Having seeing this 25th Anniversary collection on passing, I thought for the price with 6 booster packs, why not? You get the three mighty Egyptian God cards. As well as the absolute classics in Blue Eyes White Dragon, Red Eyes Black Dragon and Dark Magician cards. It’s pretty decent value just for the boosters to be fair.You also get a chance of getting one of those six cards in the fancy glory of secret rare shininess. I got the Blue Eyes, I won’t lie, I was a bit disappointed in that outcome I really wanted a shiny Red Eyes. Not the end of the world though, all of a welcome in my collection until I have like four of you the same card, then it goes in the abounded pile of cards I will never use but also never dispose of.
My Top level photography coming to play once more.
Along with this they have released a 25th anniversary duel disk. Not actually seen one anywhere yet, however not seen the best reviews of it. All I want in life to complete my empty youth is one of those bad boys. So I will definitely be keeping my slightly dead and tired looking eyes peeled for that majestic piece of overpriced plastic.
I’ve now officially managed to get two full sets of the Egyptian God cards. I’m truly next level with my level of collecting I tell ya. Plus another of Obelisk and Slifer. I image by todays standards of cards they aren’t what they were once supposed to be or even good. If they aren’t banned competitively. But boy oh boy do I feel a baller for it. Watching the anime as a young’n. They were the coolest shit going and I only ever managed to get a fake obelisk which for many years I treasured as my crowning jewel until I found out the truth.Nearly fucking broke me, truly devastated.
They are just truly beautiful to behold.
Anyhow, you get 1 booster of 6 different sets in this box. Look below at what you get.
Here’s a photo of each pack, as I can’t be arsed to write each different pack out.
Honestly, overall the cards I pulled from these were pretty disappointing. Considering these are a lot of the older cards, the interesting shit. The stuff from when the series originally dropped. So the cards that interest me, as I’m still all about the oldies. I did get Exodia the forbidden one , only the big gold bastards head though. Still need the other 4 parts. I’d argue it should be five other cards, on the basis the poor bugger doesn’t have a stomach. It’s not far off looking like a starfish that’s been abused with a cookie cutter. I wouldn’t mind getting some more of the Legend of the Blue Eyes Dragon booster packs though, see if I can get the other 4 parts. Plus looking at the list of what other cards you can get. It’s personally for me the best of the bunch you can get here.
Just three absolute classic to admire. I’ve tried to capture the difference in the levels of shininess. But my shit photography has shined instead.
This isn’t to say the other boosters as a whole aren’t worth your time, just depends on your old favourites and play style. For me my play style is just to admire my growing collection, as honestly I still can’t play it for shit. In my short time and money wasting of this secondary hobby of mine. I’ve managed to get a lot of the cards I wanted as a wee little chubber that I was trading cards in the playground. I just need to get summoned skull, and I’ve truly done my younger self justice.
Just another quick update as I know you all like to be kept informed, obviously. However this is it for this time my friends. As always stay frosty my tasty folks.
This will just be a quick review, this is due to the usual not being able to get any footage and as for what this game is I doubt I really need it. Finding this PS Vita version for super cheap, naturally thought I might as well get it and give it a go. It also gets me a few cheeky trophies to add to my list.
You’d be surprised to find out I actually don’t really give two shits about football, I used to care many years back but have since not really bothered with it. I’ll still watch it if it’s on or when the world cup or euros happen. So getting this game simply comes to the previously mentioned cheapness.
I think the last proper fifa game I played would be way back in 2011 or maybe 2012 on the PS3. So my ability in comparing this to the full version console of the same year, too even the newer ones is very limited. Graphically it’s so, so. Not too bad, the footballers all look fairly different and have some likeness to those I know. The pitch looks passable, and every stadium for each team definitely differ from one another. With enough effort also going into the home, away and third kits for each team. I don’t think this handheld version has the same amount of licensed teams as the full big boy console version. I suppose though having the privilege of the same functions and gameplay on the go, this isn’t much of a sacrifice.
