Jack Red reviews Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol compilation

 Hello everyone I'm Jack Red or XboxClown89, today I'll review one game from my past I speak highly of. I also got to talk about the sequel to that as well. Zombies Ate My Neighbors is a classic that must be played close to or on Halloween. Don't worry you will know how I feel about Ghoul Patrol soon enough. Sadly this will be a mixed review for many reasons.

I actually want to talk about the actual compilation package before the actual games included. I do kinda liked the picture chosen for it. I just prefer it showcase more of the monsters or a little of Ghoul Patrol. After all this is a two game compilation but other than the titles on the cover. How you would know what Ghoul Patrol looks like prior if you never played it or even seen anything of it?

This isn't even my big issue with the compilation. How they chosen to display the extras is kinda strange. There is a section you can mostly view sprite animations from both games. It also involves one interview video for ZAMN. I could excuse that one video but it's just weird you have to move down to see stuff like this.

I will say achievement wise mostly solid good job. Sadly a handful of passwords either got switched or doesn't work. The switch part is more notable in Ghoul Patrol's portion. One boss password gave me a different boss level instead of the original boss level it gave you in the original game. Another boss password gives you a regular level now.

I should point out they don't seem to fully have the ZAMN theme song. Last I checked this didn't have any licensed songs. I don't understand why such an iconic song to the genre isn't present how it should be. Some options are altered to be done through the emulator. I would say password system is kinda better. Choosing your character would be better for Ghoul Patrol's case but not for ZAMN however.

This surprisingly doesn't have the rewind feature. Which is being used more in game compilations in the last few years. Save state feature is back to how it used to be. But hey it still works so that's not an issue. I did get some notable lag through the emulation at times. When you look how they went about some of the options, it just comes off like a cash grab.

It is almost like let's give em ZAMN then rip em off. Yes emulating the random item factor for ZAMN is a bit off as well. This also affects reaching some bonus levels as well. Now I will start reviewing the games included. Zombies Ate My Neighbors is a parody run and gun game where you rescue people from all kind of creatures.

I am not going to sugar coat this, ZAMN will get notably more difficult as it goes on. The first couple stages aren't even a fraction how challenging it truly gets. Some enemies like Merman, Red Ants, Werewolves, Frankenstein's Monster and Chainsaw Maniacs can be annoying. Of course, Vampires are the most annoying enemy of all.

Vampires takes a lot of patience. They can be tricky to hit at times. They will constantly stalk you even further than most enemies. Sometimes they can go after a survivor you can't reach in time. Some bosses can be frustrating as well like Giant Baby and Snakenoids. Thankfully, some bosses you don't have to fight much or at all in the case of Martin's Mothership.

You get to face Dr. Tongue twice, trust me they will make you rage. Both times are challenging with the final boss being very cruel. You got two phases this time with a lot that can go wrong. I actually liked the stage designs for the most part. Overall, ZAMN is a great but flawed game. It can be frustrating to quickly switch weapons or items while on the move or attacking.

Thank god this isn't a problem in any of the Dead Rising games. Which still remains the closest thing I ever played to ZAMN. The music is very solid as well as the sound effects. I should point out Konami's name got removed since they aren't going to remain as publishers for this compilation. I do want to clear a popular misunderstanding very quickly.

A lot of people just remember the Konami logo to this game thinking it's a Konami game. Back in the day, they just were the original company to publish the game on the market nothing more. LucasArts Games were the actual company to made the game. I been trying to hold off from this point, let's discuss Ghoul Patrol oh god help me!!!

Ghoul Patrol has a weird development story. Originally a game lost in development. Rather than canned it, they chose to quickly rework it. Then labeled the game as an sequel to ZAMN. Yes folks this actually happened confirmed by one of the team's top guys years ago. You still play as Zeke and Julie from ZAMN.

One weird presentation problem is Julie matches up perfectly while Zeke doesn't. In cut scenes, he is a boy with brown hair not wearing 3D glasses. But Zeke has blonde hair with 3D glasses. Which the character in game play has. I should mention one cool thing about ZAMN is every level has a cool horror movie title.

