What If...? show Season 3 review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, Just a little late to the party on this one. As many people knows What If...? show ended with Season 3. I personally wish they would've continued with the concept. I actually got a lot to talk about here. I'm way behind MCU stuff despite all of this happened outside the main MCU universe.

What If...? show (2021-2024)

This is also going to be my overview perception of the show itself. Just in case you might be confused by some stuff I'm going to be saying. I felt this was the perfect blog entry to conclude everything regarding the show. I just hope for those that reads it enjoys as well as possibly understands the show more.

This is more directly a review of the third and final season. All three seasons all these seemingly unconnected events coming together for an epic finale. Sadly the final season an episode shorter than the usual nine episode seasons. This show covered some really interesting stories that's more unexpected as well as unique to the main MCU universe stuff.

The Watcher always been the narrator within these stories. You get a great idea how an multiverse actually works with this show. They clearly loved Howard the Duck, he's given a lot of rememberable moments. Very true in the final season now having a daughter. I didn't mind the main multiverse group being women this time around.

I was kinda glad finally some X-Men love in the form of Storm helping out. She also so happened to be a particular universe's Thor too. Now just try to imagine how truly terrifying that is. Plus a surprise upgrade she's way scarier with those powers than Thor ever could've been. By default, she already controls the weather to insane degrees without em.

I really wish they would've had more episodes with Storm. I'm a bit disappointed some of the other X-Men members like Wolverine didn't show up. I would've love to see Nightcrawler or Gambit even give me Rogue. I felt some stories were a little more interesting than I realized. I knew an Howard the Duck episode was going to be quite interesting.

A major spoiler since Season 1, other watchers kept an eye on The Watcher. When he kept altering people's fates by getting involved thus saving their lifes. They had enough of him breaking the rules in their eyes. This led to a group of heroes from a few universes to work together to save him. You still haven't heard the biggest twists yet.

Trust me when you find out about em even outside this review before I'm going to spoil em. You really wouldn't see either of these coming. This group tried several methods to get roughly where The Watcher is. One of them decides to convince Infinity Ultron to help. Yes the main antagonist of Season 1 Ultron to go rescue The Watcher.

Which actually ended up happening following her kidnap by the other watchers. I didn't expect Ultron to give his life like that. The Watcher gave this group rescuing him similar powers to his people. By now you know the most epic fights are usually at the end of the seasons. I can promise you, this lives up to that.

Agent Carter whose Captain Britain in her universe ended up giving her life. This surprisingly caused everyone else to be in an universe created by a particular Dr. Strange. Who so happened to be the main antagonist of Season 2. In this universe, the other watchers had no power there. They finally listen to what The Watcher been trying to tell em.

I think by my understanding of the ending is the watchers more willing to prevent multiversal destruction. Previously they would've allowed such things to happen. I did like Birdie whose Howard's daughter a lot as well. They kept getting actors from movies and shows to reprise their roles. This show really had so much more to effort.

Although the new ending would better suited for Dr. Doom's epic plan coming in the near future. There's a great ending that successfully concluded the show. I would say for once every episode of the season worth checking out. To clarify, some of my favorite stories are in the first two seasons. They still planning an Marvel Zombies spin off.

The closest continuation of this show in some form. Personally they easily could've went with a more interesting idea than well zombies. I could name a long list of franchises with zombies. Eventually you grow tired of them, the same inevitably going to happen here. Also I felt What If...? show already done enough with zombies.

I am just glad that version of Thor didn't fully show up in the final season. I did however like Loki from that universe. Then again, Loki among my favorite Marvel characters. Just when you thought you seen it all this show quickly throws that out the window. I actually liked the first story of this season. Where The Avengers uses mechs to fight off Hulk creatures.

I'll give em credit for going with this concept. Not a lot of people knows this about Hulk. Everyone knew Hulk was Dr. Banner's Hulk. The part they don't know is Hulk himself has his own hulk too. I am not kidding, I was even surprised to learn of this myself. Plus now they actually done it on this show. The creature in question simply called the Apex.

This hulk like creature spawned an entire army of similar beings terrorizing the world. I didn't expect a strong first episode of the season honestly. This felt like how I wished the final season of The Flash gone instead. It's a little weird a handful of characters aren't used since their episodes. When usually everyone gets involve to take on a greater threat at the end of the seasons.

