Showing posts with label nickelodeon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nickelodeon. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (3DS Game Review)

Hey everyone, I finally got a chance to play the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game and honestly I can't say much about it. Each section is split up into different parts of a story?? and you go around fighting ninjas etc. Each stage unlocks the next in the story. To be honest the game got really repetitive for me, even the characters say the same thing over and over when they fight. There was only two sorts of characters you fight(at least for the first stage), they were ninjas and blue ninjas which looked like Utroms. Yea anyway, as for the fighting, you can play as one of the 4 turtles and switch whenever, there's not much to the fighting too, as you have one set of moves, a special move which has a limit, and a move where you can throw the baddies once in a while into a bin or on the screen. Anyway, all in all I don't really enjoy this game, not quite sure if I'll keep playing, but I can see why I it was so cheap. I'd have to give it a 3/10, there has been better TMNT games, and to be honest, I was more of a fan of the 4 Kids series, but I haven't seen this series yet so I'll need to soon! Anyway, I can't guarantee that you'll like this game, maybe watch some game play videos first before you try the game out! Until next time, bye!

Sunday, 9 November 2014

Avatar the Legend of korra Season 4 Episode 6 Battle of Zaofu (TV Show Review)

Hey everyone, so I watched the latest episode of Korra today, and I'm pretty disappointed actually. So Kuvira fights with Korra one on one for the control of Zaofu, and honestly, I say I was disappointed because her fighting is terrible, I really expected more from Korra, though I'm not quite sure if it's just the people who didn't plan it better or something. But anyway, that's basically what happened actually. Apart from that, Bolin and Varrick are now held to keep working on the vine spirit energy, only to have the train blow up moments later in the episode, but you'll figure it all out once you watch the episode, but really I'm disappointed because once again, hardly anything happened. There used to be so much drive in the Avatar series, and now it's kind of dragging on. But yea anyway, can't wait to see what happens in the end! Well until next time, bye!

Thursday, 6 November 2014

Avatar The Legend of Korra Season 4 Episode 5 Enemy at the Gates (TV Show Review)

Hey guys, I watched episode 5 of Legend of Korra yesterday, let's see what's happened without giving too much away. So Kuvira wants to claim Zaofu for the new empire, and we as viewers basically realise how "crazy" she is as she's willing to kill people to get there.

There's an amazing fighting scene with the robots, something which you don't see often on avatar, so there's more of a mix of bending and robotic fighting. We also see who is on who's side properly, and also get ready for the big climax which we can almost expect to happen as a whole army is waiting outside Zaofu. We also see Asami's dad in this episode too. Besides what I've mentioned, there's not much that has happened but I'm really excited for what's going to come. They mentioned that this will be the last for the series, so too bad. I wish they were going to make another series of Avatar!!!

Sunday, 26 October 2014

The Legend Of Korra Season 4 Episode 4 The Calling (TV Show Review)

Hey everyone, so I watched episode 4 of Legend of Korra so let's recap on what happened without giving too much away. So Jinora, Ikki and Meelo are on a quest to find the Avatar after she's been missing for quite some time. If you've been watching throughout the season, then you'd know that she's been at the swamp. I myself can't really say what happens without giving too much away, because so little actually happens in this episode that there's not that much I can say without giving too much away anyway so that's all I can giveaway.

There's not really any action in this episode, I feel like it was more of a filler episode to try and fill in the story gap. Of course the creators could have extended the whole event to fit in a whole season to carry onto another season/ series but obviously they did not want to do that and confined everything to one episode. So anyway, there's not much I can say sorry, but it's all worth it in the end I guess. No idea what can really happen next at the moment, but I hope Toph comes back at the end for some finale!

Yea sorry this wasn't a very interesting review, but that's only because there's not much to review on. Meelo does meet a girl though, and for some reason, I didn't think that Jinora, Ikki and Meelo were vegetarians until this episode, even though when I think about it, they must be.

Yea anyway, can't wait to see the finale. Until next time I'll talk to everyone later, bye!