A lot of them are direct horror movie references. Sadly none of those are present in Ghoul Patrol. Unlike ZAMN, there's more of a story this time around. Yet I can't help to shake how original (sarcasm) this plot is. It is oddly similar to that of Evil Dead series. Both involves young people who opens up an evil book to read a particular part out loud.

In turn releases ancient evil on the world. Our heroes has to take that evil down. Considering parts of Ash vs Evil Dead as well as most of Army of Darkness involved time travel. Ghoul Patrol goes between a few time periods including a Medieval era. It's amazing this team didn't get sue for this. Not to mention, there's a couple Evil Dead games as well as Ash in Dead by Daylight.

ZAMN having little to go on for it's story actually worked in it's favor. Sure both games has a good variety of enemies. I do like transforming into a purple beast at times in ZAMN. One surprisingly cool thing Ghoul Patrol does is allow you to transform into the Grim Reaper I'm not kidding. You can't slide or jump while in this form.

Which means if you go down the wrong area, you have to wait to transform back. Most platforming in Ghoul Patrol is horribly done as well. I do think ZAMN could've had the slide move at times. Ghoul Patrol has a more serious arsenal than the more comical ZAMN offers. Ghoul Patrol doesn't have any hidden levels either.

There's a couple of those in ZAMN though. I felt ZAMN's levels worked way better. Speaking of the bosses, unlike ZAMN you do have to face all of them. But unlike ZAMN, all people you can rescue is automatically placed away prior to the boss fights. Which means when you defeat a boss, all of them appears ready to be rescued.

Most of them are repetitive as well as boring, I seem to like Robot boss though. The final boss kinda sucks in comparison to Dr. Tongue's. The sound track is alright but the sound effects aren't great. I just felt in more ways than one ZAMN had more variety. You kinda expect the sequel to push the envelope to go further but nope it doesn't.

Ghoul Patrol just felt like a game that isn't a sequel to ZAMN at all. Yes you can rescue up to ten people. But when you rescue the last people, the exit shows up. In ZAMN, almost anywhere the exit will appear. Sadly in a particular set spot in Ghoul Patrol's case. Not many enemies shared between both games as well.

I actually felt those you rescue look more interesting as well as their animations. Which is the opposite for ZAMN. Honestly, I'm not a fan of Ghoul Patrol I rather play Blood II: The Chosen over this. Ghoul Patrol to me isn't worthy enough to be ZAMN's sequel. I can't recommend this game but I do highly recommend ZAMN.

I also can not recommend this compilation. I played Castlevania Advance Collection that nailed everything way better in comparison. It's a real shame because for years I wanted to revisit ZAMN yet I got left with this? Personally, ZAMN by itself is a game you need to play. But do me a favor do not play Ghoul Platrol please?

I explain how to get the completions for GBA Castlevania trilogy in Castlevania Advance Collection

 Hello everyone I'm Jack Red aka XboxClown89, today I will reveal how you can get an 100% completion in both Castlevania: Circle of the Moon and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. Also how to get an 200% completion in Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. You will be amaze what's actually involved with these.

For Aria of Sorrow, Chaos Realm doesn't actually have a map. The small square in the middle top is representing it. Otherwise there's no point to fully explore that place since none of that applies to your overall map completion. I figured to let you know just in case anyone wondered. Also please take your time exploring each castle within these games.

For both Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance, there's upgrade items placed around the map. Stuff that increases your health, how many hearts and magic you can hold. There's none of those found in Aria of Sorrow. You don't need all the cards, furnitures and souls to get these. You have to beat every boss including those for the best ending.

You also need to fully explore the entire map. Keep in mind, you are doing double that in Harmony of Dissonance. Both Circle of the Moon and Aria of Sorrow has more breakable walls leading to hidden rooms. In Circle of the Moon, you have to fully do Battle Arena for the completion. These processes will take a few hours at best to do.

In order to get to some locations, you will need additional abilities as you play the games. You also don't need to reach level 99 for this. Along with that, you don't need to kill every single enemy once either. You do need to collect some stuff for both Harmony of Dissonance & Aria of Sorrow that's more important.

