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David McK (3372 KP) rated Assassin's Creed: Gold in Books

Mar 15, 2020

Assassin's Creed: Gold

Anthony Del Col | 2020 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

7.0

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Assassin's Creed.

Primarily a series of Ubisoft-owned video games (of which I've played the majority - not all!), the franchise has also had a rather perplexing, Michael Fassbender starring, movie spin-off and a series of novels (which I just couldn't get into).

To that, we can now also add an Audible original (I think) audio drama.

And, I have to say, it's actually pretty good!

With some big star names adding their talents - I'm looking mainly at you, Antony Head (aka Giles from TVs 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer') - and pretty decent background incidentals, this drama also hews closer to the original Assassin's Creed games than the latter, in that it takes place pretty much equally in both the 'real' world (of the drama, anyway!) and inside the Animus!

The setting for the Animus, by the way, is in 1696 when Isaac Newton - Antony Head - has been tasked with running the Royal Mint, and with stamping out counterfeiting. As this is an audio book, it's also able to do something that I don't think would translate at all well into any other medium: the main Assassin character of Omar Khaled is blind! No idea how that would translate into a game ...

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The bestselling Bible storybook of all time with over 6 million copies sold is now available in an...

Guide & Strategies for Clash Royale - Deck Share Community

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Welcome to the #1 Clash Royale Community for Strategies & Deck Sharing! A new way to Share,...

Glen Banyard (13 KP) rated Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019) in Movies

May 12, 2019

Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)

2019 | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

7.9

(108 Ratings)

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One of the better game/cartoon to live movies (0 more)

Predictable plot (1 more)

Forced humour

Pika Pika

Pokemon is a global brand spanning cartoon, cards, animated films, video games and now a live film, well as live as you can get with imaginary creatures.

Watched in 3D, it really didn't bring anything extra to film.

The plot is pretty much by the numbers and suffers from being horribly predictable, this most likely due to being aimed at a much younger demographic. Bill Nighy really got license to over act his heart out and it shows, in his somewhat limited screen time.

Will it spawn a sequel, possibly, only time will tell as it's launched at difficult time with Endgame still massing larger viewings and Aladdin and John Wick 3 releasing in the next 10 days, it may get squashed to limited performances quickly.