Monday, 20 October 2014

Avatar the Legend of Korra Season 4, Episode 3,The Coronation (Cartoon Review)

Hey everyone, I'm real late today and it's almost midnight so I'm going to rush this! So The Coronation, what actually happened?? Well I'll try and not spill the beans too much, but basically Wu has a coronation to become the Earth King. The only piece of jewelry left was an earring later called a broach to make it more masculine bahaha. This was due to the fact that the Earth Kingdom Palace was robbed of it's jewels. We also see what happened to the palace which has now turned into a tourist attraction, and actually I feel a bit sad seeing this. We also see more of Toph, and the reason behind Korra not being her 100% self. There's not actually too much to this episode, but it sets the scene for the next episode as all events present in this episode sort of is a cliffhanger for the next episode.

Well overall not much action, but a lot of drama, plot wise there's a plot twist which people sort of knew was coming as we see things in a new light. I won't rate this episode or anything, but I'll have to see for the next episodes. I know when people do reviews they just reveal the whole plot, but I hate reading stuff like that before I've actually seen it, so hopefully I didn't give anything away.

Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Nickelodeon DVD Series (Product Review)

Hi everyone, I thought it was time to review the Nickelodeon DVD releases by Beyond Home Entertainment. I currently have bought 3 different shows: Rugrats, The Wild Thornberrys and Hey Arnold. So Beyond Home Entertainment have been releasing box set collections for quite a while. They have definitely improved from the original Pokemon box sets that's for sure, but there's some room for improvement, so let's review!

So the typical set is a cardboard outside with a plastic casing inside with push cases. There's one thing I don't like about the cardboard case, and that is that there's no sort of slip cover to go over this case, so it sort of just flings open whenever which I think makes it seem a bit more cheaper because usually set designs like these have some sort of slip over these cases. I have seen a different design though, they were just the usual DVD cases, nothing special.

As for the contents inside, they have nicely separated each season out into 3-5 discs usually. Aspect ratio is in its usual form, and you can tell they restored the shows well as grain isn't as evident, and shakiness isn't that present. For Rugrats though, I did notice that the colours were a bit dull for my liking, though I seem to recall it being the usual dull colour. So far I have not seen any errors too which is good. Some of the Pokemon box sets had errors, though I think most of those errors came from the design of the cases which ultimately caused problems on some of the discs.

Overall these Nickelodeon DVD series released by Beyond Home Entertainment is pretty good. Like a lot of people, I'm waiting on Blu-Ray releases for full 1080 HD. I feel like I'm missing something, but I'll update if I remember what it was. I just hope that they release other childhood titles! Well until next time, bye!

Sunday, 12 October 2014

Legend of Korra Season 4 Episode 1&2, After All These Years & Korra Alone (TV Show Review)

Hey everyone, so I finally got around watching the first two episodes of season 4 of Legend of Korra. So here's a quick rundown of what happened, not revealing too much hoping, but spoiler alert!

It's been 3 years since the end of Season 3 so  everyone's grown up and are beginning to live out their lives after what happened in the previous seasons. The main spoilers are that Korra is actually missing at the end of episode 1, and in Episode 2 we finally find out where Toph has gone.

Hopefully I didn't reveal too much. I have to say that these two episodes are more story than anything, something more for the LOK people to watch definitely! In actual fact I thought Season 4 might have continued straight from Season 3, but there's quite a gap, similar to LOA but a bigger gap. Also did you notice the episode name "Korra Alone", seems familiar doesn't it??

Some of the Earth Kingdom villages became corrupt by bandits after the death of the Earth Queen (Still can't get over the fact of an actual killing on the show!), and now there's a replacement Earth King (He's the great nephew??? of the Earth Queen) all I can say is that they should have picked someone else for the part!

As for Korra, why did she run off instead of talking to people? I still don't quite understand it. Partly because she sees herself in the Avatar state, but thinks it's an illusion for quite some time.

Anyway, this post is getting too long. Overall the episodes are good for Avatar fans as we all wanted to just keep continuing on with the series. What I actually hoped for was some sort of event which would follow on from Season 3, but I really don't feel it at the moment. They sort of made another problem out of the blue, but it's new that Korra is alone.

Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Avatar The Legend of Korra Book 4 Episode 1 (TV Show News)

Hey everyone, so Episode 1 of Book 4 for Avatar The Legend of Korra was finally released! It's called “After All These Years”, and IGN has nicely provided a little snippet of a clip for us to all watch, Click Here!

