Remembering Xbox Live Arcade era 2005-2024

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, there's a particular Xbox exclusive digital distribution service I always respected. This was a major factor why I sticked with Xbox consoles for a long time. Originally for the original Xbox console. Xbox Live Arcade or XBLA for short also on Xbox 360 as well.

I decided to go back to the past a little bit. I get to experience nostalgia through the one service Microsoft had I really appreciated. This eventually helped made me a better game that I am today. It's safe to say I learned so much about myself from so many of them I owned. This is why it's so personal for me to finally discuss such an amazing Xbox service.

This will be more directly about so many games I had from this service on Xbox 360. Officially a little over seven hundred games with plenty of surprises. This is possibly where my current game buying style originated from. I got plenty of great memories from these digital games. When Xbox store for Xbox 360 consoles gotten taken down it also marked the end of that service as well.

For me quite a sad day that was. Majority of them costing from 5 to 20 dollars. I know some might see that as low budget games. I can assure you these were some truly fantastic video games. Some of them were well worth being 20 dollars easily. Even several 5 dollar games were a lot of fun. For many years they had a limit of gamer score being 200 gamer score with twelve achievements.

Eventually they removed that limit. Don't expect any of these to possibly give you an 1000 gamer score. The highest I recall seeing for a few games was 400 gamer score allowing much more achievements. Among the first of those to do that was the famous XBLA port of Perfect Dark. I previously discussed how much I love this game!!!

The true definitive version of the N64 classic it's a must have. It's obviously better within Rare Replay with a mostly solid lineup of games. In several ways notably improved the game. By now most of the world knows about that port. I'll throw out a few interesting ports you might not know about. All of the following ports already delisted.

X-Men Arcade was an amazing XBLA port. You can play with five other people online. Yeah the experience can notably differ being somewhat mixed. Among the easiest achievement lineups I ever done. You get both the US and Japanese version of the same game. Which didn't offer that many differences but still nice to have the option.

You also can say the same about The Simpsons Arcade. I talked a lot about this particular Simpsons game on here. A slightly harder achievement lineup from X-Men Arcade. You can play with three other people. There's more notable differences between the two versions. Personally I'm a bigger fan of the Japanese version myself.

Indirectly because I'm an Otaku people like me love that stuff. But also because there's slightly more Simpsons characters that cameos. You also get more weapons you can use through out the stages. This was a truly solid port of a classic licensed beat em up game. I actually played through it seven times in a row when I first gotten the game no lie.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was the PS1 version ported. A surprisingly decent achievement lineup with a few that's frustrating to get. They didn't alter much of the game. This version seems to load faster possibly much quicker on Xbox Series X. It's amazing they pulled off such an ambitious Castlevania game like this!!!

I also need to clarify this doesn't have Maria as a playable character. This does lack the newer sections added from Sega Saturn version. Not to mention this features the original voice cast. The one version Xbox version had over. Castlevania: Requiem: Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood version.

Sure we may lack Castlevania: Rondo of Blood as well as those exclusives. The Xbox version also plays smoother as well. Now I missed my opportunity playing that PS4 exclusive compilation. I'm mostly going by videos while comparing the two in my head. Also the Xbox version is much smaller in size meaning you can play the game much faster in comparison.

Crazy Taxi was always a fun time. Yes they had to replace several songs due to copy rights. This is still a faithful port of the Dreamcast version. Which itself was a port of the Arcade version. One of the rare cases being a port of a port actually not a bad thing. This is perfect for simply driving around not having to think much.

There's two main maps with an mini game section. You get to choose between four drivers. They also had to alter a few locations due to copy rights. Although you still can tell what they were suppose to be. When some versions of it gotten delisted more recently it truthfully made me sad. Crazy Taxi is like a party on wheels you just wanna keep partying!!!

Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara now that's a great compilation game. Both Capcom Arcade Dungeons & Dragons games in one package. You get a lot of challenges within both of them. Not to mention using in game points to unlock some cool content. Two truly fantastic licensed beat em up games that should come back.

Earthworm Jim HD is an enhanced port of the classic Genesis game. Sure some stages can be rather unforgiving at times. There's still a surprisingly decent run & gun platformer. Still among the weirdest mascot games I ever played!!! Not a lot of people knows about this port. To me this was the best version I played by far.

Guardian Heroes is loosely connected to Gunstar Heroes. This is more of an unique hack & slash beat em up game. You can play with 11 other people which was ridiculous at the time. There's so many characters with a lot of paths you can go. Considering this was an Sega Saturn game it's amazing!!!

Shinobi is a port of the classic Arcade game. You play as Joe Musashi rescuing people while avoiding hazards & quickly take out enemies. Yes this is one hit deaths but thankfully up to the final section. You get infinite continues you have no excuse to give up. This is a decent port I highly recommend.

SoulCalibur II HD Online is the most definitive version. You get two of three guest characters with online thrown in. For it's time this port blew my mind. I actually across two accounts gotten every achievement in it. Easily one of the greatest fighting games I ever played!!! This version truly delivers in every possible way.

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 later done by the same team for Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection. Personally this was the best UMK3 port they done. The two major down sides are not as great achievements to go for. Also lacking the first two MK games. Despite that, it actually does everything from the later port way better.

Wolfenstein 3D is possibly the one Xbox game I gotten every achievement in. More than Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection and Gunstar Heroes it's XBLA port across a few accounts. This was an fantastic port of the classic FPS game. You get every level excluding Spear of Destiny. The achievement lineup is near perfection as well.

It's quite amazing how well this port plays. It's almost like playing the same game on your computer. Just notably better controls since it originally was an DOS game. This is just as great as the first two Doom games' XBLA ports. This was before several stuff gotten censored more recently like the medic symbol.

Honestly I used to often look forward to buying games when I was younger. Still going to school with a lot of them always sticked with me since. Even Comic Jumper which I reviewed more recently was among that legacy. It was quite true to it's name. You were buying more truly well made games.

If they had any DLCs it's usually dirt cheap. Majority of them lack DLCs altogether. Duke Nukem 3D's XBLA port to me was way better than the more recent 20th Anniversary Edition. The famous rewind feature originally in XBLA port. I personally felt the game plays a little better as well. Then again I also could say that about Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition on Steam.

My passion for Doom series originated from those Doom ports. I simply can not get enough Doom!!! Doom 2's XBLA port introduced one of my favorite expansion campaigns ever!!! Doom 2: No Rest for the Living is so much fun to replay. I'm glad this campaign kept back in the newer versions since then.

DuckTales Remastered is my favorite version of the classic NES platformer. Look I get why some simply prefer the classic version I do. It's difficult to compete with the original cast reprising their roles. They done a great job modernizing everything while keeping it familiar for older fans. Not to mention using in game points to unlock some nice content.

Once in a while you get a few that isn't great. It was quite rare to find any XBLA games being terrible. I still respect games like Rocket Knight. A lot of these are great games many people would enjoy. It even took Microsoft a long time to make something that rivaled it's legacy. Game Pass possibly was made possible due to it's success.

There also was a time before recently. Microsoft had a separate digital service for indie developers. Now all of that is combined today. I strongly felt XBLA is exactly what led to stuff like this happening in a good way. A lot of these games you can still buy since they shut down that service. It's just amazing Xbox Series X can play older Xbox console games so well.

Xbox Live Arcade felt like the true definitive way to go for a long time. These always within a small budget packs a lot of punch. Majority of them being quite small means you don't have to wait long. Especially true on Xbox Series X. I could easily install all my XBLA games with plenty of space left.

For the most part I was quite satisfied with my purchases. A lot of these ports went beyond easily exploding expectations. Hopefully by now you can see why I was so sad when Xbox 360 store gotten shut down. I always respected Microsoft for that service. It truthfully felt like my own personal Arcade.

Every game I added kept making it better. It was truly amazing how well they pulled this off. Some of the finest ports to games I ever played!!! Even games that debut on the service hit the ground swinging. Xbox Live Arcade was a truly unforgettable experience indeed. It may be a distant memory for me now.

I'm just glad a lot of those games can still be bought. They were literately giving you gold!!! They were so good you didn't want to buy the more expensive, bigger games. At least that's who I felt for a long time. In all honestly, thank you Microsoft for this now discontinued service. It really meant so much to me for a long time.

My thoughts on Capcom Fighting Collection 2

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, this Friday will be the newest entry of Capcom Fighting Collection series. This will be a direct follow up to the first Capcom Fighting Collection. We're getting eight fighting games no alternative style games this time around. I'm mostly excited for the lineup I figured to give my thoughts on the upcoming Capcom Fighting Collection game.

I'm not sure when I'm getting this compilation game. I will confirm it's going to be among my next purchases. Don't worry in due time I'll play this as well. I'm also keeping an eye out for Swords & Souls Legacy Collection on Steam as well. I did play these flash games online. It's another huge compilation game on my list this year.

Along with the previous entry and Gex Trilogy. This was among my most wanted compilation game of the year. I actually been around half these games prior. I'll start discussing those before getting to the other half I haven't played before. The one game I was hoping not return sadly is coming back through this collection.

Capcom Fighting Evolution is undeniably most reviewers choice for worst game in this collection. There's a great video that explains the rough development it had. Personally Capcom should've simply canceled the game. It's a weird crossover Capcom fighting game. Not done like most versus games Capcom developed either.

You get smaller character rosters within a bigger compositive one. Most of which is directly representing a particular Capcom fighting game. Obviously Street Fighter had the most groups by far. It was so rushed out the developers didn't even have time to attempt properly balancing the game. Which is why it's such a broken mess of a game.

The only true high light it has is you can play as two previously unplayable Red Earth boss characters that's it!!! Otherwise you really aren't missing much. Plus there's plenty better Capcom crossover games. Even to a degree as disappointing Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite was. I even argue that's way better than this!!!

