Smashbomb

Professor Layton and the Curious Village is the first of the Professor Layton series of games, and overall it was a good first attempt. The story was good, and the puzzles involved were very well thought out and certainly tricky in places.

But that's all you can really say about it. After a while, the puzzles get very repetitive, using the same puzzles again with slight differences, and with a new or "new" puzzle seeming to come along every few seconds, it can get laborious, and incredibly tedious, to the point you don't care about the story any more.

There are only two voices featured, the Professor and his assistant, Luke. The professor's voice is fine, but Luke's clichéd cockney voice is incredibly irritating to the point I had to play the game with the sound off.

This also goes for the music, a single pleasant piece of music that plays constantly through the entire game. Again, incredibly annoying: sound off.

Good attempt, hopefully improves by the second game!

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Sarah (7800 KP) rated Nightmares and Dreamscapes in Books

Mar 8, 2020

Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Stephen King | 1993 | Fiction & Poetry, Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.5

(18 Ratings)

Book Rating

A varied mix of stories

It's no secret that Stephen King is my all time favourite author, and I'm especially fond of his anthology books filled with a variety of short stories.

I'd read Nightmares & Dreamscapes manybyeats ago, and decided it was about time to read it again. This really is a varied bunch of stories, all well written as you'd always expect from King, but with plots ranging from an alright 6/10 to an exception 10/10. None of the stories are bad at all, but I did struggle getting through this book at times, especially as it's a rather hefty tome with some seriously small writing. But there are some noteworthy excellent stories in here, such as Dolan's Cadillac, The Ten O'clock People, The Night Flier and Umney's Last Case. There's even a surprise appearance from Holmes and Watson, which whilst it seems oddly out of place in a book of King short stories, it's a very welcome and pretty good story to mix things up a little.

Overall this isn't my King book of short stories (that accolade goes to Night Shift), but it's still a very good offering.

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the_mad_meeple (55 KP) rated Forbidden Island in Tabletop Games

Mar 10, 2020 (Updated Mar 10, 2020)

Forbidden Island

2010 | Adventure, Card Game, Fantasy

7.0

(14 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

Sink or swim?

Considering my Y childhood holidays spent by the water, I've never been more anxious at the sight of rising water levels. A fully cooperative experience, all players, new and experienced, took part in an adventure fit for all. Fighting to get to the chopper we found ourselves facing an ever changing table top with tiles sinking faster than we were able to get to them. As you move around the board collecting treasures, you face difficult challenges of whether to move yourself or to use your special abilities to better position your comrades. A gem of a game, the variety of characters provide a strong amount of replay ability, ideal for a game that provides an air of impending doom telling you that all you can do now is it to start planning for the next attempt.
Whether you play it for the theme of an intrepid explorer searching an unknown island, or you are looking for an excellent family friendly cooperative experience (allowed by the ability to simply and effectively vary difficulty levels) this is a game for boardgamers of all shapes and sizes.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Bat (1959) in Movies

Mar 31, 2020

The Bat (1959)

1959 | Horror, Mystery

6.5

(2 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Vincent Price (0 more)

The Bite

The Bat- is the fourth film adaptation of the story, which began as a 1908 novel The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which she later adapted (with Avery Hopwood) into the 1920 play The Bat. The first film version of the play was the 1926 American silent film The Bat. The film version was adapted by playwright Crane Wilbur, who also directed.

This one has Vincent Price in it, which is a huge plus in my books. He is such a excellent, fantasic and phenomenal actor. He is one of my favorites. He is also one of my favorite horror actors.

The plot: A killer called "the Bat" has claimed many lives in the small town inhabited by novelist Cornelia van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead) and her maid, Lizzie (Lenita Lane). As Cornelia implores Dr. Malcolm Wells (Vincent Price) to help her ailing maid, $1 million in the town's bank goes missing. With greed and fear reaching new heights, police Lt. Andy Anderson (Gavin Gordon) goes to Cornelia's house to investigate additional murders committed by the Bat.

Its a creepy, scary and classic movie.