My thoughts on Bambi: The Reckoning

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, in 2023 The Twisted Childhood Universe started. Marvel Cinematic Universe started a huge trend. Monsterverse and The Conjuring Universe being it's biggest competitors. Suddenly the concept of a more horror driven franchise using public domain characters. You got something potentially nightmare fuel.

I'm not here to review the films already released. Three by my count Winnie-the-Pooh series and Peter Pan respectively. I am starting to take some interest into this cinematic universe. I'm actually here to discuss the newest trailer of that universe. Featuring a character I never considered for a horror movie franchise at all.

We are talking the deer Bambi. Most remembers the classic Disney film of the same name. Bambi actually dates back to a classic book series. It's already a tough sell to make Mickey Mouse into a horror character. This possibly taken the cake in a rather different way. Bambi is a small harmless deer. Deers in real life aren't very bright to begin with.

Once a while I see some deers moving around where I live. Somehow they made Bambi actually terrifying. He's a huge piss off deer with sharp teeth. He's almost like an oversized bull charging at people. We actually get to see a lot of the character in the trailer. The concept of killer animal movies been around a long time.

Supposedly the world needs shark movies!!! I don't find deers to be scary at all. This particular deer is so menacing. He's actually bigger than an RV I'm not kidding. A smaller RV to clarify but still that's huge for a deer. I knew about this movie for a while. I didn't expect to see any of this!!! I can say I'm somewhat impressed.

I also should point out an upcoming Avengers style crossover movie in the works. A more villain take of that concept is strangely interesting to me. Bambi is terrorizing people it makes wonder where's PETA at? Some states wouldn't allow harm to deers unless it's hunting season. Just imagine Bambi causing hell in one of those states.

You would be forced to try escaping to another state or leave the country altogether. Clearly they put a lot of thought into this concept. Especially how easy people could've blown it off. Simply because they're using Bambi of all public domain characters for an horror movie. If they made Bambi scary like this. Then I wanna see what they do with Pinocchio whose getting his own movie.

Not to be confused with Pinocchio's Revenge either. Sure it's cheap to use public domain characters because they don't need to pay to use em. Of course, there's some guide lines to using em or they'll get sue. Not everything with those characters is in the public domain. They have to be cautious how to use em or else.

I actually enjoyed this trailer way more than I possibly ever expected. The trailer just sticks with you in a good way. Obviously it'll bag questions why Bambi? A lot of people don't find deers scary. At this point I wanna see someone make an Platypus horror movie. An animal I even question Why God created?

Bambi: The Reckoning is a good title for this. I wouldn't be surprise this came out in December. The big issue with that is there's a lot of Christmas horror movies. It would be facing tough competition. This movie was originally suppose to come out last year. Then again Peter Pan going to play a huge role in the crossover movie they're doing.

We're approaching the very limit what could get transformed into a horror movie or an horror movie franchise. Some may seem this being desperate using public domain characters. I personally see some creativity coming from this. The same company also responsible for Popeye's Revenge. Possibly not the best introduction into their horror films.

I got to give them some credit. They took a character we never expected to become scary. They found a way to make Bambi stand out like this!!! I don't think it's going to be a bad horror movie. At best it'll be alright among those horror movies. I don't expect it to be their best by any means. I could argue ways to make Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer into a horror icon.

Trust me Rudolph would've been a lot scarier in comparison. Just imagine all the crazy ideas they have regarding his red nose. Like when it glows red either a laser fires or suddenly his mind in pain. Rudolph tries to reel the pain that ends up to some crazy situations happening. I actually do think an horror Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer with the right people could be something amazing.

Bambi is very quickly going to be seen as a joke character among these icons. I don't think they are going to treat him that way here. It's even possible he'll be one of the first to kill in the upcoming crossover movie. It's almost like when you do enough drugs that messes you up. You start to see crazy stuff I wouldn't be surprised that inspired this.

My thoughts on Screamboat trailer

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, last year Mickey Mouse entered the public domain. Very quickly two horror Mickey Mouse movies gotten announced. The Mouse Trap that came out late 2024. The other was Screamboat coming out in early April 2025. I confess I never was that crazy for Mickey Mouse. I knew people going to keep making horror Mickey Mouse stuff.

I felt the games are more interesting than the movies. Although I will say I do actually wanna see Screamboat. This has to be the best looking horror Mickey Mouse yet. They even gotten David Howard Thornton to play the character. He's famous for playing Art the Clown in Terrifier series. He also played The Grinch in The Mean One.

More recently The Joker in an fan film called Jokers Wild. Which was a truly amazing performance as The Joker. You can tell I'm quite excited for this. Mickey going to wear the iconic outfit from the original Mickey Mouse cartoon short. This actually a horror movie remake of that short. I know people starting to get sick of horror Mickey Mouse movies.

Personally I rather have more of those plus Popeye than shark movies. Seriously why are there so many horror shark movies? The actual trailer sold me very quickly. We get an idea which characters we'll be seeing a lot in the movie. I just loved what was shown of Mickey Mouse. The actual look along with making him the correct height very well done.

You can tell Thornton had more fun playing the character. Just imagine a boat ride turning into a night like this!!! I could never imagine somehow Mickey Mouse actually terrifying. Sure they have strict guide lines with the concept they're using. Most horror Mickey Mouse movies will be more of their own thing. Let's be honest with the possible exception of I Heart Willie.

Most of them aren't going to be great. I actually heard some great stuff about I Heart Willie. It's currently on my list of horror movies to watch. Screamboat will be among the first horror Mickey Mouse movies to not suck. We're getting as close to the actual character as possible. Obviously Disney won't be happy with the film I could care less though.

Easily one of the best trailers for an public domain horror movie I ever seen!!! I even confessed Bambi: The Reckoning gotten my interest as well. Not to be confused with horror movies to eventually end up in the public domain like Night of the Living Dead (1968 version). We're talking about using public domain characters in horror movies to help prevent confusion.

What I wanna see is Mickey being quite creative with the kills. I wouldn't mind if he talks because Thornton could nail the character well. Just keeping him silent could take away from the movie to a degree. Which was a major issue I had with The Mean One. Screamboat was a great title for this horror Mickey Mouse movie.

There's more horror Mickey Mouse movies confirmed on the way. This is special since this was among the first two horror Mickey Mouse movies announced. We're finally getting that horror Mickey Mouse movie this year. I absolutely loved this trailer. I don't think I could be more sold on an horror Mickey Mouse movie.

Yes I'm willing to test that up to my death if needed. I'm just excited for this as for Popeye the Slayer Man. Easily among the horror movies I wanna see the most this year. Despite not even half way through the year yet. I felt Screamboat going to lead to great things. I just don't want people to suddenly held onto unrealistic standards after watching this movie.

I felt the best way to go about this. You do have to be a bit selective which horror movies you wanna see. Also doing this helps prevent watching the not great similar movies. Eventually we'll get a terribly bad horror Mickey Mouse movie. At least we gotten some decent ones. Honestly Screamboat is a huge reason I'm going to start keeping an eye on these movies.

I would love to see David Howard Thornton do an horror Bugs Bunny movie. Just knowing he's going to do it I don't care how bad the actual film going to be. I simply see him bring a rather twisted take of the character to the big screens. Especially if he does Mickey Mouse well. Screamboat is about to change the world in a way no one expecting I love it!!!

My thoughts on Canned CW Powerpuff Girls trailer

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, shortly coming home from an dentist appointment recently. I quickly found out through discord about The CW's canned Powerpuff Girls trailer. I previously knew about this show for a few years. I also grew up watching the original cartoon show. Personally everything following that show haven't been great.

I'm trying to not remember the trailer. I actually felt I gotten brain rot just from watching it. We get to see the Powerpuff Girls as little girls. Of course it were an CW show. They gotten aged up to being teenagers. Which I felt Rugrats with All Grown Up done way better!!! They made Mojo Jojo into an human father & son.

Partly they tried to not properly do the character to avoid having another Gorilla Grodd on their hands. For those not familiar with The Powerpuff Girls franchise. Like Gorilla Grodd, Mojo Jojo was an ape with enhanced intelligence. He also was their biggest enemy since he has the most personal reasons to dislike em.

You know it's bad when their arch enemy done this amazingly bad. Mojo was the dad while his son named Jojo. Who in their right mind calls their son Jojo? I would've been fine if a girl gotten called Jojo instead. I quickly notice all three girls notably off their characters. I felt Bubbles was hands down the closest. Buttercup was massively done wrong in the show.

The exception to that is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Which is way better than this!!! Especially Jolyne such an amazing protagonist. The Powerpuff Girls Z has nothing on that!!! Honestly, it's just sad this was the best they came up with. Especially for an channel airing a lot of DC shows. You would think their standards much higher than this!!!

Why does The CW have to keep putting families against each other concept? By now that's getting boring even for superhero shows. This was during the period The CW tried to kill off Arrowverse. A huge mistake in the long run. Somehow this made The Powerpuff Girls reboot cartoon show better. Which I'm not a fan of that PPG show either.

I'm already mixed about The Powerpuff Girls Z for that matter. At least in a weird way that's stayed true to the original cartoon show. This was too much of a departure. I'm mostly showing respect to a classic cartoon show I used to watch. I confess stuff like this I'm very glad didn't air on television as well as streaming services.

This could've killed the franchise it was quite painful to watch. The only way they could've piss me off even further. If this were going to horribly turn Courage the Cowardly Dog into an live action show. Nearly everything about this canned show is done wrong. The first Inspector Gadget movie was done better than this too.

The first live action Flintstones movie way better as well. This pales in comparison to shows like Supernatural. There would've been no way for this to stand out to The Flash or Legends of Tomorrow. Even Legends of Tomorrow being an interesting mess offered plenty more than this!!! End of the day this PPG show simply doesn't cut it at all.

