My thoughts on AVGN Game Glitches: The Legacy Sequel (2024)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, today marks the end of the eighteenth season of The Angry Video Game Nerd. Which constantly for a long time been one of my absolute favorite shows ever!!! I do wanna discuss the new season finale. I also felt since I previously done a rant on his new Castlevania episode. What's my thoughts of the other episodes of the season?

Although some episodes of this show did aired on television. They were notably censored, it just isn't the same. Just stick with the original, uncensored episodes you're set for life!!!

1. The Goonies 1 & 2

The episode works enough to get you laughing as well as keep you interested. The Nerd mostly reviews both NES games based on that film franchise. Some of the jokes still stick with me to a degree. It was also kinda an unexpected episode to begin an season on. This seem more like one of the middle episodes in the other seasons to me.

2. My Horse Prince

James previously played the mobile game on an episode of James and Mike Mondays. Well it's one of those really this is a real game? You bet it is, a girl falls for a somewhat humanoid horse. He attempted to do most of the episode from a cell phone. I say parts of that concept worked while others didn't. What I can say for sure is if I ever have kids they're not playing that!!!

I skipped discussing that Castlevania episode you don't need anymore of me ranting hard on it.

A link if you wanna see my rant maybe because you want to...

https://jackred1989.blogspot.com/2024/05/what-is-best-castlevania-avgn-rant.html

3. Sim City

This quickly became one of my favorite episodes of the season. Possibly one of the best modern AVGN episodes for that matter. He also previously played this on an episode of James and Mike Mondays. I felt this episode was really well written. Some of the funniest jokes ever are presented here. This essentially was close enough to the classic AVGN episodes in terms of rewatchable.

4. Glover

I actually grew up with this game. Rolfe wasn't aware the game come back on some services with other versions coming soon. I felt this comes so close being a great episode. But it's still a very solid AVGN episode. Maybe a little more editing could've helped. Glover was an interesting one for him to cover on his show considering it's not an bad game.

5. Deja Vu

I confess right off the bat surprisingly the funniest episode. Even more than the season finale in my opinion. This was simply too good of an AVGN episode. It was so vastly different from the usual style. Yet when the jokes started coming, it kept getting funnier. Especially blowing your nose part in particular I laughed very hard among the first watch.

6. Nosferatu

If you exclude Castlevania episodes, we have three vampire Halloween episodes. I will confess it's the weakest among them. It's not the episode's fault, the other two vampire Halloween episodes were way better. I just felt he could've went a little deeper with the game. Not to mention, some jokes didn't exactly hit the mark for me.

7. Blaster Master

Blaster Master was one of those nostalgia episodes he does with a twist ending. Surprise this is part one of the season finale. The episode really hits you in the face when the plot of an AI comes more into play. It was a surprisingly entertaining episode. Despite mostly focus on a good game. People forget he covers good games while still pointing out his issues with em.

Game Glitches: The Legacy Sequel

I confess I wasn't a fan of the original Game Glitches episode. This one really made up for that in a way I never expected. The Nerd joins forces with an old enemy to take on a common one. It kinda reminded me of Atari Jaguar logo came out the television. He sent his cat to deal with it but more entertaining. We get to learn more about the Game Graphic Glitch Gremlin.

The Nerd realize he couldn't stop this AI alone. Of course, they fought each other a few times in the episode. I'm happy his friend Kevin came back to reprise the role. A good amount of the episode is slower pace with everything started to pick up the pace. Right around when the two agreed to take this AI on.

I should point out the AI is played by his former neighbor and childhood friend, John. Whose currently doing Neighbor Nerds with James. Essentially replacing the more famous James and Mike Mondays. I'm glad he gets to include one of his oldest friends into an web show that made so much to people. It always meant so much to me since 2008 I checked.

This gremlin went inside James' classic game consoles glitching up games. Then just when they thought they won. The AI gets out a more recent game console with updates. One of the weirdest paradoxes I ever heard of. The short version is the gremlin glitched his debut episode online. Somehow this caused him capable of glitching more modern video game consoles.

The console in question was PlayStation 5. I will say they picked the right games to do this concept with. You knew that PS2 Rocky game get in there. I laughed a few times with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5. I knew a handful of glitches in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Even the newer Spider-Man games couldn't escape this gremlin.

I also liked we get introduced to his wife whose pregnant. You knew they had one holiday trick left to do. A famous PS2 demo disc glitch a classic. This episode I felt had the most inspiring story direction of the story. There's no question, it's a great season finale to end an season on. There's plenty of great moments from start to finish.

Usually for the most part his Christmas episodes or season finales that aren't necessary Christmas. They are among the very best episodes of the season. Obviously this lived up to that expectation. It may not be my favorite season finale episode. You're still in for a lot of laughter. Honestly, it does still have some Christmas vibes to a degree.

I will reveal my absolute favorite season finale episodes.

I guess I'll take you back to the past by covering those in reverse order.

Final Fantasy 6 (Season 17)

Obviously not a Christmas game he's reviewing. But it does have Christmas aspects that made the episode rememberable. Like when Santa tripped to unplug his SNES. He was almost done with Final Fantasy 6. Which caused his save gone upsetting the Nerd. Everything about this episode was incredibly done well.

Home Alone Games with Macaulay Culkin (Season 12)

I confess I wasn't crazy for his Home Alone 2 neither an holiday special on another web show. Where he played Home Alone 1 on NES. This really made up for all that!!! Not only he covers those games again. He covers more Home Alone games. Now throw in the star himself, Macaulay Culkin. This was a great Christmas episode with plenty of great jokes.

Sega Activator Interactor Menacer (Season 10)

The Nerd had an friend playing with many accessories for Sega Genesis. I absolutely loved the concept they went for. Just imagine kids not caring playing with this stuff in an house. You actually would see such chaos within a room. I also grew up watching classic cartoons with slapstick humor. This episode was really up my alley.

Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero (Season 9)

I actually grew up with the PS1 version of this MK game. I was lucky to not have the N64 version lol. Obviously not necessary an Christmas episode. But considering it's an spin off Sub-Zero game. You know the blue ninja that freezes people it kinda works. This was a beautifully done season finale I couldn't stop rewatching.

12 Days of Shitsmas (Season 8)

Before anyone freaks out about this. Originally James filmed a little over an hour worth of an AVGN episode. He decided to carefully split it up into twelve episodes. Which all debut literately days apart. Considering that it's done incredibly well. There's plenty of surprises that made the entire season finale a truly fun time.

Wish List: Part 1 and 2 (Season 7)

At one point in your childhoods you looked stuff up in magazines you wanted for Christmas. Heavily playing off that nostalgia. The Nerd reviews some of his games he always wanted to cover. Then the remainder of these episodes were filled with huge requests from the fans. In all honestly, Rolfe truly nailed this concept very well.

Death Battle Fight Prediction: Spawn (Imagine) vs Ghost Rider (Marvel)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I think it's finally time to cover my current biggest Death Battle request to date. I been waiting a long time for the actual episode. It's season finale worthy in every sense of the word. It even had a particular Death Battle Podcast episode they couldn't stop talking about the fight.

I am talking about Spawn from Imagine comics vs Ghost Rider from Marvel comics. This is a truly epic showdown worthy of Hell itself. Two heroes given powers from an hellord. Then they ended up going against em to constantly fight the supernatural on a daily basis. Two god like beings with insane potential. It's no wonder why so many people wanna see these two go at it so bad!!!

Sure both of them previously won on the show. But this would be the best Death Battle episode for both characters. We really get to see them at their absolute finest. I'm really hype for this particular match up. Animation alone is enough reason to sell people on this. Then everything else is simply cherries on top of that sundae.

Verdict

Ghost Rider

Before Spawn fans gets upset yes I'm using the more famous Al Simmons. Just like I'm using Johnny Blaze in a similar fashion. Although they possibly might swap him out for his brother, Daniel Ketch. Therefore I'll present two versions with each brother for this fight prediction blog. Both of them can do a lot of the same stuff with ease.

Not to mention both can regenerate to a degree while having a weakness to holy weapons. Therefore just like Black Adam vs Apocalypse situation. We gotta take a closer look at their powers as well as how they counter each other. In that regard this is where Ghost Rider takes it. Spawn can still die from either using up too much energy or having his head cut off.

Both things Ghost Rider can easily do during this fight. Parts of their powers uses imagination to a degree. But for Spawn that's mostly his unique cape. Ghost Rider can simply alter anything he touches. This means an vehicle or any weapon for that matter can go from not a threat to a serious one without warning. It's safe to say Ghost Rider's powers heavily using imagination.

Let's be honest, Simmons prefers to use guns against some enemies. Even he knows they aren't effective against supernatural ones. He usually sticks with regular ammunition. In comparison, Ghost Rider could simply allow himself to be shot up to simply be fine right afterwards. This would be a different topic if Simmons used ammo meant for the supernatural.

Then again as previously mentioned holy weapons would weaken him as well. Obviously not a good idea for Simmons. Ghost Rider fights with his chain that can bypass durability. Which means even if Spawn were to get scale having higher durability. Ghost Rider can simply go through it to harm possibly kill him.

Considering Simmons both alive & dead killed a lot of people. Ghost Rider's Penance Stare would be very effective against him. Which by itself has some terrible possible outcomes. Including erasing Simmons altogether spiritually. Going back to Ghost Rider's chain, Spawn's chains simply doesn't compare.

