Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

Perhaps another of those series I thought were either an old shame or not is Captain Planet.  The whole show itself was pretty much focused on five youngsters who were selected by Gaia the spirit of the Earth to summon Captain Planet.  Mythologically speaking, Gaia is Mother Earth and the mother of creation in Greek Mythology who continues to rule even after Uranus and Cronus were overthrown.  So I had my thoughts on what's pretty silly about the series too.  The characters are Kwame from Africa, Wheeler from North America, Linka from Europe, Gi from Asia (no country specified) and Matti from South America.  So pretty much, Gaia chooses them because of the purity of their intent. The villains themselves you might want to think how in the world did they get their names?  Did their parents have a poor sense of naming?  So we have the names as puns to what they do: 1.) Duke Nukem (NOT the video game hero) well is nuclear reaction. 2.) Dr. Blight me...

I remembered watching the 1939 Wizard of Oz film which the ending seemed to suggest that, "It was just a dream." scenario. Yet, I wonder why I still liked that movie as a child in spite of the whole implication that it was just a head-induced delirium. Then the 90s came where DiC produced a "sequel" where it doesn't look like it was just a dream. The Wicked Witch of the West gets resurrected in a new body (but she's still allergic to water) and the cast must return to defend Oz once more. The show lasted for only 14 episodes. I could remember how there was the episode of the Clock Master or the Upside-Down Town. I remembered how it was aired repeatedly even after the 14th episode which made me wonder as a child saying, "Why aren't there any new episodes?" Then I realized one thing - it only had 14 episodes! The show itself ended with the hot air balloon contest where the Wicked Witch of the West was last seen flying off because it was rainin...

Well there was the Super Mario Bros. Super Show which I remembered watching as a child back when the NES was still popular, too bad I didn't have a Super Nintendo back then or is it good? Anyway this was one of the shows I thought was pretty popular. It follows loosely from the computer games but it is a way better trip than that damn awful Super Mario movie (avert thine eyes from it). Well it's not your trip to Mushroom Land all the time but it features King Bowser (called King Koopa here) with Super Mario Bros. 2 villains namely Mouser, Triclide the three headed snake, Birdos, Shy Guys and some of the standard villains like Koopa troopers and Goombas in their quest to take over various realities. Which King Koopa here becomes various story book characters and the Super Mario Bros. must stop him from rewriting history with the Princess Peach and Toad while of course, King Koopa does still have his on/off crush on the Princess Peach. In short, it was really a combination of ...

Back then I only played Virtua Fighter at the arcade and at some friend's house while I played Tekken 1-3 on the Playstation 1 back then. So my impressions were simple on both games- Virtua Fighter can be fun but Tekken for me had more interesting gameplay and storyline. Both games feature mostly realistic moveset while having a sci-fi story. But I'll just probably think of what I really thought why I think Tekken beats Virtua Fighter. Tekken aside from its great fighting game also has for me, has more reasons why you should finish the game. Okay, Tekken 1 was pretty lacking back then, well you can't blame it, it was more or less a gamble. But you get to really unlock cool character endings which Virtua Fighter doesn't have which annoys me. I thought that Virtua Fighter had harder controls compared to even the first Tekken game. Tekken usually gets itself more bursting with cool content than Virtua Fighter for me. Virtua Fighter is pretty bare including its stor...

Mortal Kombat really well literally got reincarnated last 2011 into an otherwise really solid game that will make you stare in disbelief.  So here's what I thought of Mortal Kombat 2011 and why it kicked ass: 1.) A bit more masher friendly gameplay- The reincarnated Mortal Kombat's battle system has become a little more masher friendly.  In what way?  You have a button for each limb like the Tekken franchise, cheesy combos and you might consider the whole return to 2D gameplay.  Again, even today some fighting games in general use 3D graphics on a 2D plane like Street Fighter IV and Marvel vs. Capcom 3.  Here, you have Mortal Kombat returning to a 2D fighting plane which makes it somewhat more masher friendly and doesn't nerf the pros and becomes more accessible to beginners while you can figure out how to do some really wacky combos to troll your opponents.  Though Tekken 6 and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 imo are still more masher friendly and more accessib...

In the past, Killer Instinct was a popular game for the Arcade and Super Nintendo which spawned what I might call a not-so-well sequel called Killer Instinct 2.  I was thinking if anybody could have handled Killer Instinct better it would have been Netherrealm Studios.  I know Midway went bad but Netherrealm Studios for me could have been better.  In fact if they did the game, here's what we might find: 1.) More than ten characters.  Netherrealm Studios may soon revive Cinder, Riptor and other fan favorites.  The might even now transport Maya, Kim Wu, Tusk and Gargos into the present to compete in a third tournament.  Sadira and maybe more new characters will be born.  Midway learned from its mistakes with the previous MK games and decided to adapt to change.  Too bad that Killer Instinct as a game now hasn't adapted much to change. 2.) Bloodier fatalities.  Shame that Killer Instinct for the X Box One has none of the No Mercies which wer...

As said, it was better for MMPR to end as it should.  And now I'd like to list my problems with the series aside from the overextension and no proper finale: Lord Zedd- Though he initially had a cool introduction and everything, cool theme song and I just seldom imagined myself as him (at first) but I thought that he was actually just threatening for the first few arcs but you can see he had become a terrible joke, even before his marriage to Rita.  I thought that after he created his advanced Z-Putties, he was too focused on brawn than anything.  The Z-Putties were more powerful but the Power Rangers could beat them so easily after that, making them more useless.  And after draining the Green Ranger powers after a couple of otherwise "standard schemes", he was just getting useless.  And probably his worst plan was to turn Kimberly into his evil queen which was probably lame brain but I seemed to take a guilty pleasure in writing villainous crushes.  Wel...