Harmony of Dissonance

1. MK's Bracelet

2. All six pieces of Dracula

Aria of Sorrow

1. All three required souls

Both games has a set up on your character you'll need to use while defeating a particular boss. For Maxim, you'll need to use both JB and MK Bracelets together. Also it does matter which castle you do this. Make sure you use em on Maxim at Castle B for the true ending. For Aria of Sorrow, you need to use the following three souls together while defeating Graham.

1. Flame Demon

2. Succubus

3. Giant Bat

This will unlock an additional boss fight with Julius Belmont. Following that, you'll go into the Chaos realm to find Chaos entity. By this point, you only can get the best ending now. These maps are huge, packed with enemies and some surprises. I do recommend grinding up levels when needed to help you out in more ways than one.

I hope this was clear enough what you need to do. Doing Harmony of Dissonance can be a little confusing at times. Circle of the Moon by default can be more challenging than expected. Even Hard Mode for Aria of Sorrow wasn't that challenging in comparison. I also recommend use another smaller device to look up a decent map online to help you out.

Jack Red reviews Castlevania Advance Collection

 Update: On October 12, 2021 I gotten the final achievement for this game.

On October 24, 2021 I finally gotten all GBA Castlevania games' completions in game. Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance is virtually double that at 200% completion.

Hello everyone I'm Jack Red aka XboxClown89, it took me nearly a week to fully play all four Castlevania games included in Castlevania Advance Collection. Ever since Castlevania Anniversary Collection's release, a lot of people thought they were going to make GBA or DS compilation. We recently gotten Castlevania Advance Collection, all three games plus Castlevania Dracula X.

I actually want to start with Dracula X first. A lot of people were mixed because some thought this was going to be a port of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. Instead they pulled TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist on them. Personally I rather play that over Dracula X. You play as Richter Belmont on your journey to slay Dracula.

This game doesn't tell you, there's two people you can save. Which will affect the ending as well as some bosses getting replaced as well. Sadly, Dracula X is widely known for it's difficulty. The game as a whole felt like a major step backwards for the franchise. Especially if you played Super Castlevania IV, there's no debate which SNES Castlevania game is better.

Thank god for save states because some parts especially Dracula's boss fight is a nightmare to play through. I do need to point out the key needed to rescue both characters also a joke sub weapon too. I will say the soundtrack at least is the best part of the game. It just felt like a few changes then we would've had a decent game.

Now considering all three GBA Castlevania games are similar in many ways. Unless I specify state one of them, most of what I have to say is for all three games. Castlevania: Circle of the Moon follows Nathan, an vampire killer who isn't an Belmont. Although Dracula himself is in this game. Yet in different ways he's sorta there in the other two GBA games.

Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, Maxim made contact with pieces of Dracula. Which caused a merge to start between two souls. Which is exactly why you have two similar castles with differences. It's almost like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Except neither castle is inverted this time. Also you have more areas to switch between both castles.

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Soma is revealed to be an descendant of Dracula himself. Which was an interesting point twist, even threw an Belmont off. All three GBA games have massive maps, it will take hours to fully explore the castle or just enough to finish em. I do need to point out, Harmony of Dissonance has the most bosses between the three games.

Yes some of them are alternate versions like Minotaur or Legion for that matter. Castlevania: Circle of the Moon was actually made by a different team from the Symphony of the Night team. Although they did made both Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow. There's a lot of content to keep you busy.

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon uses cards that can make combination of attacks. This concept was revamped into the souls systems for Aria of Sorrow. Circle of the Moon also has alternate versions of the game after you beat it a few times. You start a new state with that code as your name, there you go.

Which is also how you play as Maxim in Harmony of Dissonance and Julius in Aria of Sorrow's case. They took so much from Symphony of the Night. Honestly I'm impressed all three of them were very decent games. Death is in all four games here, which reminds me of a surprise I prepared prior to writing my own review.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8vGuhRohK-IxmAqHmhx7FBqe_wLXh5AS

Yes you can change the controls to suits your game play style. There's more options emulator wise that makes you feel like a collector or given respect by Konami. There's no surprise delays in getting your saves going unlike at times in Castlevania Anniversary Collection. Also there's more actual achievements/trophies this time around too.