Plasma Sword is a game I have brief memories of this growing up. I had this 3D weapon based fighting game on Sega Dreamcast. One of two games I had with the character Hayato from that franchise. The other being Marvel vs. Capcom 2 on the same system. I felt some SoulCalibur games is better than this. I will say it's notably better than Mace: The Dark Age though.

Capcom vs SNK 2 I had this amazing crossover fighting game on GameCube. I would play this for hours it's so damn good!!! This was truly amazing stuff with a great roster. A little lesser than Marvel vs. Capcom 2. But hey I'll take it for what it's worth. It's also an three on three fighting game. You can select which fighting set up you want for your characters I'm not expert on that.

I would say one of the absolute best Capcom fighting games I ever played. I didn't expect this to come back considering SNK also was involve. Then again SNK did rerelease their SNK vs Capcom fighting game last year. I was quite happy to see this one come back. It's perfect if you never play Marvel vs. Capcom 2 before.

The one fighting game I had the most memories playing. It's not even close is Power Stone 2. This is more of an ambitious arena style fighting game. The stages are vastly different with several surprises. The bosses are quite large that forces you to adapt on the fly. You can either pick up weapons or get in machines.

Either turrets or vehicles to a degree. You get a lot of characters fighting on screen. Power Stone 2 is absolutely amazing!!! It's among the best 3D Capcom fighting games I ever played!!! Slightly more characters than the previous entry. I am quite hyped this one coming back!!! I can't wait to experience nostalgia playing this again soon.

Now I get to discuss my thoughts on the games I haven't played before. I'll start with the original Power Stone. Mostly what I do know came from an old Dreamcast book covering a lot of games. I knew about the boss characters being hidden characters. I don't know off hand which Power Stone game actually better.

Capcom vs SNK is a little weird due to how you select your characters. At least how some people explain the system to select em. Each character has a point 1-4 that takes up playable characters slots. In other words using only 1 point characters means I can play with four characters within matches. Obviously changing it up differs the amount of characters I could have.

4 point characters is only one character that's it good day sir!!! I don't get why Capcom set it up like that. Especially considering you have to complete every game as every character achievement/trophy. This is a rather huge monkey wrench for that. By default I already prefer the sequel way more. I do plan to give this a proper try soon.

Project Justice from what I looked into. You also play within teams for the matches. This is more of an 3D fighting game from those I played. This is in a short lived fighting franchise like Darkstalkers. This is actually a sequel to Rival Schools. It's a little weird they included both this and Plasma Sword. Rather than their respective originals for this collection.

Although it could be possible those games coming in a future entry of this compilation series. Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper I didn't come up with the title. Most platforms already gotten the original version across a few compilation games. I know that's going to bag the question why this version? Like Marvel vs. Capcom 2, it was developed on NAOMI hardware that's used for Sega Dreamcast.

This version prevents the infinite combos situation from happening. Just imagine one wrong move you're trapped. The other player can keep an combo going until you lose. Now that's incredibly unfair right? Another major difference is all the console exclusive characters gotten added to the roster. I already liked the original version of Alpha 3 despite not being an SF fan myself.

Going back to the first Capcom Fighting Collection. We had a few alternative versions of a few games included. Hyper Street Fighter II that allows you to play as every Arcade version of a character. You get Night Warriors that's actually an updated version of Darkstalkers 1 not an sequel. Darkstalkers 3 just called Vampire Savior 1 in the compilation.

Well they involved both Japanese exclusive updated versions of that as well. In a sense Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics is guilty of this as well. Mostly with Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter being strikingly similar to X-Men vs. Street Fighter. Despite the changes you can't shake how similar the two crossover fighting games are.

Obviously this is one of my big 2025 games by far. I always been so hyped for an Capcom Fighting Collection game. They just doesn't disappoint with my standards kept going higher. I already know I'm going to absolutely love this when I get it eventually. I actually felt this is the most ambitious entry yet. We are getting the most variety in game play by far.

Just looking at the 3D fighting games they are all vastly different from each other. I also could say the same about the 2D fighting games to a degree. Steam is a little funny with compilation games like this. I'm going for the Xbox version myself. Not to mention, a lot of characters to play as. Sure being allow to get teams in for the big completion achievement/trophy helps a lot.

It sure going to take hours to pull that off. I don't think I'm going to get bored much. Maybe playing Capcom Fighting Evolution. I may even start with that to get the worst fully done. Then it can only go up from there. For eight fighting games with a lot of nice content for $39.99. I felt that's a solid deal with any sales making it more sweeter to get.

I do think this is going to be among the best entries to date. Even with the inclusion of Capcom Fighting Evolution. There's also another update coming to that as well as Capcom Fighting Collection 1. Which already came to Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics. I felt some of those changes going to spice things up a lot too.

You already getting your money's worth plus a nice update like that. I'm already beyond sold getting it prior. I do hope Capcom makes more of these in the near future. They may not mean as much to me as Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics. At the same time, I always welcome more Capcom games.

My thoughts on Children of the Corn movie franchise

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, some of you know I'm a huge Stephen King fan. I knew eventually I had to reveal the one horror movie franchise I can't stand. Well today so happens to be that day!!! For a long time there's a particular horror movie franchise with King's name on it I heavily disliked. I am talking about Children of the Corn series.

Yes I previously reviewed a lot of the movies on here. I think I should just let it all out here. I'm partly due for a huge rant blog entry. What's better than a movie franchise I really don't like? To be fair the original movie was decent. It's safe to say it's the golden standard among em. Keep in mind, King wrote a short story of the same name.

Obviously they didn't have a lot to work with. Considering that this movie actually nailed the story quite well. We're slowly leavy where it's nothing but negatives. Before that, there also exists a short film based on the same short story called Disciples of the Crow. For those not familiar with the story I'll explain it.

Within the story you have this mysterious cult with children that hangs around a corn field. There's barely any adults around implying something weird going on. Personally they should've stopped at two movies. Let's be honest excluding the TV movie remake as well as a reboot film. All the sequels are virtually a rewriting of the same story done differently.

You really can't call Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return a sequel. Despite the original leader returns in the movie. It's more of a weird requel than anything else. From 2 to Genesis were all from Dimension Films. Children of the Corn 2 is essentially the only sequel movie worth watching. It has very loose connections to the first movie.

I actually felt 3 started the notable decline the franchise been in since then. Dimension Films was ran by Bob Weinstein whose Harvey's brother. Harvey was a famous producer that's currently in a jail sentence. Stuff like this lead to Dimensions Films getting shut down. A lot of their movies with Miramax's name currently owned by Paramount Pictures.

The brothers crossed lines to get what they wanted. For some odd reason kept making Children of the Corn movies. Dimension had a famous bad movie label called Dimension Extreme. Virtually every movie released with that label is garbage. Children of the Corn: Genesis to me isn't even an Children of the Corn movie.

Even Hellraiser: Revelations which was another movie in that lineup was more Hellraiser!!! There's no cults at all already a huge red flag. The only child you see in the movie has ridiculous powers. I guess I'll go more below the belt not in that way lol. Even Hellraiser: Inferno to Hellworld the Hellraiser movies originally not Hellraiser at all is more Hellraiser.

Don't even bother try to connect the dots on the canon you won't get far. You can tell they never properly planned to connect em or simply never was in the plans to do so. Children of the Corn: Revelation had the entire cult being ghosts within an apartment building. Partly playing off Children of the Corn IV's leader being dead to later gotten revived.

They all kept changing He Who Walks Behind The Rows. The first two movies shared the same version. Beyond that it's gets rather weird starting with 3. This huge corn monster suppose to their god. They kept changing the appearances as well as what he could do. It's almost like they couldn't decide on which dish to eat at a restaurant?

The last of the original movies is Children of the Corn: Runaway. Lionsgate Films released that after a notable time gap on releasing it. Spoiler alert not the only Children of the Corn movie get that. Children of the Corn had two attempts restarting the franchises. A TV remake that's a similar story to the original movie just not as good.

Children of the Corn (2020 version) which came out almost three years later in the United States. They finally made an Children of the Corn movie with an female leader. I just don't find much enjoyment or anything that scary about this franchise. I'm more interested in Scarecrow horror movies.

I previously reviewed four of them this year. As far as I'm aware they didn't make a lot of money with these movies. I'm even more surprised Stephen King doesn't stop em altogether. In a way these movies becoming a bigger insult to the man as time goes on. Usually there's barely any notable characters across these movies.

You might remember a few kill scenes that's it. Even Prince of Darkness nailed special effects way better. They even had the devil show up late into the movie. I already respect that way more than this!!! Obviously there's plenty of better adaptations based on King's works. Children of the Corn simply never going to be among those.

The concept itself barely gives you much to work with. You need a cult filled with children or it's not an Children of the Corn movie. You also need an corn field even if it's small. King barely has any real involvement with em to begin with. To me, it's just a cheap excuse to quickly make money off of King's name.

The sequel movies felt more like stand alone movies with a similar concept than anything else. Even Pet Sematary Two which was a movie sequel to the book was way better than these!!! Also much closer to the concept of that story as well. I do believe in the right hands a sequel could be done. Let's take a rather unique situation here.

By now most of the world knows about The Shining movie. King publicly dislikes to this day. Director Mike Flanagan whose responsible for Doctor Sleep movie. You know an sequel to The Shining story. He convinced King to allow his movie adaptation of Doctor Sleep to be a sequel to that movie.

What came out of that is an ending King could be happy with. There's another famous example of The Shawshank Redemption. The short story might not be much. But director Frank Darabont transforms it into a truly fantastic movie. He also directed The Green Mile movie as well. Hopefully by now you can see why my standards for a movie franchise with King's name on it.