Now I know some people may bring up when Penance Stare failed to work on The Punisher. Who has some similarities to Simmons. I don't think this is going to be much of an issue. Assuming they go with that logic, Simmons still loses for plenty of other reasons. Plus Penance Stare has a few possibilities that may still work on him.

There's also how long both has their powers for. In Spawn's case, his energy essentially is his life force. The more he uses his powers, the closer to death he'll become. The big issue with Ghost Rider is some situations could prevent Ghost Rider from fully losing his powers. Which also makes Ghost Rider the more broken character in this situation.

This is important because both held their own against some truly powerful beings. Ghost Rider could handle some of them at their most powerful. Spawn had to follow instructions from the Mother Being to deal with both God and the Devil respectively. I know some heavily play off God Spawn as well as Omega Spawn.

Both of those has different factors that could quickly lead to neither being presented in the episode. God Spawn was Simmons following instructions from the most powerful being there is. He simply wasn't allowed to do anything that isn't a part of her plans. As for Omega Spawn that rivals both God and the Devil in power.

All of which only second to the Mother Being. Spawn's universe just isn't as nearly as big or as insane as Marvel multiverse. What might seem incredibly powerful in Spawn's universe just isn't in any Marvel universes at all. Now Simmons as Omega Spawn would have infinite energy. Then again, Ghost Rider had defeated similar opponents before.

Such as Mephisto and his son Blackheart respectively. Also considering his Omega Spawn form happened after his events within the comics. They would have to argue to include it or not. Then again they did allow Bardock his Super Saiyan 1 form for his episode. In all honestly, even with the insane amount of abilities Spawn has.

Majority of them Ghost Rider can easily counter. Simmons lacks a solid method to even harm Ghost Rider. He also lacks a counter for any of his spiritual methods to directly target the soul. Which also means Ghost Rider can simply devour his soul. We still haven't even gotten to the elephant in the room yet.

In some situations, Zarathos has taken control over some of those he possessed. Zarathos can rival beings as insanely powerful as Galactus!!! Death Battle even stated those battles could possibly destroy the entire multiverse just as a side effect. The insane level of power alone could dwarf Spawn's most powerful forms with ease.

This also means if Spawn were to be the more powerful being. Ghost Rider through Zarathos can instantly give him the stats advantage in this fight. It's even stated Ghost Riders can only be killed by God aka The One Above All!!! Which is a pretty ridiculous concept with everything considered. This by itself is beyond any label Spawn ever gotten.

Ghost Rider has more ridiculous regeneration as well. He could even survive spiritually stuff. There's no question, Spawn is a truly impressive character. He simply can not handle Ghost Rider at all. Some could argue Daniel would be even better than his brother Johnny at being Ghost Rider. Temporary Ghost Rider fought World Breaker Hulk in canon.

You know one of the strongest forms Hulk ever taken!!! The same form that easily owned a lot of big name Marvel characters. Spawn only shot at victory is hope none of the unusual situations occurs. Allowing either Blaze or Ketch to become Ghost Rider again. When you take a closer look at their powers, it quickly becomes very clear cut.

You could argue Spawn defeating a particular hellord as possible game changing. Then Ghost Rider easily top that by doing the same exact thing!!! Ghost Rider's motorcycle is very ridiculous. Durability might come off being questionable as shown in Lobo vs Ghost Rider fight. Which I'm a huge fan of that episode as well.

Ghost Rider can instantly bring his motorcycle back like it's nothing. Not to mention, this bike can easily go many times the Speed of Light!!! Spawn lacks anything that remotely comes close to that. Ghost Rider is more prepared for the even crazier situations that could occur in this fight. Simmons simply can only do so much to delay the inevitable.

Even considering Spawn could come back from Hell. Well that still takes some time to happen. Of course, Ghost Rider will be waiting for him to return. Then again he easily could destroy his soul multiple ways. The simple logic Ghost Rider can instantly change strategies on the fly. Simmons can't handle Ghost Rider even if he's given an army of hell spawns.

Another way to look at this is Blaze and Ketch were alive when they both become Ghost Riders. For Simmons, it was in death he became Spawn. I know kinda a mess up logic to throw out in a fight prediction. Ghost Rider simply can counter everything Spawn throws at him. At the same time, Simmons lacks anything major to even harm Ghost Rider at all.

Directly power scaling wise it's not even close. This is just like Goku vs Superman situation. One character in a notably smaller multiverse to another whose in a massive multiverse. It makes sense the character in the bigger multiverse essentially the superior one. Even Rick Sanchez knows this. In the long run, Ghost Rider could end the fight anytime he wants.

Winner: Ghost Rider (Marvel)

Death Battle Fight Prediction: Kratos (God of War) vs Asura (Asura's Wrath)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, Death Battle already announced the next season premiere episode. Following the season finale being Among Us vs Fall Guys. Which I called it, I just didn't expect Wile vs Tom for awhile. In a way I should be upset this happening before that. I rather have to wait for what's ultimately going to be an timeless classic anyway.

I already said so much how I felt about this match back in my very lengthy Tournament of Champions blog. I do think this is going to be a good episode. Just not either of the matches I rather wanna see. Well it makes more sense than Among Us vs Fall Guys. Not to mention, two matches that lost polls in a row kinda weird.

At least Kratos vs Asura won't be in the next Tournament of Champions. This is far from the matches confirmed I wanna see. We are talking Mahito vs Shigaraki, Wile E. Coyote vs Tom Cat, Gru vs Megamind and especially Kyle vs Simon respectively. It's not technically a meh which is a good sign. I do think we're getting a truly epic showdown here.

Verdict

Kratos

For all it's worth Asura brings in endurance as well as raw power to a degree. The big issue with his character is he needs to constantly get push to reach higher levels of power. Which never was an issue with Kratos. Also it's debatable how much Kratos could be given in this fight. He does technically have some more notable god traits that can't be ignored.

Some of which Asura simply has no real counters for. Such as Hope as long there's hope Kratos can negate many things. He once used hope on the Blades of Olympus to "save mankind" that led the world into the apocalypse. You know the same blade that once taken his powers. Kratos also proven to be notably harder to kill.

This weapon is capable of killing gods as well. It's debatable if Kratos be given such a weapon. He also has many other options to constantly stay ahead of Asura within a fight. Such as suddenly bringing out the head of Medusa. Who has a curse among looking into her eyes, you turn to stone. Kratos even can fight Asura in the air to a degree despite his appearance.

It also doesn't help Asura that Kratos has more of a notable arsenal. Asura is purely close range combat with his six fists. I'm sure they plan to stick to the canon for this one. So they won't be considering Asura fought Akuma to a standstill. Especially they could argue Kratos beats Akuma in comparison. It's debatable which character has more actual years under their belt.

Kratos is more prepare for majority of everything that possibly could happen in this fight. In vice versa, Asura simply isn't prepare for most of those. Also considering he has to get in close. Kratos can easily change his tactics to fight him from a distance at any given time. Kratos even has a more notable defense than Asura whose a strong offense with a serious lack of defense.

Therefore, we got to go by whose more notable. This might be seen as being unfair since Asura in one game while Kratos in a couple games. Both fought against their own pantheons including the top gods. But Kratos actually done this to two pantheons. Sure some could argue Kratos had help against Odin. You also gotta realize Odin is a very well prepared god.

Odin by himself had what he needed to make major changes. There was no way anyone could fight Odin solo in that universe. Especially when Odin's knowledge limited most of their options by default. Scaling will be a truly frustrating one for this fight. They gotta scale both of them differently first. Then the hard part is creating a brand new scaling to work with both characters.

This by itself could possibly alter the outcome of this fight. I still don't think Asura quite on Kratos' level. I know some likely going to say. We see Asura fighting in space against armies. Yeah he did do that in Asura's Wraith I won't argue that point. I could argue though Kratos fighting two pantheons is ultimately more ridiculous.

Another major difference is Asura has to struggle coming back to life. Previously Kratos had this problem until Hope factor came into play. This ultimately means as long Kratos believes in hope. He simply can not die in this fight. Death Battle previously used similar characters. Most of which actually loss on the show.

Makima and Chosen Undead with a notable different factor that made em quite tricky to kill. Makima was spiritually connected to the people of Japan. Chosen Undead can keep coming back as long he had the will to do so. Which is similar to how Hope works for Kratos. Let's be honest, there's no way Asura going to cause Kratos to lose that will.

Kratos is so used taking blows from powerful beings. Even if he lacked a lot of his arsenal. Kratos has proven to fight directly against some of those beings with his hands. This is also why Asura's fighting style going to cause him the victory. Not to mention, he can easily lose his arms as well. Even if Asura could go full power right off the bat.

Death Battle actually has some mind blowing feats to give to Kratos. Some of which is simply beyond concepts to a degree. Lifting wise it's virtually Hercules level of ridiculousness. Asura never shown many physically feats in comparison. This also means Kratos can very easily overpower Asura in a fist fight.

This also means even if Asura were the better fighter. Kratos can easily go right for the kill off the bat at any given time. Just three methods Kratos has to directly bypass durability. Neither Asura has any real counters for. This could be seen as a god variation of Goku vs Superman with everything considered. Asura obviously being Goku in this situation.