It's so bad a lot of Nickelodeon sitcom shows seem like master pieces. It's so disappointing it made stuff like the newer version of Tom & Jerry seem awesome by comparison. It's so unoriginal I actually felt they simply rewrote some names then called it a day. Which if you think about it perfectly sums up this PPG show in a nut shell.

This really isn't The Powerpuff Girls at all!!! Even Scooby-Doo had a few decent live action movies. Considering how ridiculous that dog is. If Scooby could get those why not The Powerpuff Girls get a decent live action show? Maybe that's asking the wrong people. It also could've been the worst possible question to ask.

Even an live action Yogi Bear movie is way better than this. I simply dislike everything about this canned show. I know some people complain about shows they dislike still on television as well as streaming services. Sometimes the worst shows doesn't even get to air at all. You know it's so bad they didn't make it to air on television.

What a testament that had to been for em. They craft the works of the Gods alright!!! Something so amazingly mispresenting the franchise. To the points the actual PPG fans made it clear they don't want the show. It simply isn't that franchise at all. Just a quick paint job is all that ever was. I doubt The CW ever bounce back from this disaster.

My thoughts on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 not having 4's Career Mode

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, there was a short period in my childhood. Me and my brother had an interest into skate boarding. I kinda preferred bikes to a degree. Of course, we been around a few Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games. I previously played a little of the first four Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games. Recently they confirmed Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 coming in July.

After a particular confirmation I can now say I'm going to pass on playing the game on Game Pass. I still didn't play Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2. I heard great things about it though. Keep in mind, the same company also done three amazing remasters. Two Crash remasters and Spyro Reignited Trilogy respectively.

You can only imagine what I'm about to say. Well it's not going to be an easy pill to swallow. I recently learned Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 had this Career Mode. Which made the stages notably bigger. Allowing you to explore as well as do stuff at your pace. A lot of them does have time limits. But it wasn't one time limit for the entire stage like in the first three Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games.

I'll just come right out with the bad news. The very news causing them a lot of money right now. They decided to redesigned Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4's portion to the first three Tony Hawk's games format. Suddenly this is a huge slap to the face especially towards Tony Hawk fans. This bags a lot of questions with barely enough answers.

How would they go about trimming down those stages? Just hearing that you already feeling cheated as well as getting rip off. I personally see it as a dick move Activision. You had a major opportunity to really brought the franchise back. You could've had more preorders for a game in years. Instead they chosen to make the game notably shorter on purpose to get it out faster.

Let's see how the gaming industry doing with that strategy. Oh wait not very well why do this? People already upset Bam Margera might not be in the game. I'm surprised Doomguy now Doom Slayer still in the game. Also coming with Revenant with some cool Doom stuff. I'm starting to question if any of the other guest characters coming back or not.

We got a rather interesting lineup just for the guest characters across two Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games. Darth Maul and Jango Fett from Star Wars. Wolverine from Marvel comics. Kelly Slater the pro surfer whose gotten a similar game to this series. Neversoft Eyeball likely won't come back. This was Neversoft's mascot character before they shut down.

Eddie as in Iron Maiden's mascot character as well. If none of those characters comes back I'm done. I'm flat out fully leaving the franchise behind for good. I haven't played em in years to begin with. I seen a rather ambitious Tony Hawk mod that's way better than this!!! You are telling to sell people on an incomplete package is quite low.

It's debatable which objectives going to remain for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 stages. I also need to point out Iron Galaxy doing this remastered game. Fighting games wise they're truly amazing developers. I'm heavily disappointed how this getting handled. It's becoming more clear they just wanna sell out rather than do proper fan service.

I'm sure it'll be better than Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5. A famously bad sports game at that. This also making Tony Hawk fans wonder how would they go about Tony Hawk's Underground 1 & 2 remaster. Especially what they're doing to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4. It should be illegal to do this. Plus those wanting Bam back not getting him could also cause em a lot of money too.

It seems every major reveal the worst the remaster becoming. Which is a huge red flag I'm losing interest fast. I rather play Mutant Football League 2 that's coming this year. Usually I'm not a football fan by any means. I simply love the twisted take on that sport the franchise widely known for. Honestly, this has to be one of the most disappointing remasters I ever heard!!!

You really had something truly amazing. Greed led to handicapping what should've been a master piece. If they plan to do this to other remasters in the near future. Activision your name off games to get list for good!!! I won't stand for this crap why should any of you? I felt if Garry's Mod recreates Tony Hawk series that's why better than this!!!

I could excuse some songs not coming back due to license. Although in the case of Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition truly disappointing. The price for the deals isn't ideal either. I hate to say it don't buy this Tony Hawk game. You easily could've bought a much better game or a couple of them for that price!!!

I'm more willing to take my chances with Gex Trilogy. Despite some stuff I heard about Limited Run Games. Simply going by the trailers we aren't missing much in comparison. You know you screwed up very bad when a compilation game that's more directly emulation is notably better. This Tony Hawk game becoming a huge insult to those who grew up heavily around those games.

Remembering some old game commercials

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, there's a new episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd. It haven't been that long following Gex Trilogy episode. This episode focused on remembering classic game commercials. Suddenly I was recalling some of those I still remembered for many years.

I may miss a few commercials. I'm mostly focusing up to right before I been an teenager. Literately a huge one almost didn't make this blog entry for that reason. Now I'll try to keep things interesting to a degree. An era I wasn't on the computer much. I watched a lot of shows on several channels. Of course a few commercials sticks with you.

I will be focusing on commercials Rolfe doesn't discuss in that episode. I don't want people thinking I'm going to simply rip him off by doing the opposite of what I'm doing. I have a lot of respect for the man. I do enjoy retro to a degree. I'm quite happy to relive a lot of great memories here.

1. BattleTanx with Teddy Bear commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vwhw1uolc

This commercial blew my mind. It's easy to confuse parts of the commercial with Snuggle Bear commercials. They used a similar bear character playing parts of the commercial similar to those. All of a sudden an tank starts going through a house. We see this teddy bear get damaged to a degree.

Let's be honest, just tanks might've came off being boring to people. This was a rather unexpected way to get people's attention. The commercial dramatically becomes an ad for the game BattleTanx. They took a huge risk it clearly paid off. This was a creative game commercial. The impact of change greatly helped the commercial become timeless.

By the way this is the only game featured I didn't play at all. I knew about it a long time. If I had the opportunity of course I'll love to give it a try. Seriously that commercial virtually sold me on the game. It didn't need to go as close as hard as it does. I simply love everything about the commercial a whole.

2. Super Smash Bros. commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaI2yvMZh0A&pp=ygUfc3VwZXIgc21hc2ggYnJvdGhlcnMgY29tbWVyY2lhbA%3D%3D

I'm talking about the original Super Smash Bros. commercial. You have four of the characters while holding hands. Obviously people dressed up in suits similar to those characters. The commercial has this sense of peaceful to it. Until Mario trips one of them causing all of the characters to fight each other. There's some game play footage shown.

The song takes a notable change after Mario trips someone was a good idea. I was a huge fan of this N64 classic for years. I even say the greatest fighting game I played on the system honestly. This commercial if you haven't seen it before. It's mind blowing how effective it pulls you in the way it does.

The fact four people dressed up as these characters. Then a fight starts among em was genius!!! The song just simply works for the entire commercial. You really felt like you're watching an live action Super Smash Brothers commercial. Easily one of my favorite Nintendo commercials back when I were into their games.

3. SoulCalibur II commercials

GameCube commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xvICkJM1FQ&pp=ygUac291bGNhbGlidXIgaWkgY29tbWVyY2lhbHM%3D

Xbox commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t_dVD8Uayw&pp=ygUac291bGNhbGlidXIgaWkgY29tbWVyY2lhbHM%3D

PS2 commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDq5QhFX3ac&pp=ygUac291bGNhbGlidXIgaWkgY29tbWVyY2lhbHM%3D

Officially three similar SoulCalibur II commercials. This was to help promote the three main console ports having an guest character. You see parts of a character you can't fully see. They all talk to the same merchant. Some game play footage is shown. I loved the twist you finally realize the guest characters are the ones the merchant talking to.

This was a rather ambitious concept. We're talking three commercials that had to air close by each other on Television. None of it came off being rushed at all. It's mind blowing how truly effective these SoulCalibur II commercials were for their time. It was ambitious that ultimately paid off that instantly sells you on buying the game.

In my case, I actually did end up buying those ports featured in the commercials. More recently, DLCs prevents having to buy another console as well as a copy of that game on that system. I don't recall anyone else doing this style commercials either. Thankfully you can look them up on YouTube.

4. Twisted Metal 4 commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmpp5xhpR5w&pp=ygUadHdpc3RlZCBtZXRhbCA0IGNvbW1lcmNpYWw%3D

I will specify which Twisted Metal 4 commercial I'm talking about. We have Sweet Tooth and his clowns in live action. Sweet Tooth talking to the blue clown. Suddenly some chaos happens since that clown kept hitting the wrong buttons. This is the closest we gotten to an live action Twisted Metal thing until the show years later.

I grew up heavily around Twisted Metal series. This commercial focus on just Twisted Metal 4. Which is kinda an underrated Twisted Metal game honestly. I just love the concept of this TM commercial. For once, Sweet Tooth isn't the one causing bad things to happen. Although he is giving orders to the clown inside his ice cream truck.

I can honestly say they really don't make game commercials like this anymore. It was a surprisingly decent commercial for it's time. The length just works with everything that happens. It does help to convince people to buying the game. It's a kind of awesomeness you simply have to check out yourself.