In all honestly should be way better than this!!! I could see the reason to remake Cujo to a degree. I don't think we need a newer version of Carrie personally. I'm more likely going to watch that Cujo remake than anymore Children of the Corn movies!!! Even to a degree I'll watch a few shark movies than these!!!

I actually can go a little lower than that. Some of you might know Creepshow then later Tales from the Darkside show were created by both Stephen King and the late George A. Romero. yes the same Romero that's given us some fantastic zombie movies. Dawn of the Dead (1978 version) being my favorite among those.

Creepshow 3 as a movie has a weird story. Originally it almost happened with both the creators on board. But they chosen to change it into Tales from the Darkside: The Movie instead. Which now acts as a spiritual successor to the first two Creepshow movies. Taurus Entertainment Company famous for making Day of the Dead 2: Contagium.

A cheap cash in sequel name only movie. They later done Creepshow III, still one of the worst horror movies I ever seen. The two creators weren't involved at all. This was so far off the mark from the first two Creepshow movies. Well that's exactly how I felt from Children of the Corn 3 to up. Also what's the point making these if barely any money being made?

I will give Children of the Corn 2 some respect. It did try to be somewhat of a decent follow up. It also stayed the closest to the concept from the other movies. It's difficult to like something when the franchise doesn't even know what it wants to be. If it were a story within an horror anthology franchise.

I wouldn't have this problem in the first place. Sadly that's not how it was set up. I rather watch The Mist show over this. Everyone agrees The Mist movie which is much closer to the short story way better. Also directed by Darabont, he's a huge Stephen King fan. If it were a much smaller horror movie franchise I wouldn't be this upset about em.

Can you believe there's eleven Children of the Corn movies? In my personal opinion that's too many!!! I'll give The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series a little credit. There's a few time lines within the franchise. You may find a movie or a few of them you like there. The same goes for Halloween series as well.

It's also the longest movie franchise with King's name in history. The average King movie franchise length is three to four movies. I'm sure most of those is way better as well. It simply bags questions why kept making Children of the Corn movies? Even attempting to cash in on em is a horrible idea. Not to mention in some ways kept getting worst as times goes on.

I rather see The Dark Tower even if it's just one book get adapted in some way. I'm sure there's plenty other Stephen King stories that needs to get adapted. I just don't see the point of making these movies anymore. I strongly felt King should stand up then get em to stop making em. Probably would be among the greatest things he's ever done.

I do have a lot of respect for the man. This movie franchise is simply adding salt to his incredible legacy. I would be over joyed when that happens one day. Children of the Corn quickly stopped working following 2. Maybe people find cults in general scary who really knows. King created much scarier beings than this!!!

For what it's worth just stick with the first two movies. Then pretend the rest of them doesn't exist. Now that's a huge rock worth living under. Maybe watch em if you're drinking something strong. The overall quality or should I say quantity of these movies is rather inconsistent. I could agree a few of them better than Children of the Corn: Genesis.

Let's be honest that's not saying much. I hope they don't make anymore of these movies Even YouTuber Cody Leach called this his least favorite horror movie franchise in a video. Now this guy seen plenty of horror movies. He virtually felt the same as I did towards Children of the Corn franchise.

There may be a small room for redemption. At this present time it's a long shot. At this point they have to aim being better than Children of the Corn 2. Which is simply not possible almost being an impossible task. I really could go on for hours how much I dislike this franchise. The last thing I wanna say is most of these deserves to be buried in the ground!!!

Prince of Darkness (1987) and In The Mouth of Madness (1995) review plus more

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I previously reviewed The Thing (1982 version a few years ago) I recently learned that movie in a rather interesting trilogy by Carpenter that plays on similar aspects. It is known as John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy. Also included are today's two movies I'll be reviewing. Prince of Darkness and In The Mouth of Madness respectively.

If you wanna see my review on The Thing I'll link it down below...

https://jackred1989.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-unlucky-thirteen-4-thing-1982-review.html

The big connections are all three movies were directed by John Carpenter. He also made some songs for em as well. All of them are apocalypse theme movies that portrays a different view on humanity. The Thing representing physical and themselves. Prince of Darkness representing spiritual and their faith in God.

In The Mouth of Madness representing mental and yourself. Despite originally being stand alone movies. The director was ultimately inspired by H. P. Lovecraft stories. Which is deeply presented within all three of these movies. It's no wonder why he eventually group these all movies together in an unique trilogy. Not to mention some huge stars as well.

Originally I was going to do this section after the reviews. After waking up this morning close to noon. I realized I should give a very good reason why I'm writing this blog entry. I was very interested among learning about this trilogy of horror movies. Three vastly different apocalypse movies that comes together. I also plan to rank em but feel free to post your own rankings or thoughts of these movies down below.

Prince of Darkness (1987)

You know by the title this movie involves the devil. But it's done in a rather different way than you expect. Donald Pleasance who played Dr. Loomis in a few Halloween movies plays a priest. Personally I felt he was perfect for the role. He also one of the actors within the original James Bond movies to play Blofeld. This priest gets in contact with a professor.

Who agrees to help that convinced his class to assist. Obviously being the devil arriving on Earth apocalypse scenario. You know crazy things going to happen. A lot of people acting weird staying close by the building. I was surprised by Victor Wong's performance in this. There's a couple movies he's famous for.

He previously was in another classic John Carpenter movie, Big Trouble in Little China. He also was in the original Tremors as Walter Chang. Some might remember him for 3 Ninjas series. This movie from what I seen of movies he's in. One of the best movies I seen. There's also a love story thrown into this. Thankfully it's not forced in.

This is a slower pace horror movie. Heavily playing on suspense to a degree. You always have a feeling something bad going to happen. A lot of people trying to figure what's about to happen. One of them gets marked that plays a role later in the movie. I will say the disturbing scenes do stick with you. There's a scene a dead guy delivers a message before breaking down.

His body also covered in beetles it's difficult to watch for some. I just expect more of this in the movie. The possessed either kills or attempts to get others possessed by spitting into their mouths. It's more like hosing down their throats. Which should be a clue what to expect from the devil. In this movie, the devil actually in liquid form.

Eventually the devil finally claims his vessel aka that marked person's body. Originally I thought she was going to give birth to the anti-christ nope. The dead doesn't stay dead during all this madness either. I won't spoil the ending but man it left me unsure about stuff. Somehow it's fitting for this movie. A lot of rememberable characters.

It's way better than End of Days with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Which was a similar concept movie done vastly differently. This is more of Carpenter's typical style of horror. You know the original Halloween style. Where it's a slow pacing horror movie that eventually picks up right at the ending. Not to mention the story telling is amazing as well.

This often gets overlooked among his other movies. I felt you should give this one a try. It's an unique take on the concept. I actually seen stuff I can't say I seen before. The overall acting was truly amazing stuff. Prince of Darkness just simply works in so many ways. I confess it's not my favorite of the trilogy. I will say this though there's some good special effects.

Parts of this is somewhat similar to The Thing. I know I gotta clarify what I meant by that. We don't need an angry mob coming in here with flaming torches lol. Both involves groups that are being targeted. They won't always know who isn't among em until it's too late. The Thing has shape shifting aliens that plays perfectly into paranoia.

Some members of this group becomes possessed. They act very strange almost unhuman like. Not quite animals but more of people that's insane. At the same time, none of the actual traits of insanity you expect to see. They won't hesitate things people out. Especially the group waiting outside for em. Thankfully they move somewhat slow not quite classic zombies slow.

The lore is surprisingly deep here. They do reveal the church kept the secret about the devil hidden. If they had chosen the other option things could've gotten ugly at a faster rate. Some might say they were cowards. But again they didn't want one wrong move then that's the end of humanity. In a way it makes sense why they chosen to kept such a secret hidden for so long.

In The Mouth of Madness (1995)

In my opinion the weirdest of the three movies by far. I know some might be wondering Prince of Darkness had the devil. How can you get weirder than that? Well Carpenter found a rather unexpected way to do just that. John Trent played by Sam Neill who also played Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park series.

Trent is an insurance inspector that's gets tasked to locating a missing horror book author. Already parts of this reminds me of several movies. Secret Window being the one that comes to mind the most. Trent discovers a bizarre method to possibly locate the author. He goes to a town with Sutter's editor to investigate.

The movie doesn't hide something wrong from the start. It heavily plays on mind trickery if you're into that stuff. Some amazing special effects for it's time. The main antagonist is the horror author himself. Sutter Cane is obviously inspired by H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King. A fact the movie kept throwing into our faces right up to the ending.

It's kinda difficult to review this movie more without spoilers. To sum up everything Cane's writing started to alter reality to a degree. A lot of fictional stuff he created showed up in the world including people. The town Trent went to go investigate was another creation of his. Trent himself is later revealed to be in the same boat.

What an ambitious take on things right? The main protagonist created by the main antagonist. Just not the way you were expecting though. If you haven't guess the apocalypse theme of the movie yet. This author's writing cause chaos around the world. The most meme part of the movie is the ending. Several aspects led to it being the most meme Carpenter movie to date.

Personally I don't think it's a bad movie. It's just one of those movies either you love it or you don't. A mixed reception film you could enjoy or avoid altogether depending on things. This really felt like a story worthy of H. P. Lovecraft's legacy. You will notice a lot of stuff repeats as well. After a while watching this you start to wonder what's going on?

They do explain how Trent gotten committed to an asylum. To a degree it's like Prince of Darkness where death becomes questionable. We actually see one character die twice in two different ways. Trent does go into madness as the movie goes on. The title of the movie so happens to be a title of a horror novel Cane written.

