Popeye's Revenge (2025)

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

Popeye's Revenge (2025)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Simpsons: Hit & Run (Abandonware) review

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

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

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

The Simpsons: Hit & Run (2003)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ranking the Big 3 Simpsons Games

3. The Simpsons Game

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

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

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

2. The Simpsons Arcade

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

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

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

1. The Simpsons: Hit & Run

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

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

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

Conclusion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maize (2016) review

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

Maize (2016)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Toxic Crusaders

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

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

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

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

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

The Transylvania Adventure of Simon Quest

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conclusion

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

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

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

Death Battle Fight Prediction: Calder (Dead Rising) vs Stubbs (Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, here's a match that quickly came to me. When I was early into playing Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse. Inevitably I started comparing Calder to Stubbs. I figured why not do a fight between two leader zombies in more comical zombie game franchises. Honestly I'm quite happy to cover this fight myself.

Verdict

Stubbs the Zombie

This turned out to be a rather interesting match up. Calder by default uses an exosuit. This suit gives him the stats advantages. Which should've meant an easy win for him. But Stubbs is just as clever as Frank West to a degree. He is usually having his back against the wall. Calder previously was a soldier before he turned.

Obviously both can turn humans into zombies. Although Calder usually overpowers em with his exosuit. Stubbs could take an advantage of devouring some brains to increase his chances in this fight. Unlike Calder, Stubbs can give call zombies over to him. Let's be honest both in different ways are quite unusual for zombie characters.

Stubbs has more notable intelligence than most zombies in his universe. I could even argue Stubbs is in fact smarter than Calder too. Stubbs can drive vehicles including tanks. Which would help counter Calder's exosuit. Considering that either he directly or possesses an human to wear an exosuit to counter em as well.

Calder can easily prevent Stubbs' hand trying to possess him. The singer laser enemies can easily do the same. Stubbs also has other mess up means of attacks Calder won't even see coming. He can throw some of his guts that explodes. He also can rip his head off to use like a bowling ball. Which also has an explosion to a degree.

Stubbs also can fart that can stun multiple enemies. Stubbs survived against lasers is quite impressive for a zombie. He constantly finds a way to do whatever he wants. Which is exactly why I compared Stubbs to Frank and other Dead Rising protagonists. Stubbs may struggle getting in close to Calder. Calder himself lacks counters to a lot of stuff Stubbs could do.

Stubbs constantly was unpredictable to his enemies. The same can't be said for his opponent. Sure, Calder with his exosuit can easily knock over vehicles. Even with his superior movements & reaction speed still lose to Frank. Keep in mind, Frank later became a zombie until he became cured within the same game.

It's fair to say DR4 zombies are more aggressive as well as agility than zombies in Stubbs' universe. In this particular case that actually works against Calder. Stubbs was able to manipulate zombies to a degree. Assuming that also could happen with Calder's zombies. Stubbs can easily overwhelm Calder with the numbers.

Also among possessing people, he can use other weapons. Mostly rocket launchers & lasers being the deadliest Stubbs could gain access to. Which actually be quite effective against Calder's exosuit. The main reason I'm not fully considering Calder's regeneration factor. He needs an location filled with a lot of electricity to achieve that.

Stubbs himself endured in a similar situation just fine. I wouldn't be surprise Stubbs has to take a leak lol. Oh okay if you played Stubbs' game you knew that joke was coming lol. Stubbs may lack a direct method to fight Calder by default. He still clever enough to figure ways to even the odds in his favor. This is exactly how he won in the end.

They both were responsible for so many human deaths. A major difference is Calder was the main antagonist while Stubbs more of an anti-hero character. Sure he's done some terrible things. He also had a good cause to fight for with everything considered. He already knew what it's like being an zombie. He didn't want anyone but his wife to be with him.