5. Super Mario 64 Got Milk? commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uDQ8mTYUHQ

There's a couple commercials for Super Mario 64. The one Super Mario 64 commercial I always remembered. Two kids were playing the game. After they went to do something. Mario escapes the game to use an skateboard to sneak into their fridge. He ends up drinking a lot of milk increasing his size.

He quickly returns to the game as a giant. Of course, we don't actually get to do that in the game. It still was awesome as a kid seeing an giant Mario stepping over platforms. We get a good usage of live action as well as CGI that's recreating Super Mario 64. Honestly a better recreation than the actual game itself.

This was a rather fun Mario commercial. I'm sure a lot of people still remembered this commercial. I haven't seen any Nintendo commercials since like it either. I loved what they were going for. Not only it's to promote an N64 game, a great one at that. It also promotes Got Milk? brand as well.

Conclusion

This was a fun concept I didn't consider doing myself. A lot of great childhood memories came back. I suddenly felt like my kid self. I also felt quite happy to remember these classic game commercials. I personally wanna thank James Rolfe for the idea. I would be interested in seeing other people reliving some of their favorite game commercials.

Two in One Death Battle blog

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, earlier today Death Battle aired their recent episode. It was my most wanted episode. I waited a couple years to see them do this. I'm going to be honest this quickly became what could've been two separate Death Battle blogs. But considering both entries covering the same fight in different ways.

I should just simply do both of them together. You really going to get my thoughts on the episode among other things. I also wanna point out I wasn't originally going to do both of these either. Due to lack of writing on here I should just give it all out in the open. I know Death Battle is a show first hand. Honestly I got a lot to discuss here.

1. My thoughts on Death Battle: Ghost Rider vs Spawn

Originally I wouldn't cared who wins. I partly felt that to a degree. I felt a large amount of the run down was well done. The fight animation was in all honestly alright. I seen a better fight with Lobo vs Ghost Rider. The fight song was easily my favorite aspect of the entire episode. I knew something was off when Spawn pulled his take of the Penance Stare onto Zarathos.

Currently the episode stands to me the worst since the show became fully independent. The verdict had some interesting points. I strongly have to disrespect with who wins. Thankfully I'll be throwing out my entire case shortly. The next episode going to be Mahito vs Shigaraki. I still think Shigaraki going to win hands down!!!

For an episode I really was hyped for. Such a huge disappointment this turned out to be. All of a sudden I'm reminded of Aizen vs Madara. Let's not even compare this to DIO vs Alucard which was done way better!!! I should be glad this wasn't another Marvel vs DC episode. It's very easy to say Death Battle loves Imagine comics since neither Spawn and Omni-Man loss on the show.

After seeing this I'm also glad it wasn't the Halloween episode. Which I got several ideas what to expect for that. I felt Spawn was notably done better than he previously was on the show. I also felt Ghost Rider actually done better the previous episode he's in. I do wanna say this is not among my worst DB episodes. It's more on the biggest disappointment section of my ranking.

They were really excited on their podcast show discussing this fight. I expected a lot better than what we ended up getting. I guess once in awhile I'm reminded to not trust the show's research. Honestly, I'm still somewhat happy about Spawn's victory to a degree. This simply felt like one of those questionable researched episodes that's starting to become more common on the show.

2. Why Ghost Rider should've won on Death Battle?

According to the episode, Spawn is one of those questionable death characters. They even mentioned somehow he came back after effectively erased himself from existence. Which I didn't even knew about prior to the episode. I have seen a few similar situations with Popeye. We could agree to a point both could target souls.

Ghost Rider is more famous for doing that. I don't think as impressive Spawn's potential is. He wouldn't had the opportunity to gain the superior stats in a real fight against Ghost Rider. For starters, Ghost Rider's motorcycle can rival speeds like Thor's hammer thrown across an universe. Majority of Spawn's arsenal was easily countered by Ghost Rider.

I could see parts of why they given Spawn the versality advantage. Although they also failed to realize some important factors. They even given Spawn his God form. Which was a huge red flag for me. It wasn't a transformation he simply powers up there you go. First he had to accept what needed to be done by the most powerful being.

In this case, Spawn wasn't allowed free will with using those powers. He was given a strict guide line how to fit things against both God and Satan. They didn't even mention the time Simmons was an Omega Spawn. Which also would follow under the same category with a similar level of power. Both forms rivaling God and Satan respectively.

The big issue is Spawn lacks stuff outside the multiverse. Even if we were to give him particular crossover like in Archie comics. It wouldn't change the fact Zarathos on a much higher level of power. A truly ridiculous level of power that's simply beyond anything in Spawn's universe for that matter. I had a huge problem with Spawn suddenly forcing his variation of the Penance Stare onto Zarathos.

Zarathos is an immortal demon. Let's take Blackheart for an example. An entity created from darkness of a particular alley. Due to having no soul as well as immortality is immune to the Penance Stare. Obviously this wouldn't work on his dad, Mephisto either. Mephisto rivals beings like Galactus in levels of power.

If left unchecked can destroy the entire multiverse as a side effect. I also wouldn't use Daniel using the Penance Stare on his brother Johnny. Considering Zarathos possessing a lot of people including the brothers. This act was directly done by Ketch rather than by Zarathos himself. It's also debatable if Spawn could successfully recreate the Penance Stare or not.

It's true Spawn does have some of the essentials to making that. The big issue is it shouldn't work on Zarathos at all. I also don't think Spawn's potential increase would've been big enough to matter. Not only that, both universes does have spiritual destruction among many ways the dead can die. Spawn simply lacks proper counters to the methods Ghost Rider possesses.

Simmons was the best assassin at the time of his death. Let's be honest, Ghost Rider is pretty ridiculous making that non existent. Spawn still would lack a proper way of finishing off Ghost Rider as well. Both having a weakness towards holy weapons. However Ghost Rider held a more strict spiritual target holy weapons.

Which means Ghost Rider has a greater resistance to holy weapons. Simply going by their logic, Leetha of the 7th House of K superior to Zarathos. The only reason Simmons became such a force. When Simmons died, he suffered enough trauma to sped up his stats increase. Therefore, he has to suffer to a degree to evolve.

It also means Leetha still has more room to move up potentially while Zarathos stays at multiversal levels. Again I don't think Simmons could evolve in a way to turn the tides of battle in his favor. Even down playing things in other aspects. Like some of Spawn's powers may be a minor issue for Ghost Rider.

Spawn's potential isn't Dragon Ball's Goku ridiculous. Even if it were, I still could argue ways Ghost Rider could win. Ghost Rider constantly proven to be a ridiculous comic book character. The episode felt sorta like the newer version of Cloud vs Link. Roughly feels the same with a few differences. The big issue is they simply given Spawn stuff that were made possible by other characters.

I'm sure that includes him suddenly he exists again thing. I'm even surprise Spawn didn't get a sword from God capable of destroying anything. Simply going by power scaling as well as other possibilities that sword wouldn't matter enough. Zarathos had plenty of options to avoid getting hit. He also had enough raw power to counter getting erased from that sword.

The other factor is Leetha mostly controls the chains as well as Spawn's cape. Although it's possible for her to steal control. I would agree Blaze constantly trying to hold Zarathos back. At the same time, Zarathos just isn't some demon either. Mephisto would destroy Malebolgia with ease. The episode failed to mention, Malebolgia devoured then absorbed Violator along with all his brothers.

It has small importance since following that Spawn cut his head off. His potential increase isn't like some characters they had on the show. A great example of this being Scorpion from Mortal Kombat series. When he's in Hell, his power constantly increasing. This logic means a long driven out fight in Hell against Scorpion.

Inevitably you're going to lose against him. I don't believe Spawn has that factor going for him. Even if he surprisingly does, Zarathos multiverseal in a much bigger comic multiverse. Omega Spawn would have infinite energy. I still don't think that matters due to some of Ghost Rider's victories. He has won against beings with the same advantage before.

Ghost Rider also has other effects through the usage of the Penance Stare Simmons lacks counters for. Such as causing him enough to emotionally break down. Which could also trigger his potential to go up to a degree. Depending if he's still willing to fight or not. Going back to God Spawn, they sure love giving characters transformations they shouldn't have.

I'm talking transformations that requires additional steps. Which could include help from others to a degree. They previously done that with two Naruto episodes. There were other factors that led to Obito and Madara getting an Sage form. He never was just transformed there you go thing. If such a thing actually allowed.

Then why wasn't Frank Castle as Cosmic Ghost Rider not used instead? Not only he's possessed by the demon Zarathos. He's also given cosmic powers making him truly insanely powerful. The level of power is almost Zarathos takes control among regular Ghost Riders as his default state. I hope that delivers the message I attempted to sent.

I strongly felt they didn't properly scaled the two characters. I do think both of them are insanely powerful beings. There's no way Spawn's potential could close the gap like that. Spawn would even struggle trying to survive spiritual destruction. Considering his limited experience on that front. He still have a limited resistance to them.

Which also would be true if he had infinite energy. Simply because he now has an endless supply of energy. It doesn't mean his resistance infinite either. Eventually Ghost Rider would break that resistance down to win. The other way to look at this is simply comparing two different versions of God. There's no question God in Spawn's universe among the most powerful beings.

Which should be around multiversal and higher in Marvel multiverse power scaling. The One Above All aka Marvel's God the most powerful being. Just looking at what some of the beings beneath him could do. Power scaling isn't even close at all. Spawn's God is multiversal while Ghost Rider's God more boundless in comparison.

A truly ridiculous level of power it's not even close!!! Spawn also prefers to use regular firearms against enemies. A huge waste of time against Ghost Rider. Especially if Blaze steals em then alters those firearms into more powerful, hellish variation of them. Spawn with a more proper researched fight should've loss against Ghost Rider.