The game has several different modes, standard exhibition, create a pro, tournaments and the manager mode. Tournament modes pretty standard pick a club and a trophy you want to win and the game sets up the tournament. Which if you want you can simulate the matches so you don’t actually play it. Beating Man City as 1 star rated Accrington for the FA cup just feels right for some reason. I’d be lying if I said I had done the management mode yet, I haven’t and as it stands I probably wont either. I enjoy play quick 5 min half for the most part or if im in the mood just going for a random team and blitzing through a tournament. I did this with Barcelona a few times when I had my create pro as the centre forward racking up 35 goals over the course of the tournament. Doing feats whilst playing games or in the arena prior to the match aids in making your create a pro stats better. So for the most part it’s kinda pointless but I can see it adds a little something extra to a match if you waned to do it.
The one feature this handheld has over the main consoles version is that if you want you can make use of the touchscreen or rear touch pad. The rear touchpad function is more cumbersome then useful and I turned it off pretty much straight away, any accidental touch just cause the played at the time to just go for broke and spanner the ball into the aether. This could just be down to my big gangly hands, but for the most part using the touchscreen is more efficient and useful to you. You can use it for plays, to make more precise through or lob passes, as well as for scoring attempts. However I did have to disable this feature three tournies deep as for some reason my game glitched the fuck out and every time my player got a touch the hoofed the fucking ball straight down pitch or clearing it into a never ending streams of corners, I got to 13 in a row before I started to think my beloved vita screen was dying. I even tried a few other games to make sure a button wasn’t stuck. But turning that off seemed to fix it, which is a shame as I did like the hybrid control system.
I’d go into a bit more about the game but ultimately if you’ve played any version of Fifa, you’ve played it. Fundamentally it’s a football game, the only difference comes down to graphics, modes and maybe the amount of trophies you can win or teams you can play as. The main controls centre around running, passing, with the basic alternates, and shooting. This version has more precise shot options or finesse you may call it. You can lob the keeper, pull of feints, do some fancy footwork which usually fails on my part. So if you like you can put a tad more flair into the game. The A.I doesn’t seem overly hard, you can tell the difference between bottom teams and top teams. This won’t stop you smashing big clubs 10 -1 though. The pitches reflect weather and different times of the day, but don’t expect much effort in that department it’s not overly detailed.
I’d give this a 7/10 Positively Tasty. This is surprising as much to me as it may be to you. It’s not the best looking game nor something I really care about. However over the past few weeks I have found myself wanting to play it. From quick 5 mins half’s to the occasional full 20 min option. Even going as far as knocking off some of the assists to make the game feel more challenging. All the while whilst I am playing Tears of the Kingdom, and that game is an 11/10 full masterpiece. It’s quick, portable fun and low cost effort, you probably won’t lose and even if you do it don’t mean shit. However if you are like me and like my old consoles as much as my new ones, this as a football fan would be worth your time.
I choose to believe I am the bane of my own existence. Nothing more epitomises this then my sickening need to keep buying games, from all consoles of every generation at any given time. I especially can’t help myself if they are cheap as shit. I fucking love a good bargain, I mean who doesn’t. It’s truly one of lifes great delights, it’s up there with scotch eggs and pro wrestling. I’m a strange fellow alright.
As you can see a strange collection this time round, and being second hand some of the cases look only slightly fucked. A pleasnt bonus.
As you can see from the latest treasure trove of shite i’ve collected, I have even somehow managed to buy the same game for two different consoles a small faux pas, one might say. I mean to be fair to me it cost like £4 for both of them so who gives a shit. I even bought a fifa game, and i couldn’t care less about football. Has it stopped me playing it a lot over the past few nights, sure hasn’t. Could a quick take review be on the horizon for this title, oh you know it is.
I am definetly most exicted about this bad boy though.
I know what you’re thinking this completely straight picture of the case is almost of professional quality.
Finally having attained every mainline Professor Layton game, as for some reason this one is harder to come by and cost 5 times the amount. But, alas it is now within my firm grips to live as one of the many hundred games I will most definetly get too later. On the plus, the only one I have left to get now is the strange crossover title for the 3DS, Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright. Which unless i’m super fortunate to run across it in the wild for a fiver, I won’t be purchasing anytime soon as it costs a small fortune. One day I won’t be poor as shit and I’ll be able to treat myself to these expensive treasures.
At some point in the near future I will be updating this site, giving it a well earned spruce. Making it more appeasing to the masses. So as well as the steady stream of reviews, expect an even steadier stream of slow changes upon this website. Expect more chapters in the ever expanding gospel of Tasty , but until next time my faithful readers. Stay fuckin’ Tasty.