Kratos being Superman having so many advantages it's not even funny. Kratos also used to think quite similar to Asura as well. Which he can directly use against him in this fight too. Speed is going to be among the trickiest to determine. I could argue Asura is ridiculously fast closer to his full power. Then I could counter argue that with some of the stuff Kratos done himself.

Both held their own without their powers. Kratos would have the advantage previously being a warrior in the Spartans. You know stuff like an movie called 300 series based on. These warriors had the right level of offense with one of the best designed shields in history. I mean come on that's kinda obvious. Asura also doesn't offer much outside being an berserker.

His main strategy is heavily overwhelm his opponents until he wins. But there's virtually no way that's going to happen against Kratos. Try to think of this as Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul rigged moving on. Kratos obviously being Mike Tyson in this example. Asura being Jake Paul in vice versa. Kratos has more notable combat experience.

Kratos also fought a bigger variety of enemies across two pantheons. Cerberus vs Fenrir needs to happen some day. Same with Anubis vs Hades, I would love to see that. Of course, I know I sound like a broken record on this. I'm really waiting for the day they do Zeus vs Odin!!! Just going by that logic, Kratos is better suited for all the possibilities in this fight.

I'm also aware Asura does offer his long range attacks to a degree. Again this heavily depends on how much of his full power he's using. Kratos has plenty of options to counter this too. Kratos could even stop Asura from doing em too. This is exactly why I'm not that interested in this fight. It quickly falls apart after you compare the two, Kratos going to win this fight.

Winner: Kratos (God of War)

Goat Simulator: Remastered (2024)

Special thanks goes to Microsoft for putting Goat Simulator: Remastered on Game Pass last month.

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I decided to go for a newer version of a weird joke game. I previously had it as a free game on PS4. This is the remastered version that really came packing with content. I would even dare to say one of my favorite funny remastered games ever!!! Sometimes you gotta play something so crazy to help get your mind off things.

Goat Simulator: Remastered (2024)

Like a lot of people I originally found out about this game through a showcase PlayStation done. Such a weird trailer that nearly perfectly described the entire experience. I am not kidding you go watch that announcement trailer. Then you play this within minutes it all makes sense. I usually don't play many simulator games.

To be honest, it's one of those genres my wife more into it. The closest thing I played to this funny enough is Garry's Mod. You actually could fully recreate this remastered game in that. There's a lot of stuff I gotta talk about. You get the main game called Goat Simulator: GoatVille. This is the game most people think of when they talk about Goat Simulator.

There's six additional sections you also can play. All of them notably differs from GoatVille. Game play wise it's rather interesting for many reasons. You get challenges you can complete with some unlocking stuff. You quickly notice some similarities to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. Well the better Tony Hawk games anyway.

They hid so many jokes across of these. I can tell you a lot of them are notably hilarious. This game kinda that JackAss game we never gotten. Even Steve-O would agree with that. Goat Simulator: Remastered is an sandbox game that allows you to explore the maps. Which do differ in size with some having hidden sections to a degree.

GoatZ is a DLC parody of zombie games mostly DayZ. You could play as originally intended as a zombie goat. You get a meter that keeps track of days. Although you can swap out to being a regular goat skin that makes you immune. You also gotta deal with zombies with the most interesting ones being zombies with paper bags on their heads.

This is obviously the darkest among all the maps. There is a little bit of a learning curve. Goat Simulator: PAYDAY is a crossover DLC that parodies many things including that franchise. Which I actually never played prior no really I haven't. Not only you play as the goat. You also get three additional animal characters to play as.

My favorite being Dolph Spaghetti whose an dolphin in a wheel chair. I do also like Valentino Salami whose a flamingo that flies. You have to go to a machine to get some challenges. Oh I'm sorry they're called pranks in this map. You also get some pranks from people around the map. I do like what they attempted to do with this crossover.

Goat Simulator: Waste of Space is ridiculous!!! It heavily parodies sci-fi with a lot of huge name franchises included. You actually get to explore the moon with some vehicles. This was even crazier than Fallout: New Vegas' Old World Blues. Which also mostly occurred on the moon. This was the only one to change how to get some of the collectibles.

Goat Simulator: Goat City Bay was a fun map. Some of absolute favorite jokes were presented here. I really wasn't expecting a parody of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!!! I also loved there's an amusement park. I usually love seeing em within video games for a long time. It's one of the more interesting maps I felt.

Goat Simulator: Buck to School is an interesting one because it came from the mobile version. Which also means it has the smallest map. Despite that, you can bet this still a truly fun one. If you went in knowing it came from a mobile version. Quickly throw that out the window here. You get to explore an school map that isn't boring at all.

It kinda reminded me of another game, Bully. The fact the smallest map had such an impact on me. You know this is way better than you possibly ever imagine. I save my personal favorite for last. The most unique of an experience this has to offer. Even more than GoatZ for that matter. Goat MMO Simulator is a true master piece.

You could even say because how different it is from the other maps. It could be seen as it's own game. It's a parody of Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games aka MMORPG for short. Every single time you start it up. The game randomly generates an username. Don't worry your process is saved.

This is by far the biggest map the game has to offer. You can get a lot of quests as you explore. You also can quickly fully level up your goat. Also when you start up, you can choose which class you wanna play as. Every zone really felt like their own maps rather than being sections within one insane map.

I also felt the funniest jokes I notice were here as well. Like find Bilbo the Dwarf to throw him into lava. This is parodying The Lord of the Rings as well as it's prequel story The Hobbit. This quickly felt the most creative among all of them. Not to say the others were uninspired. In fact the exact opposite with some great ideas.

Let's put it this way, Goat Simulator: Remastered is way better than Saints Row reboot game. No really somehow this greatly made up for how that reboot game made me felt. Achievement/trophy hunting wise, it's an 9.5 experience. In all honestly, one of the most fun I ever had achievement hunting a game in a long time.

If it isn't obvious by now, this really never was meant to be taken seriously. Goat Simulator: Remastered goes way beyond what you might expect. It isn't about doing the usual goat stuff. Although that said stuff get parodied a lot in this. You will notice some mess up animations the longer you play this.

You can drive a lot of vehicles that do differ between the maps. You also can unlock additional skins that gets weirder. I really do mean quite weird to the point for a handful of them. I almost can't seem to find the right letters to say. You get a very great variety of skins that all do different abilities.

Some of those skins are actually different animals lol. You even can play as a whale they had to been on drugs. You still haven't heard the best feature for this remastered game. You can now swap every skin you have available across every map. This means you can play any skins meant for a particular map in any of them now.

This really opens up the possibilities within the game play. Other aspects of the game play that's meant to help you find your way around does differ a bit. Some are notably a little easier than others to follow. This really felt like it had something for everyone. This is among my favorite remastered sandbox games hands down!!!

It's notably better than Batman: Return to Arkham. Which I previously played both remastered Batman games through Game Pass. Personally this isn't quite the best remaster I played this year. It's among the finest I did play though. Goat Simulator: Remastered is a game filled with the right stuff to keep fun for a lot of hours.

The other best part is there's nothing additional to buy either. You literately get everything including DLCS from the PC version. This is as close to the definitive version of the game you're going to get. I may not requested this remastered game. I'm sure glad I finally gave it a chance. Parts of this reminded me of Postal series just not as offensive as well as disgusting.

Goat Simulator: Remastered fully made use of every map including the hidden sections. Saints Row reboot failed to do that including the newer map sections added in. I simply love you can be truly creative when achievement hunting or completing challenges. Even having chaos is truly a lot of fun as well.

This has to be among the most ridiculous goat characters I ever heard of. You get all of this for a great price or play it through Game Pass like me for cheaper. Regardless which route you go, Goat Simulator: Remastered is one hell of a party pun very intended lol. This is among the most surprising 2024 games I played this year.

Pray for Death (1996)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, last year my brother bought me stuff on Steam for my birthday. Within the same purchase is Pray for Death. Not to be confused with a movie of the same name. I previously done a few playthroughs prior to this review. A few months ago, The Worst Fighting it's an web show. Where this YouTuber covers the worst fighting games with many other things to keep it interesting.

Pray for Death (1996)

This game often gets compared to Mortal Kombat series. But it's actually more similar to Killer Instinct series. You can tell by some of the animations as well as some of the art work is clearly inspired by that series. Even a particular character, Maelstrom fights very similar to Killer Instinct's Fulgore. The actual story is directly similar to a few not great fighting games.

Almost the entire roster wants to challenge Death to become immortal. This is directly the plot of Time Killers aka first labeled MK rip off. Personally screw both games go play Eternal Champions. If you can get your hands on the sequel/updated version on Sega CD that's even better. Not to mention, Death is the final boss in both games.

Not a lot of people knows in Time Killer's famous bad Genesis port. There does exist a way to play as Death. You have a similar method to play as Death in Pray of Death. Ultimately in either Eternal Champions game, you are fighting for the opportunity to live again. Sadly the conclusion to that concept got scrapped.

Indirectly the concept similar to Shadow: War of Succession. Most of the roster going after the position for the next Shadow King. The previous Shadow King got transformed into a cyborg. What's kinda amusing is Anubi basically Anubis in this game. Surprisingly War Gods by a few months predates Anubis in a fighting game here.