Then again his biggest ally was a female robot that clearly missing some screws lol. Stubbs was fighting to reconnect with his lover. Both zombie leaders had different motives behind their plans. Calder wanted to take over the world with zombies. Stubbs simply wanted to be with the woman he loves beyond everything else.

This translates to Stubbs had higher willpower as well as determination. He also survive against crazier odds than Calder in comparison. I just want to make this clear. Sometimes the character that loss the stats advantage can still win fights through other means. This is simply one of those fights. Calder also would struggle to kill Stubbs over for many reasons I stated.

Assuming it would be a neutral location for this fight. A lot of zombies nearby with a few working vehicles. Stubbs would more likely take advantage of those. Calder just isn't as creative or as smart as Stubbs. I never said Stubbs was a genius either lol. In fact, Calder technically loss to someone else doing that plus someone helped Frank to a degree.

Stubbs even survived his own son that had lasers with some force fields. We can agree those force fields notably more durable than Calder. Despite sections of them were missing. Stubbs also had to go through a lot of switches to defeat another boss in the game. It's safe to say he could figure how to prevent Calder's regeneration on his own.

By now you should be getting a picture how I see this fight. Calder on paper should destroy Stubbs. But in reality, Stubbs has plenty of surprises Calder can't prepare for. Depending where this fight takes place. Stubbs around eight to ten times comes out as the victor. This will be a rather chaotic zombie fight a lot of people could enjoy watching.

Winner: Stubbs the Zombie (Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse)

Death Battle Fight Prediction: Traflgar D. Water Law (One Piece) vs Younger Toguro (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I planned two more Death Battle fight prediction blogs. Neither is related to the upcoming season. Which is about to kick off with Kratos vs Asura. Here's a fight to me is somewhat more interesting as well as unique to a degree. I'm putting Law from One Piece versus Younger Toguro from Yu Yu Hakusho.

Here's two characters among my list of characters I'm very strict who should face em. For Younger Toguro it was more of a question how could he lose? He does this power percentage system that involves increasing his muscle mass. This by itself limited who to consider to face him. I do think Law is a surprisingly decent opponent for him.

Law has a very unique, terrifying devil fruit called Op-Op Fruit. No it's not short for overpowered lol. Op actually stands for operation because usually those that eat this particular devil fruits are doctors. Just imagine one pirate crew filled with medics including the captain that's his crew in a nut shell. He has abilities many devil fruits has to a degree making it a very decent one.

It's safe to say this is a rather unexpected Shonen Jump match up. Some could argue Law has more interesting opponents. I felt some people going to be very surprise with the verdict section. I am sticking to the main canon stuff. I'm up to date on both franchises for the most part. I do believe I know whose going to win this epic showdown.

Verdict

Law

To some degree both can modify their bodies. Although this is vastly different between the two. Younger Toguro uses a power percentage system to increase his muscle mass. When he goes high enough, he takes a more menacing, demon form. He must steal souls to maintain himself or he'll die. However Law has counters to everything Toguro could do in this fight.

We even could scale them to each other. Let me explain Toguro is officially Class B. Which would easily destroy any lower classes. In fact, power scaling is more massive than your typical Shonen power scaling. In most of them, increasing the power scale is notably smaller including One Piece. Although One Piece is a much longer story than Yu Yu Hakusho to counter balance that problem.

In Yu Yu Hakusho logic you must be equal to that class to stand a chance. If you are either A or S Class, you destroy B Class and lower with ease. Toguro has shown greater levels of strength by using one hand to carry an replacement ring in for the Dark Tournament. At the time, no one else could've done this feat. Unfortunately that still pales in comparison to what Law brings to the table.

For starters, he actually held his own against characters notably more powerful than himself a few times. This includes two former emperors with help. He had to work with Eustass Kid to take down Big Mom. For fairness reasons, I can only give Law half that feat. This is important because characters like Big Mom would've been classified A Class in Yu Yu Hakusho universe.

