Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

I remembered one movie I begged my parents to take me to but never did. Back in the 1990s, there was the Super Mario Bros. movie which was loosely based on the Super Mario Bros. game. An interesting thing was that it was in 1993 was shown on May 28, 1993, when Haim Saban acquired the rights from Nintendo to make the Super Mario Bros. Show . 1993 was also the year when one of my disliked franchises Power Rangers showed up. I may have some dislike for Power Rangers . However, this is one film that I could bash a lot harder. I still fee that maybe the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie was at least ENJOYABLE. This one seems to be what I'd call a hideous licensed film. I guess I'm always going to have my dislike for MOST American adaptations based on Japanese franchises. The movie tried to have a more mature approach. I don't know if it's really a good idea to do so. It took away the familiarity of the games. For example, Mario and Luigi are no longer twins like they were i...

Adaptations will alter certain story elements, right? I would say that I'm pretty not much of a fan of LICENSED adaptations of Japanese media. It's no secret that I really dislike Power Rangers or any American localizations (which in itself is an adaptation in a business dictionary). Another thing I dislike is the American localization of Street Fighter . Guile may be a badass colonel but I felt Ken could've made the better American adaptation protagonist. One movie called Street Fighter also came up. There were two characters who had a side change namely Zangief AND Balrog. Yes, Balrog one of the top Shadaloo enforcers was made a good guy in Street Fighter the American movie. I think the reason had to be this. Balrog's Japanese name is MIKE Bison. The name change was presumably done to prevent lawsuits with Capcom due to the character could be a caricature. Instead, Balrog, in the movie, was made into Chun Li's cameraman. This was the only time we should see Balrog...

  Back then before Street Fighter fell down to a certain extent (such as with what happened with Street Fighter V which I wonder if I'll still get it) - there was a time Capcom released better.   The Street Fighter Alpha series came and the final installment was the third game. The third game introduced a notoriously powerful version of General M. Bison (or General Vega) as the final boss. It wouldn't be your typical Bison battle as he had a UNIQUE fighting style not selectable. The game cemented his status as a final boss character with SNK stats. Granted, I only played the console version of Street Fighter Alpha 3 way back with the first Playstation. Personally. it was my favorite of the series and the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology version   slightly falls down. This version of Bison is so DAMN TOUGH that you'd probably cry a lot. What made the boss fight frustrating (for the arcade) is that once you're defeated - you really can't continue. Woah, talk about takin...

It can't be denied that I'm pretty much the   Batman x Poison Ivy shipper , right? I just feel like comic book series tend to get rebooted for too long. I guess that's why I decided to stop collecting comics since too many plots drag for too long such as Batman and Catwoman having their sexual tensions. Though, I felt that Poison Ivy might be the more ideal crack pairing. This comic book  has a plot which again, proves Poison Ivy has been more anti-villain than heroine. This comic book issue seems to put both Batman and Poison Ivy in some tension. The plot is a direct sequel to  "Toxic Shock" . Even Batman mentions it out loud. Poison Ivy does steal a plant but ends up saving the life of a person who has become toxic. There's some dilemma especially when Batman deals with some corrupt American government agents. Some corrupt government agents are trying to use some Amazonian boy with some disorder. Poison Ivy shows that she's got a good side unlike the oth...

Shang Tsung has been no doubt considered a broken, overpowered character in previous installments of Mortal Kombat . Getting rid of his ability to morph altogether made the 3D games tolerable. Though, that ability was somehow returned in the reboot for the two games namely Mortal Kombat (2011) or referred to as MK9,  and  Mortal Kombat 11 (MK11) . The ability was limited to the extent that Shang Tsung can now only morph into the OPPONENT via Soul Steal. Shang Tsung has the ability to do limited morphs in MK11 through the variation system by selecting certain ninja moves within a limit.  How do I think Shang Tsung is still potentially broken? Casual gamers like myself wouldn't have the time to memorize or analyze all the Dial-a-Combos in MK9 or MK11 . However, take the serious player who would practice all characters or memorize even long combos (such as Tekken players). If the person has a strong devotion - they could slowly memorize all the moves of MK9 and MK11 in no ti...

I could remember some of the worst short-term fears I had as a child was with clowns. I remembered how I would easily get scared of people in masks or by the Joker. Some people do get scared of mascots too when they were younger. Somebody might be crying while sitting on the lap of a Santa Claus mascot or being greeted by a Mickey Mouse mascot. Parents may have had a hard time trying to convince them that it's just a man in a suit. It would be weird (really) if a child enjoyed watching Mickey Mouse on television and getting scared of a Mickey Mouse mascot. In my case, it seems my initial fear of clowns was because of one portrayal of the Joker - the Batman (1989) film. Joker is known to be Batman's fiercest enemy, a fan-favorite villain, and may have inspired the Marvel villain Arcade. One thing worth noting is that it was the JOKER who killed Bruce Wayne's parents in this movie. It makes Joker old enough to Batman's father even if it seems that Joker is not that old in...

Okay, just be ready for my PERSONAL BIASES just like how I dislike Power Rangers  and certain entries of the Super Sentai franchise. At this point, I could talk about the controversial Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance (MKDA)  game which I called a junk game .The game itself got praised during its initial release (even if it did kill off Liu Kang) though it had a couple of characters that Netherrealm hates. Those characters were later killed in the Mortal Kombat X (MKX)  comics such as the non-playable sub-boss Moloch (killed by Kitana), Hsu Hao (killed by NOT SURPRISINGLY Scorpion), and Mavado (killed by Jacqui Briggs). Some characters are still respected such as Kenshi himself became a paid DLC for Mortal Kombat (2011) or MK9  and we had Bo Rai Cho returning for MKX  as paid DLC and Frost as an unlockable in Mortal Kombat 11 .  I could rant on and on about how MKDA was a junk game. Yet, the game can be viewed as an experimental ground for new stuff. In fact...