I felt M2 knocked this out the park like they usual do in their work to port classic games. There's no question by default, Dracula X had it's own problems. Even if it didn't have those, the other three games are way better in comparison too. I felt parts of things are done better between the three GBA games.

Aria of Sorrow had the best written story as well told the best as well. Harmony of Dissonance had the best merchant. One major problem I had with Symphony of the Night is the merchant only in one spot the entire game. But in this case, he's in a couple spots. Circle of the Moon had a great intro to kick things off.

Yes Harmony of Dissonance can be the most confusing due to how similar both castles are. A few areas didn't matter like Juste's room, I love it guys and where you face Maxim. Like Richter's boss fight, if you have the right stuff equipped. When you win, you'll be treated to an even harder final boss fight.

Aria of Sorrow does this as well. Chaos was an intense final boss. I felt Harmony of Dissonance was the most item friendly out of the three. Also you can get a lot of items. But in Aria of Sorrow, there's a clear limit how many of that item you can have at one time. At first this could be seen as an negative but overtime getting additional stuff.

It quickly becomes nonexistent, Soma gets some sick abilities. Even a greater degree than Alucard in Symphony of the Night. All three of them have amazing soundtrack with great sound effects. Some amazing artwork overall despite playable characters in game wise has no faces. There's no voice overs unlike Symphony of the Night which had that with text dialogue.

Honestly I highly recommend all three of them. I really had a lot of fun playing these games. I would say hands down, Harmony of Dissonance to me was potentially the longest for a good reason. Aria of Sorrow was potentially the shortest overall. Unless you really take the extra time to collect every soul making it the longest Castlevania game of your life.

The controls are decent enough to help keep you going. Yes some stuff you may need to use your head or look up online. There's a lot to remember in these games. I would say Aria of Sorrow had the most interesting overall map with Circle of the Moon being my second favorite. You had these separate floating areas that teleports you to each other.

One of them connects to Clock Tower, where Death is located. Aria of Sorrow seems to help you out the most abilities wise. Circle of the Moon by default is the most challenging in it's own right. Harmony of Dissonance had Dracula Wraith that had the evil soul tried claiming Maxim's soul. I personally liked the concept that someone else could potentially revive him in a way no one expected.

Aria of Sorrow had a more interesting boss selection. Control wise, Aria of Sorrow wins hands down. Also those warps were more limited in Harmony of Dissonance's case. But I loved in Aria of Sorrow, you can actually choose which area you want to warp to. Now I absolutely loved that being in the game.

Honestly, you should play all three of them. But if I had to choose one you should play first or the most, it has to be Aria of Sorrow. To me, it had the best of all worlds. I don't even have a big enough issue to point out. Although from trying to collect all the souls, I done most of my playthrough as a much higher level player than expected.

It doesn't mean you can't lose, Julius himself is clear proof of that. Circle of the Moon does have a great whip spinning animation. It's a shame Harmony of Dissonance didn't keep that. Aria of Sorrow when you change weapons, you see Soma use em even without using souls. Speaking of souls, some of them doesn't even require anything at all to work.

Aria of Sorrow has some impressive visuals as well. If you didn't have Aria of Sorrow, it would be debatable out of Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance you liked more. I kinda liked Nathan a lot as I was playing. Of course, Juste in his own right was fun too but Soma was easily the most entertaining to me.

Not just from the game play but also from the story. You can tell they really put a lot of thought into that story, it's so beautifully told. Yes it might be a little weird that Japan gets Dracula's castle during a solar eclipse. There's a great variety of creatures with a large amount of them found in all three games.

Surprisingly Circle of the Moon had it's version of the Creature as a regular enemy in the game. But they only appeared in select location following Death's defeat. I should point out, all three of them had Golem bosses too. I would say Aria of Sorrow with Big Golem was easily my favorite golem either.

Speaking of Golems, Aria of Sorrow has a couple variations of golems in the game too. The strangest one is Flesh Golem? From my understanding, an golem is made of rocks or dirt hardened. How can you reanimate dead people in a way that isn't well an zombie? They somehow found a way through this particular golem.

