Where's Buffy in the New Buffy Reboot?

     Every generation a tv network decides to reboot a former tv show in order to get us to watch and try to get as much money and ratings from old fans as they could. Yes, you heard me or you may have been buried under a Hellmouth or have been a rat for a while, you may have not heard the news that we are getting a new Buffy reboot. The only tid bit we know about the new reboot is that Joss Whedon is involved and it will feel more like a sequel than a full on reboot. Oh, and that we will have a black actress as the lead. After everyone freaked out about the new lead being recast as the Buffy Summers we knew and grew up loving, showrunner Monica Owusu-Breen has clarified that we will be following the reboot with a new slayer, not a new Buffy.

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     So, since we are going to be introduced to a new slayer and not a new Buffy, or the old one, where exactly in this reboot/sequel is Buffy? Here are some possibilities.

She's Fronting Her Own Slayer Organization

     In season seven of the original series we were introduced to the ideal of potential slayers, women who were predestined to take up the powers of the slayers should the current slayer dies. Think about it like being on a supernatural evil fighting waiting list. In the end of season seven Buffy and Willow made it that there could be more than one slayer and every potential slayer will actually become a slayer. What to do know that there are thousands of slayers in the world? Make your own slayer task force. Later on in the comic books Buffy started her own organization just like the Watchers Council to recruit her own team of slayers to fight vampires around the world. If the reboot is following the comic books, the new series could be the new slayer fighting vampires and demons in the new organization. The new reboot could be not only the new slayer coming to terms about her powers and growing up, like Buffy did in the original, but also doing it with other slayers who are dealing with the same thing, unlike Buffy. If Sarah Michelle Gellar is signed on to reprise her role, she could act as a mentor.

Buffy is Dead

     Why the new focus on a new kick ass slayer? Simple because the old one died. Like Spike said, every Slayer has a death wish and death is the slayer's gift. It isn't shocking that all slayers eventually die and Buffy is no different. Yeah, she died twice but third time's the charm right? So the new series could have Buffy could go down as one of the great ones and the new slayer trying to live up to the mantle. Hard, right? But it could make some great drama and show how she is doing things a bit different than Buffy. They could also go all Halloween on us and recon things that happened in season seven and in the comics where there are not thousands of slayers running around and it is back to the chosen one format. But that would mean Faith is dead too. That's not five by five...

Buffy is M.I.A

     I know, very Supernatural where the Winchester Bros. spent the first couple of season looking for their father, but it could happen. Something happened to Buffy so it's time for someone to a new slayer to lead and take charge and to do all the main kickassery in Buffy's absence or find out what happened to Buffy. Hopefully the new show will know how to not stretch things out to far and reveal where in the world is Buffy Summers, you like what Supernatural does alot.

     Again, these are all speculations (for fun) and we may find out where is Buffy in this new reboot when new details emerge. I've made mine, but that doesn't mean you can't make yours and I would love to hear them. What are your thoughts?

Will We See Other Generation Pokemon In Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu And Eevee

    Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee is almost here, only a few months away to be exact, and Nintendo has given us a few new updates on what we will be seeing in the game. We saw how Kanto will look in the game also a few familiar faces in the form of Gym Leaders Misty and Brock, your rival Blue, and Jessie and James from Team Rocket. I'm sure with this and a look at gameplay we have this game figured out, except with one question: How will Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee deal with pokemon from other generations?
     We do know that all the original pokemon will be in the game since Pikachu and Eevee are both a Switch remake of Pokemon Yellow. What will be a big surprise is that we will be seeing the Alolan forms of some pokemon as well. The Pokemon company and Nintendo have been pretty mum on how they will treat the other 651 pokemon in the series. If the other gen pokemon will be implemented in some way,

Trading

This would be the most common way to have the pokemon from other generations be in the games. Let's go Pikachu and Eevee have been big on the idea of trading with a co-partner, friends, and online. Trading will require two Switches and a subscription to Nintendo's Switch Online Service. This is honestly how other games have dealt with including all 802 pokemon in games so it wouldn't be a shock if these games do that too. The only downside to this would be that it could only happen with Switch pokemon games which will be this and the upcoming Pokemon Switch game, unless there's a Pokemon Bank app for the Switch that's in the works.