Spawn's trauma can easily be exploited. Despite being a weird potential increasing factor for him. Ghost Rider should have the experience to prevent Spawn attempting something similar. Not to mention, Spawn taking in a lot of souls. Actually works against him in this fight. Simply due to Ghost Rider's Penance Stare.

Not only Simmons feeling the pain he caused others. He also be forced to feel the pain of souls he absorbed as well. Which is going to increase it's effectiveness. Zarathos still should've been incapable of getting affected by such an ability. Immortality or a truly ridiculous level of power. Spawn simply fails short in a more properly researched fight.

Why Beetlejuice Beetlejuice too similar to Corpse Bride?

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, not too long ago I reviewed Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. My big criticism how similar it was to another Tim Burton film, Corpse Bride. I figured I may go out my way to explain my entire view on that. I'm aware some may disagree with parts of my comparison. End of the day, I still respect the director a lot.

Yes I will be spoiling both Tim Burton movies. If you continue on reading be aware I reveal everything. Don't come crying when you went too far. I don't even need to hold your hand just do what you want. Wait you're still here I thought I left the door open out oh okay bye!!!

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice heavily centered on a wedding. Virtually what Corpse Bride done previously. Sure parts of it was done a little differently. In Corpse Bride's case, Victor suppose to marry Victoria that's being done as an arranged marriage between the two families. But Victor didn't memorizes the steps of getting married.

During practice his vowels out in the forest. He indirectly marries Emily whose a dead woman. Later on, she decides not to marry Victor realizing he loves Victoria. Her killer attempted to marry Victoria for money. He ends up drinking poison killing himself. Shortly following this, the couple gets married while Emily's spirit freed.

Lydia being pressured by her boyfriend Rory into marriage. Until Beetlejuice steps in forcing the truth out. It was revealed Rory wanted the money through marrying her. There also was a dead woman that used to be married to Beetlejuice. She shows up at the church to confront her former husband. Lydia's daughter created an opening that had an sand worm show up.

The sand worm failed to get Beetlejuice. Delores and Rory ends up getting devoured by the sand worm. Beetlejuice attempts to marry Lydia. Until her daughter revealed he broke the contract by forcing Lydia in the afterlife. Ultimately a wedding does happen with Astrid later on. Neither dead women gotten what they wanted.

Although Emily did get her revenge before her spirit was freed. We also have the dead walking among the living to a degree. It was to a greater degree in Corpse Bride with a lot more dead people. Both movies shows us a lot of the afterlife. They also further explain how things works. Which brings me to a rather interesting comparison.

Victor agreed to give up his life to properly finish marrying Emily. Before she decided against that when the opportunity arrived. Astrid got manipulated by Jeremy. He attempted to have her die in order to get revived using her life force. He ended up getting sent to Hell by Beetlejuice, he totally deserved it. Obviously I'm comparing Jeremy and Rory to Lord Barkis Bittern.

I should point out Bittern was planning to murder Victoria. Like he previously done to Emily. Who he was suppose to marry. This is important because shortly after Beetlejuice gotten married to Delores. She poisoned him while he killed her with an axe. Some of the dead wanted to take things into their own hands.

In Corpse Bride, a lot of dead people attended an wedding. When they found out Bittern killed Emily. A lot of them were quite upset. Their elder tried to prevent the dead intervening with the living. Until Bittern killed himself by drinking poison. After that happened, the dead went to town on him. In Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the afterlife police force came for Beetlejuice.

Beetlejuice simply put em on ice pun very intended. After everything calm down, Lydia's mother had to return to the afterlife. Ultimately the living solved the problem in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Hopefully by now you start seeing why I view Beetlejuice Beetlejuice the way I do. Yes there's a few major differences.

Sadly none of them doesn't help the strong similarities. Both movies attempted to have the living marry someone among the dead. Deception by horrible people that ultimately gotten stopped. A wedding does happen during the ending despite everything. There was singing to a degree. Personally with the songs being vastly different I don't view em being similar in anyway.

Although I still have something I can compare. Both movies had an emotionally moment to directly tie in someone's death. Personally I prefer Emily's song way more. I will give respect to Keaton telling most of the story in a different language. Otherwise I can't compare the songs neither their usage within the two movies. I also felt if I didn't comment on that someone going to point it out.

I don't wanna say Tim Burton running out of ideas. I also don't wanna say he had to rush making Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. What I do wanna say I still enjoyed Beetlejuice Beetlejuice a lot. I can't be the only person who sees this problem. Corpse Bride came out nearly twenty years before Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

To me, it felt like Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was Corpse Bride again. As previously stated it still felt like an Beetlejuice movie I do stand by that statement. It still was interesting to see how people on both sides reacts to either plain of existence. I just felt Corpse Bride nailed that aspect better. I should point out both centers on families with Corpse Bride focusing on two families.

I know it's difficult to believe the similarities with everything else being vastly different. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice just came off not maintaining focus in comparison. Obviously I'm putting Corpse Bride higher among Tim Burton films. Honestly, I still say check both movies out. Regardless you may find some enjoyment in both of them or none at all.

Triple Late 2024 Movie reviews

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, last night I decided to watch three of my most wanted to see 2024 movies. All of them were later half of last year that ended up being worth the wait. I never planned a full on negative review. I really enjoyed watching all three movies for the first time right after each other.

Now the order I'll be reviewing them. The order they came to theaters in the United States. Even if I went with alternative overseas date the order doesn't change. I really got a lot to discuss with these movies. So far going to be among my favorite blog entries I ever written. If you're a fan of some these movies you're welcome to read my reviews.

1. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Thank you so much Ryan Reynolds to sticking to your guns. Reynolds fought hard to prevent Disney from ruining the movie. This is exactly why it isn't like most newer MCU content. This technically a weird usage of a legacy sequel. It's a sequel to the first two Deadpool movies. Which are part of the Fox X-Men movie franchise.

At the same time, aspects were pulled into Marvel Cinematic Universe. In a way it rebooted Deadpool to a degree. The actual movie strikingly similar to Loki show. Which both of those reminds me of DC's Legends of Tomorrow to a point. I was so happy Reynolds and Jackman reprised their roles.

I strongly felt this is the best Deadpool movie yet. As ambitious it was that easily could've become a disaster. Somehow Reynolds found a way to make such a crazy story work. For an two hour movie it's very great stuff. None of it felt a little too long. In fact, I still kinda wanted more.

I haven't been this happy watching an MCU movie in awhile. Surprising fan service with some movie versions of characters. They even done a concept of a character for an canned X-Men spin off movie in this. Now seeing Wesley Snipes as Blade I was hyped. Of course I always enjoyed Blade movies.

Funny enough Snipes reprised that role broken the long playing an character record Jackman had. Despite Jackman played Wolverine a lot more times over the years. I have a lot of respect for both actors. Just seeing Blade return in a rather unexpected way works wonders. Indirectly it's adding salt to Blade movie that's been stuck in development hell I don't care lol.

The movie was in all honestly truly amazing stuff. So many characters with none of them flat out wasted. Not only that, most of the jokes hit rather than missed. This is currently among my favorite Marvel movies ever!!! This is one huge party you never wanna leave. I can't even criticize it at all.

Even if I had any notable criticisms they'll be quite small. This is a movie that truly lived up to the insane hype. It simply came off like the greatest thing MCU ever done in a long time. I am deeply impressed how well all of it was done. Considering how great the first two Deadpool movies are.

My expectations for this were quite high. I even had an neighbor that kept asking if I seen the movie yet. Well pal I just did, I absolutely loved it!!! Wolverine was done amazingly well. By now most of the world knows this version of the character has an costume. Late into the movie to see the full outfit was quite done incredibly well.

It seems Disney doesn't properly know how to go about the multiverse concept. Also some stuff Reynolds said about them being very on the money. I'm glad he went the extra mile to make a movie the world wanted rather than simply ruin things how Disney been doing recently. You can tell these Deadpool movies meant the absolute world to him.

I did like Deadpool kills Deadpool inspiration as well. Now doing stuff like this is exactly what Disney should've been doing. Not allowing stuff with questionable ideas to happen. They put an Iron Man enemy against Ant-Man in a movie. Whose done amazingly terrible from what I seen. I'm not fully looking forward to MCU's future at this point.

This really felt like if I could've done an MCU movie. It virtually would've been this in a nut shell. This could end up as the last truly decent MCU movie. If that ends up being the case. Then I'm glad I seen this before leaving MCU as a whole behind. This was well worth the wait to see.

They went surprisingly big for this movie. Almost an Avengers parody style that instantly worked. The movie was so filled with surprises you'll never lose interest in it. There's no question I highly recommend this movie. You simply aren't living until you seen this. I hope Reynolds maintains control over any MCU projects he's involved in.

2. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

This is one of those movies you kept hearing stuff about for years. Like Hocus Pocus 2 to a degree. I will say I did enjoy the movie a lot. This actually felt like an Tim Burton movie. I was happy to see the older cast reprised their roles. This was a legacy sequel that worked wonders. It may not be the greatest sequel in history.

I still say it's a good follow up to the original Beetlejuice even considering the huge time gap. I was very excited to see Michael Keaton to play Beetlejuice again. Jenna Ortega previously was Wednesday in Wednesday show that also involves Tim Burton. Ortega been getting some great roles over the years.

I loved Danny DeVito appears in the movie. One of the older actors in some of my favorite Tim Burton movies. Batman Returns and Mars Attacks! respectively. The story I confessed is a bit of a mess with everything considering. Technically speaking there's several antagonists in the story. None of them win in the end.

I did like some of the special effects. Some might be mixed on people getting sucked into cell phones. Personally I felt as creepy it appeared I liked how it was done. We see an dead women put herself back together. I also liked we see a lot of the afterlife. I wasn't upset the couple ghosts aren't in the movie.