Sutter Cane played Jurgen Prochnow who also played Judge Griffin in Judge Dredd as well as General Ivan Radek in Air Force One respectively. He truly delivered an amazing performance here. Parts of this movie also heavily reminded me of The Dark Half by Stephen King. For those not familiar with that story.

The author had a deceased twin brother. Out of no where the supernatural happens after the author killed off his most famous protagonist character. The character somehow came into the real world possessing the author's twin brother corpse. He planned to force the author to change his fate to live again.

It's also like Secret Window because this writer suddenly gets confronted by another writer. Accusing him of stealing his story leading to stuff happening. Eventually the writer discovers the two writers are two personalities within one person. Stephen King written some stories somewhat similar to this. King even directly appears in one of the Dark Tower books as well.

This movie makes you question things. What is real as well as these loops you kept noticing among other things. It felt like a huge insanity test fitting for the movie. In The Mouth of Madness is among the weirdest Carpenter movies I ever seen. Which is speaking volumes to Big Trouble in Little China. I would say at least give this Carpenter movie a try to see where it fits with you.

Ranking John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy

3. Prince of Darkness

2. In The Mouth of Madness

1. The Thing

Isn't that much of a surprise I still felt The Thing the best among of em. Not only I personally considered it the greatest horror movie remake I ever seen!!! It's still among the very best horror movies I ever seen as well. Truly amazing in every possible way. In The Mouth of Madness was slightly more of my thing horror movie over Prince of Darkness.

Usually I'm not crazy for psychical horror movies. Somehow this one quickly won me over. It was rather creative with the concept. Obviously ambitious in it's own right. Carpenter should be deeply proud of all three horror movies. He delivered one of the greatest horror movie trilogies I ever gotten into.

Each movie within that trilogy brought major stuff into the group. By In The Mouth of Madness you really couldn't ask for more. All these movies covers so much it's mind blowing. A near perfect trilogy of movies. Even labeling any of them the worst. The worst among em is still a great movie. All of them brings such unique perspective of the apocalypse.

There's no question the lineup is perfect to watch close to or on Halloween. You're guarantee for one hell of a ride. Carpenter delivered awesomeness in ways you couldn't imagine. This is giving me more reasons to respect the director. I highly recommend John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy. You simply aren't living until you watch all three of these movies.

3 from Hell (2019) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I held off watching the final entry in Firefly Trilogy. When I wrote my review for The Devil's Rejects I didn't know what the official trilogy name was. I had a few major reasons why it took so long to get around watching this. I will say this is now among my favorite horror movie trilogies ever!!!

3 from Hell (2019)

This sorta concludes the trilogy in a rather unexpected way. Which I will explain my exact thoughts on that later. The story takes place a decade following The Devil's Rejects. It does explain how the Firefly family survived getting brutally gunned down. Captain Spaulding gets executed early into the movie. A major reason I didn't want to see the movie was because his actor passed away.

In fact, director Rob Zombie confirmed every meeting he had with Haig regarding the movie. His role within the film kept getting shorter due to his decaying health. I'm even amazed he reprised the character at all. Otis gets rescued by their half brother Wolf. A character added into the movie to help save it following Haig's reduced screen time.

I actually felt he was a great adaptation to the movie. The brothers came up with a crazy plan to rescue their sister. They get an idea to go to Mexico. Unfortunately trouble was waiting down there for em as well. It turns out Otis killed the father of a crime lord. This guy was willing to slaughter anyone getting in his way.

Some parts may be a little similar to The Devil's Rejects. At the same time, it's differs enough to stand on it's own. The huge time gap I'm amazed these actors still got it. Baby was portrayed by Zombie's wife. She's in majority of his movies to begin with. This is one crazy story filled that easily could be seen as nightmare fuel to some.

This family you don't wanna mess with is the huge message this movie sending. Every encounter they faced somehow they come out on top. Personally The Devil's Rejects still my favorite in the trilogy. I still like several things more in House of 1000 Corpses. Honestly it isn't that bad of a movie. Just don't go in with huge expectations.

The actual ending is they leave Mexico the same road they drove to get in. It heavily implies from this point they simply get away with everything. The last major obstacle removed from their path. Originally I expected all of them to die. In a way it kinda works for what the director going for. It's a movie that doesn't feel like it's over staying it's welcome.

Just when you think Zombie ran out of ideas. This movie had some life left in it. Some truly mess up moments happens. Like this clown gets forced to entertain a room filled with hostages. You knew Baby had to chase someone down at some point. Even an Warden isn't safe in this. I do like prison played a bigger role than the last entry.

The simple fact this family causing Hell the way they do. You know it's a group of monsters no one going to survive. You would be lucky they kept you alive a little longer. They were inspired to a degree by Leatherface's family from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. We won't get into the confusing timeline of that.

3 from Hell is quite true to it's name. You got three family members being the very worst of people imaginable. Even staying at an hotel something goes south quickly. Then again that also happened in The Devil's Rejects. They partied in Mexico similar to doing the same with their uncle. Except the guy in charge set them up to a monster.

It doesn't even think like the regular third entry notably not as great as the first two movies either. I would actually say this was a better movie than I expected. So what it's my least favorite among em. I still ended up having a good time watching it. I also liked each entry has a particular style to help differ em from each other.

From an retrospective that's a clever yet ambitious idea. The first one felt more like an grindhouse film. The second was more of a modern killer story. This entry felt like those movies, shows and specials based on serial killers to a degree. Somehow all of this comes together in the end. 3 from Hell I could recommend to a lot of people.

Screamboat (2025) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I had to wait an month to see this. In all honestly it was well worth the wait. Before this not many horror Mickey Mouse movies gotten my attention. I felt this one was going to be special. I was pleasantly surprise how much I actually enjoyed this movie. I really can't wait to dive in see what I did there?

Screamboat (2025)

Screamboat is a horror remake of a classic Mickey Mouse cartoon short. For copy right reasons they had to change the character's name to avoid a lawsuit. He's now called Steamboat Willie which was fitting for this version of the character. I'm always enjoyed to see David Howard Thornton play a villain character.

Considering this was directed by the same guy that's done The Mean One. This was a huge step up from that. I am amazed how well everything worked with the low budget. It doesn't even come off as a low budget horror movie it's that good. You got a lot of people on the Staten Island ferry. Which was actually real they had to film on.

Of course I gotta mention five ladies inspired by some of the Disney princesses. Before anyone goes off saying they should get sue for doing this. Disney themselves used a similar loop while making franchises on the same characters. Therefore, they can't actually sue even if they want to. Ultimately these characters are already in the public domain.

They sure some of the most annoying female characters in an horror movie I ever seen. You can only imagine what happened to them how I felt lol. A handful of characters the story follows. It's amazing how one mouse causing this much hell. A lot of people doesn't survive this ride either. A particular huge kill scene with people getting electrocuted.

Suddenly I'm reminded of the ending of Gremlins 2. Where majority of them gets electrocuted by the electric gremlin. The gore was pull off amazingly well in this movie. Thornton really pulled off this version of Mickey very well. I really wanted more of this in The Mean One. I also respected he stays the main antagonist too.

I also liked they played with the lore of the character to a degree. You kinda felt bad he was trapped so long within this boat. It's insane through special effects they gotten Thornton down to Mickey's actual height. What they confirmed about filming his scenes were quite interesting. The other actors had to film their stuff separate from Thornton.

Usually I'm not crazy for Mickey Mouse. This is already my favorite thing with the character I ever seen. Majority of the characters are well written. Better than what you usually get in these public domain horror movies. I even dare to say this is even better than Popeye the Slayer Man. This is exactly how I would've went about this concept.

I actually don't have much to criticize. This movie is either you love it or dislike the hell out of it kind of movies. Personally I absolutely loved every minute of it. I wanted more than what we gotten. Which is a great sign I wasn't satisfied in a good way. I'm very interested in seeing an sequel in the near future.

It's no surprise this is the best horror Mickey Mouse movie I ever seen. Considering the director wants to do more similar concept slasher movies. I'm really curious how this trilogy of slasher movies going to be. We already have an Grinch horror movie. Now an horror Mickey Mouse movie. It bags the question which public domain character is next?

Screamboat is very true to it's name. This is one boat ride you don't wanna ride. They had to go on many trips on this boat while filming the movie. This is exactly what I'm looking for an low budget horror movie. A movie that used it's budget as well as everyone involve very well. Just like Killer Klowns from Outer Space respectively.

Dino Crisis Bundle review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, a few months my friend Simoun gotten me Dino Crisis Bundle on GOG. Honestly I didn't think to love these games as much as I do. Dino Crisis 1 was among the last Capcom games released during my childhood I always wanted to play. I didn't know much about Dino Crisis 2 except from what I was told as well as speedruns.

Dino Crisis Bundle

Dino Crisis (1999)

Dino Crisis 2 (2000)

I had a gut feeling following Resident Evil Bundle on GOG. Capcom was going to do the same with Dino Crisis 1. I didn't expect they do the first two games. These actually differ more than those classic Resident Evil games. Dino Crisis 1 is a slower pace survival horror game. Dino Crisis 2 is a faster pace action shooter game.

Shinji Mikami was involved with these games. He was one of the original Resident Evil team members. Which makes Dino Crisis series a spiritual successor to Resident Evil series. In both games you get to play as Regina. But also as Dylan in several portions of Dino Crisis 2. The first Dino Crisis was obviously inspired by the first two Jurassic Park movies.

Some features predates Resident Evil using em. Like at several points you are given a choice between decisions. Each decision heavily impacts the game in some way. Keep in mind, RE3 classic released a few months later. This also more notably heavily cinematic story telling. It's close to Konami's Metal Gear Solid.

