Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

IGN Sea Beast Wars was definitely a 1990s revival of the Transformers franchise by Hasbro. There was the toy line and there was the television. The toys don't always match up with the television series such as G1 Megatron was released as a TANK when the 1980s series made him a handgun. Later, G1! Megatron's tank mode was used in future series such as Transformers Armada . Apparently, Hasbro makes the toys first before any series was made. I mean, try to think of the initial prototype of Beast Wars had the following... Transformers Wiki The original toyline (as planned) had Optimus Primal as a bat (which is funny) and BW! Megatron is a crocodile. However, all that was changed in the TV series proper and later toys when Optimus Primal was a gorilla and BW! Megatron became a tyrannosaurus - an animal more befitting the Beast Wars . The toyline was born with a TV series. However, you may notice that a couple of toys NEVER made it into the original TV series at all. There were toy c...

  Mortal Kombat (2011) which I believe will be regarded as the best game of the reboot franchise (just like how Mortal Kombat II is regarded as the best game of the original trilogy) has Mortal Kombat Armageddon as the beginning scene. It would be interesting to see that we have Shao Kahn defeat Raiden, hammer Raiden, and finally the whole timeline resets itself. I was thinking the carnage below was a result of Taven's ending... It would be interesting that Taven, the half-god son of Argus and Delia, has had his ending narrated from two different points of view. One is the narrator and the other is Taven narrating the ending himself. I managed to enjoy playing the Konquest Mode of Armageddon better as it has more action and a definite end. So, the final task was for Taven to defeat Blaze. Then we realize that a third unforeseen outcome - all the powers of the kombatants was POWERED UP beyond their current level. That alone would make sense as the beginning of MK (2011) shows us a b...

  I remembered writing about everything wrong with Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance  as a junk game . Now, it's time to focus on Mortal Kombat Deception - a game that once won an award during its year but I doubt it that I'd play it all over again especially after Mortal Kombat (2011) or referred to as MK9 really managed to create almost everything I wanted in a Mortal Kombat game. I would really talk about the untapped potential of the game as there was truly an interesting concept going on. The game starts to explore more of the lore of Outworld. Onaga is introduced as Shao Kahn's former employer who was poisoned some time ago. Onaga seeks to return to the world of the living by deceiving a gullible man, Shujinko, into picking up the Kamidogu. The lore of the Konquest Mode is interesting, actually, but the gameplay is just flat-out BORING. Exploring the different eras and time periods can be fun if it wasn't for the bland gameplay. Not to mention, unlocking Shujinko was ...

It's usually an unfair comparison to compare Mortal Kombat to Tekken . One game is geared toward an older audience while Tekken is geared toward a younger audience. Tekken became a major influence in the fighting game industry while copying ideas from other games into itself. I mean, it doesn't take a genius to see that Kazuya is based on Vegeta, Heihachi is based on Dr. Wily, Nina Williams is based on Sarah Bryant, Law is based on Fei Long, Paul Phoenix is based on Ken Masters, and the list can go on and on. I decided to think about the similarities between the two franchises. Their first games were a hit but hardly aged well Tekken 1 was released with only eight playable characters while the home version unlocked the bosses without endings. Mortal Kombat 1 released its game with only seven playable characters. Both of them had stiff controls, really unfair artificial intelligence, and a crazy old man running the tournament. That may be the reason why Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa beca...

Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance is a game I'd say was full of junk characters. I almost dropped the franchise because it killed my favorite character, Liu Kang. Fortunately, Mortal Kombat X brought Liu Kang back as a playable revenant. Here? Liu Kang is dead. It was supposed to be a daring new move like what Transformers: The Movie did with Optimus Prime by killing him off. This game was trying new concepts, 3D gameplay, multiple fighting styles (which got old too quickly), and some new characters that just created a whole lot of junk and fandom rage. The game did initially succeed though I don't think it aged well. Just think how Mortal Kombat 11 even dares to use a Deadly Alliance arcade machine to murder the opponent in one of the stage fatalities. The game itself had some issues. I think one of my issues was the cheesy impale move. Other than that - the game took a step backwards with only one fatality per character and no stage fatalities.  I think the concept of Shang Tsun...

  It's no secret that my favorite Tekken game is Tekken Tag Tournament 2 . I wasn't such a fan of the first game with some issues such as the rather sluggish side stepping (one reason why I still spit at Mortal Kombat 4 also) and the character endings are anything to be desired. However, these are but minor shortcomings since Tekken Tag Tournament should be viewed as an important experimental game that won several awards, was an important game for the sales of the Playstation 2 (which this game was probably the selling point like how Super Mario World was to the Super NES back then) and it was praised by longtime fans of the game. The game in itself is NOT canon so don't try to fit it into the regular timeline. Instead, it was a spin off that returned some characters. Some fans weren't too happy with the loss of Kazuya and were probably more than happy to have him back - even in non-canon. The game featured over 35 characters to make some nostalgic games. Though, please...

A show that a lot (or maybe not a lot) of the 1980s or 1990s children will remember is Defenders of the Earth . The show itself features events that seem to coincide with the Flash Gordon movie (1980 version) to which it was hinted that Ming the Merciless (acted by Max Von Syndow) had managed to survive after all. However, some events suggest otherwise that it's very much its own continuity. Dale Arden has been married to Flash Gordon and they have a child named Rick Gordon. It seems that the plot tends to follow up after the movie with Ming the Merciless probably still obsessed with Dale (and he's OLD ENOUGH to be her father). Ming the Merciless has practically exhausted Mongo of its resources (which might be a reference as to why the Mongols kept trying to invade China) and he's aiming for Earth. Such is the case of supervillain stupidity which leads to Ming the Merciless' desire for Earth. But like President Skroob from Space Balls - Ming the Merciless may not even ...