In all honestly with controversiality, Alec Baldwin not coming out a good thing. Same with Jeffrey Jones over his sex history stuff. Although other actors played his deceased character in the movie. I was surprised by the animation used to explained how the character died. The short version is the family getting manipulated but ultimately wins out in the end.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice could be lining up for a sequel called Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Some of the people involved wanted to another one already. I kinda hope they do a joke to not fully allowed the third Beetlejuice in the title. Suddenly it's playing off don't say his name three times.

I felt some moments like Lydia's mom getting bitten by poisonous snakes. Obviously she isn't a snake expert. I would've had an expert come in to check that before allowing the ritual. It's not a surprise Lydia gotten a show. Suddenly it reminds me of Peter Vincent on Fright Night series. It's becoming a forgotten horror movie trend.

I also liked Beetlejuice's number 1 guy named Bob. I mentally couldn't stop thinking of Bob from Batman 1989 film. I pretend they're the same character that ultimately dies in both films. I almost wanted to see Beetlejuice convince Bob like The Joker did in that Batman movie. You know the now famous, "Bob!!! you are my number #1 guy!!!"

I loved an deceased actor gets to give orders to deceased police officers. Simply going by the trailers, I thought I wasn't going to like Willem Dafoe's character. I actually ended up loving this character a lot. I simply wanted more of him in the actual movie. I always respected Dafoe's performances in movies I seen.

Beetlejuice's ex wife suddenly late into the movie became it's just there thing. I expected a bigger confrontation than we ended up getting. If you gotten that point in the movie. You knew things had to end with Beetlejuice. Which I didn't mind the slightest honestly. I do have one huge criticism though.

I took some time thinking about this. A large amount of the movie strikingly similar to another Tim Burton movie. Corpse Bride if you lined up several aspects. Except Corpse Bride was notably done better. Not to mention, the singing just lined up better as well. It does still felt like an Beetlejuice movie.

I just can't shake the realization it could've been seen as not a great remake of Corpse Bride. I did like how Beetlejuice himself used to a degree. My favorite special effect is people suddenly becoming meat bags without bones from having their souls sucked out. The ending of the movie is suddenly like the original Beetlejuice again.

I figured I may also bring in another similar movie from the 90s I recalled from my childhood. Monkeybone was the closest the 90s gotten to another Beetlejuice film. I absolutely felt Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is better than that movie. Monkeybone is simply a movie too weird for it's time.

Let's put it this way sure story wise Monkeybone connected everything together back. But it still wasn't that great of a movie. No disrespect towards Brandon Fraser either. He simply done what he could've with what's given to him. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is just the right level of weirdness. Not only that the characters are more rememberable to a degree.

I do like how they respected the original film. It may not lived up to my expectations. It wasn't a major disappointment either. A few major changes could've gotten a long way. Even the cartoon show was simply done better. Despite things, it's still a great movie for what it is. It's a little above mid ranking among Tim Burton movies.

I have no trouble recommending it especially to other Tim Burton fans. In all honestly, it just wasn't quite it's own thing. Hocus Pocus 2 was clearly doing the opposite. Where the same three witches terrorizes a new group of characters. One of which ended up becoming an witch. The movie done just enough to differ itself from the original.

I'm happy Tim is back doing his work they way he was doing before his Disney years. Danny Elfman involved with the music is very welcome indeed. Despite some moments feeling either just there or forced altogether. I still found plenty of enjoyment with the movie. I personally wanna see more Keaton playing Beetlejuice soon.

3. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)

I knew eventually I had to talk about this Sonic movie. I know I don't need to explain it's a sequel to Sonic 2. The chemistry among the characters is done in a way I can't explain. It simply works insanely well even with newer characters. This is heavily based on Sonic Adventure 2. By now there exists several versions of the same story.

In a post credit scene of Sonic 2, we're given a brief look at Shadow the Hedgehog. Whose always been my favorite Sonic character. When I heard Keanu Reeves voicing the character in this. I was beyond hyped to see what he brings to the character. I can confirm he really nailed the character perfectly.

They changed how Maria died from most versions. I also gotta give Jim Carrey respect. He's playing two Robotniks in the same movie. They even made an 4th wall joke about that. From start to finish the story was told amazingly well. The special effects absolutely amazing stuff. The audio is done just right for the movie.

Carrey previously on In Living Color and Saturday Night Live to a degree. Where he played many characters on those shows. At one point SNL had a lot of people playing many characters Carrey previously done. The way Carrey pulled off both Robotniks sorta felt like that to me. I think everyone agrees Carrey given an impressive performance between two characters.

I loved how they referenced Chao Garden. From Sonic Adventure series, there's a section you take care of these cute small creatures. The way they delivered such an reference couldn't work any better than better. You can tell the team working on this Sonic movie had a lot of fun making it.

The big twist is Professor Robotnik not his grandson the true antagonist of the movie. Personally the fact they went for such an idea I'm going to praise the hell out of that. It was quite a bold move to make. Some of my favorite moments were late into the movie funny enough.

I knew I was going to enjoy this Sonic movie. Sonic Adventure 2 still among my favorite Sonic games. They somehow made the story more interesting than expected. Sonic really goes through emotions this time around. I do like Knuckles is involved with stuff. Way better than Sonic Boom version of the character for that matter.

You can tell slight changes to the character's designs. Just the right amount to not ruin anything. Somehow they looked even better than ever before. The ending portion of the movie beautifully done. Very faithful to the Sonic game it's based on. Don't expect this to end like the first two Sonic movies.

Considering all the risks this Sonic movie really paid off big time. They knew they were going epic with just enough emotionally moments. It may not be your Sonic movie for those reasons. I can say there's still plenty to like about the actual film. Some rather impressive animation even with CGI to a degree.

They went for a more emotionally driven story. They obviously took some risks that ultimately paid off. When I heard Live & Learn playing, I was very hyped. I absolutely loved that Sonic song despite they're now getting sued over that usage of the song. Post credit scene has a lot of Metal Sonics with a cameo from Amy.

I felt the next Sonic movie could possibly been based somewhat by Sonic Heroes. I guess time will tell to see how on the money I am. Sonic 3 is a great Sonic movie that's better than the original Sonic movie to a degree. Just not quite as well done as Sonic 2 for me. I still highly recommend this Sonic movie though.

Ranking

I just want to confirm none of these movies are bad. Although I can understand how people's taste differs to a degree.

3. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

2. Sonic the Hedgehog 3

1. Deadpool & Wolverine

Conclusion

I do mostly highly recommend all three movies from last year. I figured to treat myself to watching em after months waiting to do so. By now all of them are on different streaming services. I ended up being quite happy after watching all three movies right after each other. I haven't had a movie marathon that great in a very long time honestly.

I virtually knew Deadpool & Wolverine going to be the best among them. Despite knowing some spoilers I mostly went straight in not fully everything. I still ended up quite satisfied what I just watched. I may reconsider doing this concept again with 2025 movies we'll see. I also hope my thoughts explains exactly how I felt about em.

Just imagine trying to say a rough fracture of this within a short video. Simply fails to deliver the entire point I'm trying to do here. I was very surprised by all three movies. At their core, they absolutely delivered. Even Beetlejuice Beetlejuice technically being the worst. In all honestly isn't that bad of a film either.

To me it simply felt a few major changes could've deeply impacted the movie. Especially when the other two movies story wise felt more properly connected. Like everything going on actually matters in comparison. Simply another decision why it's gotten the bottom in my ranking. I still wanna say it's nice having the franchise back after all these years.

It sorta comes off as a required taste or being in the right mindset to enjoy more. The other two movies felt like huge parties I don't wanna ever leave. You can see the fan service all of them brings to the table. Legacy sequels is becoming more popular thanks to Cobra Kai show among a few other movies.

I also tried to keep things as close to spoiler free as possible. Which suddenly made this even more challenging. I can say a rather fun, unique challenge at that. Deadpool & Wolverine is simply too great of a film. Obviously that's going to get my highest recommendations. I still say please give Sonic 3 a chance you may like some aspects of the film.

A few quick announcements

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I been a little busier with moderating on Twitch. It doesn't mean I wasn't planning stuff in advance. I may have a few reviews on the way. Some other ideas I might end up doing here as well. Honestly, I am trying to keep stuff going slowly. I don't wanna burn out too fast as well.

1. Upcoming three way Death Battle prediction blog

Originally I was going to do The Nerd vs Simon Quest vs The Toxic Avenger. Two of which pulled from more recent licensed games. All three are upcoming games published by Retroware. Due to uncertain when those comes out. I decided to put that idea on hold. I already found an replacement that's going to happen no matter what this year.

Not long ago I was talking about three horror Popeye movies. I figured why not put those Popeyes against each other? It's an unexpected horror idea that could be some fun to do. It's not Jack Frost vs Gingerdead Man stomp either. They won't be broken like the classic version of the character. I already think it's better than trying to do a slightly bigger variation of the concept with horror Mickey Mouse characters.

I simply felt this will be more balanced. Which covering any three way fights is tricky. Just one character being too strong ruins the entire process. I know it's a bit silly to actually do this. How often do we see stuff like this? Possibly becoming more common with more characters going into the public domain. For me, I like the concept of three Popeyes facing each other in a rather brutal showdown.

2. Three in one most wanted to see 2024 movies review blog

1. Sonic 3

2. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

3. Deadpool & Wolverine

I held off watching three particular movies I really wanted to watch last year. Deadpool and Wolverine which might end up as the last MCU movie I'm excited for long story. Sonic 3 being a huge Sonic fan is a must. I still haven't seen Knuckles show either. Which likely get it's own review blog eventually. Of course Beetlejuice Beetlejuice a huge one as well.