I myself am excited about Book 4, but at the same time, it means that the series ends, and there's probably no more Avatar TV show ever again :( But I hope they keep on continuing with the comic book!

Wednesday, 17 September 2014

The Legend of Korra, Book 1: Air, The Art of the Animated Series (Book Review)

Hi everyone, today I will review another different thing to what I usually review, a book, but this is no ordinary book, this is the art book of The Legend of Korra (Book 1: Air). So I bought the Avatar The Last Airbender Art book, and I quite enjoyed it so I decided to buy the one about the first season of Korra.

So the book contains a lot of pictures, drawings and sketches of a majority of characters through their production stages. It's interesting seeing the development of characters, and how a sketch turns into the final form. There's also little blurbs to give a bit of info about the picture(s)/ sketch(es). I found the one of ATLA much more interesting though, it had lots of informative info and seemed to be more well thought of while being put together. This one feels like they just chucked in everything, but I'm not saying it's bad at all.

I recommend this art book to fans of ATLK (ATLOK??? oh well) as it just gives a good look at how the series was put together with the characters and scenes etc, along with ideas/ scenes and characters not put into the series.

Thursday, 4 September 2014

Avatar The Legend of Korra, Season 3, Episode 12&13, Enter the Void & Venom of the Red Lotus (Final Series Episode Review)

Ok so it's been around 2 weeks since both episodes aired, and today I finally got the chance to watch these two episodes. Of course I will not spill the beans, especially as these are the final episodes of the season.

In episode 12 Enter the Void, Korra surrenders herself to the Red Lotus to save the Air Benders. There's a bit of intense fighting which causes a death of one character on the show, and someone learns lava bending and also someone learns how to fly :D And also a character manages to say "I love you"!!!!

In episode 13 Venom of the Red Lotus we get a bit of the flashback of the previous villains as Korra is forced into the Avatar state by the Red Lotus by giving her poison and yes, there is more fighting as the series reaches its climax.

Episode 13 was probably the most emotional episode I've ever seen on the Legend of Korra, especially near the end. I stayed watching the credits in sort of disbelief that the episode and series ended so fast. I feel like the ending really suited it. The emotions remind me just like the end of Avatar the Legend of Aang, but this time, there's still one more season.

The fighting in both episodes are still pretty entertaining, with a majority usually resulting in a death or injury. I feel like the creators really started experimenting with death on avatar. Ways which you sort of think "Did they really just kill her??". So it feels a bit strange when a character is killed. I made sure to check online just in case the character didn't actually die after all(but they did haha)

The team on Avatar really did a great job with the storyline for the final episodes I think and I think they're probably the highlight of the season, but you have to wonder why Korra is always kidnapped. The series ends at a place where you need to wonder what will happen in the next series,

I give these two episodes an 8.5/10, with an overall 8/10 for the whole series. Probably this was the best out of all three seasons so far, so I'm egar to see what's in store for season 4. I'd love to keep going on about the season, but I might just reveal too much so it's best to just watch! Well, until next time!

Friday, 8 August 2014

The Legend of Korra Season 3, Episode 10, Long Live The Queen (Recap & Review)

Team avatar is captured on both sides (Red Lotus and Earth Queen). I just realised that the water bending lady has no arms! Amazing she can waterbend! I also realised that I find myself hating the Earth Kingdom now! The earth queen is annoying! Don't you wish the fire nation took over Ba Sing Se during Sozin's comet now!

In this episode Korra and Asami crash land in the desert while trying to make their escape. While Mako and Bolin are sent to the dungeons in the Earth Kingdom. Bolin tries to metal bend the bars to escape but fails(while doing some funny sounds lol). That's basically what happens half way into the episode. Later on the walls fall down in Ba Sing Se! Make sure you go and watch it!

I can't say that much happens in this episode action wise, but story wise, if you miss it, another chunk of the plot will be missing. Another plot twist happens at the end before the credits roll, so don't miss out!

That's all I have to say. This was just a quick talk on this episode.