Overall, I could talk hours among hours about these games. But you really getting more than you would expect for just twenty bucks. Five per a game is a great deal already plus additional stuff like information on many things. I would even dare to say this quickly between the previous Anniversary Collection away.

Some Celebrity Deathmatch and Death Battle similarities

 Hello everyone I'm Jack Red aka XboxClown89, today I want to discuss some strikingly strong similarities. Celebrity Deathmatch and Death Battle in particular that I think a lot of people will find interesting. Keep in mind, there's plenty of major differences as well. I never was going to call Death Battle out as a rip of Celebrity Deathmatch in the first place.

Let's start with the most two obvious similarities right off the bat. We will kick things off simply with both having the word Death in their titles. Both heavily centered about fights to the death. Alright we also have two guys hosting the shows. One of them is widely known for being crazy, reckless and kinda stupid at times.

The other host is smarter, kinda of a dick and more focus on his job. It's no surprise some people compared the hosts. Keep in mind, Celebrity Deathmatch is mostly using parodies of real life celebrities. The only real life celebrity featured in both shows was Chuck Norris, surprise lol. Death Battle is more about using fictional characters in comparison.

I do need to point out DBX also had Colonel Sanders. He was one the last dead celebrities to get revived through the time machine on the show for Celebrity Deathmatch. Strangely interesting, how both shows parodied one of the biggest fast food names on the planet. Now you can't tell me that isn't finger licking good!!! lol.

Donald Trump was on Celebrity Deathmatch and DBX. Keep in mind, DBX episode was a joke episode. In real life, he was the previous person to had been the President of the United States. But I'm not done, Hilary Clinton also was on both shows as well. People sure love making parodies of these real life people don't they?

Now let's discuss a few fight concepts both shows actually have done. Celebrity Deathmatch done two giant robot fights with bands no lie. The later one was a parody of Gundam. Speaking of Gundam, Death Battle done two fights so far with Gundam models. Two of those fights had Tommy piloting different zords, DBX also done Burning Gundam vs Thunder Megazord as well.

Both shows have done a death race as well. This only occurred once on Celebrity Deathmatch. Death Battle started with oddly enough Sweet Tooth vs The Joker fight. It later gotten X-Wing vs Arwing fight on DBX. Last year, they introduced a new spin off show based on death races. I figured some people think find that interesting to talk about.

Twice Celebrity Deathmatch done someone taking on all comers. For those that doesn't know what that means. These celebrities had to face as many challengers during a match then survive. On DBX, they done Bruce Lee taking on a lot of characters inspired by him. Celebrity Deathmatch also done a few three way fights as well.

Not as often both Death Battle and DBX has a handful of those as well. Of course, I need to mention, a lot of characters return for another fight on both shows. More true on Death Battle side of things considering DBX and Death Race. A handful of Death Battle fights involves time manipulation including the most recent episode, Goku Black vs Reverse Flash.

The closest fight Celebrity Deathmatch has to fit the bill is also one of my least favorites they ever done. Chris Farley vs. Horatio Sanz because Farley kept dying. Referee Mills Lane kept using the time machine to bring him back to life, which led to him doing just one move to win the fight. In other words, they ignored the golden death rule to allow Farley to win like that on purpose.

Both shows has a few team fights as well. We aren't considering Courtney Love's second match because one of her opponents got killed before the match officially begun. Both shows has a witty, dark humor at times. There's also a few fights with creatures. But I want to focus more on monster fights here.

Celebrity Deathmatch done Bigfoot vs The Loch Ness Monster, one of the absolutely shortest fights they ever done. They later done Frankenstein's Monster vs The Wolf Man. They did a few mix up matches with some of the monsters as well like Steve Irwin vs Medusa. We aren't considering Pokemons or Digimons for this.

Both of them are mostly creatures with powers. At the same time, they aren't what people think of what you think monsters. Death Battle has done Godzilla vs Gamera, they're biggest scale monster fight to date. They also had an vampire in a fight as well. In Celebrity Deathmatch's case it was Sarah Michelle Gellar's second match against an vampire.

On Death Battle, they put Dracula from Castlevania series vs Ganondorf from The Legend of Zelda series. They also done Dio vs Alucard fight as DBX. However it already got confirmed to also become an full fight on Death Battle, this season we're in right now. Oh wait I still got more to talk about.