All of them are sequel movies I heard great stuff about to a degree. I may watch them in the near future. Then review them all together following the last of those movies. I really got a lot to say I easily could've done a long review blog with just one of them. Considering the recent lack of posts it'll feel like three in one review blog.

I always enjoyed the original Beetlejuice movie with a huge passion. Still among my favorite Tim Burton movies ever!!! Deadpool & Wolverine is a weird canon sequel. It's strikingly similar to Loki show that's virtually doing a similar concept. Officially brought both characters into Marvel Cinematic Universe. I have an neighbor that kept asking a lot if I seen the movie.

It's possible this could be my best blog of 2025 or at least the most passion felt entry by far. I just can't get such emotions fully from videos. I meant in terms of making videos to writing up blogs. Here you get a much more clear idea how I view things. I really wanna do this ambitious review blog. No guarantee I do it with 2025 movies though.

3. Two upcoming horror Popeye movie reviews

Popeye the Slayer Man officially coming March 21st. Shiver Me Timbers will be out on April 1st. I know such a short gap to watch all three horror Popeye movies. I guess I find this strangely interesting. Obviously more of them going to be on the way. There's just something about the original three horror Popeye movies that started the trend.

4. More game reviews

I will try to get more game reviews out soon. I got plenty of games to choose from. I just don't wanna take forever to review one game or an compilation game for that matter. I also try to keep things interesting to a degree. On the side I confess to also playing some flash games. Most of which getting rereleased in compilation games.

I know we're approaching the point of video games getting too expensive. Where do we draw the line exactly? Thankfully there's still plenty of cheaper games that's out doing a lot of the more expensive games. I just want to confirm my blog isn't dead. Just more been on hold with moderating Twitch to a degree.

5. Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (2022-2025) review

Currently I need to watch what's technically Season 3. There's one more final season on the way. I will say as close to the bare minimum I can about it. I do recall the huge demand to animate the final arc of the Bleach manga. I was very surprised it actually ended up happening. I'm still a huge Bleach fan for a long time.

I can promise to watch all the sequel Bleach show. Before I officially review it as fair and unbiased as possible. This may start up a new anime trend many franchises jumps on. In all honestly, it's just nice to see Bleach back in some form. There's new Hell chapters coming as well. I am curious to see all the cut stuff from the manga version added in as well.

Conclusion

Plans could change without warning. But these are currently the most set in stone concepts I got. I'm slowly going to start writing back up on here soon. There's always something to discuss. One day imagine horror Bugs Bunny movies. I hope I live long enough to see that happen lol. Hell I would love the opportunity to make my own horror Bugs Bunny movie.

Honestly I felt I can take my time writing than making videos. A lot less stress off my shoulders. I rather blog for the rest of my life at this point. I may also welcome some suggestions to what to cover as well. I always seeking to bring more readers in some way. I just wanted to keep this fun as well as interesting.

Even with a lot of similar theme blogs can get old from time to time. Game reviews can easily differ from each other though. Same with movie reviews to a degree. I'm always seeking to watch more stuff. I simply want to keep things simple when they need to be. If complex I'll try to simplify things to the best of my abilities.

Popeye's Revenge (2025)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, a couple days ago. The first Popeye horror movie came out. I already discussed my thoughts on the trailer. Now I'm back to review the movie. I don't plan to review every Popeye horror movie ever. Just the first three that jump started that trend. Popeye's Revenge in all honestly an alright movie.

Popeye's Revenge (2025)

Popeye's Revenge heavily borrows from The Fog, Friday the 13th and Hatchet series. Except the killer being Popeye. The movie starts with horribly animated intro. Late into the movie the stories along with this intro was revealed to be a huge lie. We already starting with a huge red flag. You see a small crew get taken out by Popeye.

Not long following that a group of young adults comes to the location. This quickly reminding me of Leprechaun Returns in an sense. Coughs a much better horror movie. Obviously horror movies has some amazingly bad written characters. I will give some credit to a degree. There's a few characters I did like somewhat.

I did like most of the kills in this movie. Popeye is virtually Jason Voorhees/Victor Crowley rip off. The Fog so happens to be connected to him. The Fog Remake is better than this. The Fog classic is way better than this. The second Silent Hill movie technically better than this as well. Even Clownado that has clowns connected to a tornado better.

We have this guy who doesn't care about relationships at all. Two girls were into him before both cut ties with em. I should point there's two killers in the movie. Along with Popeye whose actually named Johnny I didn't write that. He has a sister named Olive. If you're confused then good you already see a questionable decision.

Also whose idea was it to named the film's Popeye Johnny? We all know it's Popeye just call him Popeye that's all you had to do!!! I wouldn't afraid of a huge buff guy named Johnny. Hell Johnny Bravo exists that's a good reason not to take it seriously. It's almost like a cheap joke by calling him Johnny doesn't work at all.

Olive was Popeye's love interest. Thankfully they didn't play off those feelings. Otherwise things would've been quite weird. It also was revealed the main heroine previously saved Popeye's life. Of course, she didn't remember anything prior. The story is a bit of a mess even for a low budget movie.

If you are just here to watch Popeye kill people. I can tell you Popeye doesn't disappoint. Some of the kills rivals what was shown in Popeye the Slayer Man trailer. There's only full sex scene that's it. Which might've ripped of a particular sex scene from Halloween: Resurrection. Which also involved an camera used to a degree.

There really isn't much originality in this movie. It's not what I would call an mockbuster. Yes I have seen some famous mockbuster films. I can confirm Popeye's Revenge is better than those. Popeye is partly burnt but not Freddy level burnt either. He barely says anything but an woman's name the entire movie.

I kinda wish they didn't have him say her name. There's just something menacing about a huge buff guy taking people out that doesn't speak. A brief moment of him calling her name ruined that in an instant for me. I did like his main weapon of choice is an anchor. I will give them some credit that's a good, fitting choice.

You can tell they had to get their Popeye horror movie out before the other two similar films. The acting is what you expect for a low budget horror movie. The gore is still a huge high light. You get this house near by a lake. We do see an opened can of spinach. If it had the label they could've gotten sue over that.

Yes Popeye himself is in the public domain. However copy rights for a real life company using the character as a mascot for their canned spinach isn't. Don't expect this to be any form of faithful to the source material. In all honestly, this is a rather loose adaptation of the character. It's 50/50 if I could recommend this or not.

I could say they did more with the character than The Mean One. I also liked they given Popeye a different look from the usual thinner appearance we're so familiar with. Yes Popeye does have a pipe as well. He lifts a car with an woman inside quite easily. Yes the killers dies at the end of the movie.

Popeye gets a more brutal death than expected. His sister gets burnt alive with horrible fire CGI special effects. It's one of those horror movies where an older person hide the truth. What really happened to the killer. Story wise this isn't going to win an Oscar lol. You currently can watch this on Amazon.

I originally expected through Tubi. Which has a lot of low budget horror movies there. Popeye's Revenge is true to it's name. There's plenty of terribly written moments. Removing an handful would've made the film better. Honestly, it's not that bad being the first of many Popeye horror movies.

My thoughts on "We’re Here” Big Game Spot I Instacart commercial

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, it's been nearly a week since the recent Super Bowl. Personally I'm not a football fan. Although I did vote for Abduction Doritos commercial. Which ended up winning the contest great work guys. There's a particular crossover Super Bowl commercial I gotta talk about. This caught me off guard since I first saw it the day after the Super Bowl online.

"We're Here" Big Game Spot I Instacart commercial (2025)

In recent years people are getting more behind crossovers. Largely due to Marvel Cinematic Universe. This has to be among the strangest commercials of the year I seen. It starts with Puppy Monkey Baby oh god. A particular commercial with that thing I never forgotten. Chester Cheetah starts the mad dash so many characters moving towards a family's house.

Up to seeing Mr. Clean, Energizer Bunny and The Man Your Man Could Smell Like showing up. Prior to those characters showing up I was thinking this had to be a food commercial. Which it technically is later revealed in the same commercial. The big twist is an mom used Instacart to get groceries. All of a sudden all these characters showing up makes sense.

I don't know how many endings there are. I actually seen two cameo character endings. The original ending I saw had the Quaker mascot. The cow ending I recently saw last night. It's a little weird those characters were treated like that instead of being with the rest of the character. You still haven't heard the craziest part yet.

According to a video on YouTube, Instacart made a deal with those companies. In order to use those characters in the commercial. In other words, those companies simply gave em permission. They didn't earn anything else is mind blowing to me. I guess if a law suit suddenly doesn't come up it's true. There's a lot of Hot Dog dogs right after Chester Cheetah gets things going.

Even the Green Giant shows up in this. It's rather ambitious to make a commercial not a long one with so many characters. I'm not saying it's the best Super Bowl commercial ever by any means. I will say it's among the most interesting I ever seen. Personally an Dr. Evil commercial was way better. Just imagine kids around the world seen this world.

You kinda wonder what exactly did they think of that commercial? Stuff like this is quite rare even now. Treasure the memories before you lose the best memories forever. It's better than the famous Walmart Grinch commercial. It's not a huge mess of a commercial but a rather fun idea. Let's have all these characters running towards the same goal for once.

Now I kinda wanted it being done with other iconic characters. I almost forgotten the Pillsbury Doughboy also in the commercial. Just imagine cereal mascots and Joe Camel shows up lol. This commercial works better than Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. My favorite moment in the entire commercial was Chester Cheetah getting things started.

Of course someone had to be thinking this too. You got a lot of character as well as the Green Giant marching towards a house a notable distance. How did no one get hurt? Look I know this was meant to be an family commercial. But you have dogs running with Mr. Clean jumping roof tops. Energizer Bunnies gliding around as well.