There's a few hidden characters mostly the bosses. They aren't anything special with Death having voice overs. I'll give them credit he actually looks like the Grim Reaper. Unlike Death in Time Killers seriously what is that? It's kinda like Dracula in Castlevania 2 where he looked more like the Grim Reaper than Death does.

Pray for Death can differ on the controls, I played two different methods. Originally the famous keyboard method that took some time getting use to. It's easy to get confuse what the buttons do. The later method with a controller is the one I recommend most. There's a decent amount of characters to play as. I do like before every match begins.

The characters says stuff towards each other. A little better than Shaq Fu still not great. Once in a blue moon you might be surprise what's written. It's a classic fighting game set up with a ladder. You fight through the entire roster to face Death. There are finishers that are mostly alright. It's technically better than a lot of MK rip offs.

The audio for the most part isn't great. A few sound effects ends up being the best of them. The difficulty will spike to a degree. If you play the game on too easy of a difficulty. The game refuses to give you an ending. I'm just glad they didn't do what TMNT: Tournament Fighters on Sega Genesis done.

I really don't like playing an fighting game with little to no endings on hardest difficulty. I can say most of the roster does have endings. I think the biggest surprise to me maybe to a lot of people. It's obvious the elephant in the room. You actually can play as Cthulhu!!! Yeah a fighting game from the 90s you play as Cthulhu.

The stages are mostly meh easily could've been a little better. It hurts worst when you start comparing it to Killer Instinct. Even Killer Instinct Gold on Nintendo 64 had a lot more going for it. I personally enjoy playing that game through Rare Replay. Pray for Death isn't an rememberable experience. Especially considering it to The Black Heart let's not even compare the two.

Also regarding the Grim Reaper in video games. He isn't rememberable like Gregg the Grim Reaper in Conker's Bad Fur Day. Even reapers in Vampire Survivors worked better. They lack voice overs as well as dialogues. I will say his lines are better than Death in Time Killers the Arcade version at least. Even considering their endings, it's not even close!!!

Pray for Death may be better than some similar 90s fighting games. But in all honestly that's not saying much. You got to realize some fighting franchises back in the 90s were quickly becoming big. Some of which are high selling fighting game franchises today. This game got buried just like three cartoon shows tried competing with The Simpsons to end up getting buried themselves.

There really isn't much to like about the actual game. If they didn't focus on mimicking Killer Instinct's style. Instead went with their own fighting system. Then I felt this game would've been a little better. It's far from the bottom of the barrel fighting games wise. It's beneath the middle of them with plenty of better fighting games you could be playing right now.

The closest positive thing I could say it's on GOG as well. GOG does notably better with older PC games especially DOS ones. On both services outlasted Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport. Technically that's a good thing considering that was notably worst than this. Despite an unplayable guest character being Barney the Dinosaur still within the files.

Pray for Death is an repetitive fighting game of the 90s era. You should expect to lose a lot before you finally finish an run. I can't recommend playing it longer than a few minutes. A modded version with the right stuff could bring this game back to life. In terms of recommendations stick with Eternal Champions series minus the spin offs you'll be fine.

BATS: Bloodsucker Anti-Terror Squad (2021)

Unrelated I do also plan to review Varney Lake and Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York soon. I may have to revisit them to help me prepare those reviews. I rather give them more respect doing that. I will also attempt going for a different ending in Varney Lake as well. I honestly can't wait to talk about either vampire game soon.

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I recently bought six vampire games from my amazing wife. This might be difficult to believe, I already play through one of them. Which so happens to be the vampire game I'm going to review today. I learned of it's existence within a few months. I still felt I need more vampire games that may never change.

My recent GOG vampire games purchase

1. BATS: Bloodsucker Anti-Terror Squad

2. BloodNet (2 versions)

3. Veil of Darkness

4. Rogue Lords

5. Vampires Dawn 3 - The Crimson Realm

6. Vampyr

I also wanted to say Vampyr in particular I kept a close eye on for years. I just finally gotten the golden opportunity to get it. Sometimes you gotta be willing to wait a few years maybe longer to get games with everything at a much cheaper price. Obviously most of this vampire purchase is notably longer games than BATS: Bloodsucker Anti-Terror Squad.

BATS: Bloodsucker Anti-Terror Squad (2021)

The story involves Count Bloodvayne going to rescue members of his vampire unit from Scorpion. No not Mortal Kombat character or Spider-Man villain. Although either of them in this could've work honestly. There's five stages that does offer some variety. I probably should tell you expect to die a lot. Thankfully you get as many chances you want to get through the game.

Each stage has multiple sections filled with enemies as well as hazards. You gotta adapt quickly or you won't get far. The game's difficulty spikes very often to the point it's not fair at times. For example you have two enemies running towards you. You can only take one of them out if you remain on the ground. Ideally you should try to jump over both of them.

From there you should quickly take em out before you take a hit. I should also mention this is playing a joke of the game being based on an animated TV show that never was. Which I kinda like concepts similar to that to a degree. I actually felt in the audio department it's good enough to get the job done. Easily the art work itself is my favorite aspect of the game.

They sure don't hold back being violent in this. You even see enemies get killed by hazards with some brutal death animations. Which is among my favorite stuff about the game. The bosses are notably repetitive as well as a bit unfair at times. It's one of those games, the main antagonist the solo boss character.

In this case, Scorpion takes a play book from Sonic's Dr. Robotnik. He actually has a particular boss fight somewhat similar to his original boss fight all the way back to Sonic 1. I will say the boss fights are better than the boss fights in Duke Nukem 1. To me, it felt like only Dr. Robotnik made the concept work.

Some of the dialogue you can tell they had some fun making this. Parts of it has self awareness with some jokes thrown in. We aren't going to compare this to UnMetal, it's not even close. I will say the bat character is a little more cute than expected. This bat also acts as a power up until you take a hit. Some of the routes you are force to take within these stages can be frustrating to get through.

I will be honest parts of those actually tougher as well as more intense than most boss fights in this game. I'm not even why so many deaths I died from a single hit. Last I checked I wasn't playing Contra. Also let's not even begin to compare this to either Contra or Metal Slug. The later I'm a much bigger fan of myself.

It's kinda amusing to get shutters to open. You simply find the computer then destroy em. Geez vampires may differ in how long they been around for. You would expect they have the knowledge to hack an computer or simply pull the cord from the wall. Instead they are so impatient to get through. They have to directly destroy computers.

I'm glad this isn't a heavy key item game. Although some of those FPS wise are truly amazing games. Which in all honestly I rather be playing those instead. This is by no means a bad game. It's kinda more of a gem than anything else. There's just enough good you may find some enjoyment in it. The flaws actually makes it difficult to keep on playing.

There's other modes like Speed Run Mode and Boss Rush Mode. I have a few major problems since I didn't try those out. Speed Run Mode is rushing through the game. Now if the game wasn't so strict about everything. I would've considered giving this variation of the game a try. Boss Rush Mode can differ depending on games.

Either they can surprisingly fun or a frustrating challenge. In this case, it's obvious a rather unforgiving challenge. I rather do an boss rush in UnMetal than this!!! The only major thing left to discuss are the five playable characters. You start with Count Bloodvayne basically Dracula in this. His name likely a reference to Dr. Van Helsing just not in the way you expect.

It's also a possible reference to another vampire series, BloodRayne. I actually felt he's among the best characters in the game. I do respect all of them plays notably differ from each other. I do have a clear favorite among them. Sergeant Sabre kinda reminds me of Marvel's Blade mixed with Star Wars' Lando.

He is armed with a sword that quickly cuts through enemies. I actually felt he's the best set up among the playable characters. To me, Rick Ghastley actually the worst among them. Ideally you should love the guy with an shotgun. But the way his shotgun works is too flawed. You have to manually reload your gun.

Also it's even easier to not fire a shot in time. Not to mention, the brief period of reloading could be a death sentence in several spots too. I could argue how the other four playable characters are better. I also do like at the end of most stages, you can choose which character to unlock. Personally I absolutely loved that with a huge passion.

I really didn't want to play through the entire game multiple times to unlock everyone. Even if I had to Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood is way more worth it. I know it's strange the good guys actually the vampires. Which that twist by itself caught my attention. I also should point out, all of them has a different Vamp Power aka their specials.

Some of them activates automatically or others like Mitzie's you have to do manually. Although using her Vamp Power in the wrong areas can harm and kill her. Which is kinda amusing since she has wings!!! I rather had the ability to fly for a short period of time. I also liked whoever you play as has different lines within cutscenes.

This is a touch I am glad they went for. It does help differ the experience enough to maybe play through the game more than once. For an indie vampire game it's a little interesting than expected. I don't think it's a good place to start. Especially if you want to get more into vampire games. I will say for what it is you should consider giving it a try.

What it does well is truly amazing stuff. The challenge is a bit unforgiving at times. At the same time, parts of finishing the stages felt like a real achievement. There's some secrets if you know how to go about em. I do like they allow exploring for the most part. A few sections you are rushed to through. Otherwise if you can overlook the difficulty curve it's a fun vampire game.

Balatro (2024)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, my brother bought me some stuff on Steam. I previously wanted the newest DLC for Puppet Master: The Game. He also bought me a game I previously discussed in here not long ago. Balatro, I figured I voted for it in The Game Awards 2024 within every category. I may as well play the actual game for myself.