The show did explain somewhat what happened to other members of the multiverse group. It's virtually if you beep you'll miss it thing. I always praise the animation to a degree. I also liked the first trailer for the final season a lot. Despite they made it clear this is the final season part of it. I actually felt if the show were to continue.

It could've helped MCU when going through some bad decisions. Now it's over they have little to nothing to fall back on. Especially considering that show allowed many, crazier possibilities. To say I'm disappointed by them ending the show isn't enough to come close to how I felt about it at all. This show really helped bring new life into parts of an concept that's no longer exciting anymore.

The best way to explain it is simply comparing it to The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror episodes. Considering both franchises currently owned by Disney I'm allowed to make this comparison. By default those episodes aren't canon. Thus they are allowed to do several concepts originally not possible at all to do on the show.

This is a little different because a lot of stories happened across the MCU multiverse. They still would be canon for those universes. The point I'm trying to make here is this show allows them to go with concepts beyond the normal scope to a degree. We even had multiverse at risk for destruction a few times on this show.

Now that's already bigger than any other crisis they dealt with it in the main MCU universe. This show simply allows them to have a little extra fun with some characters as well. A major reason why Howard the Duck appears a lot as a result. Even when they go dark, it's much darker than they normally would go.

Some of these stories are several different takes of the apocalypse. Which does include the famous zombie apocalypse among them. I even felt if they kept the show going long enough. We might've gotten a very interesting Dr. Doom episode. They could've even done one with Galactus or Dormammu to a degree.

Dormammu does briefly appear in the final season. Personally I prefer his appearance on Spider-Man the Animated Series more maybe that's just me. I also felt this show was the perfect way to properly represent the multiverse concept. A lot of people didn't like a particular Dr. Strange movie that attempted to do the same.

I think a major reason why this show worked while that movie didn't. This show simply had more of a longer, overall length in comparison. Also we get a much better look into several universes than what was shown in that movie. Also considering Phases 4-6 largely about the MCU multiverse. It actually helped to some degree in what it brought to the table.

This show felt like a couple shorter MCU movies. Yes some stories get a little cut short. Some I felt went a little longer than necessary. A handful of them I actually felt had the perfect length. One of my favorite episodes I previously discussed to a degree was a particular Die Hard inspired episode. Which is also still among my favorite parodies/recreations of that film to date.

Stuff like that episode simply isn't possible in the main MCU at all. This show was rather outside the box to a degree. I really love the creativity they went for a lot of stories shown. Another great story was the Avengers gets assassinated in rather clever ways. Even Mysterio gets to be an antagonist again. I kinda indirectly made it clear my two favorite episodes of the final season.

What If... Howard Got Hitched? and What If... What If? are amazing episodes. The big Howard the Duck episode ended up being more important than you realize. Previously, he was an ally within several stories. For once, Howard finally given the spotlight. Let's be honest, MCU isn't going to give this duck his own movie or show.

Last time they did that turned out horrible. I guess now they finally justified the character. Not to mention, delivered a decent Howard the Duck adaptation people can be truly proud of. It sure took a long time Marvel for that!!! His wife in question is Darcy yeah the one chick in some Thor movies. When I found out about this couple it instantly worked in my mind lol.

Everyone wanted their child whose mostly in a huge egg. We get to see all this chaos indirectly caused by Howard the Duck for once. We get to see a surprising, caring side of the character. This had plenty of twists to kept things interesting. I really enjoyed this episode with a huge passion. I highly recommend people check this particular episode out.

I already said plenty on What If... What If? since it's the series finale episode. I will say I couldn't think of a more perfect ending than this. Everything about that episode really worked insanely well. It really was among the greatest written stories ever!!! I would even dare to say my favorite season finale episode.

This show really had potential to be much bigger than it already is. I didn't think I'll enjoy it this much since I gotten into it. God some of my favorite shows ended last year. I guess either a surprisingly bad year to television or it simply was the perfect time to end em who really knows. This show also helps people to understand The Watcher's role more.

