A Green Mushroom

In my sickness last week I got around to finishing the second season of the Clone Wars TV Show. I had mostly given up on this show but I really love Star Wars Rebels and it seems to be pulling some key characters straight from Clone Wars who were never in the books or movies.  I'm trying to do my due diligence as a crazy Star Wars fan by going back and watching Clone Wars on Netflix. Season 2 is a definite improvement over season one, but it's still not that good.  Everyone has told me that it gets better in the later seasons and I'm really hoping to see that when I start season 3. Most of the episodes in season 2 were disconnected random fights in the clone wars time period.  A lot of the characters are consistent but there's no real character development at all. There's also a severe lack of overall plot.  There will be two or three episodes in a row that are directly connected but none of it ever ties back in to an overarching story. Again, this is ...

Along with watching a bunch of TV while I was sick last week I also picked up Dragon Quest Heroes.  It's a game in the same style as Hyrule Warriors or Dynasty Warriors. Basically it's a game with giant waves of super weak enemies that you get to hack and slash your way through.  It's super low key, doesn't use much of my brain power, and has a fun Dragon Quest style. This game doesn't offer much new to the genre, but it was perfect for being sick.  I could just put on some podcasts to listen to while slashing my way through wave after wave of enemy.  It was easy progression and fun over-the-top combat. It's not a game I was sure I would pick up, but it was the perfect game to play while sick.  I'll probably work my way through the whole game eventually, but now that I'm feeling better I'm excited to jump into the games I was really looking forward to this Fall.  Triforce Heroes and Assassin's Creed Syndicate came out last week and I...

Being sick last week gave me a bunch of time to catch up on TV.  Normally I don't just sit and watch TV passively, it takes a really good show to get me to sit down and watch, but resting while sick is the perfect TV watching opportunity. The announcement last week that Mythbusters is cancelled and their final season will air next year reminded me that I hadn't watched last season yet.  So, I marathoned it. It was a really good season.  It's a return to form for the Mythbusters.  Instead of having five people in two teams doing five or six myths per episode this season just has Jamie and Adam.  Typically they do two or three myths in an episode.  It's much more like the early seasons of the show. I love that they take the time to actually walk through the process of trial and error again.  In the most recent seasons it seems like they always jump to full scale and going over the top.  In this season there's a lot more about the process o...

I picked up Yoshi's Wooly World mostly for my kids, but I'm really glad I did.  I've been playing it too and it's a lot of fun. A huge portion of the enjoyment in this game is the style.  Everything is made of yarn or fabrics.  It all has a handmade crafty quality to it that sets it apart from any other game I've seen.  It's not hyper-realistic graphics, but it's perfectly styled to fit the game. The game itself is still very much a Yoshi's Island game.  Yoshi is trying to explore levels while collecting various objects throughout.  Clearing the level is rarely the challenge, instead the challenge comes from finding and collecting everything in the levels. I've had some fun with it, but my daughter is really the one who has latched onto the game.  My wife knits so our kids are around yarn all the time.  My daughter thinks the yarn style of the game is just  amazing.  She's having a ton of fun with yarn Yoshi and just exploring ...

Remember a couple months ago when I was trying out a bunch of new shows and couldn't seem to get any of them to stick?  Killjoys one of the only shows that did.  I was sick last week so I had a lot of time just sitting in bed to catch up on shows. I watched all of Killjoys season 1 and I loved it.  In a way, Killjoys gives off a Firefly vibe.  It's set in a solar system with four major planets, a ruling body called the nine, and "the company" that runs almost everything.  The planets all have a different feel and socioeconomic status.  This leads to a lot of strife between the populations of different planets. Into the middle of this comes the RAC.  It's an independent organization that doesn't take sides in any conflict.  Instead, they take contracts to find and transport goods or people.  They're basically a giant coalition of bounty hunters that are government approved and get all sorts of unique access.  The members of RAC ar...

I picked up subterfuge on iOS (for free) after reading some interesting reactions.  It's a game of real time decisions, base capturing, alliances, backstabbing, and underwater mining. At least that's what it is supposed to be. What I've actually found is a game where no one talks, no alliances are formed, people make some moves in the game then get sick of waiting for the real time aspect to happen so they resign. Subterfuge is a game that's supposed to take place in real time over the course of about a week.  What this means in reality is that you can set some orders to move your drillers around to new bases and then wait for most of a day before making any other meaningful decision.  I think the game would be more fun if it were just faster. The few games I played I won just because everyone else got bored and resigned.  They walked away from the games mid-progress and I don't really blame them.  There's not enough here to keep a person engaged. ...

I finally got around to finishing the next book in the Star Wars Legends timeline that I'm reading through.  This is the third X-Wing book in the X-Wing series. This book is still very close to the events of Return of the Jedi in the old expanded universe.  The empire is torn into different factions, but they're still big enough to be a threat to the New Republic. This is the worst X-Wing book so far, and if I remember correctly, it might be the weakest overall.  It's not a horrible book but it lacks the pacing and excitement of the other two leading up to it.  The majority of the book is about the trial of a member of Rogue Squadron who may or may not be an imperial agent (he's not).  The other major event is the capture, imprisonment, and attempted brainwashing of another member of the squadron. The problem is that these events are 90% of the book.  There's a little bit of X-Wing action thrown in at the end but it feels forced and misplaced. ...