He also can use his powers to prevent Toguro getting more souls. This is a huge factor in how Big Mom loss. Law prevented her getting souls as well as using parts of another devil fruit power to mute her. Yes he can literately remove sound from people. Her devil fruit Soul-Soul Fruit is well being a manipulator of souls.

Toguro lacks counters for that. Law also has a particular attack that directly targets every organ in a body. He caused stronger characters that were country level pain a few ways. It's very clear he can not only cause Toguro pain. But also bypass his ridiculous body mass to finish him off too. There's a great example to prove this.

Vergo who was a high ranking marine actually working for former warlord Doflamingo. He was capable of using full body armament haki. Law was capable of cutting him up. Considering Zoro himself defeated Pica who also went full body armament haki. Zoro also later defeated Rob Lucci who his captain previously defeated.

Lucci mastered a fighting style that maximum usage of the body. Haki is more directly about the willpower of it's user. Which also had it's own unique advantages. Among them is observation haki that allows the user to notice things even faster opponents including invisible ones. This is bad for Toguro because Law will notice critical things at a faster rate.

It's also safe to say Law is an actual doctor has the intelligence advantage. Law's powers allows him other crazier possibilities. He could cut Toguro once or a few times. Then use Room to manipulate him however he wants. He even can attach parts of people to animals, weapons, and parts of a location. Among one cut to Vergo, Law also cut through several mountains with ease.

The fact he caused pain to country level characters means Law doesn't have to be stronger than Toguro to win. He just needs the opportunity to finish the fight. Law held his own against Emperor Blackbeard. Then again Blackbeard is quite cocky to a fault. I still gotta mention Law faced two of the deadliest devil fruits head on.

Toguro does have a particular long range attack. Again Law has many counters including swapping. Law simply could swap places on the fly. He could swap objects with him to prevent any harm. He also could force Toguro to face his own attacks without warning. Toguro wouldn't be use to an ability like this.

Law could easily remove Toguro's heart. Then finish him off afterwards. Suddenly his 120% power percentage means virtually nothing. Law is rather creative with his powers. He usually fights with a long sword. Sure he has loss a couple of times in canon. Law finds a way to bounce back to a degree. Considering with Captain Kid is one of Luffy's biggest rivals.

Toguro would be a better trained fighter. He also spent years doing stuff he really didn't wanna do to others. Of course, he's going to hide this fact from Law in a fight. Although he did make sure to lose to Yusuke. He still force him to fight with everything he's got. There's a chance Toguro might suddenly do this with Law as well.

I know some might question if Law could see Toguro since he's an demon. Considering a few devil fruits like Hollow-Hollow Fruit, Shadow-Shadow Fruit and Soul-Soul Fruit. It's safe to say in theory yes he can see him. Toguro will constantly be thrown off by whatever Law is doing. Therefore, he can't get any one ups in this fight.

Toguro doesn't even win the durability advantage. Simply because Law survived attacks from two former emperors. The concept of a weaker character doing some notable damage to a stronger one exists within One Piece universe. He did survive Kaido to a degree. Law can easily tank Toguro's punches to a degree.

What sucks for Toguro is he prefers close range combat. Which is exactly what you don't wanna do against Law. Law could easily win this fight before Toguro goes more demon side of his power as well. He once gotten chased by former warlord Doflamingo. Whose kicks were capable of cutting through stone builds.

The way I view this is Toguro inevitably going to get in close. But won't be able to take any opportunities simply because of Law's powers. Toguro could decapitate one of Law's limbs. He can either stop the bleeding entirely or use whatever he can find to replace it. Also knowing Toguro needs souls to maintain his more powerful percentages.

The fact Law prevented a more powerful character doing something similar easily trumps that. His powers allows him so many opportunities to win this fight. He even directly bypass Toguro's durability with ease. Law also more of a strategist in comparison being both a captain and the doctor of his crew. Toguro is virtually screwed no matter what he does.

Winner: Law (One Piece)