Trolls WORST Tour (Trollz) The Collective 2020-05-17 | These aren't your singing, dancing, world touring Dreamworks Trolls. In fact, these disastrous attempts at a Troll Doll revival from the mid-2000s much prefer shopping, cat-fighting, talking about boys and setting women back several decades.Join Esh as he marvels at just how shamelessly American toy companies bastardize one of the most famous toy lines from his country.You can watch the first part, about the equally shameless boys' Troll Doll cartoon, STONE PROTECTORS, right here: youtube.com/watch?v=ysoXhFZ0yrIWritten, Hosted & Edited by Bjarke Johansen (@Esh_ficaddict)Subscribe to The Collective for more: bit.ly/2QqQIhG
Final Fantasy VII, But On The NES? | Popscurity The Collective 2020-04-11 | Most gamers are well acquainted to Cloud Strife and his friend’s journey on the original Playstation. Or I guess the PS4 now. Or maybe via the movie, Advent Children, but that would be kinda wierd if you watched the film before playing the game, but hey! You do you...But did you know about their adventure on the NES?Welcome to “Popscurity” the show where I bring to light the rarest and most obscure oddities related to your favorite pieces of pop culture. Today we are talking about the chinese made de-make of the iconic entry in the Final Fantasy franchise.Final Fantasy VII on the NES was developed by ShenZhen Nanjing Technology and released in China in 2005. Originally meant to be played on the SUBOR entertainment system, which is simply a clone console designed after the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom. While meant for the SUBOR, it could easily be played on Japanese Famicoms or international NESs via an adapter.The game is a rather faithful re-creation of the original game for the Playstation 1, the main story is all there, but a lot of the side content, including the two secret characters Yuffie and Vincent, are non-existent in this version. While it hits all the same story beats, where the game falls short is in its mechanics.Watch the first episode of Popscurity to learn more!Written, Hosted & Edited by John Aljets (@BenderWaffles)Subscribe to The Collective for more: bit.ly/2QqQIhG#FinalFantasyVII #JRPG #Popscurity
Does It Live Up To The Original? | Resident Evil 3 Remake Review The Collective 2020-04-08 | Ya know, there were about two games that I was looking forward to this year. Doom Eternal, which I mean, you already know my thoughts on, and if you don’t oh boy do we have a video for you!The other game is this one, Resident Evil 3. Since the remake of Resident Evil 2 that came out last year wound up being my favorite game of the 2019, I was incredibly hyped to see Nemesis get the same treatment. So, did the game manage to serve as a worthy followup to RE2?Just like the 1999 original, in Resident Evil 3, you play as Jill Valentine, member of the Raccoon City Police Department’s Special Tactics and Rescue Service, simply known as STARS, as she attempts to escape the city during a massive outbreak that has been turning people into the living dead. And not just people, but dogs as well. No crows though.Along the way, Jill meets up with Carlos, a member of the UBCS, who was sent into the city to try to save civilians and cover for Umbrella’s massive screw up.And of course, she has to contend with the massive bioweapon Nemesis, who is specifically hunting all of the remaining members of STARS. Which basically winds up being just Jill pretty quickly. Written, Hosted & Edited by John Aljets (@BenderWaffles)Subscribe to The Collective for more: bit.ly/2QqQIhG#ResidentEvil3 #SurvivalHorror #GameReview
How BATMAN V SUPERMAN Could Have Been BETTER | The Fixer The Collective 2020-03-29 | Hello all you movie mechanics out there, and welcome to the fixer. For the amount of time, money, labor, talent and creativity that goes into film making, there are so many movies out there year after year that either miss the mark, or turn out completely terrible.On this show, we take a good long look at some of these movies, and see what we could have done to make them better. Whether you enjoyed watching Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice or not, most critics and about half the audience (myself included) found it to be a bloated, convoluted, ugly mess (and that is putting it politely). And even if you really liked Zack Snyder's attempt at a realistic take on these characters, I think you’d agree — it's far from perfect. For one of the most anticipated films in recent memory, featuring the two most famous superhero characters of all time at the height of the superhero film craze, it disappointed a lot of people. And while it isn’t completely without merit, let’s open up the hood and get to fixin’.Written & Hosted by Owen Poole (@OwenScott_P) Edited by John Aljets (@BenderWaffles)"The Fixer" Created by John Aljets (@BenderWaffles) & Owen Poole (OwenScott_P)Subscribe to The Collective for more: bit.ly/2QqQIhG#TheFixer #BatmanVSuperman #DCComics
The (First ) Sonic Movie The Collective 2020-03-27 | Sonic's first movie came about a month and a half ago, and thankfully, everyone seemed to like it!But what if I told you that it WASN'T actually his first movie?Today, Esh takes a look at Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, the 1996 Japanese OVA that predated the live-action film. Some call it one of the only good video game movies of the nineties. But is it really?Written, Hosted & Edited by Bjarke Johansen (@Esh_ficaddict)Subscribe to The Collective for more: bit.ly/2QqQIhG #SonicMovie #FictionAddiction #MovieReview
The Best FPS of All Time? | DOOM Eternal Review The Collective 2020-03-24 | I, like a lot of people, really, really loved Doom 2016. In fact, it pretty quickly secured a spot on my top 5 favorite games of all time. It was so visceral, so frantic, and all-around just plain ol’ fun. So needless to say, I was pretty flippin’ hyped for it’s sequel, Doom Eternal, which came out this past Friday. So after nearly four years of anticipation, did the game live up to expectations?Spoiler Alert: Yes. It’s absolutely fantastic. Not perfect, but pretty dang close.The gameplay is pretty much exactly what you would expect from an old-school, twitch fps like Doom. Only in this case, it’s mechanics are fine tuned to the point that it is beyond anything we’ve ever seen before.Doom Eternal is, in my opinion, an absolute must play game. Especially if you are a fan of old-school PC shooters like previous id Software games. The gameplay is incredible, the music astounding, and overall it is just an amazing game. Easily the best game I have played so far this year.I’d recommend checking it out on PC if you can, since that’s pretty obviously the way it should be played, because ya know, PC Master-Race and all that, but if all you’ve got is a console, don’t hesitate to grab it regardless. So go forth, and rip and tear, until it is done.Written, Hosted & Edited by John Aljets (@BenderWaffles)Subscribe to The Collective for more: bit.ly/2QqQIhG#DoomEternal #FPS #PCGaming
How ALIEN 3 Could Have Been BETTER | The Fixer The Collective 2020-03-18 | Hello all you movie mechanics out there. Welcome to the Fixer, the show where we take a good long look at movies that missed the mark, see what went wrong with them, and try to figure out what could have been done to make them better.1979’s Alien was, in a word, a masterpiece. And it’s sequel, 1986’s Aliens was a more than worthy follow up. After that however, things started to go downhill pretty quick.The franchise would go on to give us such classic bits of suck as Aliens vs Predator: Requiem and the recently released Alien: Covenant. While any one of these entries are more than worthy of an episode of this show, today we are going to look at the best of the worst, and see if we can turn it into the worst of the best. This is, Alien 3.Written, Hosted & Edited by John Aljets (@BenderWaffles)"The Fixer" Created by John Aljets (@BenderWaffles) & Owen Poole (OwenScott_P)Subscribe to The Collective for more: bit.ly/2QqQIhG#TheFixer #Alien3 #MovieReview