Which came out a couple months before this. Some great puzzles you shouldn't rush. A lot of back tracking in both games. Although Dino Crisis 2 does greatly make up for that. The actual maps in the first Dino Crisis is fully 3D predating Resident Evil Code: Veronica X. You can mix stuff for health items or darts.

Ammo is a bit scarce I barely had anything among finishing my first run. I sure had plenty of health items though. Dino Crisis 2 is easier to memorize maps. Combat is vastly different between the two Dino Crisis games. In the original Dino Crisis, it's more intense survival horror style combat. But in Dino Crisis 2, you quickly attack dinosaurs.

It's more recommended if you can run past me in the original. It's optional in the second Dino Crisis game. Especially when they made such a great change. In the original you have to take some risks getting to the rooms you can save your process in. Which is a little weird how it's done. When you are about to left a particular door within those rooms.

The game will ask if you wanna save your process or not. Now compared to how Dino Crisis 2 does things it's not even close. Not only panels you can save your game is more common. You also have access to a shop as well. You earn points for mostly killing dinos. Think of this as your in game currency.

You can use your points to unlock great stuff, refill your weapons and increase ammo capacity. You actually can have up to 9,999 ammo for a weapon is ridiculous!!! Obviously supplies is much easier to go about in Dino Crisis 2. They also made it easier what you're suppose to do. I strongly recommend for first timers use an guide for the first Dino Crisis.

It's up to you if you wanna use a guide for the second one or not. I will say the first one is much harder. I thought RE3 I'm not the best at was rough at times. There's some sections even more strict than that in the first Dino Crisis. You get a good variety of weapons with some of my favorites in DC2. The story in later portions of these games can get confusing.

I never imagine dinosaurs can be this intense within video games. Dino Crisis 2 is like a precursor to Resident Evil 4 classic in many ways. I was mind blown of the similarities. There's a bigger variety of dinosaurs in Dino Crisis 2. I even enjoyed the different style sections. Two of them are rail shooter style. Some dinosaurs chasing you a notable distance.

You use a turret to fight em off until you get there. There's another part where you quickly fire at raptors while protecting Dylan. There's even a section you swap between both characters to get em through. Precursor to Resident Evil 0 as well. Both characters use an signal gun. The other character launched an attack that defeats T-Rexs.

There's more complexity what you need to do in the first Dino Crisis. The fact they went from survival horror to an shooter action style. Actually predates Resident Evil eventually doing that with Resident Evil 4 classic. The audio as a whole truly fantastic work. I absolutely love I can use my controller to play these games.

I mostly wanted to focus on the main campaigns. I will acknowledge both has a mini game. The first Dino Crisis has a few endings you can go for. Despite Dino Crisis 2 not doing that. I actually had way more fun playing that. The first entry is so intense right up to the end. Dinos will ambush you worst than Nemesis does in RE3 no joke.

Dino Crisis 2 almost felt like The Mercenaries - Operation: Mad Jackal mini game from RE3. Notably done better in my opinion with more forgiving difficulty. They actually made raptors fun to face in Dino Crisis 2. I love you can use your ship to go to a few locations. Which brings me to a rather unexpected difference between the two games.

The first Dino Crisis was more indoors while the second one ended up being more outdoors. I guess it's up to those that plays em. Which entry they prefer more especially if you didn't grew up with em like me. It's difficult to believe I missed out some fantastic Capcom games like those. I knew very early on I would prefer Dino Crisis 2.

Despite waiting a notable portion of my life to play the first Dino Crisis. I will give Dino Crisis 2 a lot of credit. This game really delivered in every possible way. Just when I thought the first one was great. Somehow the second one was even better. There's a surprising level of depth to these games. They are great if you want more Capcom games that's somewhat similar to Resident Evil series.

Dead Rising series is simply too much of it's own thing. Like how Exoprimal would be to Dino Crisis series. Yet I do see some strong similarities between Dino Crisis and Resident Evil. These games are amazing at what they pull off. You're getting two unique takes on the same concept. Either you prefer to take your time with scarier moments or go fast kill everything?

It's very clear I strongly recommend checking this bundle out on GOG. Both of them are such an experience. If you haven't play either of them you should before you die. Especially Dino Crisis 2 it's among the greatest Capcom games I ever played!!! You gotta love dinos to truly enjoy this. I know eventually Turok trilogy is a huge one I always wanted to fully experience.

For the present, these Capcom games are action packed. You are getting two well written stories. Some truly rememberable characters. Some great surprises you won't see coming. I used a guide being two long videos. It doesn't mean I didn't get surprised a lot lol. The bosses are quite menacing that's tricky to avoid.

There's more of a variety in the second entry. I will say they sure made T-Rex scary in the first one. I noticed a lot of stuff that happens in these. Eventually in some form happens in Resident Evil series. Suddenly we came full circle with everything. Dino Crisis series should make a full return. Either the remake everyone wants or a new Dino Crisis game to a degree.

Death Battle Fight Prediction: Enrico Pucci (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) vs Lucius Zogratis (Black Clover)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I figured a more unique time theme match up could be interesting. We have two manga/anime villains that's got some rather strong similarities with each other. Also I couldn't think of a more fitting match up for either character. We have Father Pucci from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure taking on Lucius Zogratis from Black Clover.

Verdict

Lucius Zogratis

I got to make some major things clear before I start breaking this down. Both has a shared time manipulation trait that makes em ridiculously faster than everyone else. They also fought against characters faster than light to a degree. They also are essentially Aizen style strategists within their respective franchises.

Pucci actually predates Aizen by a few years. Both had a rather ambitious goal of essentially becoming Gods. Also made stuff personal with the protagonists before meeting em. At one point defeated em as well as a rather interesting connection to devils. Pucci was an ally to DIO whose pure evil let's be honest. Zogratis is possessed by Astraoth.

Whose among the most powerful devils in existence!!! Most devils are country level of power. Which is beyond anything shown from the first six parts of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Both stolen traits of several characters to alter themselves into these insanely broken characters. They even directly target someone who didn't belong within their overall goals being boys, Asta and Emporio respectively.

Both put a lot of years into these respective, ridiculous goals. I do think there's a very clear winner though. Zogratis has six types of magic. Four of which directly target particular traits of whoever it's used on. Considering how Pucci gotten defeated. Which involved 100% oxygen it's safe to say he's vulnerable to these.

Soul, Blood, Body and Bone magic just four out of his ridiculous six magic combo deal. He also has Gravity magic that manipulates gravity to a degree. Gravity doesn't mess well with speed especially during falling from great heights. I'm not a speed expert but sped up time while falling is virtually instant death.

It also doesn't help Zogratis can fly as well. Pucci is forced to get in close by default. Which you really don't wanna do with this guy. Zogratis' Time magic is actually truly broken in comparison. Mostly Pucci greatly speeds up time as well as his speed to ridiculous levels. Now that's simply child's play to his opponent's variation of time manipulation.

Not only Lucius can speed up time. He also can time stop as well as see visions of multiple timelines. Notably preventing Pucci having anything solid against em. He also could prevent Pucci's time manipulation effects on him through barriers. Pucci did defeat Jotaro who can time stop to a degree. However Pucci isn't familiar how Lucius does the same thing.

Jotaro isn't as skilled with time stops as Lucious with Time magic. Lucius also possessing the body of the current Wizard King!!! Clover Kingdom's strongest magic user!!! Now his usage of Time manipulation was legendary. Lucius quickly adapted to his Time magic. Honestly time stops to almost full manipulation of time itself it's no contest which is scarier.

We still haven't fully gotten to the elephant in the room either. Pucci could swap either one of his magic types or mind out through Stand discs. After all magic and Stands are spiritually connected to the user. Obviously Pucci won't understand magic types by default. Even if he were to take one of those magic types away or his mind through a disc.

Astaroth simply takes control over Lucius' body if Lucius' mind taken away. Lucius won't be effected much losing one of those magic types either. The actual stats difference is very difficult to ignore. Even without Time magic, Lucius likely be fast enough to fight Pucci on equal ground. It's essentially an two on one fight with the devil not even required to fight at all.

Neither of them going to take chances. They would go straight for the kill. Pucci won't be able to escape the inevitable for long. Most humans and elves struggle against one devil within Black Clover. Speed is obviously the closest in stats they get. Everything else is very one sided in favor of Zogratis. Soul magic also directly counters Pucci's default Stand ability of swapping traits including minds through discs.

Then again so does majority of his magic types as well in many ways. It's debatable how much damage if any Pucci could pull off. Lucius simply fix himself regardless makes him rather difficult to finish off for good. Zogratis is a few years older as well. Although magic can easily break such factors. Obviously even if Pucci were older it wouldn't matter anyway.

Of course some wanna know if either Lucius or Astaroth harm Pucci's Stand or not. Made in Heaven, the final variation of his Stand was truly terrifying with the JoJo canon. There's a famous Stand rule that states, "Only Stands can harm other Stands." Essentially this bags the question what exactly is Stands? Most of them are spiritual companion souls to the user.

When most Stands are harm, injuries as well as some situations like diseases or pressure. All of that simply carries over to the user. Now in Black Clover, we got not only magic but also devils. Both are essentially spiritual at their cores. Which means either of those can harm possibly kill and Stand. I also need to pull another critical factor out.

Like his siblings, Lucius also does this power percentage system. Which does play into stuff he's borrowing from a devil. He found a way to alter his devil form being what he considers to be holy or an angel. Let's be more direct than he believes he is a GOD!!! Pucci would be lucky to get him fighting seriously.

It's also fair to say Zogratis played a much riskier game as well. His plans directly effected a few countries while Pucci wasn't near that in scale. Ideally yeah he planned to rule everything. He just isn't set up like his opponent at all. Keep in mind, Pucci had information on the Joestars as well. Ultimately he does end the Joestars in the original JoJo universe.