I do need to mention Death Battle has done Sabrewulf vs Jon Talbain. A brutal fight between fighting game werewolves. Jon also was in a DBX episode against Terry Bogard. Celebrity Deathmatch even had a small alien character who had a grudge against Nick Diamond. By now a couple alien characters are on Death Battle and it's spin off shows.

Celebrity Deathmatch does have the concept Super Freaks. They are altered people created mostly from deceased celebrities' DNA. The only exception was Potato Khan getting a potato by accident. In Death Battle's case, a handful of times they used characters that aren't that characters. It's a little confusing to explain.

Goku Black is Zamasu was a Supreme Kai in training who switched bodies with Goku to kill all the mortals. Mechagodzilla model they used had the spirit of a previous Godzilla. Indirectly I have to bring up Shadow androids Dr. Robotnik created that were used in Eggman vs Wily episode. Notice two of these aren't the actual characters but rather a doppelganger with similar traits.

Not many fights for Death Battle in general involved a ring. As in a wrestling/boxing ring but the most famous example was Balrog vs TJ Combo. Which was the closest fight they ever had to a particular boxing match Celebrity Deathmatch widely known for. Mike Tyson vs Evander Holyfield, this was one of their more ambitious fights they done.

Sometimes Celebrity Deathmatch does a quick analyze session on the combatants. Don't take it seriously though since they do hide some jokes in them. Everyone knows both Death Battle and Death Race is heavily centers around that. We also need to bring up the results for Death Battle since they do explain to the best of their ability why a character wins.

Yes at times Death Battle does hides some jokes in there as well. Moving on, there isn't a lot of bigger scale fights on Celebrity Deathmatch. Survivor Battle Royale had the most fighters but a lot of them died before even reaching the ring below thanks to a certain someone. Death Battle has done a few war theme fights across two of their shows.

A handful of DBX fights puts a character against 100 of their opponent's characters. Mostly Wolverine facing 100 Barakas or Thor facing 100 Pikachus. Yes, Celebrity Deathmatch has a few deaths done by animals as well. But for the most part, they aren't a fighter in the match themselves. Both shows has some brutal, disgusting ways to kill people off as well.

Of course, I need to mention Beavis vs Butt-head fight for Celebrity Deathmatch. People actually voted for this to happen. But the main reason other than it also was a MTV show why I'm bringing up that particular fight up. It was the only fight to have cartoon characters. Death Battle is mostly done in sprites or 3D animation.

Sometimes in their sprite theme fights, there's additional animated parts. Both shows that had draws that ends in death more than draws where all fighters live. Magic isn't used much on Celebrity Deathmatch. Technology is more notably used on that show. Death Battle has a great usage of both those in comparison.

I know this isn't going to spin people's heads off. I just wanted to get what I felt for years out on the open. Indirectly Death Battle is a spiritual successor to Celebrity Deathmatch. Honestly, both shows do things better than each other. But I will say I do mostly recommend them as well as Death Race.

Come on, Death Battle where's more Death Race episodes? Overall, both shows are mostly solid. DBX and newer version of Celebrity Deathmatch with the German counterpart shows being weak points. I guess I have one more thing to discuss before I end things here. Also because I don't wanna hear, you should've mention it!!!

Celebrity Deathmatch done four particular episodes called Fandemonium. Where the viewers picks their fights and in rare cases adds more to them like Carmen Electra vs Jenny McCarthy. In the newer version, a handful of fights voted by the viewers happened. Like Ashlee Simpson vs Her Old Nose, yes this actually happened folks.

There were times on social media, Death Battle would ask who should face who. They haven't done that in a few years now sadly. Not including that, a few seasons of DBX became voting. Which means the one with the most votes wins the fight. But they also make alternate endings where the other character ends.

In a sense, they did this to prevent people from being bias. Personally I don't think it helps much. But it also cheats the concept because it was meant to be the one with the most votes. So in other words, our votes doesn't actually matter when you really think about it. Yes I noticed how differently the voting for both shows worked.

