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ARchitect - Next Reality

Catalogs and Business

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ARchitect – Walk through your future home with Augmented and Virtual Reality Have you ever...

Battle Spire

Michael R. Miller

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Jack Kross only wanted to play the game. Now he's fighting for his life. When a mysterious...

Year of the Jackal (Bramburgh Jackals #2)

Abby Kaitz

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It’s Silicon Valley meets the Ivy League in this new adult romantic comedy starring a computer...

Contemporary MM Romance Romantic Comedy Enemies to Lvers Opposites Attrace

Sarah (7798 KP) rated Black Mirror - Season 5 in TV

Jun 15, 2019

Black Mirror - Season 5

2019 | Drama, Sci-Fi

6.4

(17 Ratings)

TV Season Rating

Not up to it’s usual high standard

Black Mirror is known for having a dark and futuristic take on modern society, and this is why it has always succeeded. It’s bleak and harrowing at times and whilst it’s not a happy programme to watch, it’s bloody good. The problem with series 5 is that it feels like an entirely different show, and not for the better.

Whilst each episode has it’s own take on modern society and technology (VR, social media and musical pop culture), none of this felt particularly new or unique. Don’t get me wrong, the episodes aren’t bad at all. But they’re just not brilliant. There are good performances (Andrew Scott especially) and the storylines are vaguely interesting, they just don’t get pushed far enough into the dark and bleak Black Mirror world we’re used to. Not only that, but none of these stories have particularly bad endings. It all just feels a little bit meh and after the rather wonderful Bandersnatch, I’d been looking forward to another great season. Sadly, it’s been a bit of a letdown. I’m really hoping that this is just a blip and that the next series is back on form, and not a sign that Black Mirror has run out of decent ideas...

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Josh Burns (166 KP) rated the PlayStation 4 version of The Brookhaven Experiment in Video Games

Jun 21, 2019

The Brookhaven Experiment

2016 | Horror, Shooter

7.0

(1 Ratings)

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Creepy, yet fun (0 more)

Lovecraftian horror VR waveshooter

This another wave shooter (for more on the psvr wave shooter overload/competition see my Wraith review) and uses either the Move controllers or Aim controller. Move controllers are for small guns and knives, Aim is for bigger guns. The world has gone to hell and is overrun by creepy mutants that have a Lovecraft vibe sometimes. You're out trying to find a solution. The sound design works great to track where enemies are coming from. There are a ton of different enemies, some are huge! The campaign is fun, atmospheric and gets very challenging. You buy upgrades and ammo between levels and there are hidden power ups that you can shoot to collect. There is also a survival mode that has an added map that is based on the mansion in Resident Evil. You can even see a red herb and a green herb flanking the stairs, but you can't use them. Theres a wide variety of environments from sewers, to labs, to city streets and more. It's a lot of fun, but difficult and combining that difficulty with creepiness can make it hard to want to revisit if your stuck on a level because they compliment each other.