Am I writing a game review of a Mario game on the back of the Super Mario Bros movie, yes i am. Which honestly isn’t a bad film and it’s grossed over 1 billion, pretty much everyone has seen it at this point. Also i’m writing this because I found it for a few quid and in between everything else I have to do with life this is a quick, easy and fun game to play. Having been unable to play much as of late, having my end of year assignments to do, now they are out of the way, I can finally move onto bigger and better things. Firstly this, then secondly and obviously Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. I will also be attempting to play the mid levelled reviewed, The Callisto Protocol, whilst I have a few months to myself I really aught to work through my obscene backlog of games, which only gets worse. With the addition of AEW fight forever finally being released the end of next month, plus Final Fantasy 16 dropping, it seems I’m doomed to be swallowed and consumed by my own greed of collecting games and struggling to get anything played. I haven’t even got the platinum for Hogwarts Legacy still, and I’ve basically done everything outside of collecting all the collectibles in Hogwarts itself and replaying the other houses at the start of the game.
Anyhow, enough of my gaming woes, which ultimately are highly trivial in the grand scheme of life. To the meaty part of this review, the game itself. If you’ve ever played a Mario game, you’ll know what’s in store for you here. It’s your typical story Bowser takes Peach. Mario gets outraged and goes around jumping on stuff until he finally beats him again, and gets reunited with the Princess. At this point in time with the series itself being around 30 years old, you’d have decided whether or not you like Mario games, as they all tend to follow the same formula. Not a bad thing mind, or it could be you just really enjoy Mario Kart as any sane person does.
You traverse through 8 different worlds. Within each of these worlds are your playable levels. Each level puts Mario in a different environment with different obstacles to traverse and enemies to get past. This games level creativity are superb. Each mission is genuinely different, considering at the basic concept it’s reach the flag pole at the end of the level whilst collecting coins, and finding the three hidden star medals in each level and jumping on some Koopas to smush it. Once you’ve completed the main worlds, you unlock Luigi as a playable character. Allowing you to go through the worlds again as the small plumbers brother. Not really affecting the gameplay any. You do unlock a few extra bonus worlds though, so you can at least attempt those first time round as the green counterpart.
Throughout this game you’ll come across the usual power-ups, and transformations. These include small and super Mario, plus fire, Tanooki and and boomerang if you get those ability power ups instead. Plus a few other smaller ones, like invincible Mario if you keep doing, the 1up health as well. There’s enough to help you traverse these mini biomes, a few extra wouldn’t have hurt though, just to spice up the game variety a little bit more.
As a game, much like Tearaway on the PS Vita, this is one of those titles that truly utilises the hardware and capabilities of the console it’s on. Making full use of the 3D,making use of it in level, and making for some of the mini-games where sliding it on or off reveals how to solve the puzzle before you. Even the gyroscopic functionality is used for firing canons, binoculars and a few other things.
This game is deserving of a big and beefy 8/10, A highly tasty game. It’s the epitome of quick bite-sized fun. Each mission is quick and different enough from the last to keep you entertained, whether in quick bursts or longer gaming sessions. It has great re-playability and like most Mario games, just plain and simple fun.
This was one of my favourite games as a kid, I must have finished the PS2 version at least 30 times and I’ve played it on all its different console versions. When this was announced I was hoping it would live up to the original, with the same story but much fresher. Let me tell you, this is a proper remake.
I played the remakes of 2 and 3. 2 was great, 3 was okay, but 4 is incredible. It’s easily one of, if not the best remake of a game I’ve played . The story is almost identical with some bits moved around and some changes for more logical choices. There’s more of a fear factor than the original, especially the fight in darkness with the blind wolverine guy.
Leon is as badass as he was in the original, part gymnast, part model and part super soldier. This game gives Leon the same over the top melee moves as the original but this time they’re even more mental. From the suplex move from the original to deflecting axes mid air, this game does a great job of making you feel superhuman. Ashley is actually less annoying than in the original, they do a really good job of transforming her from damsel in distress to a useful team mate with the random knowledge to operate a crane with a wrecking ball.