It's a truly difficult job to simply watch multiple universes. Especially when you know those universes for different reasons going to be doomed, you aren't allowed to get involve to save em. Some people probably would love this job since all you do is watch that's it. You kinda relate to how he felt with many situations.

The season finale episodes felt greater than some of the biggest MCU events they ever done!!! Once again multiversal destruction comes to mind here. Just when you thought two Avengers movies were epic. You clearly didn't see those episodes lol. All the possible directions with the multiverse they could've done.

I wouldn't be surprise someone created an unofficial season to this show in some form. Which I may support depending on things. A lot of these stories simply works for being something so different from the main MCU universe. A few changes can go a truly long way. This show is clear proof of that in a nut shell.

I usually don't support multiverse shows. In particular strongly dislike Dragon Ball and Mortal Kombat's take to that concept a lot. Somehow Marvel did it just right with this show. It's a huge risk to use characters in such ways. At the same time, nine out of ten times it works incredibly well here. It may not be the greatest MCU thing in existence.

What this show actually is possibilities. Stuff that could've happened that still do in other universes. This is beyond time line confusion. Yeah we're going full blown multiversal here. Which by itself can be rather confusing stuff as well. They even handle the concept better than DC's Arrowverse for that matter.

I even felt some characters were given much better usage within this show than outside of it. Which is another major reason I liked it so much. They made versions of characters I ended up liking more for the most part. Including that version of Storm among my favorite versions to date. My favorite version is X-Men the Animated Series/X-Men '97 version.

Just imagine The Fantastic Four if they had any episodes in these. Sadly that's staying strictly an What If? within our minds. I do like Thanos does show up a lot within these episodes. Some appearances being strangely interesting to a degree. Thanos is among my favorite Marvel villains to date. The guy whose Black Panther in most MCU universe was Starlord in a particular one.

Now that's another great episode I highly recommend as well. Some of these stories were simply too great of an idea. Sadly plans to make a spin off of that version of the character scrapped following the actor's death. The only show I can remotely think of that's better with the multiverse concept is Rick & Morty.

To clarify since there's two shows now. The original cartoon show, I heard bad stuff about the anime version. At least I can say this show better than that Rick & Morty show. The more I talk about this show the worst I felt about it being over. Although writing how I'm feeling about it to a huge degree helping me out a lot.

I simply wanted others that loved this show as much as I do to continue loving it. If you know some people that wants something different. Maybe you want to inspire others to love Marvel more. I felt this show would be a great one to introduce to them. Especially if they don't know the characters it won't matter at all.

This was among the most ambitious MCU shows they ever done. Mostly done with CGI animation that works wonders. Amazing art style especially when it gets altered to a degree to better fit several themes. This show really had so much going for it. In all honestly it's a real shame it's done for good now. I can only hope the future MCU going to be a bright one from this point on.

I especially loved how involved Samuel L. Jackson involved with this show. Jackson is among my favorite actors ever. You can tell he had a lot of fun on this show too. He played several universe counterparts of Nick Fury on this show. If anyone could pull that off, you better believe it's Jackson!!! What If...? show should be given a medal or two for going the distance it goes with the stories.

Chicken Assassin: Reloaded (2016) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, today I'm going to review a game GOG previously done giveaway. You simply go to their website to claim the free game it's yours. This particular giveaway was prior to me buying my Christmas purchase by a couple days. I even considered this game for that purchase until the giveaway happened.

Chicken Assassin: Reloaded (2016)

Chicken Assassin: Reloaded is an updated version of an old game. Parts of this sorta came off being an mobile game. I hope you love clicking a lot because that's mostly what you're doing here. Usually I don't play clicker games because it's little to no effort for mostly boring games. Somehow this particular one kept my interest.

Not to mention, this game is surprisingly funny too. The story involves this chicken guy trying to save his girl from a doctor. Who kinda looks like the Monopoly guy I'm not kidding. You will lose a lot at this game. Thankfully you get to keep experience regardless to help you improve your chances. You get to use souls to purchase upgrades.

The game has plenty of methods to getting more souls. There's a couple levels that offer some creativity among em. There's a lot of bosses with mostly mini bosses. You virtually are fighting hordes of enemies in every level until the boss is defeated. You can customize your character in multiple ways. Some of which will also help improve your chances.

