Talkie Tuesday: GOWR Valhalla

 

"You have always been more than what others saw."

 

Hello everyone!

 

And Happy New Year!

 

I hope that you had a wonderful celebration with friends, family, or others who bring you as much joy as they possibly can, and that you ended 2023 on a good bang. 

 

Also, that 2024 will bring you everything you may want or need, even if you yourself don't think you do. Because sometimes, getting the unexpected and realizing that it's exactly what we would have asked for if we'd known to ask, is probably the best solution.

 

As far as this blog goes, well, we're back on the regular grind now!

 

And boy, do I have a banger for you tonight.

 

Released at the start of December, completely free of charge and made specifically for the fans, this particular subject has probably garnered plenty of praise purely based on that alone.

 

Then you figure out the what, who and why, and it gets even better. Because it's God of War, Ragnarok, to be precise, and its DLC: Valhalla.

 

Talkie Tuesday: HFW Burning Shores

 

"Home isn't really a place at all. It's more like ... the people I want to be with."

 

Hello everyone!

 

So here's a story for you:

 

I was all set to watch a Hannah Swensen mystery this past Sunday, because I remembered that I really enjoyed the Murder, She Baked on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.

 

Turns out, as I start watching the movie I'd chosen, it looks ridiculously familiar.

 

Aaand I already have it on the blog.

 

Given the fact that the newest entry only really premiered this weekend as well, I won't be able to watch it until a week's past, so I had to call an audible and switch gears real fast.

 

Luckily for me (and my unfortunate head with the biggest potential for a migraine I've had in forever) I was only about an hour away from finishing something else, this time on Youtube.

 

So I picked the DLC that everyone and their mother's been waiting for since Guerrilla announced it.

 

Burning Shores picks up Aloy's story, and runs with it.

 

Saturday Snippet: SW Jedi Survivor

 

Happy almost May! Time to take a look at Cal's second chapter :)

 

xx

*video not mine

Talkie Tuesday: Hogwarts Legacy

 

"Magic is no different than any power. What really matters is the one who wields it."

 

Hello everyone!

 

I promise, by this time next week there WILL be another movie review waiting, but I just finished watching a gameplay on Youtube from one of my favourites, Trev Martin, and I couldn't just not talk about it.

 

I'll admit, however, that I was wary going in.

 

I mean, Harry Potter was a successful franchise, and so too were Fantastic Beasts until people started complaining and other outside scandal erupted which certainly didn't help matters along.

 

Then, let's not forget the horrible would-be continuation of Cursed Child which I still pretend to this day doesn't exist (I swear if they actually make a movie we'll know it's just a cash grab, because there are FAN FICTION STORIES out there better than that drivel!).

 

So all in all, not an auspicious beginning, and honestly? I dragged my feet a little to start watching, but you get sucked in easily enough, and I've started my second watch via Nic's channel by now.

 

Without further ado, let's get our wands at the ready, shall we?

 

Hogwarts Legacy needs us to step up our game.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Batham Arkham Origins

 

"It's high time you realize you are a man, not an island. 

A man's strength comes from not just brawn and intelligence, but also from his allies."

 

Hello everyone!

 

I'm sure some of you might have seen this coming, but if not ... well, unfortunately you'll have to contend with some more video game reviews.

 

And this week, we're heading right back to the beginning.

 

Well, alright, the way these games were released it isn't ACTUALLY the first one in the series, but CHRONOLOGICALLY it is, and that's the way I've chosen to re-watch the gameplays.

 

See, I've watched these all before, way before Gotham Knights popped on scene.

 

But with the resurgence in Batman interest, I decided I'm going to go right back and figure out how the story connects, if it does.

 

I kinda think it does, even if Knights supposedly isn't a sequel.

 

Anyway, we need to stop chattering and start talking about the game itself, right? Right.

 

Because Batman: Arkham Origins won't wait.