In Game Achievement 

This has been done in a few remake sad well by having the player accomplish something in game and bam! You can now catch pokemon from other games. This will also most likely be how we will get Alolan pokemon as well. This was done in the Pokemon remakes, FireRed and LeafGreen and HeartGold and Soul Silver, where you can catch pokemon that came in later games in the post game or by completing the game or filling the National Pokedex.

DLC or Updates

DLC have been another way of how The Pokemon Company has been shoehorning pokemon into games. They could introduce certain Pokemon from another generation to be downloaded in the game or go the Pokemon Go route and release updates that will introduce generational pokemon all together.

Overall adding pokemon from other generations would be a hard thing to pass up as it would a great add to the game. What are your thoughts?

The History of Super Smash Bros' Adventure Mode

The original Super Smash Bros for the Nintendo 64 was released January 1999 and it was marvelous. All of Nintendo's biggest stars fighting each other in a lbs all out brawl, and fighting a giant hand! What more can you ask for? A sequel of course. While working on the next installment, Melee, Masahiro Sakurai and co are probably asking themselves what they can do to make the game even bigger and better. New characters? Of course. Add another giant hand to fight? Sure why not. Make a lot of the new characters clones of previous fighters? Nothing wrong there. But it was one thing that was a definite great ideal. Let's add an adventure mode. And the rest is wonderful history.

Adventure Mode for Melee

Melee's adventure mode was the one that really started it all. An amazing journey that took you almost everywhere in the Nintendo universe. Fighting Goombas, Koopa Troopas, and Yoshis. Wondering around a dungeon in Hyrule. Trying not to get run over by the cars in F-Zero. It was an adventure mode indeed.

The Subspace Emissary 

So when Brawl was announced Sakurai met a challenge. How can I make Adventure Mode even better? Let's give it a storyline and pair up all your faves together. The Subspace Emissary was Nintendo's Avengers Infinity War. Everyone has to go and stop Bowser and Ganondorf who have teamed together to enact a devious plan to take over the Smash World and turn everyone into trophies. It was also a nice introduction to Pit joining the fray.

Smash Run

Apparently we can't have nice things as when Brawl came out and the whole story of the Subspace Emissary was leaked on the internet. Sakurai was upset about it and decide to not give us another story with Adventure Mode. But that doesn't mean that we weren't going to get a new one. Instead he made a pseudo-Adventure Mode called Smash Run. You do go on an adventure on a giant map beating up as many baddies from Nintendo games in order to get coins, power-ups, and other goodies to do a mini Smash fight or challenge at the end. This was really his attempt to give us this as well as keep Break the Targets in the game in some form. So it may not be the great adventure epic Subspace Emissary was, but we should thank him in the end, right?

We don't know what Ultimate's Adventure Mode may be but it will most likely be good (But seriously, give us a Subspace Emissary sequel). What was your favorite? Please comment and share.

How Will Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee Play

Earlier this week we were treated to some major Pokemon Switch news. We are getting a core Pokemon game, but in 2019. Never fret we are getting two games to tie us over until then. First we have Pokemon Quest which is an adorable 8bit 3D? beat-em-up. We also will have Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Pokemon Eevee.

    According to The Pokemon Company, Lets Go Pikachu and Eevee is an enhanced chibi remake of Pokemon Yellow, which is done since it's based on the anime. If you can explain Let's Go Eevee and Pikachu it's pretty much your standard Pokemon game that we all know and love mixed with Pokemon Go. It even comes with a Pokeball that you can throw. Based on the trailer it does seem cool, but how will the game play seems to be a big mystery.
     Since the game is largely based on Pokemon Go, it would be safe to say that a lot of the gameplay will be based on Pokemon Go. You don't battle with wild pokemon. Instead you throw poke balls at it hoping that you can catch one. What's also different is that instead of random encounters from the games, you can see the pokemon in the wild and in caves. You will probably get different pokemon showing up whenever you leave and re-enter an area or if you catch one, maybe rarer ones will appear if you catch enough.
     You will have pokemon battles with gym leaders and other pokemon trainers as well as we see in the trailer where you fight a trainer on Nugget Bridge as well as a Team Rocket member. There will be trainers with different difficulty in the game so you may fight harder trainers later on on the game. There might be a possibility that you may be able to re-fight trainers with a harder difficulty level than previously like in the core games. Poke Marts and Pokemon Centers are in the game as seen in the trailer, so that will be a function instead of Poke Stops.
     One question is how exactly will you level up your pokemon in the game. In Pokemon Go, you get candies everytime you catch a pokemon which works like experience points in the game. In Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee that mechanic might still work where it won't be exclusive to a certain pokemon, like getting Pidgey candy for catching a Pidgey. You may get candies or money so you can buy poke balls and other items in trainer battles as well. You can use money from trainer battles to buy accessories to buy outfits for Pikachu and Eevee.
     This is all speculation. Nothing is official and I'm sure we'll find out new info as soon as Nintendo and The Pokemon Company updates us in the future. 