I will give him that despite how one sided everything else is. I even felt Noelle Silva vs Ochaco Uraka is slightly more fair than this!!! Yes that's also a stomp in favor of Black Clover. But Ochaco could land some decent blows. Pucci would be even lucky to do that lol. He has no solid way to get around so many crazy stuff Lucius could do.

Virtually every major thing he could do is easily countered by Lucius. He could easily without seeing other timelines. In virtually every possible way Pucci is out matched. He would be lucky to get him to bleed which would be temporary. If he can't push the host beyond their limits. What chances does Pucci have against the devil inside of Lucius?

It's very clear cut Pucci constantly running as well as jumping. Easily countered by so many ways already stated. Lucius is possibly much faster than Pucci. Which might be mind blowing to some anime fans. Durability is really obvious since country level characters can harm Lucius. Pucci just isn't on that level of raw power.

In fact, he couldn't even handle a proper fight with his brother's Stand. If he loss to an Stand manipulating weather. There's virtually no way he could survive a much more ridiculous being. Even scaling that Stand to Lucius it's not even close. The same part also had Bohemian Rhapsody, an Stand that broken the barrier with fictional characters.

This particular Stand power effected the entire world despite the user not controlling it. This is among the most ridiculous Stands in that section of the story. Scaling Pucci to that which would be rather generous. Guess what even that Stand pales in comparison to Lucius as well. Sure people quickly jump that Stand power being greater than Lucius being reduced to country level.

Country level itself still a huge amount of the world. He isn't that far behind either. Also Lucius or the devil easily figure out it's major flaw that led to it's defeat. Just in case some JoJo fans wanna bring that Stand into this argument. Not to mention, his unique magic set up prevents a lot of those possibilities directly happening to him or the devil.

Now all of that is done I only have one last major point to make. Even if Pucci were to remove a disc regardless what's being taken. There's nothing directly preventing Lucius or the devil taking it back. Exactly what led to his demise in the first place!!! I think I said enough Lucius Zogratis is hands down the true victor of this fight.

Winner: Lucius Zograthis (Black Clover)

Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley (2010) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I finally finished a game I had trouble finishing on and off. I had it a few times with the most recent through Xbox Series X. It was among a handful of games by Twisted Pixel Games for Xbox Live Arcade line up. Today I'm going to be reviewing Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley.

Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley (2010)

I am reviewing the Xbox 360 version to clarify. This is similar to Comix Zone where the actual levels are within comic books as well as a few manga volumes. It's one of those comedic, self aware games too. At times the 4th wall kept getting broken. I do like they somehow mixed actual digitalized people into the game.

You might be surprise to know there's some variety within the game play. You get a few shooter style game play with quick time events as well as beat em up sections. If that doesn't sound strange yet don't worry we're getting there. You play as Captain Smiley who has a talking star on his chest named you guess it Star.

You start in a failing comic book series. Which led to the character forced to star in other comic series. You can only imagine the fun the developers had with that idea. This is more ambitious than you expect it to be. You got a hub world you interact with the other characters. One of them also acts as your upgrade system as well as buying bonus content.

Achievements unlocked rewards you trophies further confirming in game you gotten em. There's a few mini games you could play in the hub. There's a couple levels that will remind people of the 90s. In terms of it's difficulty which quickly brought me back to that era. I will confess this is not balanced well in it's difficulty.

It's not NES Battletoads level bad either. Beat em up sections actually easier than Comix Zone. Some of the shooter sections are a little too unforgiving at times. Yes I have rage quit this game a few times over that. Especially in the first manga section. Just last night I finally gotten past that level. You also can buy these specials with a rather bizarre animation.

You see digitalized hands banging on the screen. Then this bearded guy shows up ready to head butt the screen breaking it lol. I also liked some sections you get to beat up Star to a degree. Yes there's a counter for doing this in the game. The story of the game is eventually your series gets rebooted. Such a bizarre ending I actually wondered two major things.

1. What the hell is going on?

2. Is the game over?

I can confirm the game is over when you see this. You see an FMV cutscene of a kid reading the reboot 1st issue at a playground. Suddenly you get this wacky, over the top developers are rich cutscene. It's almost like they were literately on drugs lol. There's also challenges if you wanna do em. I think by far my favorite character is Star.

The duo sorta reminds me of Banjo and Kazooie. Captain Smiley is notably more like Banjo whose the nicer of the two. Whose also the main character you're playing as. Star is more like Kazooie saying whatever he wants. I simply respect the creativity that went into this. I would say it's currently an underrated classic as well as overall an overlooked comical action game.

Especially having Chris Sabat voicing Star was comedy genius!!! One of the biggest voice actors in anime history no less. You can tell the story doesn't quite take itself seriously. Captain Smiley simply wanted his own series again. He nearly quit over the manga volumes. Then again who could've blame him otherwise?

It's a very cuteness overblown ridiculousness. It's more meant for the female audience which kept getting mentioned. We even had a few ladies in buses attacking you. Not to mention, in some sections you ride this horse that can fly. Let's put it this way I rather replay the anime level in Gex 3. These were actually among my least favorite levels.

Mostly due to how truly unbalanced in the difficulty some sections are. Thankfully this doesn't do the lives system. Check points is questionable at times. Unless you know from experience you got em or not. You might die thinking you'll continue close to where you die. Most of the time, you have to restart that section of the level again.

This quickly gets old as well as frustrating. The music has some decent songs I'll say. I actually prefer the sound effects over em. This plays amazingly well on Xbox Series X. The hub world I just wish you do slightly more. Mostly you explore with not much to actually do. I will give some credit they attempted the concept.

I felt the bizarre humor is among the game's strongest aspects. I also liked they do change the game play to a degree at times. It does help to prevent this becoming repetitive and boring. Repetitive it still is regardless I just meant the kind of repetitiveness that turns you off. Maybe not resuming to possibly finish the game.

Obviously it has some notable flaws. For what it is I did find some enjoyment in it. I'm not quite sure how to go about recommending it either. If you enjoy 16-bit era level difficulty this is for you. Personally I prefer Saints Row IV way more than this!!! I also respect the ambitious concept of traveling through comics.

Which in a sense makes it better than Comix Zone. But in it's defense Comix Zone notably has better music. Not only that I even felt with it's famous difficulty. It was surprisingly better balanced than this!!! I also preferred the final boss as well. Comic Jumper is a strange game that kinda sticks with you. There isn't many actual upgrades either.

You earn money with later levels being a huge amount. You are virtually guarantee to max out well before then. There isn't much depth into that sadly. Also even with those max upgrades the game is very unforgiving at times. I will say this though you might enjoy some of the characters. Either in characters or within the hub world.

What I mean by in characters is a lot of them has different roles within these comics you explore. They act notably different from the actual people in the hub world. This is actually an aspect I do respect they done. Comic Jumper is a game that's an unique hybrid of a bizarre adventure. It is best to go into this without any expectations.

Comic Jumper also among a handful of games I gotten added to the voting section of GOG as well. I could see the right people truly enjoying this game. Obviously there's better similar style comical games out there. Just for the fact you play as a character going through a few comic series is rather cool. Overall it's more of a strange gem than anything else.

It may not be balanced in that way as well. The humor does work to a degree. If you're new to it altogether. The change in genres may keep your interest. You also get a game that knows exactly what it is. It's a different kind of a superhero game. Comic Jumper is just one of those rare experiences within video games you may not experience again.

Death Battle blog review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, it's not often I do requests on here. For a few months I been reading a particular Death Battle blog series. I could argue how this is better than the actual web show. This was requested by Keyblade_Sora. Whose a writer for this for this Death Battle blog series. We talked through discord for a few months.

Currently finished Season 3 recently.

He often send me match blogs his team does. I do miss the good old days of Death Battle prediction blogs of this quality. Don't expect virtually covering everything in terms of categories. Each having a list of stuff included. Although they do make sure to mention stuff on those lines. I actually spend a couple hours reading a lot of these entries.

I enjoyed majority of the ones I came across. As far I'm aware there isn't a bad entry among them. Occasionally he reveals these bias fan comments that's comedy gold. Let's say we got some real winners in here!!! They do their variation on Wiz and Boomstick. It's better than some of these web show knock off characters lol.

I felt the jokes are more notably funnier as well. They actually understand Bleach as well as Chainsaw Man unlike the web show. Just like that show they go over stuff regarding all the characters. Then they prepare the written scenario fights that's incredibly detailed. To a degree you almost can vision some of this action in your head.

A lot of these matches I honestly never heard of until I gotten linked their respective blogs. Let's put it this way it's a rather interesting line up. You know the ones you see several DB fans make videos about. At the same time, all of them simply makes sense. They took the proper time to do the research. It's much more accurate than the web show.

It's much more balanced than Mugen. Seriously some of these characters are stupidly broken in that lol. They also don't plan on doing any Marvel vs DC matches either. Honestly I been so sick of the actual show doing those. I don't mind if characters from either goes against characters outside those franchises. They come up with truly amazing points on stuff.

They done a fight for desertfox088. I already requested a particular match up I always wanted for a long time. These are a little lengthy blog entries. They do differ in length to a degree. Some matches just requires more critical points to be made. Not to mention, some of these matches are very complex. They don't leave any stones left unturned.

They sure keep everything interesting with each entry in a season being it's own theme. They do take requests that may or may not become future entries. They prefer using more Otaku characters. We are talking video games as well as anime. Both has plenty of truly amazing characters. Just reading one of these felt like a huge breath of fresh air.

Sure they do some matches you expect from time to time. Despite that, they are virtually giving you gold with these amazingly written DB blogs. When I did discuss a lot of matches with Keyblade_Sora. Nine out of ten times we instantly agrees who wins. I even confessed to a lot of characters I didn't know at all.