Such as stuff you can wear as well as wielding weapons. Outfits wise they gotten quite creative, I loved that!!! Some levels you will feel your hand or hands feeling the intenseness of the game play. You may wanna take a break following a level or two. I didn't figure out how to pause the game honestly. There's a lot of upgrades that will take hours to get em all.

You also have Boss Raid that requires additional stuff before doing. I only done the first one prior to this review. You would be amaze how fast you level up in this too. I personally prefer games that speed up the leveling from those that takes forever to level up. Not to directly insult RPG fans in that department. You get the bare amount of story imaginable.

Sadly after finishing what technically was the last level. You get this weird cliff hanger into going to the past fighting Vikings. After you beat that stage which could take a lot of attempts to do so. Guess what virtually nothing follows it. The game also offers a harder variation of that level being endless. I rather every level had the option to do endless like Brotato.

Yeah Brotato will be getting reviewed very soon as well I was keeping that as a surprise until now. Back to this. Chicken Assassin: Reloaded simply does wonders. I can't really criticize much due to the later upgrades fixes those problems. Yes the enemies can be a little cheap at times. You always will have a fighting chance in this.

Achievements are surprisingly straight forward with a few interesting throw away ones. Those being direct social media links to the developers responsible for this. I do love you also have the option to beat up a pot. Including upgrades you aren't alone doing that. You may take a little time getting a lot of souls for upgrades.

This was notably better than New Joe & Mac to me. Mostly you are clicking the hell out of your mouse while playing. At the same time, I gotten way more excited. The game does have some rather funny jokes thrown in. Even if I had bought this I still would've been happy about that. The fact I gotten this free virtually priceless!!!

Brotato (2023) review

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, here's a particular game I been playing on and off Game Pass for a few months. I previously played hours of Vampire Survivors. Then I ran into Brotato which funny enough I ended up liking more. I kinda felt bad I literately just found out Xbox versions of this game came out last year.

Which means I could've had it in my Games of 2024 list had I known sooner. It's a real shame too because I really enjoyed this game a lot. It would've ranked high as well for that matter. I also wasn't ready at the time of that list to even review this game. I guess the more honorable thing to do is give it a late honorable mention for that list.

Brotato (2023)

Similar to Vampire Survivors and Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood. Brotato is a similar style game you play as potatoes I'm serious. Each potato character differs in a few ways to help em stand out more. I could be wrong I think each character has their own stage. Don't expect a lot of stages as in Renfield or any stage being looping repeatedly like in Vampire Survivors.

You might be surprise a few areas I felt Brotato does better in. Such as melee is mind blowing in comparison to those games. Melee with the right set up you destroy bosses quickly. You can also use projectiles as well as guns during the game play. Most potato characters can wield up to six weapons. Which kinda crazy when you think about it.

They can be either the same weapon or each hand wielding six different weapons. I do love the randomness factor in what you could get. After finishing levels you can use your currency to get some upgrades or additional stuff that could help to some degree. The leveling is balanced for the most part. Sometimes you level up faster while other times it'll be notably slower.

You also can make your run make Endless which is a lot of fun too. I didn't like in Vampire Survivors, how they went about time limits. Where reapers instantly comes to kill you even if you have multiple lifes. I do greatly appreciate Brotato doesn't do that. I also liked the interesting art style as well. There's a lot of achievements that's fun to go for.

The stages are roughly big enough. Some later levels if you are doing normal runs will get a lot of enemies. There's a lot of potato characters to play as. I don't own the game neither the DLC which adds more characters. I can tell you this game will keep you busy for hours. Brotato is a surprisingly fun roguelike shooter game.

I personally love the audio in this as well. I'm quite impress with everything they were able to pull off. I also love I can play this with one hand too. Literately just moving one of the thumb sticks you're good to go. Maybe I love potatoes too damn much lol. I never thought this game going to be this much fun!!! A high recommendation to please go check this out it's currently on Game Pass if you're on Xbox.

Now I figured I might get ask not to cheat my list in question or anything. This is simply what if Brotato had made the list. Where would the game be within that rank? Well I would say likely in number 5 where Puppet Master: The Game currently ranked at. In all honestly, it's a great game to play that's surprisingly refreshing.