Deadpool 2: Did It Suck?

     It's been awhile since the last Deadpool movie and everyone's favorite foul mouth mercenary is back! The first Deadpool movie, being a union between Marvel and movie darling with abs of gold Ryan Reynolds was a match made in heaven. Seriously, it was like the comic book movie gods created it and had Stan Lee present it to us like Moses giving us the ten commandments. Anyway, Deadpool went on to make a killing in the box office and was so successful Marvel already greenlit the second movie the same weekend it came out. Now with most sequels, especially comedic ones, there is worry that things may become stale or writers will try so hard to outdo the previous film or try to regurgite the same jokes that it ruins things, I'm looking at you Zoolander 2. With not only Ryan Reynolds back in the tight and very form-fitting red spandex, but co-penning the sequel with previous Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, there is hope. Will it be a step up from the first film or will it leave a big eh on our faces. Will Deadpool 2 suck? Some minor spoilers ahead.

      So Deadpool 2 takes place some time after the first movie so it's good that you don't have to worry about watching the first film. Our favorite contract killer is on a journey of self discovery after his love interest from the first movie, Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) dies. That journey eventually becomes an adventure to put his heart in the right place, find a family, and save a kid who is being targeted by time jumping mutant Cable. If you though the first Deadpool was funny then the second film is a treat because they've made sure to give you a ton of comedy in this one. Watching comedic scenes in Deadpool 2 is like looking at Oprah's buffet plate: there's a lot of it. The jokes are not bigger nor did the writers try to outdo what made Deadpool 1 funny instead they give you plenty of jokes. This time around they've gone full comic version of Deadpool than the first film. You get a ton of fourth wall breaking Deadpool is known for. There are a ton of Easter eggs where Ryan jokes about the other X-Men movies, Marvel movies, and even takes a knock at the DC universe along with running gags that were from the first are so fresh you can put a febreeze logo on it. If you're a fan of the Deadpool comics you are gonna be very excited more about this than the first Deadpool film.

      You get the standard Ryan Reynolds-isms you normally get in most of his comedic films. The witty lines and adorable dreamy eyes. It's not a bad thing at all. He's at home in these kind of roles and they work well with him. You do see a bit of his range in the more emotional scenes and it adds to the fact of isn't there anything this man can't do, other than make us want to see him in a green CGI suit. They did well showing off Domino and her powers which is literally luck, by having the most funny and fortunate circumstances happening to her compared to other characters seeing her in action.
 
Final Verdict
So, does Deadpool suck? Not at all! It is a perfect comic book comedy film if there is one. There wasn't that much plot to the movie but it pretty much said fuck that and just gave all the Deadpooly goodness we all love from the comics and that was a pretty good tradeoff. They didn't up the ante or go bigger than the previous movie, at least not that much. They just gave us more which is the sure fire way to keep comic book fans and everyone else happy. It gets four really bad dubstep songs out of five. Now kiss me like you miss me!

Avengers: Infinity War - Did It Suck?

