Saturday, August 19, 2017

Blast from the Past

Agumon vs Gatchmon lasted all of about five seconds. Agumon is a game character from Digimon Universe RPG that Haru played and is actually Haru's save data. An Appmon under Leviathan's control is forcing all game characters to look for Bootmon, but Agumon escaped and was trying to put all the characters back in their games. The kids went to the Nakano Broadstreet area from Cybersleuth, where Eri and Astra were mobbed by fans and Yuujin had to do crowd control.

I watched the new Duck Tales pilot, and I have to say I liked it. However, we are faced once again with the Goofy/Pluto controversy when the anthro sailor ducks shoo a regular seagull away from their ships. I like that our introduction to Webby was her using a rope whip to grab and tie up the boys. I remember when she apprehended the Beagle Boys with just her jump rope in a story from the old series. Another nice easter egg was the look-alike doll she used to carry around. David Tennant is great as Scrooge, so much so I almost expect Scrooge to adopt "Allons-y!" as a new catchphrase (he has enough of his own, but it wouldn't be out of place).

Disney's Villains' Revenge is a point-and-click adventure game that fans of Kingdom Hearts should look into. The premise is that Jiminy gets bored and tears out the pages of certain fairy tales that contain happy endings. The Blue Fairy tells him that the stories are real and that by tearing out the pages, the villains have won. Jiminy has to go into the journal to fix it. Then the door shows you who the heroes are - something that Terra could have benefited from in Birth By Sleep. Too bad the animation and gameplay are kind of crap. I'll just blame it all on Jiminy for being the worst. What kind of monster tears pages out of a book? I also watched a playthrough of Madeline's European Adventures. It opened with the theme song from the TV show, which I used to love. They even got Christopher Plummer to narrate again. The game wasn't bad, but I had fun snarking at it nonetheless, like how they're having a little girl do all these tasks that the adults should've already had a handle on (the first stage was reasonable, but then it turned into "Do everything, Madeline!"). Magnificent Puppet Show was less fun and more tedious, not to mention ridiculous. However, it was just marginally better than the other two I found to watch - Madeline's Thinking Games and Classroom Companion. At least  they both had musical segments from the show (I recognized two of them). Wishbone Activity Zone was kind of disappointing, as it did not contain any clips from the show, only stills and the theme music. Prop hunt had audio clips, but it wasn't any fun.

Caramel apple Poptarts are really pretty good.

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