I honestly think this makes a pretty good fit.

Castlevania’s flashy, ornate aesthetic and over-the-top dramatics could transition nicely to the stage.

Like, imagine the WHAT IS A MAN monologue being belted out from centerstage under a spotlight and accompanied by organ music.

Flanders’s breakdown is the most earned and satisfying character moment in television history.

This is the kind of magazine page that 90s-kid-me would stare at for hours fantasizing over. Even looking at it now, it’s surprisingly easy for me to ignore the objective technical limitations and get hyped.

Side note: can we talk about that 1ST PC GUN on the mid-left there? Dude…

“I am inventing electricity…and you look like an ASSHOLE.”

We can only hope it will take us far away from that mucky-muck, man.

And so few good ones…

Ugh. Personal memory unlocked.

Years ago, when I was teaching English Lit, I was doing a whole short fiction unit on Bradbury. A terrible, TERRIBLE adaptation of “A Sound of Thunder” had just been dumped on DVD. I hadn’t watched it, but I used to screen films for my classes after teaching the texts they were adapted from. 9 times out of 10, the films were garbage, but it was an interesting way to study adaptation.

So I grabbed the dvd. And watched it for the first time alongside my students and had to physically hold in my anger. Guys, it’s that bad.

The best part was reading my students’ papers on the adaptation, which were mostly on the lines of “why is this a thing that exists” and “how can cgi dinosaurs look this bad” and “this movie has baboonlizards, why does this story need baboonlizards” and so on.

Of course, being a classroom, there was still the requisite one or two responses of “I liked the movie better than the story because it was a movie and I didn’t have to read.”

But yeah, don’t watch “A Sound of Thunder.” And if you do, go back in time and prevent yourself from doing it. It’s that important.

That’s Kotaku for you.

Maybe I’m the outlier here, but if I’m a big enough fanboy of a certain anime, I don’t mind a semi-crappy video game port that let’s me further bask in that universe. Even moreso if the game’s throwing out extra new lore or good fanservice at me.

Plus there was always something oddly charming about clunky PS2-era licensed anime games to me, although I admit nostalgia may be influencing my perspective there.

And this is coming from someone who played through both PS2 Eureka Seven games to completion.

Good ol’ Fink Manufacturing…

Good to know!

I’m fortunate enough to still have my full collection of RB4 instruments functional after all these years, and I frequently bust them out with my wife and my friends when the booze hits just right.

In the announcement they really emphasize that you’ll keep the songs you’ve already bought. What they haven’t clarified is whether you’ll still be able to continue downloading dlc tracks that are already released. Severing that from the playerbase would really suck.

Although they are releasing one final DLC pack before this ends, so who knows?