Balatro (2024)

I will be honest, I don't have many card games. I'm a huge fan of Resident Evil VII's 21 mode. I previously owned both Poker Night games. You know the crossover Telltale Poker games? You would think I wouldn't struggle much in Balatro. You actually would be quite wrong about that. Balatro is a rather unique take on poker.

One guy over two years developing this made an roguelike poker game. Which quickly became one of my favorite indie games in years. I am quite serious, Balatro turns poker into possibly the most exciting thing ever!!! Of course, you have access to the typical deck of cards. Then that's when things quickly becomes more interesting.

Balatro also adds trait cards as well as planet cards into the mix. Also Joker cards are notably presented in this too. All of them adds to the overall experience in so many ways. Trait cards all differ in what they do. My two favorite trait cards are Fool and High Priestess. Fool card automatically gives you the recent planet or trait card yo used.

This could be a double edge sword. But assuming you worked this into your strategy like I did. Then using this could be a god send. High Priestess card gives you two random planet cards. Planet cards in general level up your combination you can draw during matches. For example if you want to increase your overall points to win matches.

You could level up a single pair or double that. Yes this also applies to Flushes and Straights too. Before we get into the true uniqueness of it all. I still got to discuss the remaining stuff with the shop. You also can buy more cards which includes additional bonus versions. Yes some of those bonuses stack on top of each other.

The best part is unlike both planet and trait cards, these will reappear within your deck by default. Which means you can eventually use em again. You always have the option to add in more cards to better your chances. You also can buy Vouchers that differ things to a degree. They usually on a slightly higher price range.

Also every set which there are three each has an Voucher you can buy. Now all of that out the way, I bet some of you dying to hear about Joker cards right? Easily the best cards in the entire game. Sure, not all of them are winners for many reasons. Some requires particular combinations played in order to work. They notably differ in what each Joker card brings to the table.

It's very critical you get the right five Joker cards. Even having four of them that works amazingly well will get you further into runs. One or two not great Joker cards will quickly end runs. You also have the option to skip most of a set through buying those skips. Personally I don't recommend relying on skipping.

I rather go the longer route with my upgrades being more higher leveled. I finally can discuss the main points system. You get a blue side that represents amount of chips that can get multiplied. The red side virtually is the multiplier itself. Which can be notably increased to better your chances. I had so many failed attempts at trying to win just one run.

Before anyone asks this game forces you to start from the easiest difficulty. You can push yourself to get the harder difficulties. I should mention, you also get different decks with a notable change. A couple of them are simply in a different color. Balatro does have more unique designed decks you can unlock.

I also wanna say Joker cards really has personality to em. You can tell the developer really had a thing for Jokers or clown characters in general. Somehow all this additional complexity works in a surprisingly much simpler method. At first starting the game you got so much to learn. Obviously you are going to lose a lot before you start to truly understand how the game works.

Just in case people wanted to know. Which Joker cards are among my favorites. Misprint Joker has randomized multiplier. I also kinda liked it's design as well. Popcorn Joker is great for bigger point multiplying in matches. The only real issue I have with that is at random the card disappears. My personal favorite Joker card is Burnt Joker.

This card in the right hands can destroy a good amount of this game. Burnt Joker involves your first discards within matches. Whatever combination even High Card automatically gets leveled up one. This obviously comes with a risk. At the same time, the right cards to discard can make all the difference.

The better part is considering you can stack. You could get two similar Joker cards that levels up your multipliers. Just imaging Space Joker with Burnt Joker. Speaking of Space Joker, he's among my favorite Joker cards too. Space Joker at random among doing any combination even High Card will level em up.

This also means you can be quite creative how you go about increasing the multiplier. Balatro is heavily about being creative with your moves. Not a single match is boring in this whatsoever. In every possible way the perfect balance of everything imaginable. I really can't directly criticize anything because the game automatically balances itself out.

Balatro is virtually an 9.5 game right off the bat. I know some people didn't like an card game made it into Game of the Year awards. Hell it even won a particular Game of the Year award. I can strongly say this game truly deserved it's nomination. This reminds me in a few ways to REVII's 21 mode. Look I know I'm about to compare an Black Jack mini game to an poker game.

I'm more of a Black Jack person myself. I still wanna say Balatro is the one way I really wanna play poker. To me, this game was really refreshing as well as inspiring. Again one person made such an game, I'm deeply impressed. This is exactly why I recently found indie developers more impressive. Balatro already on most platforms, I played it through Steam.

I would love to own this on GOG. Balatro is a game you wouldn't believe works this mind blowing well. Especially considering all the information you need to take in. Eventually you quickly memorize enough of it to play the game well. There's also additional skins for decks, which I haven't tried yet. I'll give an example considering Death Battle about to do Among Us vs Fall Guys episode.

They have an Among Us skin for the decks, I love that!!! The best part is this game amazingly cheap as well as being notably smaller than most Game of the Year nominees. You are getting everything right off the bat justifying it's price. In comparison, most of them are notably a lot bigger than Balatro. You actually need to free up a lot of GBs off your platform of choice to play em.

They are much more expensive with some having DLCs too. It's nice to have a game that gives you everything for much less. Of course you should know the famous saying. "Big things comes in small packages." Which perfectly describes Balatro in a nut shell. I am deeply proud to given this game my votes in The Game Awards 2024.

Balatro is never boring at all even during the first matches. Where you need to earn 300 points to continue on. No upgrades prior you can still lose this. Roughly 8 out of 10 times you'll win. Then again I didn't go beyond the second lowest difficulty at the time of writing this review. In all honestly, Balatro made something like poker into one of the absolute greatest indie games I ever played!!!

Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood (2023)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I been planning a few video game reviews for some time. I will confirm the biggest one among them going to require a lot more hours. Before I can even begin to write my review on it. The game in question is that good I really want the actual review to be as close to perfection.

I figured to start things with the vampire game I also put a lot of time into. I played a little of a few similar games. Vampire Survivors and Brotato respectively through Game Pass. I kept eyeing up this particular movie game. It's loosely based on an movie called Renfield. You know that Nicholas Cage Dracula movie. I still haven't seen the movie.

I'm glad Universal didn't rush this game out. They were guilty doing that back in the PS1 era. Renfield is a game I really wanted to talk about. I still felt like I need more vampire games in my collection. I played plenty of everything else horror related especially demons and zombies. I wanted to show respect towards vampires this year.

Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood (2023)

This game actually had an early access period within the same year it gotten released in. Which is kinda crazy considering some games I previously bought that were early access took a few years. Before they officially left early access to release. Renfield is a roguelike shoot em up style game. Roguelike is a rather unique genre.

I actually already planning to review another game that's a different style of the same genre very soon. Roguelike is virtually randomizing majority of the game. At the same time, you will be given upgrades. You can choose which upgrades you wanna use. There's no run going to be remotely the same period. This alone adds so much to the overall experience.

You either could be notably weaken or chosen too many of the not great upgrades. You really want stuff that works very well together. Especially in the later levels with some notably difficulty spikes. Simply having the right weapons with enough upgrades. You actually could destroy levels in no time. You also get some familiars that each have their own health bars.

Like Brotato, each level does have an end. You constantly fighting through waves of enemies. Like Vampire Survivors, you also can use points earned to upgrade many stuff. Therefore, you will be bettering your chances before going back in. But it also gets crazier than expected. You also unlock upgrades for familiars.

There's also characters as well as outfits you can buy. A lot of characters to choose from including two versions of Dracula. Personally I'm a bigger fan of Sun Kissed Dracula version myself. At one point in the levels, another character you play as shows up. They simply move around not doing much. They are automatically protected because after you survive that wave.

You will be given a choice save or kill em. It's not quite like the first two BioShock games with that system. I don't see much of a real difference other than choosing kill route. Those characters dies off screen screaming. There's a decent amount of levels with no true path to go. The bosses are notably different from each other.

I really like I can play this game with just one hand. You have no idea how rare that is for me. I could be drinking some of my favorite drinks with one hand. At the same time I'm playing Renfield it's kinda awesome. You can believe this game is filled with enemies. I recently came to like roguelike games such as these.

Just imagine back in the 90s more of those existed. Especially on consoles I grew up playing. I probably own too many of them by now lol. Renfield is a surprisingly decent licensed game. There's the right level of challenge making it a truly fun experience. My favorite level takes place at the apartments.

This is set up vastly different from the other levels I played. It's one big open area that doesn't lead to additional locations. I know some people might find that a little boring. But when the action really picks up here wow. This level actually an endless level by default. This means the level keeps going until I lose.

I even maxed out leveling during one of my first runs on that level. Renfield might be the best licensed Dracula game I ever heard of. Just imagine if this would've gotten release back in the 90s. It would've blown people's minds in a great way I'm not that sick. This is easily among the most replayable indie video games I ever played!!!

I kinda felt some aspects to me were done a little better than Vampire Survivors. Look I know that has a couple DLCs, it recently gotten an Castlevania one in fact. I do wanna confirm this game isn't an knock off that in any possible way. Yeah both sorta play on vampire concepts with similar mechanics. I felt most that played both games agree they are still quite different from each other.