Thursday, 7 August 2014

The Legend of Korra Season 3, Episode 9, The Stakeout (TV Show Recap & Review)

Hey everyone! I won't reveal too much of episode 9 but this is basically half of it anyway as I don't want to reveal the end to you guys who haven't watched it yet. So Korra and her friends go and search for Aiwei. Naga find a hidden jeep, but Korra doesn't have a treat to reward her so Naga slaps her with her tail lol! Bolin and Mako set off at Misty Palms Oasis, asking people around, looking for Aiwei, only to be spotted by bounty hunters but are able to chase them off. When they find Aiwei, they have a stakeout and spy on Aiwei, waiting for him to contact Zaheer.

Korra enters the spirit world and finds Aiwei and Zaheer. We learn about the Red Lotus. Then we find out why Zaheer tried to kidnap Korra as a child, duh duh duh!!!!! All I can say is that there's a plot twist at the end!

Funny bits in this episode:

  • Naga slapping Korra with her tail
  • Yellow poncho disguises
  • Bolin finds some fans and is given a doll
  • Bolin almost wins a pai shou game but it spoilt by his pet
This episode revealed a lot of things about Zaheer and is group that we as viewers wanted to know from previous episodes, and they were mostly revealed in this episode. It also left many questions at the end of the episode. It ends in a cliff hanger, and all I can say is that I want to watch episode 10 right now! 

I think that if anyone missed this season then things may not make sense later on so story wise, this episode is a must watch. Action wise, it's mostly at the end. No rating for this blog post but I did enjoy it though! If you haven't seen The Legend of Korra yet then make sure you check it out!



Monday, 4 August 2014

The Legend of Korra Book 3 Change (TV Show Review)

We are currently up to book 3, episode 9. This is the first episode where they started showing episodes online only. I will not talk about episode 9 but on what's happened so far and my thoughts so if you don't want spoilers on stuff up to episode 9 I suggest you don't read this until you do.

I've been a fan of Avatar for as long as it came out. I used to watch the series once a month or two. My all time record was only 2.5 weeks apart before I watched the whole series again. It was sad to hear it end but when I heard about Legend of Korra I was really excited! I have to say the first book wasn't that great, and book 2 only got better towards the end.

By book 3 they explore more places other than just stay in Republic City. After Harmonic Convergence, new airbenders started popping up all over the place. What got me thinking was for one thing, yay the airbenders arn't almost extinct anymore, but really, was this how airbenders came to be? Could an airbender pop up in the fire nation with fire nation blood in them?? Hard to say but I guess the creators needed to save them somehow. Bumi became an airbender which means Avatar Aang didn't just have one but two Airbender sons in the family. TBH I thought he looked more like the firebender type but oh well haha.

In the first episode(or the second I don't remember) a giant plant thing attacks the city but after that episode where did it go? What happened? It's like they completely forgot about it. Maybe it'll come back in another episode?? Who knows but uh oh haha!

New characters are introduced including an Airbender named Kai who I've drawn a liking to. Maybe they'll create a new season with him, who knows haha, but he's my favourite in this season! He developed airbending skills quite quickly for someone who had only just got his bending abilities not too long ago.

Some other characters are introduced also but I won't go into too much depth as I'm sure you don't want me to talk about characters all day but in my opinion why does every season have it's own bad guy. Legend of Aang had Zuko, Zhao, Azula and Ozai but you kind of think every fire nation person is bad but Legend of Korra kind of goes all over the place with them. What we wonder in this series are who are these bad guys and what do they want with Korra?? In Episode 8 they try and capture her but is saved by her friends and comrades(can't spell the a word sorry ><).

Speaking of episode 8 there's a couple of things I remember too. Korra learns metal bending and Lin has a sister(who knew!) and the father? No one knows yet but people are eager to find out!

Season 3 has many plot turns and surprises! I'm ending the post here as I'm sure you're ready to watch this show if you haven't aready. If I had to rate it so far I'd give it a 8.5/10. In terms of story line it's really improved from the previous books. I think what's made it really interesting is that you want to know what will happen with the airbenders and why do people want to kidnap Korra? And Lin's family connections??? And the evil queen who's not good with animals. Oh well, there's still more episodes in store for Avatar so stay tuned! Watch if you haven't watched this series yet, especially if you like action, adventure with some sci-fi elements. It's commonly mistaken for an anime so if you like anime then possibly consider it. For now bye!