Some bits of the game are drastically changed. You still get the epic village fight that really defined the tone in the original and does the same in this. The village lake section almost feels open world as you can travel to 6 different places from the lake including a place you’ve been to before but now have the keys to plunder it fully. The castle seems to have had the biggest overhaul, rooms have all been moved around to a different order that what I remember from the original. This is good cause it keeps you on your toes, there were points where I thought I knew what was coming and I was correct, and others where I thought I was about to go through to the iconic maze section only to be hit with an entirely new rampart section before it.
The RE4 remake actually feels like it’s dipping its parasite filled trotters into an RPG. It’s obviously still a linear action fulled epic, but there are sections like the lake that almost feel open world with the various side sections you can visit as well as returning to old areas with the ability to explore them further. The addition of merchant quests are so good, there’s now a list of side quests you can complete for spinels that are used to purchase many many goodies, like the punisher or Matilda handguns to gunpowder for crafting or even tokens for the new keyring rewards. These new key-rings replace the models you get from playing the shooting range mini-game. So instead of little models that were previously just nice to look at, we now get these key rings that are also nice to look at, but come with bonus multipliers (very RPG) like extra ammo crafting and more heath recovered with snakes.
Gameplay is great, nice slick controls, knife parrying is mega OP, but it fits with the style of RE4. Being able to parry the chainsaw guy with a kitchen knife is comical but being chainsawed in half if you’re facing the wrong way is appropriately brutal as you’d expect. The quick time events have gone, like the boulder run and Krausers knife fight. I’m in two minds about this, on one hand I enjoyed them in the original but the knife fight in the remake feels like a boss fight now instead so I suppose I’m happy with it.
The QTE events aside, this game stays true to the combat and chaos of the original. Boss fights are much improved with the exception of the U3 boss fight being cut. I do understand as it’s kind of random in the story but it was fun so I do miss it slightly. Regeneradors can run now which is just terrifying, these were the worst enemy for me, mainly due to my very poor sniper skills. These flabby blobs of pain and nightmare fuel do really heighten the horror aspect though which as I said is a big improvement in this game. Not much else terrifies you more than when you think you’ve killed one of these flobby bastards, only to see it rebuild itself with the addition of shards of metal, turning itself into a Bruce Dickinson-less iron maiden.
This game is an easy 10/10 for me. Some Real Fuckin’ Tasty gaming . That much so I finished the game and then preceded to start a second play-through immediately. I intend to platinum this game although it looks horrendous to do, but I’m willing to replay this many times.
Considering this came out a couple months back and I’ve had it since day 1, it’s taken me a mighty long while to complete. This is no bad thing, mind. This game is based on the not so known series that is Harry Potter. Only this time taking place in the 1800’s, you’d expect that the game would only take certain queues from the book and film series. It leans fairly heavily into it though so it’s pretty much what you’d expect. Again this isn’t a bad thing.
Hogwarts towards the end of the game.You can use flying mounts as well as your broom.
First thing I have to mention is Hogwarts itself. Honestly not only does it look incredible, the design and functionality of it is truly remarkable. From all the hidden rooms, moving pictures, ghosts flying around to students casting spells as you go past them. The moving staircase, or the snake that magics the door to the Slytherin common room and disappears as you walk away, all the way to the talking goblins and sets of armour. The castle is littered with tiny details that really build a sense of a living breathing school of magic. As the game progresses so does the season within the game itself, so Hogwarts is decorated differently from Halloween to Christmas. Even the floating candles in the great hall differ. This also changes Hogsmeade’s appearance as well as the terrain of the world that lays out of the walls of Hogwarts. With Hogsmeade being the next big area and contains most of the shops you will use to buy brooms, broom upgrades, different equipment benches for the room of requirement, or bits and bobs for the areas where you can look after and breed the fantasy animals of the magical world, kinda like fantastic beasts.
The tedious lock picking mini game.