Talkie Tuesday: Gotham Knights

 

"Gotham City called, and we have answered. And we will never abandon her."

 

Hello everyone!

 

It looks like there will be more video game summaries to be found on my blog post now that I've re-discovered my love for watching them on Youtube.

 

I've also made it a mission of mine to actually get my hands on a console at some point.

 

I'd DEARLY love to play some of the games I write about!

 

But I digress.

 

First of all, I have to make sure to do this game justice.

 

People seem to be split on the final verdict for this one, just like any other honestly. It feels like the times of being able to just buy a game and play it without the peanut gallery preaching back at you are over, which is kind of sad.

 

Particularly as this is a good game - maybe not perfect, but it IS good.

 

Which game am I talking about you may ask? Why, Gotham Knights of course.

 

Saturday Snippet: Batman Wonders ...

 

... about what he ever did to deserve this 😂

 

xx

*video not mine

Talkie Tuesday: God of War Ragnarök

 

"Fate only binds you if you let it. Do what is necessary; not because it is written."

 

Hello everyone!

 

And welcome once again to another video game summary.

 

You may remember that I love to do this every once in a while, if I find a game that I truly like and fall in love with.

 

And HOO boy!

 

I fell in love with this one.

 

So much so that I'm watching the gameplay on Youtube for the third or fourth time in a row right now.

 

Yeah, I know. It's an obsession at this point, but it's a good kind of obsession and you can't tell me you wouldn't be feeling the same way, or that you aren't.

 

This game maybe didn't win Game of the Year, but it won the highest number of awards anyway, and between the story, the score, the vocal performances, and general roundup, I'm reasonably sure that it's a fitting ending to the Norse Saga.

 

What am I talking about, you ask? Why, God of War Ragnarök, of course!

 

Saturday Snippet: God of War Ragnarok SOUNDTRACK

 

SPOTIFY

 

xx

*image not mine

Talkie Tuesday: God of War III

 

"My vengeance ends here."

 

Hello everyone!

 

So I know that not all of you are fans of these videogames, which is why I'm going to be wrapping up my romp through them with this blog post, unless I end up reading the book adaptation in the next little while to add to the collection as well.

 

But for the most part, we've now pretty much come full circle, since we already know what happens to the protagonist afterwards!

 

Well, we THINK we know, in any event.

 

For the past few weeks we've been trailing after Kratos, the demigod son of Zeus, who is on a quest for vengeance because the Greek Gods made a tactical mistake and didn't understand what they ended up creating through their machinations and promises and debts to the guy.

 

I mean, you want to talk about hubris? These idiots have it in spades, and they don't realize what's happening until it's much, much too late.

 

So without further ado, let's look at God of War III.

Tome Thursday: God of War II

 

Hello everyone!

 

Did you by any chance miss your regular dose of decapitating, family-murdering, and other blood-related sports for a bit?

 

Have you been wondering just what to do with your time without all of the above?

 

Not to worry, I'm back with more of it!

 

And if you think I'm kidding you really should pay attention when someone name-drops Kratos, because man, the dude's entire philosophy on how to deal with the world is to literally kill whoever's in his way. With the formal announcement (trailer PLUS gameplay!) for Ragnarok at the Playstation showcase, the hype really is on to see our Spartan again.

 

Especially as he seems to have mellowed out a bit in his old age.

 

But not in this one! In this one he's still very much at the peak of his existence, one would say (though you could also always argue about it), and he hasn't really got time for all your diplomatic and peacekeeping nonsense.

 

God of War II picks up practically a sneeze after God of War and, well, it's got some style, lemme tell you.

 

Saturday Snippet: RELEASE DATE

 

xx

*image not mine

Tome Thursday: God of War

 

Hello everyone!

 

As you can see from the title of tonight's blog post, we're once again venturing into the land of Spartan rage, fickle gods, and the mortals who serve them.