     Marvel's biggest movie is here! By biggest, I mean just that as it is the largest cast featuring everyone and their momma who has been a major player in the Marvel cinematic universe ever since it has begun. We've been literally front and center in theaters watching Marvel connect the dots and set everything up for the events in this movie. With all the major Marvel players in this movie, will it truly be the epic superhero movie experience Marvel wants to boast that it is or are we looking at Justice League 2.0? Will Avengers: Infinity War suck?
     So, the whole plot of the movie is Thanos, who's appearance in the Marvel movie have been here and there building up to this moment, is after six power stones which if he does have all six he will destroy half of all life in the universe. It's up to practically everyone who's been in every movie in the MCU to stop them. Epic, right? It was totally epic in every sense. Epic fights, epic heroic moments, and in the case of both Chrises, Evans and Hemsworth, epic beards. So the movie is basically the superhero version of American Graffiti... Wait, some of you may not get that. It's the superhero version of Pulp Fiction in that most of the movie is pretty much everyone breaking off in different group like the second half of a Scooby Doo episode and doing different sub plots in order to stop Thanos.
     Everything is woven beautiful in the sense that it's almost like watching mini movies of each Marvel film. You would not think that Marvel would successfully mix the episodic aspect of movies like Black Panther and Guardians with the continuing drama-ness of Captain America and Thor but they did it well. When the Guardians of the Galaxy show up you get straight up comedy, which matching them up with Thor and Hemsworth's comedic presence was genius. You got the same chemistry Spider-Man and Iron Man had together in Homecoming. And that and the stuff you usually got in your standard Captain America/Avengers movie. Everything melds well together and everyone plays their part well, they had all 10+ years to do that so no shock.
     Along with all the epicness of the movie you get a lot of drama. Oh, boy do you get a ton of it. From Thanos' backstory and his interaction with Gamora. The movie's highlight was the substory of Gamora and Thanos. Not much has backstory has been done to Gamora in the Guardian films but they are brought out in the forefront with her being warlord daddy's little girl. As for Thanos, this film is another continuation of the simpathetic villian, like Killmonger in Black Panther and Vulture in Homecoming to name a few, who is doing some pretty bad things for their version of the greater good. This time killing half the universe to throw things into balance instead of doing all of this to get bf points with Death like in the comics.
     You're gonna need tissues for this movie. From Gamora's backstory and connection to Thanos, the relationship with Scarlet Witch and Vision, and probably the most emotional part of the movie: the ending. The ending had balls. I'm not going to spoil it for you but it's true, some heroes do not make it. It wasn't your standard superhero endings that even though something tragic happened it gives you a message of hope.

Final Verdict
     So, did Avengers: Infinity War suck? NOPE! As Marvel's big superhero movie starring everybody it did not. It was more like a celebration of all the movies that Marvel has done in the past years all blended together smoothly. You have all the custom movie tricks and the cookie cutterness of Marvel movies, but they don't seem so cookie cuttery. You get all the good, and then some. The ending was a big bonus as it gives you a bit of intelligence that was needed. As shocking and sad as it was it was beautiful and genius, leaving you wanting to know how will not only the MCU will deal with all that happened but what Marvel themselves will do to fix it. How do I rate it? It gets 4 infinity stones out of five.

Should We Be Worried About the Spyro Reignited Trilogy?

     Nostalgia has hit us hard like a tsunami this week. We're getting a Spyro game. Not a brand new game, but a remaster anyway. There was an apparent leak that revealed that Toys for Bob was going to give Spyro the remaster treatment, just like Crash Bandicoot and the N. Sane Trilogy, and now everything has been confirmed. We will be getting the new, yet old, Spyro Reignited Trilogy this September, if it doesn't get delayed. It will be published by Activision who published the remastered Crash games and if that doesn't get you running down memory lane like it's an marathon on your childhood, Tom Kenney who voiced a majority of the old Spyro games will reprise his role as Spyro for the entire remaster.

      So for the millennials out there Spyro was platformer that came out during the golden era of 3D platformer games like Banjo-Kazooie, Conker, Super Mario 64, and another series that we've gotten the remaster treatment Crash Bandicoot. With this remaster everything should be cool right? Right?

       I'm sure lot of people had their nostalgia goggles as soon as they heard the news and thought back to days playing the game when they were young and how awesome the game was back then. I'm not saying that the series suck, it did everything but suck. I'm saying that maybe the gameplay could come off as a bit dated as in most cases things do not hold up as time passes. Things may not be as awesome as we remembered it and time has a funny way to make us aware of that by showing us how outdated things can be.
     We've seen this with Yooka-Laylee. Yooka-Laylee isn't what you call an old game, but Playtonic, the studio who developed the game, treated as a spiritual sequel to the popular Banjo-Kazooie series and got us all in the nostalgia feels.We were partially disappointed as we were treated to old and dated gameplay that gave the game a stale taste.
     Luckily this wasn't the case when remade Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy where Vicarious Visions did much more than just give the first three Crash games a facelift with updated graphics. They tweaked gameplay mechanics a bit that made it a bit more challenging and felt new. Hopefully that is what Toys for Bob has in mind for remastering the Spyro games as well.

What are your thoughts?