Secret Invasion: a Furious Failure
It’s no secret that Marvel’s Disney+ shows haven’t been hitting the mark. You could probably draw the whole of the MCU’s Phase 4 shows like a playground slide, with WandaVision and Loki at the top followed by a long descent down to the bottom, with maybe a few small bumps along the way for Ms Marvel. Phase 4 went so poorly that it feels like Disney just shuffled it along and tried to move us straight into Phase 5, foregoing the traditional “Avengers level threat” that capped off every other Phase and just taking us straight into a new year… with Ant-man 3 which no one liked either. Secret Invasion is the first show of Phase 5 and unfortunately it seems this change of Phases hasn’t shaken off the Phase 4 cobwebs, because Secret Invasion deserves to be right at the end of the slide. What makes a piece of…
Trepang2 Review
If you ask someone about the F.E.A.R. franchise they’d probably just remember it as “that horror shooter on the Xbox 360,” and completely ignore the fact that it was actually a solid action shooter in its own right that just happened to have a creepy little girl in it. Fans of F.E.A.R. are quick to point this out when you don’t mention that detail, and it’s a little strange that few other games have tried to capture the same feeling of being a super soldier that moves so fast they can slow down time. Fortunately we now have Trepang2, an indie-developed love letter to F.E.A.R. and all that it entailed that recently came out on PC and will soon be on consoles as well. Let’s get something out of the way right away: the gameplay is why you’re going to want to pick up Trepang2. If you hated the gameplay…