They do cover these characters even further than the web show. To the point before the next section you have a great idea what they're capable of. I know most actual DB fans aren't readers. I felt if some of them gave this DB blog series a try. It'll be like kids in a candy store. I don't have much to criticize despite pointed out an issue with Kaguya vs Temari.

I was quite nice to say to Keyblade_Sora. This originally written by a different team member. To me this didn't quite give you a solid reason for the encounter. It almost sorta came off like they just meet then fight that's it. I do like they changed it to being an fight both characters agrees to do. I still won't take any credit though.

I do think this DB blog series could truly become the stuff of legends. Personally I actually think they're already there. I'm often show stuff for a lot of characters. Obviously if I know em it won't take long for me to read em. A character I don't know I usually read a bit slower. There's some rather interesting characters they cover including a lot not even on the web show at all!!!

I also felt you simply learn more from reading about em than simply watching videos. Sure you might understand faster actually seeing what they could do. But reading about em ends up giving you much more critical information. This team is truly amazing at what they do. They really aren't bias towards anyone.

It's tricky to not be bias during prediction videos and blogs. Especially when your favorite characters loses. I just wish more DB fans listen to what others say rather than "No you're wrong!!!" Of course I got a few favorite entries I recommend reading. Some of which I really would love to see myself. I will pick matches from Seasons 2 to 3.

1. The Grinch vs Jack Skellington

2. Makima vs Kenjaku

3. Itachi Uchiha vs Byakuya Kuchiki

4. Spike Spiegel vs Revy

5. Master Chief vs Doom Slayer (their version)

6. Nemesis vs Subject Delta

7. Denji vs Rick Taylor

8. Hellboy vs Nero

Eventually I'll slowly read the entries I haven't before. I do appreciate the work that goes into these DB blog entries. They are being quite creative with the theme. I know some might view this as, "Oh they think they can do Death Battle better than the actual team I'll love to see them try!!!" It's way better than Cartoon Fight Club.

The actual web show spiritually following Celebrity Deathmatch. They do respect the characters for the most part. I'm not sure how they choose matches outside people requesting em. I'm sure whatever that process is simply better than most DB knock off shows. I know I got little room to talk since I'm assisted with Fan War in a couple episodes.

I rather have something to explain something really complex than a rather incomplete rushed explanation. Some of these verdicts might even convince you why they won. Sadly nothing cares bias people in versus debates. I do think they will continue onto some rather amazing DB blogs soon. I also felt they are going to blow a lot of people's minds if they haven't already.

Sigil II (2023 Doom mod) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, suddenly I got some unfinished business with Doom + Doom II. Earlier this month, Sigil II was added to the campaigns on the main menu. Although you still can play it through it's mod support. I actually knew slightly more about this before it's release than Sigil 1. I'm just happy it's finally on that main menu where it belongs.

Sigil II (2023)

Just like Sigil 1, John Romero personally made a set of levels for the original Doom. In this particular case it was his way of tying into Doom's 30th anniversary. This would be spiritually Episode 6 for the original Doom. Also like Sigil 1, Doom 2 stuff not presented. I'm talking enemies, weapons and power ups from that game.

Although you can use cheats like all weapons to use the super shotgun. I had a difficult time liking Sigil 1. Mostly due to how strict everything was. It was very secretive to the point I constantly had to look up videos to get a little further. I didn't do that as close as much in Sigil II. These are some crazy huge maps with a lot of enemies.

The maps is notably better than Sigil 1. The boss fight at the end is truly intense. I won't give much away since I played through this on Hurt Me Plenty. I will confirm you may struggle more than you realize. Also like Sigil 1, the episode set up very similar to the original Doom. Eight main maps with one secret map you could find if you know how to.

You can tell Romero spent hours making sure everything works just right. I been to a few of his streams while he's working on this Doom mod. This is also very ambush theme meaning don't rush often. If you save often you may wanna wait a little before doing so. You might accidentally save to end up in between a lot of enemies.

Also like Sigil 1, you got to shoot switches that appears as an demonic eye. Clearly Romero liked Sauron to a degree. These also among the most complex maps within the main campaigns. It's difficult to explain properly until you experience it yourself. You really gotta pay extra attention to the environment.

Not only that, you also get some great music as well. I also would recommend if you're playing without codes to play easier difficulties than Hurt Me Plenty. Higher than that guarantees running into Cyberdemons. This also has the shortest end game message by far. It doesn't even half the screen like most of them filling it up with texts.

You will witness some creative within the map designs. Considering this was designed by an original Doom team member. You can expect it lives up to his reputation here. Sigil II is a great follow up to his previous spiritual Doom episode mod. I may heard he's working on another Doom mod called Hellion. There's no word what the status of this Doom II mod is right now.

When that comes out will be for Doom II. It doesn't matter since the first two Doom games works with every Doom mod in existence. Very true with the newest version. Sigil II was somewhat unexpected what it brings to the table in a good way. This may not be the best campaign within Doom + Doom II. It's better than a lot of Doom mods out of respect.

I will say I'll recommend it if you want an challenge. It's technically more fair than The Plutonia Experiment. This is better than Extreme Rise of the Triad. It's notably better balance with better designed levels. Considering a few members of that team made the difficult expansion. I can compare the two to a degree.

It's not often you wanna move fast. It's mostly moving slow with caution while being ready to shoot anything. Right up to the end it's that level of intensity. If some enemy placements doesn't take you out. Possibly getting lost within levels suddenly desperate what to do likely will lol. My other recommending through modding is get Brutal Doom with that WAD file.

To me anything Doom with Brutal Doom is like the greatest FPS experience ever!!! I could respect people not wanting to do that. Sigil II will throw some huge curve balls at ya. Don't worry there's plenty of demons to take out. Some of the later maps has over an hundred enemies. Just don't expect Legacy of Rust level of madness here.

Sigil II does sorta feel like an continuation of the original Doom before Doom II in a way. Some could argue Legacy of Rust in the actual Doom canon taken both Sigil mods' place. You also can expect some backtracking to a degree. Otherwise if you're willing to play it. You may enjoy this anniversary Doom mod that's amazing in what it does pull off.

My reaction to Death Battle: Master Chief vs Doom Slayer

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I actually got two somewhat Doom related blog entries today. I been cleaning up my place for a week with some gaming on the side. Until today none of that was Doom related. A few hours before the new Death Battle episode I started Sigil 2 on Hurt Me Plenty. I will be reviewing that later on as well.

I think I made it crystal clear I really didn't like the original episode back in 2011. I never expected a rematch would take a little over thirteen years to happen. A notable portion of my life waiting for this. It kinda felt like a dream to me. Now it's official Doom Slayer wins. I can say everything about the newer version way better.

It's not even close this is how it's meant to be. Much like the most recent version of Goku vs Superman episode. Despite being among the biggest stomps they ever done. They still delivered in giving us an fight animation that's fantastic. The difficult part was trying to keep things from going too one sided. Considering Doom Slayer is multiversal with Master Chief not even being universal.

Plus many critical advantages Doom Slayer had. The actual portrayal of both characters is way better. Originally Doomguy was done so poorly. Now he's exactly like he is in the newer Doom games here. Master Chief further showcasing his tactical mind. Cortana being involve was critical. Which was a weird thing to miss in the original episode.

The break down on both characters was beautifully, accurately done. Some can criticize some of the crazy numbers all they want. The fight song is among my favorites in the season by far. The verdict was a massive improvement from the original episode. Originally I felt the episode was too rushed it seemed.

Lacking some critical information that should've been in there. Thank god that isn't an issue in the newer version. I didn't want this for the newer fight animation like many people did. Although I really enjoyed it over the crappy original version. I always believed even back then Doomguy should've won. When I found out they are actually doing this rematch I was quite happy.

There's a lot of moments in the fight I loved. I will reveal the very moments that quickly stick with me. We gotten two iconic poses late into the fight. Master Chief quickly does his famous Halo 2 pose. You know on Halo 2 cover pose. They ended the fight animation in a rather awesome recreation of the original Doom cover.

There's also an grenade bounced off Doom Slayer then exploded afterwards. Indirectly a reference how he died in the original version I'm sure. Which I strongly question won't kill him back then. He fires a rocket to speed dash to quickly grabbed it. Then threw the rocket at Master Chief I loved that!!!

Now that's how you showcase Doom Slayer's true speed. I also loved the brief break from the fight. Both of them took on demons. This was a particular moment I'm happy for. I may not be an Halo fan anymore. I do still have some respect for Master Chief. Also he killed a few demons so that's something.

I loved the reminder of this fight takes place in Hell. I do question to a degree how two particular weapons cancel each other. Especially considering BFG-9000 can kill demons as powerful as Cyberdemon in a few shots. What I really wanted to feel with Spawn vs Ghost Rider I do feel here. To me it felt well worth waiting this long for them to redo that match up.

This was the true definitive version in every possible way. Virtually nothing left behind unless you count some questionable canon stuff on either side. Personally that's a small issue since Doom Slayer just way too much for him to handle. You can tell they really took their sweet time with this. A quick reminder for Doom fans regarding May.

Not only there's a new Doom game coming out. Doom Slayer with Revenant also dlc skaters in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4. Which might've lied about career mode yes I'm onto you guys at Activision Blizzard. What a great way to tie in that stuff. Eventually I could see either character coming back in a more fair fight.

Among the obvious stomp episodes this is easily among my favorite of them. I don't have much to directly criticize otherwise. This was a good recreation of both franchises. I also liked the same voice actor that's done Sweet Tooth voices Doom Slayer. This also among my favorite rematch episodes as well.