The next big thing I should talk about is the magic itself, having 27 different spells you can learn, with some being passive like Alohomora. With most being combat focused and learning the three unforgivable spells. For the most part you’ll only use some spells outside of combat, such as duel challenges or for puzzles. Which is a shame as you’d like a bit more functionality from some of them. Oddly you learn up to level three for Alohomora as this acts as the lock pick mini game. I’d rather it just auto unlocked stuff though, it gets a bit tedious sometimes unlocking a door to unlock a chest or another door for some usual lower stat bit of clothing. Plus the lack of a morality system makes for no reason to not crucio the ever loving shit out of everyone and then hit them with Avada kedavra. As with two of the upgrades you get means the curse spreads to other enemies and then you can one shot all the poor afflicted in one go. You can’t do this till late game though which is a shame, as by the time you get to do this you’ve only a few main missions left and have probably completed or close to finishing the main side quest stories. The combat is pretty decent, standard spell casting hot keys for your special higher damage moves, you can dodge, or upgraded apparate out the way, and use protego which can be used to stupefy enemies briefly. Mostly the upgrades you get are a bit wank, some aren’t really worthwhile or others just don’t do much. With your damage and defence coming from the rating attached to your clothes. They can be upgrade slightly via the loom in the room of requirement and you can attach a charm trait per each piece. At no point do you learn an auto cast so if you just hold down the trigger for it which would make life so much easer, especially with trolls, which just sponge standard attacks. They really missed the mark by not allowing your wand to be a semi or full automatic.
Your character inventory to change equipped clothes.It’s taken a few years, but gaming has finally represented me.
The world is filled with mini villages to explore, all the same as Hogwarts. Filled with hidden field pages to find, chest, loot bags. More specific collectibles such as collection chests and everyone’s favourites the demiguises. If you want to go for a more thorough play through there are 96 merlin trials which blow ass. Honestly they are tedious as fuck. I’d have much preferred like 15/20 harder puzzles then the shitty 96 you get. Honestly one of my only flaw with the whole game. You can also find; highland field pages though as well, along with popping balloons on your broom, landing pads, bandit camps, animal dens, ancient magic hotspots, mini dungeons which reward you with some new clothing items, and a few other smaller things to find that off the top of my head I can’t remember. There’s enough to keep you occupied for a good few extra hours if you choose to mop up the trophy list. There are three flying challenges, and five bigger dungeons to explore most are locked behind the side quest stories though. Flying in the open world is dandy, the race challenges on the other hand though, pure dogshit. They aren’t that hard to do as long as you’ve upgraded your broom and hit most of the speed bubbles, but it could be a it more loose in the turns. Overall your most fun in exploration will come with Hogwarts itself and the three hidden secrets you can find.
Amongst the main story and the three main quests, which you should definitely do Sebastian’s as soon as they are available as these give you the three unforgivable curses. There are 57 side quests in total to do. So not as grand as other rpg’s out there but enough to tide you over, and for the most part they aren’t all the same. They all help build the wizarding world, and introduce to varying aspects of the game. You have assignments early in the main story these are what unlock your new spells.
Just like duelling the snakey boy Voldemort in the films.
As well as having many spells in your arsenal, you also have potions and varying attack plants. Which honestly I barely used, not because they aren’t of use it’s just that it’s normally easier just to blast the shit out of all your enemies. You do have the option of stealth, but this is definitely a mechanic that needs work. Even with the upgrade to be harder to be seen, you are almost immediately seen by an enemy. So going in all gung-ho is a far better choice. There isn’t too many enemy types, so getting used to how they will attack isn’t too hard. Other then formidable foes, which are just named villains with more health and can usual be eviscerated with your special ancient magic move. Which is gage that fills up during battle, and then can be used to annihilate a poor unsuspecting goblin or spider.
A Hebridean black dragon you rescue.A Graphorn, this is the hardest beast to catch.Boss form of Ranrok
The story isn’t great to be honest, it starts off intriguing then it just meanders and doesn’t build up with the big bad in Ranrok being a fairly non involved bad guy and doesn’t amount to much. With the final boss fight being fairly disappointing. If at any point of the game where the use of magic or quick time events could be used to enhance a mission of fight, this was it and it missed the mark. The game is far better when you are wondering around, or doing quests for better written side characters. I’m currently just under the 40 hour mark and have done pretty much everything, just mopping up collecting everything, and then doing the beginning part of the game again three more times so I can get the platinum. So it’s not the longest game going, and once you have done everything there really isn’t much re-playability outside of going through it all again. Which is a shame. As inviting as the castle itself is, overall the game doesn’t come off as a Borderlands, Elder Scroll, Fallout or Witcher type of game. Where you have all these different builds, or new game plus to return for another round.
My expert combat skills on full show.
