wasn t hard to convince me since i wanted to warm up for the impending tears of the kingdom in a way it reminded me of my childhood when my brother and i would game together with one of us at the controls and the other navigating we had a great time laughing our way through the game i ll never be able to say the words spirit orb without a funny voice again the making of karateka i received the criterion collection dvd of citizen kane as a gift one year and was immediately taken with all of the extras included that help explain why the film is held in such high esteem without all of the work the film might have come off as terribly boring because decades of movies have learned so heavily from it i suspect the same would have occured if i attempted to play karateka outside of this amazing package more documentary and archive than game the making of karateka walks you through its creation and the discusses the advances jordan mechnar made in bringing his vision to the computer it is an exciting start to digital extreme s gold master series and i m fascinated to see when they go in the future vampire survivors when vampire survivors first came out i was perplexed as to why anyone find it fun you just run around and try not to die i asked myself thanks to game pass i was able to try it for myself and discovered that there is a lot more to it the trying not to die part is greatly assisted by the upgrades you choose and your thoughtful positioning to get the most use out of them it is a very strightforward game but the simplicity of execution allows for an easy on ramp to the layers that it adds for a while there it became a ritual to run a level before work every day i don t know if there is any way to finish the game but i quite enjoyed my time with it like a dragon gaiden the man who erased his name when this game was first announced i had trouble understanding why it was necessary having finished it i still have the same thought but it doesn t have to be necessary to have been a joyful addition to the like a dragon series just running around ryu 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