Let's be put it this way everything was done just right. I have little to no major questions left to ask. Most rematch episodes I'm fine with. The only exception being Cloud vs Link I have major issues with. I would say it rivals the new version of Goku vs Superman. They absolutely knock this episode out the park or should I say plain of existence here?

Mullet Madjack and Crime Scene Cleaner (2025 Xbox versions) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, thanks to Game Pass. I was able to play some actual new games. I always wanted to do this style of a video game review blog. Usually I do mostly one style with a lot of games that's similar. But today let's change things up with two vastly different indie games. You could even say these are polar opposites of each other in many ways.

This is rather ambitious to do. Also kinda fun the more I'm thinking about it. Two great indie games I been enjoying during this month. I actually found both of them quite refreshing for their respective genres. I didn't imagine I would end up having this much fun with both of them either. You just don't know until you play either of these games yourself.

A quick message to DesertFox088, sadly Mullet Madjack isn't on PS consoles. You do have Steam you might enjoy this game. I do actually think you'll enjoy Crime Scene Cleaner more for a few great reasons. Indie games kept getting me excited in recent years. These were games I'm glad I took a chance on. Easily a strong recommend to play both of these amazing indie games.

Mullet Madjack (2025)

Mullet Madjack plays heavily into 90s anime style. You play as a moderator that's live streaming an princess. She's more of a famous streamer with a huge follower count than that. You are getting a strict time limit to get through the levels. Thankfully you can easily add seconds back to that time limit. This forces the player to quickly adapt to situations on the fly.

Usually this style games turns me off. Somehow this actually gotten more very into the experience. You also get a choice of three or four upgrades. You do need to unlock the fourth slot as an upgrade you always have. Every ten floors is a boss fight that isn't being live streamed. You aren't on a timer with notably more health than normal.

Don't expect the bosses going to be that easy either. Some can be rather cheap at times. You also pick up many weapons you can quickly execute enemies with. I simply love kicking off platforms or firing at them to get em shocked. You also get a few similar swords that surprisingly can be thrown. The upgrades can differ in quality but mostly decent stuff.

The audio as a whole is fantastic!!! The sound effects really does it's job here. The levels thankfully aren't that long. Some are slightly longer but that's it. There's a good variety of robots you'll face. You also can do randomized or fixed levels design. Personally some achievements is better with fixed levels.

Randomized does repeat to a degree. Somehow it remains incredibly fun to keep playing the levels. You get such a weird, mess up story. I will confirm the ending isn't where you're expecting it to be. I didn't expect Mullet Madjack to be this much fun!!! The character himself says voice overs with some parodying Duke Nukem.

One of my personal favorite lines is this. "I kick ass and make lollipops!!!" You even can take enemies out during an execution with an manga volume I'm not kidding. You force this into their mouth as you're finishing that. This is obviously an Arcade style FPS game. You can quickly go through vents that acts as short cuts.

Very true when you're desperate low on time. You gotta kill an enemy or you fail. Speaking of failure, die just once on any floor sets. You start that floor set up from the beginning. Thankfully one great upgrade is you decide which upgrade you get to keep. Most firearms can go up to level 3 that truly gets ridiculous.

This is more like Wolfenstein 3D but minus the secrets with more easier to memorize floor designs. There's a few modes with some being unlockables. Achievement/trophy hunting wise it's so much fun!!! You might need to look a few up. Despite that you will get a lot of them in a few hours. Mullet Madjack is a game I can't believe works this incredibly well.

The overall pace felt like people speedrunning 90s FPS games. But that's how you are suppose to play this. Despite that it actually ends up being so much fun. Even if you die a lot you just don't wanna give up. You may feel lucky to get to the next set of floors. Partly it depends on which upgrades you taken. Other times you may not realize some stuff that could've helped a lot.

Let's take this situation for an example. There was this huge jump from an speed wall running thing that's meant to help get you across a huge gap. I kept falling a little short of that. Until I realize I could actually air dash. There's also an double jump upgrade. Excluding that, this air dash guarantees I made it across every time.

Some upgrades doesn't work how you expect them to as well. Very essentially I mention this since a handful were a little unexpected. Some upgrades plays into soda that acts as an health item. Suddenly I wanna see Franky from One Piece in this!!! At random among getting sodas, something cool may happen.

You actually can slip or shoot at soda machines. I think my favorite soda theme upgrade is at random for a short period of time. You get two of the same guns you can fire is pretty sick. My second favorite soda upgrade is soda grenades I'm not kidding. Suddenly enemies could get blown up by soda is hilarious.

Don't tell Kenan and Kel about this. Where's my orange soda at? LOL anyway you can tell this game doesn't quite take itself seriously. You could even say it's self aware it's an video game by some of the dialogue. Some of these surprises starts to freak you out a little bit. This really felt like a true recreation of the 90s in a nut shell.

They even given you a bonus for nut shots. There's even a joke upgrade bonus for that. There's a funny joke weapon being your hand does the gun gestures lol. Following Chapter 8, the rest of it plays incredibly different. Somehow all of this works amazingly well. The driving level ends up being my favorite section in the entire game.

Mullet Madjack is just the right level of ridiculousness in an anime inspired 90s FPS game. This instantly felt like a party I never wanted to leave. This already on GOG, well consider that moved notably higher on my list. I didn't have many real issues with everything considered. The closest issue is why hide the ending like that?

I will confirm how to get the ending. The true ending you have to do well enough in Endless Mode. Yes a variation of the game that's an endurance that slowly reduces your timer. If you do good enough when you die. You'll be awarded a few things including the true ending. This really caught me off guard.

Crime Scene Cleaner (2025)

Crime Scene Cleaner you play as a cleaner that does these messy clean up jobs. Some levels has a lot of bodies laying around. There's a lot of trash you can pick up to quickly bag em up. You also get other equipment expected of a cleaner. There's an upgrade system that may limit your choice to a degree. I still found it a decent upgrade experience.

Mullet Madjack was notably a much faster, unrealistic game. This is the more realistic, slower pace game. At the same time, there's plenty of surprises you can find within the levels. I actually took extra time to finish every level with an 100% completion. Most levels takes you a few hours at best to fully clean up.

There's a story that does get interesting to a degree. The cleaner's daughter in the hospital while you play as her dad trying to raise enough money to save her. This led to suddenly doing clean up jobs for an criminal boss named Big Jim. The closest thing I played to this was Viscera Cleanup Detail series. This is strikingly similar to that series.

I'm not going to call it a rip off. Obviously simulator games will be similar to a degree. I actually felt in a few ways Crime Scene Cleaner done several things better. You can mop up messes mostly blood off places. You play trash as well as bodies onto your truck or into this thing in a few levels. You do get a good variety of locations to explore.

I will confirm the last few levels will truly test your determination. You get to clean up a party that went too wild. Among them was Big Jim's daughter that directly asks for your help through an email. Achievement/trophy hunting wise it's the best game for that experience. You really can take your time going for those during your playthrough.

You got to adapt on the fly in some locations. Especially when you might be forced to get messy before finding an water source you can use. Some of their locations is notably spread out more than you expect. I didn't notice the music that much but I'm sure I'll like parts of the soundtrack if I heard em. I did have some notable issues including a weird item placing glitch.

Let's say I remove a correctly placed object from it's slot. Then I place it back into the same spot. For some weird reason the amount of objects increases. Among the trash you also need to pick up bullets. These can be easy to miss or in some placements trickier to grab. You do get an upgrade to increase trash bags into a bigger one a few times.

There's surprisingly no real fall damage meaning you just live if you fall from high up. Despite those it's still a very realistic game. You have to manual clean your bucket when it's too bloody. If you change it when there's too much blood. Usually a notable bloody mess happens. I figured out a nice trick to prevent this from happening.

You also need to use an sponge. After you clean your mop as well as your sponge. Quickly refill the bucket you'll be fine. If you want tipping the buckets achievement/trophy ignore this tip lol. Some secrets are surprisingly well hidden. You might be more surprised how you get inside a few locations. I didn't even mention your main hub area yet.

Your main hub is your home which I personally liked a lot. You can pet your dog for two achievements/trophies. You also can go into the rooms including the basement. Speaking of the basement, there's a wall with a collection of cassettes. Filling up that collection is another achievement/trophy.

You also can replay levels while not needing to fully replay em for those is a huge plus. Sadly if you're going for the big money achievement, you have to replay em for that. Which I surprisingly didn't do to get the achievement with three other achievements. Among finishing the final level of the game. I mostly played without any guides.

I will confess a handful of stuff mostly achievements related I did look up. Otherwise I was figuring some stuff out faster while others. Well, "It's right there the entire time!!! thing does get a bit annoying. You will need to really pay attention to everything. This greatly helps you to properly the game better. Just take your time for a rather decent experience.

The voice acting is surprisingly decent as well. The graphics looks absolutely amazing!!! The controls takes a little getting use to. You don't wanna rush in this game. The worst the rushing, the bigger the mess going to be. You can easily break stuff adding to the trash amount. Thankfully you can throw trash bags as well as bodies a notable distance.

Crime Scene Cleaner is a game that works incredibly well. It's realistic but in a way that doesn't turn me off. You actually felt like you're the one cleaning up these messes up. I will confirm the ending is a little predictable but in a way you might not see coming. I should also mention a partly discontinued achievement/trophy.

You grab a toaster then throw it into a bathtub thankfully no bodies for the most part with no water. They also hide in some clever pop culture references. Sure you have to go a little out your way to find em. The levels are all a nice size that doesn't feel too small. A handful might feel a little too big for some though.

You also get objectives you can complete. If you fully want an 100% completion. You have to do them all which takes hours to do. At the same time, it's so satisfying you worked so hard for that. This game simply felt like I could relax while playing it. Despite how ridiculous some of these levels are. Crime Scene Cleaner is an fantastic cleaning simulator game.