It's amazing no one touched any of those bunnies. They would've gotten charged alright lol. The Man Your Man Could Smell Like has a very brief appearance. It's almost like they paid for one second screen time. I'm sure someone going to calculate how briefly he was there. This commercial was rather unexpected indeed.

It almost felt like the Thanksgiving parade. You know with the giant balloon characters marching through town. Except they were the actual characters marching to help an family out. Considering all the stuff they could've been doing. I say that's rather nice of all those characters. I doubt even Instacart has a speed dial option lol.

Just imagine if they had that option. The moment that mom does speed dial. All the characters already at the house before anything else happens. Obviously that would've been too short of a commercial. Especially with this many characters it's already tricky to begin with. This commercial makes Space Jam: A New Legacy seem like a somewhat decent movie, of course it wasn't lol.

The Simpsons: Hit & Run (Abandonware) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I apologize for the unexpected delay in posts. I am slowly getting things back to normal. I will say what I'm about to review is a rather huge deal for me. Thanks to a website that kept many games you can't get anymore officially alive. I took this opportunity to finish a game I always wanted to finish for a very long time.

The Simpsons: Hit & Run I had this game many years ago on PlayStation 2. At one point I did reach the final level. Roughly half way through the farthest I gotten previously. I went this route because it's very unclear if this Simpsons game ever going to come back. There's an fan HD version of the game. It had a surprisingly huge modding community something I learned recently.

Not only I'm going to review this Simpsons game. I'm also going to do my personal ranking of the Big 3 Simpsons games. If you're an huge Simpsons fan you already know which Simpsons games they are. This is a review I wanted to do for a long time. I figured my wife didn't even notice I fully played this for the first time.

The Simpsons: Hit & Run (2003)

A lot of people viewed this as an GTA clone. Yes you get to explore a few maps as a couple Simpsons characters. You get to do missions including side stuff. There's a lot of vehicles you can drive as well. You also can have the police chasing. I strongly felt it's a vastly different experience from that franchise. Same with most Saints Row series for that matter.

The game is broken up into seven levels. Two of which you replay two members of The Simpsons. There's three maps with a few variations. I recently learned there exists a mod connecting all the maps. Even knowing they're broken up into a few maps. Each map is a rather nice size allowing you to explore em. You get to see a lot of references to the show.

You do a good variety of missions to keep things interesting. Levels 1-6 has Ralph, Milhouse and Nelson doing the regular races. They are replaced by zombies in Level 7. I confess some of these races were challenging to complete. You also can do secret missions that's never the same person. Seven different famous Simpsons characters has these missions you can do.

You also can find seven cards in every level. Destroy twenty camera wasps that will get trickier in later levels. There's also buying outfits as well as vehicles. There's also finding gags then do em all. You have to do so much to do for an 100% completion. Yes all seven levels has their own 100% completion I checked plenty of times.

You can go inside many iconic locations from the show. Such as school, Simpsons' house, Moe's Tavern and a few others. I really gotta say the audio as a whole truly fantastic work. The voice overs are quite rememberable. Just get use to hearing a lot of them especially among failing the missions. I also wanna point out this is the PC version.

I did run into some spots suddenly you gotten sent forward hard. This made a couple missions more difficult. You get to see a surprising amount of Springfield. A lot of your favorite Simpsons characters around town. The cards you find are direct references to the show. I love you can use phone booths to swap out vehicles.

Most missions does allow this but other missions makes you use particular selected vehicles. Also you don't want those to get destroyed because it's failing missions when you do. Every character you play as on foot can jump or kick things. There's some platforming but mostly a driving game. A rather fun driving game at that.

If you collect all the cards you get two major things. Among getting them all for a level is a new track for the racing multiplayer mode. The other prize is a secret cut scene. You go to levels where Comic Book Guy's shop presented. You go inside to claim your ticket. Then you got to drive to the movie theater to talk to an employee.

Among doing so you watch an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon. It's kinda sad they barely show The Itchy & Scratchy show on The Simpsons anymore. There's also seven well hidden vehicles you can drive. You can enter other people's vehicles. It's more of having someone else driving you then you stealing their vehicle.

I did notice a few select things not colored properly. This is rather minor I still wanted to point em out. When you see Snake's icon within missions. His trademark jacket is the wrong color. Everyone knows his jacket is blue. Also Donut Homer's head the wrong color as well. In the game it's the usual Simpsons yellow.

The actual color is more of a light brown. Most outfits are colored correctly though. Look I know some details aren't going to be full accurate to the show. I know someone else likely pointed that out too. The difficulty spikes is a little unbalanced. I still say it's more fair than you expect. Most missions in Level 7 are virtually the same thing.

You drive to the Nuclear Power Plant to pick up nuclear waste. Then you gotta safely drive it to the school's playground. This is where the aliens' spaceship at. You allow vehicles with nuclear waste to get sent up to explode. Most of those had some famous Simpsons characters involved. I'm not trying to cause waves or anything.

They did make each other stand out more than simply do the same thing a few times in a row. Which is technically what you're doing that late into the game. Also it was true to the game's story. The aliens secretly using humans as characters in an intergalactic sitcom show. This is how Buzz Cola got brought into all of this.

You really felt like you're in the show the entire time you're playing. Considering this came out on PS2, Xbox and GameCube the same dates is mind blowing. The PC version came out a few months later. The controls are some of the finest I ever experienced within licensed video games. It's as close to perfection as insanely possible.

The soundtrack with the sound effects are quite amazing. Some missions may come off a little cheap at times. Like the vehicle you're following gets a head start while you're outside the vehicles. Some of these time limits are so strict. When you get the best vehicles a lot of these missions are much easier. You still can easily screw em up.

The actual look of the characters is really solid for it's time. Another surprising feature it has not a lot of people knows. Depending the date your game has a few holiday looks. I also liked you can skip the ending credits. I gotta say the jokes lands incredibly well. Honestly, I am in all honestly deeply impressed with this Simpsons game.

My standards for licensed games as a whole already high. Well the decent ones the not great games is more what you expect. Obviously I don't have high expectations from those. I will say this has to be one of my absolute favorite licensed games I have ever played!!! A game that truly made me quite happy as I'm playing it.

God I miss days of gaming feeling that. The Simpsons: Hit & Run is among the greatest Simpsons things ever made!!! Of course it's not just me saying that. Most of the fan base believes it's the greatest Simpsons game ever as well. In a little while I'll break down my ranking. I will say you really aren't living until you play this!!!

Ranking the Big 3 Simpsons Games

3. The Simpsons Game

I played two versions of this Simpsons game. More familiar with the PSP version. Which I still owned in my physical game copies portion of my gaming collection. The Simpsons Game is a quite a decent Simpsons game. I just wish the full focus was on the show. Also there's some learning curve with playing as two characters in most the levels.

There's no question this looked the most like the show. They did find plenty of ways to spike things up. Like giving The Simpsons family powers. I felt a good amount what it tried to do. Simply done better in licensed LEGO games. A particular song kept playing at the end. It's a great song no disrespect towards that song.

When you keep failing the final boss fight. You start to get a bit tired of it. Plus the song kept going afterwards as well Personally I felt that song was simply overused in the game. It would've been easier to justify the theme song instead playing during these portions. I will give some credit it's a fun licensed game.

2. The Simpsons Arcade

The original Simpsons game that holds up amazingly well. I know a lot of people aren't crazy for beat em ups. But this was a rather fun beat em up game. You play as The Simpsons with the possibility of all four characters on screen at once. This game followed the first TMNT Arcade game. Sure some characters like Smithers was colored wrong.

This also was very early in the show's run. Considering that it was amazing what Konami came up with. The learning curve isn't The Simpsons Game strict. The goal in every level is beat everyone up. There's some crazy boss fights including Mr. Burns. Personally my favorite boss fights are Krusty Balloon and Giant Bowling Ball respectively.

This Simpsons game always meant a lot to me. Still among my favorite licensed beat em up games ever!!! I actually prefer the Japanese version. Which has more weapons to use. But the big reason is simply more Simpsons characters shows up. This may seem like a minor thing. These two changes made the game more awesome than the US version.

1. The Simpsons: Hit & Run

You shouldn't even be remotely surprised what number 1 is. This Simpsons game truly has everything you possibly could ask for. You get to fully explore three maps filled with plenty of surprises. A rather fun process for an full 100% completion. The insane amount of references to the show. Even comparing characters you play as in all three of these Simpsons games.

Homer, Marge, Lisa and Bart respectively. All of them were way more fun here. They are given a lot of voice overs. Both Homer and Bart gets six outfits compared to everyone else's three outfits each. You also get plenty of rememberable vehicles from the show. You get to collect cards that also references the show.

Level 7 is clearly inspired by Treehouse of Horror episodes. All three of them had similar portions that's all done incredibly differently. This was my favorite among those by far. A house with the famous Homer Shinning joke written all over I loved that!!! Controls were absolute perfection with the soundtrack including sound effects very well done.

Conclusion

In all honestly the other two Simpsons games has some stuff over Hit & Run. Sadly quickly pales to what Hit & Run brings to the table. This is exactly how an licensed Simpsons game should be done. You are getting so much in an era before DLCs became a major part of gaming. Right now on GOG, there's over 20,000 votes on their wish list for The Simpsons: Hit & Run.

Currently The Simpsons Game doesn't even have a thousand votes. Well that's how I felt after I fully played The Simpsons: Hit & Run. My comment on it's page currently has 25 votes excluding my own. I would say this game is among my most wanted to date now. It's ridiculous an Simpsons game this damn good isn't available on consoles neither Steam or GOG for that matter.

Words can't properly explain how I felt on that. I'm appreciating people at an Abandonware website keeping lost games including this classic alive. Abandonware is essentially games that's not currently on any services. It's unclear if they ever going to become available again. GOG helped a lot of games escaped this fate. Games like this are on the verge of extinction.

