Recent content by jian

It would certainly be nice to see Qi'ra again (voiced by Clarke, hopefully) - I'd certainly like to know what happened to her in the years leading up to the Rebellion. I know her fate has been covered in some recent comics but I'd like to see some canon development on screen. (Honestly if we...

Yeah, I’m not a big fan of Upson - I’d have thought “murder mysteries set around Josephine Tey’s theatrical work” would have been just my bag, but “mysteries referring to Tey but more gory” really aren’t. I’ve got The Christmas Clue to give her another chance but we’ll see.

Once again, I’ll state that I’m happy for Lucasfilm to remake SW with Alden Ehrenreich, Ewan McGregor, Hayden Christensen, and whoever else is up for it. Maybe Moses Ingram, it’d be nice to see her character back. Maybe this time Obi-Wan doesn’t have to die.

Yes, exactly. A good story in a game can feel fantastic because it can be more immersive than a novel or film, but a bad game system can totally destroy that (where bad doesn’t mean “generally badly implemented” but can simply mean “not something I’m enjoying right now”) and that’s basically...

Another good thing about Solo was that it did some decent seeding - having taken up and used a lot of established plot, it generously seeded more for future works, such as Enfys Nest and her grunge biker wing of the Rebellion (“there are whole armies and battalions who have no idea that they’ve...

Shooting first (against someone who has the drop on you and is either gonna kill you now or take you to someone who is) doesn’t make you immoral. Taking a freely proffered reward for services rendered doesn’t either; he hadn’t blackmailed the Rebellion into promising him cash beforehand. Han...

Honestly, I don’t really see that. Han in Solo is much the same guy as he is in Star Wars and in the various prequel books I’m old enough to remember - an outlaw who’s mostly out for himself and people he cares about (which, in SW, is basically just Chewie) but is also a decent human being...

Ah, yes, I was thinking back to playing in the 80s and 90s. Glad to hear it’s been reworked, it really needed it. The release of and reception to EiF back in the early 90s was such a huge thing, it was so hard to actually get a copy and play it. So it looks (on DTRPG) like it’s now: Enemy in...

Having played TEW, I’d say that it’s excellent for the first three parts and then falls down badly in Kislev (there are lots of online fixes for this) and the last part is honestly kind of a massive genre change with railroaded cod-LotR shenanigans. So yes, definitely great for the first 60% but...

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is a different game with a very different story, but I also think it’s one of the best storylines in any JRPG I’ve played. It did a fine job with isekai when that was a relatively new genre, with classic FF stylings.

The outstanding example for me is Shiki (Four Seasons) for Sengoku, a series of four adventures based on the four seasons which takes our protagonists from escaping a besieged castle with the baby heir to, fifteen years later, supporting the heir as he retakes his ancestral lands from the...

You see the youngling’s mistake right there. “Management Trainee? MANAGEMENT TRAINEE? I’m C-Suite now!”

Yeah, I’d have to agree. Solo knew the brief and while it overdid explaining where he got his kit (he’s allowed to just buy his blaster in a shop, you know) it did very well on the fun. Donald Glover really helped, as did the rest of the cast. It remains watchable and re-watchable. I loved...

I haven’t read The Book of the New Sun, so I was parsing the statement as given, and it does indeed sound like an ideal - of Severian about himself and his view of the world - which I personally find unpalatable, and I’m glad I’m meant to.