New Joe & Mac - Caveman Ninja review (2022)

Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, a few reviews are still on hold. But during the holidays I did play through a few games including one from my Christmas purchase. Also among the crazier deals I went for on GOG. New Joe & Mac - Caveman Ninja originally $29.99. I virtually gotten that for a little over three dollars no joke.

New Joe & Mac - Caveman Ninja (2022)

Right off the bat I want to confirm I have no prior experience with the franchise. I was previously aware of the original arcade game that had a few ports. This is the newer version of that game with some notable changes. To be honest, I'm somewhat mixed after looking into the old version. It is best to get this during sales.

Simply not worth the price tag it's given by any means. You get two versions of the game to play. Arcade Mode that has notably shorter stages. Even including you do get a choose which levels to play a few times. I personally recommend Extended Mode more. You get a better length with some alright changes.

The biggest change I notice between the two modes is a stage you ride an actual boss dinosaur for majority of it. Originally there wasn't hazards in your path above the ground. But in Extended Mode, you gotta constantly move up and down to avoid taking damage. To my surprise a few bosses were notably changed.

The final boss replaced altogether. I kinda prefer the original final boss more. You would face this demon that flies around. He's replaced by a lizard man caveman king. Whose heart somehow separated from his body, it's not explained at all. Speaking of not explained, you get three endings up to choose. I didn't realize the paths are randomized.

Sadly it kinda doesn't matter which ending they're virtually the same. Joe & Mac saves cave women including well a drag queen cave person. They both freak out running away from them not great endings. Difficulty is notably unbalanced I had to play on easier difficulties. The default difficulty is Medium it's kinda unfair at times.

You would think this could've been Hard but no it's not. Usually Medium is suppose to be a little harder than Easy. We are talking little to no invincibility times when you take damage. Some stages throws so much at you. You got a lot of enemies with hazards almost no real room of error at all. Some of the bosses are notably cheap as well.

There's parts of the art work I like. It's kinda mixed because despite one particular screen. The two playable cavemen look as well as play incredibly similar. Which originally wasn't the case at all. Everyone familiar with the franchise knows Mac has a notably different hair style from Joe. It's almost like the developers decided to simply recolored Joe then called em Mac.

Just in case you didn't realize by now this is an obvious cash grab. I do still have some interest into the franchise. I do like stuff similar to this most notably The Flintstones. To say I'm disappointed a rather big understatement. It's more directly all of this for thirty bucks a hard pass!!! I played games with way more content for less that held up a lot better.

There's no excuse for any of this. I'm somewhat happy I can play this with an controller. Achievements wise, GOG version only has em for Arcade Mode. Which is kinda weird considering other versions of the same game also has em for Extended Mode. This also was an early December game. They simply rushed out a new version to simply cash in on the franchise is kinda sad.

Let's look at Killing Time: Resurrected. By default it's five dollars cheaper than this around $24.99. Yet the developers notably made changes that improved the game. Not to mention, a lot of nice behind the scenes stuff as well. In it's defense it's price is justified. Honestly, I can't really recommend a not great version of a classic cavemen game.

You may be better off with one of my childhood games on Sega Genesis. Chuck Rock, the first one I didn't own the sequel. From what I remembered a much better caveman game than this. You likely better off watching Dinosaurs show. You can currently do so through Disney+. Which I partly remembered growing up as well.

To clarify I know Dinosaurs is more about humanoid dinosaurs in an unique style sitcom show. Considering cave people and dinosaurs were from the same era. I don't see any problem comparing the two. Obviously there's better stuff on the theme you could be enjoying instead. Now let that sink in for a moment.

The fact I could keep saying stuff is notably better just not a great sign. New Joe & Mac isn't quite new itself. Even an 3D remake of Golden Axe I played most of it was notably better than this too. Thankfully it doesn't have terrible glitches. What it does offer is simply not living up to that legacy. GOG has plenty of better, enhanced versions among classic games than this.

I may as well keep adding to the fire lol. Even what I seen of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties the newer version was way better than this too. We're talking about a mostly picture slide show style game with little to no FMV sections. A game that's barely playable at all already out doing this. I can say I did respect some stages had a little variety still not enough to win anyone over.