Which would be a huge shame. This Simpsons game is truly impressive in every possible way. A very fun driving game that makes every Simpsons fans feel like they're in heaven. I could easily see this selling well right now. Especially not many Simpsons games came close to it's greatness!!! This game is simply so good you really need to play it before you die.

I could say everything imaginable. But I'm very sure by now the internet said virtually everything else I could've said. This is among the greatest GTA open world inspired games ever!!! I'm aware this could bring the Apu controversiality back up. They could simply make a newer version. Then recast Apu with someone whose Indian while changing some of his racist lines.

I felt doing this would be a step into the right direction. Personally those racist lines shouldn't be in the game. I know it's just an handful of lines Apu says. Then again he barely on the show anymore. His most recent camo was in the intro of Treehouse of Horror 35. Which is quite easy to miss since he's there a few seconds.

Other than that it's already set up well for a newer version. People going to expect "better graphics." I am expecting an easier method to swap stuff on the fly. There's a few locations to swap outfits at. Then again the phone booths aren't too far from each other. I felt swapping out outfits or vehicles from a new system could spike things up.

It does sound a bit ambitious. You should hear some of their ambitious mods. Some of which completely transforms Hit & Run into other cartoon shows like SpongeBob Squarepants. So I felt if modders can pull that off. Then a feature to make it easier to do that quite doable. The Simpsons: Hit & Run is a true timeless classic that can't be properly recreated.

Maize (2016) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I'm back with another Funny Christmas game. This was a rather unexpected one when I found out about it. This was a weird game that's somehow funny to a degree. I'm here to review a game called Maize. Which is very true to it's name. I am trying to end the introduction because if I say anymore it may take away from the review.

Maize (2016)

You get to explore this farm that has a huge corn field. Very quickly you to start notice things aren't what they seem. You get to run into corn people. Literately corn that's humanoid that can talk. I swear I'm not high or anything it's in the game!!! You get to build a robot bear named Vladdy to help you on the way.

This bear loves calling anything stupid all the time. You will find a lot of written sticky notes. Mostly two characters that had a major role what happened. I will say this is a truly beautiful looking game. There's plenty of jokes especially towards the end. It's mostly a point & click adventure game.

You technically have one enemy in the entire game. There's a notable learning curve. Some key items aren't used how you might be expecting them to. In fact, you mostly held onto an English muffin almost the entire game. I promise you yes there's is an actual reason. You get to explore the corn fields as well as this facility.

If you haven't figure it out by now. This facility is hidden within a corn field. Maybe next time you're about to eat. Just know you bite into another person. There actually is a similar condition that affects humans. Later revealed in the game to transform humans into scarecrows. Just when you thought things couldn't get stranger they do.

You actually are one of these scarecrow the entire time. I loved how the game suddenly reveals it to you. Prior you can't see anything of your character at all. Which made that quite an effective twist. Mostly you are looking for key items. Then figuring out how to use em. Some of which must be used together to get through areas.

A huge hint is don't take this game seriously I mean at all. You are mostly around corn people as well as Vladdy. You should expect to get confuse as well as often lost on the way. I sure was mostly trying to avoid guides online. Some stuff you wouldn't even consider. Like after Vladdy gets ambushed.

I didn't realize a particular coin was literately at the vent I sent him in. You do get to collect a lot of stuff to reveal more of what happened. Some of those so happens to be rocks lol. Late into the game you reveal only two times you can fail at. The first of these was a huge surprise to me. You get to dance an mini game for a couple minutes.

Easily more balanced than a particular boss fight in Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse. Which ended up being my favorite part in the entire game. Usually I'm not a fan of these mini games or rhythm games for that matter. Somehow I ended up having a lot of fun with this. The other part you can fail actually involves that English muffin.

Cornpacabra stolen one of the army drones. He was about to attempt destroying the humans. Your character throws that muffin to finish him off. I was wondering what usage could've been for that muffin. I never expected this was that at all. The ending is a bit over the top as well as mess up. You are given a key to sent the rest of the characters flying towards their new home.

If you were playing attention to the corn people. You already realize this plan was doomed from the start. They had a silo with chains taking a lot of the land with em. Then suddenly all of it blown sky high in the air. You get falling popcorn the entire ending credits. Now I don't know if Fallout series was an inspiration for this or not.

There was a similar event in Fallout: New Vegas. Where you sent ghouls towards their promised land on a rocket. Which also involved you being the one to start that rocket. Parts of the experience does sorta feel like Fallout series. Maize is a game you should play at least once in your life.

You can tell parts of the humor was inspired by Monty Python and X-Files respectively. This game also on PlayStation, Xbox and Steam. I am reviewing the GOG version that has no achievements. Update: I just found out the same team also respectively for Cel Damage HD. Which I do currently own on Xbox.

Suddenly Maize made more sense to me lol. I'm sure you may question your sanity while playing this. Corn is among my favorite vegetables. I like the band Korn as well. I am just saying inevitably I was going to play an corn game. It's way better than most Children of the Corn movies!!!

Maize is surprisingly a little shorter than expected. Roughly a few hours if you know what you're doing. I also need to mention there's a queen for the corn as well. The scarecrow characters reminded me of Birdy from Conker's Bad Fur Day. Just not as rememberable in comparison. You could joke it's Barn Boys chapter the entire game lol.

I am glad I given this game a try. Vladdy kinda grows on you it sucks he dies. Instead of invisible walls to prevent you getting through. They decided to use a couple red boxes lol. Some crazy stuff does happen especially later on. Maize is a game that's a bit out there. It's great if you wanted a game to get you laughing to a degree.

My thoughts on Toxic Crusaders game and The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, not long ago I discussed my thoughts on the upcoming AVGN game. I briefly mentioned two other Retroware games possibly coming out the same year. I figured I should discuss those in greater detail. I will confirmed I knew about both of them a few years. Even what I seen from Iron Meat that came out last year gotten my attention.

Toxic Crusaders

TMNT: Shredder's Revenge started this retro licensed beat em up trend. Before a lot of them started to come out. Among the first of them revealed was Toxic Crusaders. Which is based on the cartoon show of the same name. It's no secret the older Toxic Crusaders games were terrible. You can tell this team wants to deliver a decent Toxic Crusaders game.

They also wanted to make sure it stands out among similar licensed beat em up games. I always wanted to play as Toxie in a game. I am very happy with how the game coming out so far. I do think this game going to be a surprise hit for sure. It's hard to say if it'll sell well though. I am sure Lloyd Kaufman going to be quite happy about this Toxie game.

I do like the roster of characters you play as. All of which are from the cartoon show. At this point where's Street Sharks game at? I really wanna play that since I had a lot of the toys growing up. Stuff like this was already rip offs of TMNT in a few ways. Toxic Crusaders was kinda in the middle. At the time you were better off watching the Toxic Avenger movies.

I do think Toxie deserves one decent licensed game. He ended up becoming the mascot of Troma. I felt the character should have his time in the spot light. Speaking of that, the Toxic Avengers reboot movie may finally come out this year. If it does, suddenly I'll have more reason to get this game. Toxie going to need all the help as well as hype he can possibly get.

Considering the 90s being relived period. Virtually majority of my childhood. It seems nearly everything even the strange thing from that era coming back. I do think this is going to represent the show well. I don't think they need to change much even considering the newest update. I personally can't wait to play this myself soon.

The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest

Out of the three games this one caught my attention in a rather huge way. This is essentially parody of Castlevania series especially Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. This started as a joke they posted online. People actually became quite interested in. The developer which is one person decided to make it into an actual parody Castlevania 2 style game.

I have played some truly amazing parody games in the last few years. Also I do enjoy metroidvania games to a degree. Either pictures or videos of the game were impressive. This actually could pass as an Castlevania game. I love the main character's name so happens to be Simon Quest. It sorta comes off like derp remember that Castlevania game?

I do think this is going to be the longest of the three games. I really wanna see the full map myself. Metroidvania games are really packed with content. Excluding additional modes is mind blowing. I also liked it plays like a modernize Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest to a degree. This game is going to be truly amazing stuff.

Sometimes a more comical game is rather refreshing. I recently played through a few game that's done just that. I know some unavoidably going to compare this to several fan remakes of Simon's Quest. One of which was pretty awesome from what I seen. Castlevania Chronicles 2 is actually an fan game I wanna play.

I do hope this game has some great jokes hidden. I also wanna see some sick upgrades you can get. Yes there's a leveling system to a degree. I do like you have stuff to keep you from restarting the game from scratch. In all honestly, this game going to be a must have in your collections. No guarantee if it wins Indie Game of the Year award though.

The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest will be like how UnMetal was towards Metal Gear franchise. I do think this could be Retroware's best game in a couple years. Which is really saying a lot with their library of games. At this moment, it has a shot at AVGN 1 & 2 Deluxe. I really can't wait to play this in the near future.

Conclusion

I really do think both of these going to be way better than AVGN 8-bit. Not only that both of them are further going to get Retroware's name on people's radars in rather different ways. My expectations are quite high with both these games. Depending if Xbox gets em or not. Either Xbox or Steam as the alternative.

Steam ideally would be better for The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest. You might need to look stuff up online. It's going to be one gigantic map after all. Very easy to get lost or not sure where to use certain items. Toxic Crusaders being an beat em up the platform I play it on doesn't matter much. I do think Retroware possibly could get up to three huge hits this year is insane.

They will take you back to the past alright. Three vastly different games they're publishing. A huge chance all of them coming out this year going to be wild. I'm trying not to be so harsh on the new AVGN game. It's kinda difficult when the other two games instantly sold me on em. I am actually literately to take a chance to see where this goes.