Honestly, Celebrity Deathmatch is best sticking with the original show. Mostly avoid DBX except for a few episodes. Death Race, hell yes I want more of that. Death Battle has episodes I'm not a huge fan of for one or multiple reasons. Regardless, there's a lot of potential for both of them. I felt Death Battle in some ways will get better but also become worse in other ways.

Jack Red reviews Robot Chicken

 Hello everyone I'm Jack Red, truthfully this has been a busy year for me. Which is why I haven't written many blogs as I usually do. But don't worry I will try to start writing more as soon as things stop being so busy around here. For today, I want to talk about one of my absolute favorite shows ever. It recently became the longest running production wise Adult Swim show to date.

I am talking about Robot Chicken, now this is such an amazing show for a lot of great reasons. Easily, one of the most creative shows I have ever seen. Honestly, I don't have many negatives against this show. Most episodes has a couple sketches within a short length episodes. Actually half what you would expect from most cartoons today I'm not kidding.

For most specials, they do go over that length. Some of the funniest jokes are in those or likely the last sketch within an episode. This team uses all kind of animation techniques, sometimes doing more than one per a sketch. Recently, they quickly aired their shortest season, Season 11 all within this particular month. Most seasons has around twenty episodes while this season had 11 episodes not counting the special.

Some stuff you really wish you could unseen. Some sketches goes very quickly while others takes a little longer. The last sketches usually takes the longest to play out. A handful of specials are just one long sketches, two of them as of the most recent Halloween special centers around the Nerd character. No not as in AVGN character, they actually have their own Nerd character.

Franchises like G. I. Joe, He-Man, The Smurfs, The Flintstones, Star Wars, DC comics and Transformers gets reference a lot too. Some jokes will get you by surprise too. Similar to stuff like Celebrity Deathmatch, it largely parodies celebrities, pop culture and a lot of violent deaths. This show really pushes the envelope what they could do.

They love doing "You're canceled joke" during some of the season finale episodes. This show is filled of surprises at every possible turn especially during the specials. Sometimes you just won't know what you're going to get. Keep in mind, a lot of sketches doesn't even make it to Television. You'll have to buy the DVDs to see those missing sketches for yourselves.

Yes there's some sketches that are actually part of the canon that plays out as well. Those won't occur as often as these though. I will say the season finale episodes are some of the finest you'll ever see. The mad scientist does get compared somewhat to Rick from Rick and Morty. Maybe one day I'll review that show don't hold your breath.

Robot Chicken is virtually like the dark side of pop culture. They will do some truly unpleasant stuff to some of your most beloved characters. I will go as far to say this show really does have balls to do some of this sick stuff. Of course, there's other recurring characters like the Humping Robot and this mess up Unicorn character.

Robot Chicken also made a cough gag for a particular episode of The Simpsons. Which is still one of my absolute favorite cough gags ever. This show also has some ties to Family Guy, the two shows themselves are unrelated. Seth Green is one of two creators of Robot Chicken also voices Chris Griffith on Family Guy.

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane helped to get Robot Chicken to happen. He does voice a couple of characters, mostly being the voice of Santa Claus and Emperor Palpatine. There was one time Seth Green had to take over the role since MacFarlane at the time wasn't available. Honestly, Robot Chicken is such an ambitious yet unique concept for a show.

They have plenty of obstacles to prevent even an season from happening. Somehow this team comes through with amazing results. I am deeply impressed as well as inspired by this show. I do think this show will stand the test of time before than a lot of animated shows. They do take some major risks with impressive animating techniques.

I know this is late into the review. This show originally was a short lived web series called Sweet J Presents. Some of it's sketches got remade for Robot Chicken. The same thing happened with Rick and Morty true story. This is one of those shows they could go virtually anything you can think of. Yet the fans still think of more stuff even after it's cancellation.

Don't worry it just finished airing Season 11, I'm sure it will get another season. I should point out a few channels including Comedy Central, the same channel known for South Park and Cartoon Network turned it down. Someone at Cartoon Network along with support from MacFarlane helped the show to happened.

I think the real reason Comedy Central turned it out was because they already had South Park. Why would they want both those shows on the same channel? Let's be honest, it would cause confusion as well as either show more likely to get canned sooner. So it was for the best both shows got their respective channels.

