Menitta's Daily Yapping

Yes this is the thumbnail.   I got into an argument about Metroid a while back.  Out of my petty, childish spite, I decided to replay Metroid Other M. I would like to be correct about my distaste towards things. This is kinda like when I replayed Persona 5. I wanna update my feelings. Who knows? Maybe I'll enjoy it this time!  So off the bat, I actually like what this game sets out to do by being a 3rd person action game for Metroid. It's easy to draw parallels from this series and to Ninja Gaiden. 2D platformer series into 3d action game. Appropriately, the primary dev for this game was Team Ninja. On paper, that should be a fantastic match. Recently I've found myself absolutely loving their action RPGs. Nioh 2 is one of my favorite games ever. I even like Wo Long and Rise of the Ronin. Team Ninja is a very talented studio. Even with their bad games like Ninja Gaiden 3, you can still have fun pushing buttons. Unfortunately this is not the cas...

This has been on my mind for several months now and it's especially present now that I am playing the recently released Onimusha: Way of the Sword. We are in a particularly interesting time when it comes to paying homage to performers that have passed away. Technology has gotten to a point, with video games in particular, where companies can take the likeness of one who passed away and put them in a modern story. As the title mentions, I wanna talk about Onimusha and Stranger than Heaven.  Onimusha Way of the Sword is a samurai action game featuring the likeness of Toshiro Mifune (passed away in 1997) as Miyamoto Musashi. I'm a few hours in and I am absolutely loving the game. It's a ton of fun. What particularly impressed me was the performance on display and just how much respect is put on representing Toshiro Mifune as Miyamoto Musashi.  In the mid 50s, Toshiro Mifune played Musashi in the Samurai trilogy, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. Mifune also started in m...

I'm 29 now. My birthday was last week, August 30th. I was in NYC for the week but I had that Sunday off to do whatever. I made the most of it! Originally I thought about seeing a Broadway show but the options available weren't really interesting to me, and also the ticket prices were approaching triple digits so I passed. I still had some fun stuff planned though. The Saturday before, I went to the Barnes and Noble on 5th Avenue. They had a sale going on for Arrow Video where all their movies were 50% off, just like they do with Criterion. I ended up grabbing a few movies.  Blackhat and A Simple Plan were blind buys but I trust both directors (Michael Mann and Sam Raimi respectively). I love Kill Bill and Untouchables, and those were both on sale. The next day on my actual birthday, I did a few fun things. First, I went to the M&M store in Times Square. This was fun but I could tell it's mostly for families and kids rather than single 29 year old...