Overall I’d rate this game a very high, 8/10, Highly Tasty.
The wank Merlin trials, statue you get upon completing itDaedalian Key slap challenge. One of the night time only collectable, the demiguise.
For a first entry in a new triple A game, it’s a very strong start. The game world is fantastic and this is exemplified in Hogwarts itself, all worthwhile to explore. Combat works well but is lacking finesse, along with weak upgrades from the skill trees. There could be a few more enemies for variety, and a slightly better or at least in-depth upgrade system. I’d argue even having quests not always ending in caves or crypts just to build the world up a bit. At the moment it seems unlikely but this game is ripe for DLC, even just a new game + just to breath a smidge more life into the game. Hopefully in the inevitable sequel the game hasn’t pigeonholed itself to just Hogwarts and its surrounding areas, as it will definitely need to go further a field to not make the game stale from the get go.
I played the first Jurassic World game and while I didn’t platinum that due to the annoying database trophy, I did enjoy it and I’m a big fan of operation genesis on the PS2. So it makes sense that I picked up this game to play and expected to enjoy it, and that I did.
First things first, let’s talk about the campaign in this game. It’s very short, 5 missions that can be done in less than 3 hours and they’re not incredible by any stretch of the imagination. It’s a rinse and repeat of the same, catch this dinosaur, put it in an enclosure, make it happy. This isn’t anything special but it’s more used like a tutorial and gets you used to the new scientist system as well as keeping your eye out for wild dinos in the challenges and knowing what to do with them.
Then we move on the real meaty balls of the game. The chaos theory mode is very, very good and very, very fun. This mode lets you play through the films and make it ‘work’ this time. It kicks off with Jurassic park, slapping you onto Isla Nublar and letting you recreate the park that started it all. This seems to follow the film as close as reasonable but instead when the shit hits the fan, you fix it before that lawyer guy gets eaten with his pants down. Why he decided to hide from a T-Rex and then rip his pants off I’ll never know.
I absolutely loved this part of the game, seeing the little Easter eggs like what happened to the Spinosaur from JP3 and the planned Jurassic park San Diego is great. The missions are a fair length, some are only an hour, Jurassic World took me about 8 (possible due to being terrible). All in all this section was around 18 hours for me so it’s a fair part of the game.
Sandbox mode is better too. You can have ‘square maps’ which are huge so you can make proper Jurassic World sized parks and fill it with all these new dinosaurs. The Mosasaur is as great as in the film with the iconic shark grab out the water, and all the new sea dino’s are good although I do think we need a few more with more options to decorate the lagoons. Flying dinos are great too though, there aren’t too many of them. You can however decorate their aviaries and their habitation requirements are better than the lagoon creatures, which from what I can tell just require water.
Now, this is where the game kicks into high gear. The challenges. I’m currently on the last challenge and these take some time. Around 7 hours per challenge and with 5 this is about 35 hours of game time. That being said I am trying to do them on Jurassic difficulty for that sweet sweet platinum. These are fun though, while being very challenging with its absurd staffing cost and a storm every 2 seconds.
I’m very impressed with this game. Much better than the first one. Not sure what they could really do for the next game in terms of campaigns, I think hybrid splicing is going to be essential as that’s the only thing id say this game really lacks. Things like more dinos and decorations are a natural addition to a sequel.
I’d give this game 9/10 Pure Tasty Gaming. It’s banging and with some hybrids, more sea and sky boys with a similar chaos theory system the next game will be an easy 10.
Having been trying to get some maze of memories boosters for some time as round by me it appears it’s not existent in any stores, in the end I just went the old fashioned route of going through Amazon. ‘Cause fuck small business, they don’t need our money. Any ways I bought a few individual packs, they turned up and here we are.
Here the packs are in all of their foil glory.
To be honest I wish I just went for the option of just buying any entire booster box, as I did pull some decent cards, even a good few of the ones I wanted. Such as Red-Eyes soul, the re-print of the labyrinth heavy tank. Even going as far as getting the reprints of the gate guardian cards. Getting Suijin, Sanga and their fusion Gate Guardian of Water and Thunder. Obviously if you’ve seen my previous post you’d know I’ve already got all the originals from a speed duel deck. However you lose the joy of opening the packs and finding the cards you want. Plus they aren’t tainted by the not so obvious speed duel writing in the text area.