Yes I'm well aware South Park is currently the second longest running animated sitcom behind The Simpsons. Robot Chicken to me just has more uniqueness and class in comparison. Yes I just threw South Park under the bus sue me. Honestly, this show has plenty of reasons for most the viewers to wanna rewatch the hell out of it a lot.

For the most part, it's the perfect length to marathon all day. It does plenty to spice things up so you'll never truly get bored even seeing these episodes so many times. It almost like a party you really want to go, you drop everything to be there. Robot Chicken even won two Emmys which is rare among animated shows to have.

I do think this show has a bright future ahead. Honestly, it is that good of a show. Even hearing it got canceled, you'll rage in record time. Like when I found out F is for Family got canned, don't worry that's going to get it's own review too. I also plan to do Big Mouth when the time is right. Robot Chicken is something you can't recreate in any sense of the word.

It is a show that blows every expectation away. Especially during some of the specials. Some of these jokes are really funny, I'm not kidding. Robot Chicken willing to do anything for entertainment purposes. This show has plenty of personality as well as creativity. Sometimes you get really surprised by how some sketches ends.

Why I always look forward to Sonic vs. Dr. Robotnik fights?

 Hello everyone I'm Jack Red, by now everyone in the world knows about Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Easily, one of the biggest grossing video game franchises in the entire world. A classic yet unique rivalry of Sonic and Dr. Robotnik. At first, you are thinking how fast this could get old but it never does.

Sonic is younger in most canons, shows humanity his own way and usually rushes into things. Then we have the cold calculated mad scientist. Who is very determine to beat Sonic no matter what it takes. This guy really used everything you possibly could name against him. Sonic is like an impossible force taking on Dr. Robotnik whose more of the immovable object in this concept.

No matter what Sonic does, he always will be a thorn in Sonic's side. Dr. Robotnik is unusual in a couple of ways himself. Not only he's a genius but surprisingly talented in other things. This guy just doesn't give neither does Sonic. Sonic is always look to taking Dr. Robotnik down again. Dr. Robotnik is one ambitious guy in his own right.

These two legends are easily one of the worst to face from Sega multiverse. Sonic has some insane abilities depending on things while Dr. Robotnik has some ridiculous inventions. Honestly, more shows are coming as time goes on. There's still parts of this concept that can be explored, it's getting much bigger.

Like two cartoons as well as a particular comic book series. Sonic fights with the resistance while Dr. Robotnik was the ruler of his world. No matter what happens, these two will always be enemies to each other. Virtually polar opposites of each other in every possible regard imaginable. Honestly, it's such an amazing rivalry that never truly gets old no matter what happens.

Jack Red reviews Celebrity Deathmatch Hits Germany

 Hello everyone I'm Jack Red, a while back I reviewed almost everything relating to the show Celebrity Deathmatch. Now it's time to finally end things with the mysterious forgotten German version. Yes you heard that right, there was a short lived version of the show. Actually the first of two related shows to not have the series creator, Eric Fogel involved.

There's notable differences between both versions. They focus more on politics with much shorter fights. We are talking one minute and an half to depending on fights a couple minutes at least. Seven minutes is usually the average amount of time. Some fights have factors that affects the length in some ways so I won't trying to dodge the question here.

I got to be honest, these fights are surprisingly even worse than MTV2 show's I'm not kidding. There's only one host with no referee. Here we get two hosts with mostly on recurring referee. Although, a couple times they did have special guests as referees like Chuck Norris. Honestly, this version was too short for it's own good.

At least, MTV2 show had a more proper length in comparison. Yes a handful of fights from that alone is better than that entire show. I am going to be honest as a huge fan of this show. For years, I looked for ways to watch these fights. Now I have officially I am deeply disappointed. Do yourselves a favor don't go look for these fights at all trust me none of them are worth watching.

In fact, none of them even makes much sense at all. The humor is falling very fast with virtually any room to breath. To top it all off, they don't even explain what's properly going on. German or not, there is no official subtitles for this either. This is a horrible alternative counterpart show to an all time classic.