This is a loose recreation of a movie. Which in itself was a loose adaptation somewhat spin off story to the Dracula novel. You actually play as two versions of Renfield with the later named "Robert" among my favorite characters. My actual favorite character is Bat Head. "Hey you can play as Batman!!!" Just kidding folks, it's more similar to one of Batman's enemies, Man-Bat.

He's a humanoid bat character that has a loud scream attacking. I should mention every character by default has one weapon. Some has a few additional stuff but that's about it. Mostly an ability that plays into their play style. Let's be honest, they all can virtually play the same to a degree. Just how it all begins with those characters the only true difference.

I also liked they went with a meat golem character. When I found out about this character, I was a bit caught off guard. I previously knew the concept from Castlevania series. I strongly felt in every aspect this game truly deserves an 9.5 from me. I absolutely loved every single minute I played of it. I highly recommend you try out this game soon, it's truly amazing stuff.

My thoughts on Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I just watched the new spin off episode within The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror series. I ended up watching it twice, I'll explain more on that shortly. I originally didn't go in with high hopes. I will say this quickly won me over. I'm just happy to have a few Treehouse of Horror episodes within the same year.

Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes (2024)

The Simpsons goes to a circus while Lisa wasn't happy. She wonders off meeting the fired Illustrated Man. This character voiced by Andy Serkis. You may remember him in many movies including Marvel Cinematic Universe films. They played off of a tattoo person telling their stories represented by their tattoos.

Honestly it kinda worked for this Treehouse of Horror episode. Just before the stories started, I quickly recall a similar set up Simpsons episode that's also non canon. Lisa's Wedding from Season 6 where Lisa almost got married. By now The Simpsons done a lot of what if future scenarios. Not the reason I mentioned it in this comparison.

In that episode Lisa meets a fortune teller at the Renaissance Fair. Who shows Lisa a vision of her what if future. The first segment is called The Screaming Woman. It heavily plays off of that famous concept of a boy who cried wolf. Bart was in the woods when he heard a woman. He tried to convince his parents something wasn't right.

All these segments are based on stories written by Ray Bradbury. His name directly reference as the name of the circus. I kinda missed that on the first watch. I do liked they tied his name into this like that. I just wish he might cameo like Stephen King does in several adaptations of his works. This was a surprisingly done tribute to the author.

Of course, they didn't believe him causing Bart to go to his bedroom upset. I do liked they went for some classic phone jokes with Milhouse. I also gotta mention, Pamela Hayden who voiced a lot of Simpsons characters retired. This was among her final episodes of the show. This also means her last Treehouse of Horror episode.

You start to feel bad for Bart who usually isn't this caring. It's once in a blue moon in canon Simpsons stories. This kinda reminded me of a classic Simpsons episode. Bart the Mother from Season 10, Bart shot the mom bird killing her. He takes care what he thought were her eggs. A twist happens they were actually lizards.

This is sorta playing on a similar emotion concept. In both situations you feel bad for Bart. It turns out the mysterious "woman" in the hole actually Milhouse's dad. The police let his wife off the hook over something I viewed to be stupid. Honestly, for the first segment within 2020 Treehouse of Horror episodes.

It's among the best of them hands down. I do like they went with this story. But at the same time they found ways to make it their own. I would even dare to say it's way better than The Information Rage. This clearly had enough time to finish properly. I would even consider rewatching this more. I still think the other two segments are better.

The second segment is Marionettes, Inc. Treehouse of Horror episodes done some similar concepts before. We got Send in the Clones where Homer kept cloning himself. Eventually his clones started to do it to the point they became a threat to the world. Lout Break also involving Homer causes a viral outbreak.

Most of the world becomes infected to transform into Homers. Intrusion of the Pod-y Switchers, aliens swapped places with humans that caused chaos to a degree. Obviously there's also The Thing and I, Bart had a twin brother. It was no surprise they were going to do another doppelganger take. Superintendent Chalmers takes advice to get a robot doppelganger.

In a twist, Principal Skinner also gotten his own robot doppelganger. Carl warns them about robots experiencing emotions that's causing em to have free will. This already reminds me of a particular Christmas movie funny enough. The Santa Clause 2, Santa had to get married before Christmas. He had some of the elves makes a toy doppelganger.

Which led to the evil toy Claus becoming a dictator. This is indirectly similar to that since both of them are among the highest authority figures in that school. Both involve with children to a degree. I felt this comparison not only works but also makes sense. This had a surprisingly happy ending with everything considered.

I would say this was rather interesting from start to finish. I still think Death Tome is way better. But this was a great second segment especially among the 2020 Treehouse of Horror episodes. I actually enjoyed this one a lot, it was all well done. You actually could see this happen within The Simpsons canon.

I also liked this partly played into Futurama a bit with the story taking place in the future. This was among the best school theme Treehouse of Horror stories they ever done!!! I still prefer maybe because I'm twisted like that. School is Hell where Bart goes to school in Hell. Which also had a few versions of those characters.

Mostly I'm talking about Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner respectively. I felt this was a rather clever story. It also kinda reminded me of a particular Will Smith movie. I, Robot that also involves robots going against their orders from humans. Personally I do slightly prefer that over this story.

To be fair, this is among the best performances of a few Simpsons characters in a long time. There's no question, this is a high recommendation. This is also indirectly similar to a personal favorite Treehouse of Horror story I always enjoyed. House of Whacks that also had an AI rebelling against an human. This is widely different since that's an AI controlled house while these were robot copies of people.

There's also Simpsons World that had a lot of Simpsons characters having doppelgangers. Which is also among my favorite robot theme Treehouse of Horror episodes. Also if you haven't already guessed by now. The robot Simpsons family rebelled against the theme park to escape. I also think it's among the best doppelganger stories they ever told as well.

I also gotta mention Life's a Glitch, Then You Die. Homer didn't set up computers at the nuclear power plant causing Y2K to happen. All of those are way better than Untitled Robot Parody. Which also had technology rebelling against humanity. Somehow the way it's done here I really enjoyed. I would even say among the best of them.

The third and final segment is Fahrenheit 451 is in my opinion the best segment of the episode. This was a great Simpsons parody that was among the best within 2020 Treehouse of Horror episodes. The original story it's parodying was more about people destroying books. I loved they changed it to being older television shows.

Which was the perfect direction to go with the concept. We have Homer that changed sides when he enjoyed episodes of America's Funniest Home Videos. I knew eventually in some way they had to do this. Anyone with VHS tapes of these tapes gets their copies destroyed. It kinda reminded me partly of Danger Things.

Which also had Homer wore a similar suit using an flame thrower. This kinda parodied people's view over shows to a degree, I loved that!!! Not only that, they were quite creative with this. This was among my favorite final segments within Treehouse of Horror episodes. It indirectly reminds me of Simpsons World.

Simpsons World was filled with a lot of references to the show. This is kinda similar to that except the main Simpsons family aren't robot. Also only Homer acted on destroying copies of older shows. The rest of them only watched TV that's it. They virtually used the more complex shows to control people. Homer does find the main source of these shows left in town.

This ended up playing off like a similar twist in Total Recall. The older movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger to clarify. Where Carl Hauser also known as Douglas Quaid got tricked into leading Richter to the mutants. Homer was tricked to leading the authorities to that source of media. The group decided to tell stories from those shows at a location outside town.

Obviously, Homer would tell America's Funniest Home Videos that way was pure genius. There was one writer that written the entire episode. I was very surprised how great it truly was. There's one more twist before the ending credits fully roll. It turns out the longer Lisa listened to those stories. The more of her becoming a living tattoo on The Illustrated Man's body.

Well that was kinda outside the box ending if I ever seen one. How does this compare to Treehouse of Horror 35? Honestly it was way better I'm not kidding. Even as much I loved Denim with a huge passion. They really knocked this out the park here. This was well written from to start to end in comparison.

The stories might not play off the actual horror factor within Treehouse of Horror episodes. At the same time, all of them felt more like The Simpsons. This comes so close to rivaling Treehouse of Horror 33. Which is really saying a lot I know. I actually can't criticize much about it. Probably the closest issue I had was I kinda wished we started with Lisa to the man before it happened.

In my mind, I felt they could've did a lot with the longer introduction. Especially how strangely interesting that guy turned out to be. I do think choosing Lisa to talk to him was a wise choice. Just makes you wonder if it was a different Simpsons family member. What stories we might've gotten instead.

This one change really gives you some ideas before the actual stories. It would help to give more suspense to the overall theme. In other words to help pull you in more. Other than that they should do more spin off Treehouse of Horror episodes like this. The only thing left is to compare it to the other spin off Treehouse of Horror episode.

Not It was a great parody easily among my favorite Stephen King parodies they done. It even rivals The Shinning, also based on a book of his works. I do like both of these spin off episodes are directly inspired by authors. I do know Stephen King way better. I have little to nothing to go on regarding Ray Bradbury.

I will say this Not It was broken into two parts. Which is directly parodying both It movies. This is like three separate stories connected to an overall story through a few characters. Mostly Lisa and The Illustrated Man respectively. I know some might view this as an unfair comparison. No matter how you view it, I can't do anything about that.

I would say this ended up being more interesting than Not It. I also could argue is somewhat funnier as well. Both are more of their unique point of views from the typical Treehouse of Horror episodes. I would heavily recommend rewatching both close to or on Halloween. I surprisingly had to go with the newer spin off episode.