Here’s some of the good’uns I got. Pretty happy with it all to be honest.
Having not really bothered doing much card collecting over the past 8 or so years I forgot how quickly pulling doubles becomes tripled and quadruples. Sometimes this is a good thing like the super rares or collectors rares. Still getting used to the tier levels within this as again it has changed somewhat since my youth. However you don’t want to be getting three plus of the same shit card form only a few boosters.
I say all that however I have every intention of buying some more in the very near future none of this will stop me, in my pursuit of owning all he cool cards I never had as a wee lad.
Very happy with these two. With Red-Eyes being my favourite card from way back when and always wanting this heavy tank as it looked cool as fuck.
My next collecting goal is still a duel disk, I just feel I’d be doing myself a high disservice if I don’t get one soon. I’d definitely help if I even bothered looking for one.
I definitely also need to up my physical game collection. As I still only have that god awful GameCube monstrosity the Falsebound Kingdom. I’ve got a few others digitally but it’s not the same. I feel some of the next ones I get should be the tag force games for PSP. I should probably also consider getting some sleeves and folders. Seeing as I’ve gone from not many cards to literal hundreds. But meh… who knows I’m pretty shit at these sort of things.
Adding this new hobby to my main expensive hobby will probably bankrupt me one day, but life’s too short to not enjoy the stuff you enjoy. I’m not sure where I’m going with this particular one but I hope you tasty folk stick around for the ride. I’d also take passing the interest on and hoping that you join in yourselves. As ever stay fucking tasty, you delicious bastards.
This’ll be just a quick review, due to the lack of me being able to get footage off my Vita and the fact I imagine most of you would have already played one of the Borderlands games in some way or another and if you haven’t, you are truly missing out.
Borderland is one of the best game series going and 2 sits firmly as one of my all time favourites. Easily in my top 5. I have completed 2 on Xbox 360, PS3/PS4, and started 2 play throughs on the Vita over the years. I must’ve completed the game easily 7 times if not more since it originally dropped. It never gets old. Having started the game up and lost all my previous save data somehow, I chose to just start again. Picking zero for this run, opting for a sniper build, which I have yet to do. If nothing else this game provides high variety in play styles.
With this handheld version, it’s basically the same. If you’ve played the full console version which ever version it may be not much has changed. This is a real positive though. The graphics are all but the same, just slightly down graded. It doesn’t make too much of a difference though. Textures aren’t as crisp and the rendering isn’t obviously as good. This should be expected though considering the lower hardware capabilities. The game plays perfectly fine though, well for the most part. It will semi-frequently lag a bit and get a bit jolty. Overall doesn’t effect the overall shoot outs, which is the main part of the game. The gun fighting and loot, shooting is still just as great as it ever was here.
This particular version comes with pretty much all the DLC, minus Tiny Tina’s Assault on Dragon Keep. Which is a shame as it’s by far the best DLC. Even spawning a spin off title which I have yet to play, just another game in my ever expanding backlog. Having the other 3 main DLC’s to play though is worth while still. Adding extra hours of play and new legendary weapons, boss fights and a slightly higher level cap.
This version makes use of the Vita’s touch pad and touch screen, integrating it into the main aspects of combat. Used for running, melee attacks, throwing grenades and activating each individuals special ability. You can use the console itself to move when zoomed in, I personally find it harder to use activated then not, as you’ll constantly move whilst trying to aim with the joystick. You can if you’re butterfingered like me, though accidentally and constantly launch grenades at the floor in front of you, and end up blowing myself to shit.
Ultimately this version is a slightly downgraded graphically version of the already 10/10 classic. It doesn’t bring anything new to the table really. Just having the extra features that come along with the Vita itself. You get all the same guns, missions and trophy listing that can be shared with the PS3 list if you have already played it. It’s still just as much fun as it ever was and handsome jack is still one of the best villains in gaming.
I’d give this a 10/10 real fuckin’ Tasty. Having one of the best games of the 7th generation console cycle, with barely any downgrades, and with added portability. Even if you can get them on the Switch now as well, I’d imagine that is worth your time just as much as well.
The newest addition in the mainline series of Pokemon games comes in the form of Scarlet and Violet. I’d be lying if I just said I didn’t enjoy it, but the truth is, it is a good game. It’s just lacking in many areas as well as moving the series forward once more.