 

I always enjoy looking up novelizations of certain videogames because they usually offer up additional information on a character, their story, and of course the central plot you can get familiar with if you play the game.

 

So when I fell head-first into the God of War franchise, I ended up finding not one, not even two, but THREE novelizations of three game titles.

 

I got into it with the latest installment, which means I'm really interested to read about it from that particular point, but that said I have a slightly OCD mind, and so if I see there are other books prior to the one I want in a series, I have to read those first.

 

I just ... I can't lol.

 

Which also helps me in a way as I learned a whole lot more about Kratos than I knew before I watched that gameplay on Youtube! So without further ado, here we go with the first book of God of War.

 

Talkie Tuesday: God of War 2018

 

"We are not men. We are more than that. The responsibility is far greater."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Yeah okay, I keep on sort of cheating in this section. SUPPOSEDLY this is where movie reviews go if you look, but I haven't had time to watch many movies consistently in a little bit.

 

Ergo, I have to make do with the rest.

 

And I mean it's not that I'm complaining here, given the fact that the reviews I do eventually post are pretty darn good if I do say so myself, in terms of the topics I choose and the eventual format they take on once I'm done with them.

 

So tonight, as my first official blog post upon my return from vacation, here we are.

 

With another game review, potentially one of the best games of all times released in the recent decade or so.

 

I'm not the only one saying it, by the way, there are others saying the same thing.

 

God of War, the 2018 edition and fourth major installment in the franchise, is here to Spartan Rage.

 

Saturday Snippet: Boy

 

I can now understand the hype behind this xD

HANN TIL RAGNAROKS!

 

xx

*video not mine

Talkie Tuesday: Horizon Zero Dawn

 

"I would have wanted her to be curious.  And willful, 

unstoppable even, but with enough compassion to heal the world."

 

Hello everyone!

 

So this week I'm doing something much, MUCH different than any other week before.

 

You're probably wondering how this all makes sense. After all, I may have mentioned in some other post (or two) that I'm not actually a gamer, strictly speaking. I don't have a computer that could handle that type of graphic, and I definitely don't have a gaming console at this moment in time.

 

But what I DO have is access to Youtube, and you can find pretty much any game played from start to finish on there, if you know which gamers to follow.

 

I've been following Tmartn for a few years now, but I've equally been subscribed to Tetraninja, and it was the latter's gameplay of this masterpiece that I ended up going through.

 

And man, did I power through it. I just couldn't stop watching!

 

I've seen some gameplays in the years since I started watching, and all of them have a story worth following, but I don't think I've ever run into something as insanely awesome as Guerilla Games' production of Horizon Zero Dawn.

 

Saturday Snippet: Hi, I'm Sauron

 

I don't like most of Valhalla ... but this is cool xD

 

xx

*video not mine

Saturday Snippet: Valhalla Honest Trailer

 

 Enjoy the laughs!

 

xx

*video not mine

Tome Thursday: My Christmas Fiancé

 

Hello everyone!

 

I am back and this time with an official excuse to actually start the Christmas books extravaganza. For the foreseeable future, you will be seeing only something and everything Christmas related on here even when it comes to books, so I hope you're prepared for it!

To be fair, I started last week already with Hermione Moon's book, but I feel like this week it's more official, you know?

After all, it IS December now!

So I was waffling between wanting to give you something sweet and a little steamy, and a murder mystery, because not even Christmas can escape that particular niche.

And in the end, I figured sweet and steamy might work a bit better, however there will definitely be some sleuthing going on here as well, just not this week.

For now we are returning to my first love when it comes to contemporary books, the work of Serenity Woods. This is one of her older ones, but she IS releasing a new Christmas-themed romance soon and you bet that I will be bringing you the scoop as soon as I can!

Right now, it's time to check My Christmas Fiancé first.

Saturday Snippet: Asgard!

 

 

 

Check this gameplay and pay attention!

The plot thickens.

 

xx

*video not mine