I partly felt Simpsons characters got used slightly better. Also it was harder to predict things. Not only that, they made three stories into three entertaining parodies of the same author's works. I gotta give em respect for pulling that off. You really can't go wrong with either spin off Treehouse of Horror episodes. I already felt 2020 wise, Treehouse of Horror episodes going to easily beat out the 2010 ones.

This is exactly why I love The Simpsons so much. The insane level of creativity they had for over thirty years is truly impressive stuff. They should parody more author's works. Especially if they do it like some Treehouse of Horror episodes. Honestly, the newer spin off episode is truly amazing at what it delivers.

My thoughts on Ghostface in Mortal Kombat 1

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I'm happy more video games has Ghostface. As a kid, I always wanted to play the character in them. Sadly he wasn't in any of them during my childhood, yes I checked. When I found out he's coming to Mortal Kombat 1, the kid in me was thrilled. Even with Warner Brothers Discovery going up in smoke right now, I still love his inclusion to the game.

I actually got a lot to talk about. I been keeping a close eye on anything Ghostface relating to Mortal Kombat 1. Such as his identity let me rephase that identities. Ghostface is three characters possibly a fourth through mirror match. They really went the full distance giving us movie Ghostface. We got the voice over responsible for the iconic Ghostface voice.

They went for Scream movie franchise copy rights. They also went for the costume's copy rights. For those that doesn't know even Scream franchise had to make a similar arrangement with the costume company. This also allows more Ghostface costumes into the game. Very similar to Dead by Daylight with their own Ghostface character.

Now we gotta talk about whose Ghostface in this game. Two Mortal Kombat characters you wouldn't expect are two of the Ghostface characters. Kobra and Kira are both members of Black Dragon clan. You know the same clan led by Kano. Two professional assassins dressed up as Ghostface, I never even considered.

The big surprise is the third and fourth Ghostface's identities. The main Ghostface is surprisingly the original movie Ghostface himself, Billy. In mirror matches, he's replaced by the second Ghostface Stu. We know this because of a particular intro of these mirror matches. Sadly it's kinda a huge major missed opportunity.

I wanna clarify I'm not criticizing them choosing Billy over Stu. Let's be honest, it's like a coin toss with those two. There's no real wrong answer here. What does matter is Stu would've brought a lot more funny jokes to the game. Then again I'm still surprised Call of Duty pulled off Ghostface as well as they did.

I already see Ghostface's ending, it kinda works. It also directly references one of his fatalities with Johnny Cage cameo. I felt his main finishers are all well selected for this game. It's actually done better than Freddy in MK9. Who also got a reference by Ghostface in an intro as well. Considering Wes Craven created both slasher villains, it's no secret.

I also liked they indirectly reference a few things in his ending. Live streaming his murders, Scream 4 anyone? Cage playing an Stab game could be seen as a reference to either Call of Duty or Dead by Daylight. In both games, Ghostface is played in first person. But in Call of Duty, the same voice actor reprised the role.

This is already better than Chucky getting into Dead by Daylight. I remembered when people didn't think so highly of Ghostface years ago. All of a sudden, people really can't get enough of the character. I am curious what changed over the years? Maybe I should be thanking Deadpool movies for that.

Obviously they wanna tie into Scream 7. Which mostly been mixed from what's revealed about it. I would only be surprise it doesn't suck. There's no question, they absolutely nailed the character perfectly here. I honestly couldn't be any happier with this. I am truly impressed they done the character justice.

Scary Movie 6

There's one unrelated thing I wanna add since Ghostface got referenced in the upcoming Scary Movie 6. The Wayan brothers got the franchise back. Personally, I felt they could've easily made more movies they already owned or create a new franchise altogether. Regardless, they plan to parody Scream series again.

I actually was a huge fan of the original Scary Movie myself. I probably sound like a broken record over this. I always considered it as an Scream movie for many reasons. Therefore, it's among my favorite Ghostface movies ever!!! I do think they got a shot at making it better than Scary Movie 4 & 5.

I do think parodying Scream 5 to 7 could work in their favor. People are a little mixed on those Scream movies. They aren't flat out terrible by any means. At the same time, they got plenty to work with. They even could make Scary Movie 6 more entertaining than those Scream movies. I felt this is a good direction for a proper return of the franchise.

Scary Movie series loves to parody movies. Scary Movie 2 surprisingly worked with so many movies getting parodied. I think ratio is going to be key here. You want a good variety of horror movies getting parodied. You just don't want one too many movies thrown in to screw it all up. Scary Movie 6 does have more of a fighting chance than a lot of people thinks.

If I could request a short kill scene in that movie. I really wanna see Ghostface kill Fisherman. I already made it clear I heavily disliked that huge Ghostface fight request for Death Battle. Scary Movie 1 compositive the two slasher villains together. Which actually worked better than The Simpsons doing Fisherman and an werewolf.

Scary Movie 6 should not get rush or it's doomed to fail. I hope they realize that from Scary Movie 2. Then again a lot of people just doesn't understand how parodies should to work. Let's take an game UnMetal for an example. UnMetal parodies a lot of 80s stuff as well as classic Metal Gear games. It is simply done just right for people to keep laughing as they're playing the game.

It's kinda sad doing parody games more effective to people than parody movies. Especially most of the world's population watching movies more often. I also think they can make this more of their own than ever before. They really can get creative with this movie. Not only that, Scary Movie 6 could jump start a new rise of parodies around the world too.

You just never know until it's out for the world to see. Scary Movie 6 should be more focus than the later Scary Movie entries. They need to get as much of the original cast back. Even if that isn't possible, they always could bring in new people. Sometimes a few newer faces could heavily impact things both ways.

Let's hope it notably boosts the movie's popularity up. The best part is they fully own the franchise again. They have more experience from making a lot of movies since Scary Movie franchise. It's safe to say they aren't going to hold back with the jokes. A great comedian can really go below the belt making an entire room laugh hard.

Scary Movie 6 is going to be given the care missing in the last few entries. They are going to go ridiculous, which they really need to here. I am kinda hoping for multiple endings. I personally liked how Scary Movie 2 went about that. I actually think parodying an interactive movie game could work wonders here too.

My thoughts on The Game Awards 2024 nominations

Just in case anyone was wondering no this wasn't an planned blog entry. I wrote all of this within a few hours.

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I decided to take one last chance voting in award shows wise with The Game Awards 2024. Bawkbasoup's stream earlier today is how I found out about this. I will quickly go over my thoughts on most categories. Mostly I'm actually here to rip right into Game of the Year nominees.

Most of these were very straight forward not much to say. Then we get a few awards you vote for a person or an team. The very first thing I was thinking is who all these people? You barely got anything to go on during the voting process. I know I'm not the only one that had the same reaction. I felt Best Adaptation and Best Fighting Game had the best overall nominees respectively.

I confess I struggled to decide which games to vote for since most of these I never played before. Unless you wanna count games within Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics. I was really close voting for Tekken 8, I seen plenty of stuff from people playing that. At the same time, a particular compilation game I always wanted within the same category wow!!!

Best Fighting Game to clarify.

It mostly came down to simply more content without additional stuff to buy. To be fair, Tekken 8 is among my most wanted 2024 games. I'm glad there's a particular award for indie games. These developers are truly amazing at what they do. They should've gotten more of their games nominated in any video game awards period.

My thoughts on Game of the Year 2024 nominees

Game of the Year nominees

Astro Bot

Balatro

Black Myth: Wukong

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

Metaphor: ReFantazio

I know you didn't came here for these quick thoughts. No sir, you want me to get straight full blown ugly about Game of the Year. Sometimes I wonder about some of my readers. This has to be the most mixed selection for Game of the Year award I seen in a long time. They recently changed some of the rules prior to these nominations becoming public today.

Now that's already oh no what did they do right? I'm not up to date with the gaming community. I don't really know which games truly deserve to be in here. I don't think half of these should be here. We got two PS5 console exclusive games. I mostly don't have much of an issue. The biggest issue being Final Fantasy VII Rebirth is one of three games in a remake trilogy.

In this case recreating what essentially would've been disc 2 of the original game. If we look at it like this then it's not an complete game nominated here. Thankfully I seen enough streams of that game to justify you still get a lot of content. You actually get a lot more than you were expecting to get. Personally I would've had every nominee playable on most platforms.

Not to say console exclusive games aren't great by any means. I just felt you are simply more limited how to go about playing those games. It's a huge risk to make games console exclusive. Unless they are amazingly great to stand out from many other games on more platforms. Therefore, I do give some respect to those games taking such a huge risk.

We're almost through the positive section of this. Three of these games I'm actually happy to see nominated here. Metaphor: ReFantazio has some personal connections to Persona series. Sadly I'm not an huge fan of RPGs myself. I am quite surprised an Sega published game made the lineup. I actually looked into it a few hours, people really love this game.

I'm somewhat interested in giving the game a try eventually. Black Myth: Wukong is the one game I knew about the longest. It's not quite soul like difficult of a game. You play as Sun Wukong, a famous Chinese God that inspired so many characters. We would actually be here all day to cover them all not I'm kidding.

If the game was somewhat cheaper or goes down notably more in sales. I may consider buying it in the near future. I love the concept of playing as this guy in a rather epic action adventure game. Believe it or not, this isn't my vote lol. You might be very surprise to hear Balatro gotten my vote. Yes I quickly looked more into the game.