The academy you are part of, also the biggest building in the entire gameNew map and the three story paths. The new detailed map, if you zoom in enough you can find habitats.
Having enjoyed Legends Arceus so much and with many of the quality of life upgrades that came along with it, finally having the fully explorable open world that Pokemon has long deserved is great. It’s a tad shit to see how many of these great features have just been passed by in the newest entry. One of my biggest gripes with Pokemom games is the seem to have a new gimmick each entry and honestly I couldn’t care less for it. Mega evolutions was great, Dynamax was alright for gym battles, but ultimately fell flat. Terrastallizing is fun and does help mix up battles somewhat but what’s the point in getting used to it when it’ll be fucked off forever come the next game.
These are the three side paths, you have to pass a gym test before fighting the gym leader now. Finding and defeating the titans. Along with Cassiopeia.
Even if you overlook the lack of graphical finesse, and the terrible rendering as you traverse along, you can see they have put more effort in, especially in textures, and giving Pokemon fur if they should, a metallic shine etc. It’s not so much there’s no effort here it’s just lagging behind the quality it should be especially coming from one of the biggest franchises in the world. It is nice to see some actual world building in the design of the Paldea region, having the freedom to tackle the Team Star base, Gym challenge or the Titan Pokemon as you please is nice. However in only having 5 star bases and 5 Titan Pokemon too battle, a few more too pad out the world wouldn’t go amiss.
The updated Pokédex, which rewards you now as well.
Battling still works the same, wild trainers dotted around to run into and crush their dreams and steal their money, with a more Arceus approach to the overworld with multiple Pokemon free ranging it. Even occasionally having a group of 5/6 of the same Pokemon to destroy. I usually use the R trigger function that sends your lead Pokemon out to pick up items automatically or decimate the local wild life. I mainly use my combine harvester of a Baxcalibur to gleefully reap the souls of the masses for easy and slightly lower exp and items. This is a great way to farm exp and level up quickly. Baxcalibur is the newest psuedo-legendary and outside of seemingly missing a few design flairs it’s a monster. If you don’t have one in your party you’re playing the game wrong.
Battling with terastallized Pokémon. Evolving happens out in the wild as well.
I really wish this game had carried over 6 features from Arceus; catching Pokemon without battling, the item crafting, the Pokedex entry filling system, the mini side quests, self contained evolutions no trade only ones, and finally the ability to learn all moves but pick and choose the loadout as it were. The closest of any of these features that came over is the TM crafting. If these had all been implemented into the final product, it’d be such a better game for such small features. It’s like telling your parents you dug a hole in the garden and found diamonds, only for them to take it away and give you a lump of dog shit. Ones an unrefined product but is ultimately potentially priceless and the other is just shit and lying to them by trying to be thankful for being given it.
I love Pokemon games. They’re hard not to be hella fun as long as your into the whole grind of battle, catching and levelling up. With the nicely designed and open area of Paldea it is fun exploration and the new wave of side characters are good and engaging. Even with your Legendary Mon depending on which version you’ve got makes for fun world travelling, gliding swimming running up sheer cliffs. You’d be hard pressed not too easily pass an hour or two just battling around picking up endless items and TMs. It does still feel lacking, and for all the steps forward, it also feels regressive. I can’t say I’ve ran into many glitches or bugs which many did on release, I did enjoy where an entire town was just getting rained on by an endless stream of Jigglypuffs. Somehow as game bugs go that’s one that heightened the experience.
Team star leader battles end in battle against these big ol’ cars which never appear anywhere else in the game.
I’d argue I’ve spent far too much time on surprise trade as well, Lord be damned if I won’t get all version exclusives without owning both versions. Having all three starters, Charmander and only lacking Dreepy at the moment I’m not doing too bad in the task of completing the Pokedex.
I would give this game a 7/10, Positively Tasty.
It follows the typical Pokemon game formula, and as such if you’ve been along the ride for nearly 30 years, you’ll enjoy this. It has a few new nice bells and whistle to make the world seem bigger and more detailed. Battling is fun as it ever has been however, it does miss some of the forward thinking game mechanics of Arceus which I hope will either get a new entry or at least be implemented in the series going forward.
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