I kinda forgot about it after awhile. But I already wish list it on Steam. It's a rather unique card game, people sure love card games. It's the solo indie game nominee in this category. Balatro sold me the fastest among all these games. I know some may not like a card game gotten into this category. I'm surprise it speaks for itself.

I'm more alright with a card game making the nominations. Not to mention, Balatro also up for a few more awards within the same video game awards show. I confessed I voted for it in every single category it got nominated in. I would be deeply surprise Balatro ends up winning Game of the Yeard award, it's not likely though.

Oh here it comes!!!

Before we get to the elephant in the room. I still felt like we easily could've had a better selection for this. I still would've kept most of these nominees. Earlier I stated there's a rule change. This is actually causing controversiality right now. The new rule change allows DLCs for games to be nominated within The Game Awards.

Why is this pissing people off? Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. Before I dive straight into my thoughts on the matter. I'm actually not here to directly bash Elden Ring. A couple people told me great stuff about the game. There's no question, it deserved all the Game of the Year awards the game won. I just felt had the game got excluded, this would've been a more fair vote.

I directly have a few major problems with this being an nominee in Game of the Year award. First off, Elden Ring came out back in 2022 early February. We're currently at mid November 2024. It's almost cheating to allow an older Game of the Year nominee back in a more recent one. Second, DLCs shouldn't be nominated at all.

DLCs can differ many ways from small to being quite massive to what they bring to the table. Sometimes they simply had stuff that barely affects anything at all. For the most part, you can't access any of that. If you don't even own the games you bought it's DLCs for!!! Also majority of these nominees are the actual games.

There wasn't a category for Best DLC considering the rule change they recently done. I felt games selected within the nomination period should get nominated. In all honestly, allowing a particular DLC into Game of the Year just not right at all. This by itself caused a few more problems that could show up in newer award shows.

People will start to consider which older games with a new great DLC could get into Game of the Year. This also came off as either laziness or desperation. I'm sure there's plenty of other great games that deserved it's spot. There's no way they ran out of time during the nomination process. I would be very surprise otherwise that's what happened.

"Oh we gotta nominate a sixth game!!! Come down. No you come down!!! I got it Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree. But that's a new DLC for an older game. Sure but Elden Ring won many Game of the Year awards. Plus this new DLC really makes it even better!!! Alright let's nominate Elden Ring again with a twist!!!

Considering they actually allowed this in their own awards show. Now it begs the question eventually we may get every nominee within Game of the Year all being DLCs for different games. It wouldn't even matter if the games are a few years old or came out the same year of being nominated in. I already know many people going to love this (Sarcasm).

Indirectly it brings confusion simply because it's Elden Ring again. Yes I know this time we're directly talking about it's new DLC. Honestly, this is coming off as you like this section more than the actual game. Which itself might upset it's own fans over the nomination. Last I checked, these were meant to be the very best games of 2024.

Even Balatro is a lot cheaper than the rest of them. At the same time, I'm sure that really delivers what it brings to the table to justify it's price. You would have to be crazy enough to virtually buy the same game nearly twice over. Which is exactly what Elden Ring with it's DLC represents here. Five out of six nominees are the actual games.

Not to mention, some do also have DLCs. They are notably a lot cheaper than this. Now I know for Elden Ring, it's almost like bringing new life with almost an entirely new game inside of that. I personally don't think it's right to allow this. For all I know it might've already won Game of the Year simply because it's Elden Ring.

The very last thing I wanna say is the game a bit overrated. But Final Fantasy VII is notably really overrated oh okay. They also could've stick with the five actual games to prevent any of this from happening. Which would've worked much better than this. Regardless which game actually wins Game of the Year award here.

I strongly felt Elden Ring should get disqualify from this. Mostly due to giving more of a fighting chance. Also to say an DLC better than a game is rather ballsy. Although I confess I did prefer Duke Nukem Forever's DLC campaign over it's original one myself. The entire point of DLCs is to help gamers play more of the games they love.

On that front allowing this is an insult to us gamers as well as the gaming community. I might refuse to vote in this ever again following this one I'm not kidding. Honestly, who cares about the actual size of Elden Ring's DLC. I'm sure most of these nominees is better than the entirely of Elden Ring. Then again size only matters if it gets used right.

I refuse to even label Elden Ring's DLC as the underdog. Everyone knows Balatro is the true underdog here. Even Black Myth: Wukong won a lot of people over. Again Elden Ring as well as everyone involved with that game probably didn't need this controversiality right now. Another negative thought I had regarding all of this!!!

It could be even possible they only nominated Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree just to upset people. Sometimes pissing people off works wonders for things. It was a major factor how fast Mortal Kombat's popularity grew in time. Maybe by doing that they were attempting to cause the same chain reaction.

Another possible factor is they strongly felt that DLC too good to not nominate for an award. But they couldn't figure a better way of doing that. Which resulted in this situation we're in right now. I didn't even expect to put this much thought into this. Well congratulations Elden Ring for this. Obviously it felt like they're playing it safe option.

Whatever happened to no risks, no rewards? Sorry there was virtually no way I was going to vote for that. I don't care how great the main campaign is. Allowing this into Game of the Year nomination kinda made the actual category a joke. I'm sure many people already viewing it that way. Sadly the damage already done, the back lash could get a little worse from here.

Just imagine most of a particular nominated game was terrible. But you only cared about the beginning or ending portions of that game. It's coming off being rather strict how you rather enjoy your games. Therefore, you really don't care about the rest of the game at all. Well that's exactly what they're doing with Elden Ring.

Personally that's a terrible design for a video game. If only the beginning or ending portions were decent. Why are you still playing it? This kept bagging so many issues I had with Game of the Year nominations. I'm actually fine with majority of the nominees myself.  Who in their right mind going to be okay allowing this?

It's almost the level of no I can't believe it as Mike Tyson loss to Jake Paul. This also goes to show they don't actually care what we think. Aren't we the voters that took some of our precious time to vote matter to you? They also alienating everyone else over this. They are just making the situation worst for themselves!!!

I mean wow Elden Ring had to be so good, it got nominated again in Game of the Year. Gaming critics already became a joke. Now video game award shows are declining like this. I'm very sure they didn't even need glasses to see what's wrong here!!! It's almost felt like they just inputted a cheat code. In all honestly, I really hope it doesn't win Game of the Year in this award show.

Also bonus points if you also voted for Balatro. Come on fellow supporters we need to get enough votes to win!!!

My thoughts on Death Battle: Bowser vs Eggman

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, I do have a few reviews coming soon. For right now I really gotta talk about the recent Death Battle episode. Easily, one of my biggest requests to date. Bowser vs Eggman was absolutely among my favorite villain theme episodes ever!!! This really was well worth the wait, I'm impressed.

Everything about the episode was done perfectly. I can't even criticize it not even a little bit. I would even dare to say the best Mario vs Sonic episode they ever done!!! Which is quite an statement but trust me it went way beyond all of our expectations. It's not often they do wars on the web show. It's way better than Eggman vs Wily, not sorry Ben.

It's even better than Ultron vs Sigma. Which I also called the victor in that. The actual fight animation hands down the best of the season. I mean wow I'm still blown away by it. We got to see two famous video game armies going against each other. You really do see the differences in their armies. Just think if this would've happened a lot sooner.

I would've chosen Eggman for this lol. God, I changed a lot since then. I will say this is both villain characters' best episode respectively. I always disliked Bowser vs Ganon myself. Eggman vs Wily just felt too soon of a concept to do at that time. Who doesn't want two of the biggest video game villains going at it?

They even brought in a lot of different canons for this rather epic conclusion to the debate. Most of their major reasons why Bowser won, I already knew. I may not played an Mario game in a long time. I'm a bigger Sonic fan after all, even I confess Bowser wins. There's so much going on in this war, you should watch it a few times.

There's no way you're fully going to see everything during an 1st watch. I was quite satisfied how they handled this. The results is like an handful of episodes including Omni-Man vs Bardock within the same season. They broke things into five categories that ultimately determines the winner. I will say some of their greatest points I didn't consider.

Then again I still haven't played Sonic Frontiers thanks for spoiling Death Battle lol. As for seven chaos emeralds compared to hundreds of stars logic yeah I sorta knew that. They really took the time to break it all down. I'm indirectly happy because two Sega characters in the same season. There's no way a short video could've express how I truly felt about this episode, it's too much.

You really get the most definitive answer imaginable. Yes it's going to be a bit complex to a degree. At the same time, it's not exactly clear cut either. Despite how notable flaws were for both sides. Either army had a huge chance at victory. But Bowser would've won nine out of ten times. This really felt like true fan service to us fans.

The animator really out done themselves with the fight animation. Considering this was one of two episodes revealed before their kickstarter met their first goal. The better fight was saved for a better time to shine. It's a shame such a great episode isn't the season finale. I already express my feelings towards Among Us vs Fall Guys.

I hope we get more war theme fight animations. Especially if they're done like this!!! I also confess I'm a bigger Robotnik fan myself. At least if they were to do the live action movie counterparts. Movie Robotnik would easily win. In all honestly, this was truly inspiring stuff. This was a really great episode I heavily recommend people to watch.