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Assassin's Creed: Lineage is 2009 Canadian web series, later compiled and sold as a movie that serves as a prequel to the Assassin's Creed II video game. Lineage was Ubisofts first foray into film making, for which they opted to shoot actors on green screen and then insert re-worked environmental assets extracted from the video games. Half of the costumes used were period re-creations leased from Italy; the rest were made by a design studio on behalf of Ubisoft. The total run-time of this "movie" is a measly 35 minutes and it could be purchased as a physical DVD in stores or watched for free on Ubisoft's official YouTube channel.  

The Legend of Vox Machina is an adult animated series based on campaign 1 of the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role. Critical Role is a group of professional voice actors that get together to play D&D 5th edition. The cast own the intellectual property and have already produced a number of licensed works based on the show. A single Critical Role campaign will consist of a series of story arcs, played over multiple sessions. Between or sometimes within the major story arcs, the characters rest, resupply, or go on side quests. While each campaign centers on a different party of adventurers, the campaigns are all set on the various continents of Exandria, a world of Matt Mercer's creation. Campaign 1 ran from March 2015 to October 2017; totaling 115 episodes with an average runtime of 3 to 5 hours per episode. It follows the adventures of the Vox Machina party and is set primarily on the continent of Tal'Dorei in locations such as the metropolis of Emon and t...

This is an annual list of my personal best and worst games of the year. To clarify, these are not literally the "best and worst" games of the year. They are titles I enjoyed or was let-down by based on my own preferences and expectations. Most of the "disappointing" titles are not even what I would consider bad games. They just weren't for me or were not what I was expecting. All the games on this list I have either played to completion or abandoned. I have ordered the list based on my overall enjoyment (one being the best) of games I played in 2024. Most of the games listed here will not be brand new 2024 releases. They are games I played in 2024 that were new to me.  

  This is a re-release of Hakuoki or Demon of the Fleeting Blossom: The Tale of the Shinsengumi . This version was broken into two halves - Kyoto Winds and Edo Blossoms, and sold separately. Both are needed to fully enjoy the story. Story Circa 1860s Japan, a girl named Chizuru Yukimura disguises herself as a boy to search for her missing father and is taken in by the Shinsengumi organization due to her father having developed a "Water of Life" elixir. This potion turns anyone who drinks it into a powerful vampire-like creature called a "Fury" or "Rakshasa" , and certain rogue individuals now threaten the area. A group claiming to be "Demons" also try to periodically abduct Chizuru. Kyoto Winds: This is the first half of the story and is comprised almost entirely of the common route which ends abruptly and on a light cliffhanger. While some might be put off by an hours long common route, I found it rather engaging and necessary to e...

    Set in the small Italian town of Burlone around the early 20th century, the tale follows Liliana Adornato, who has been raised by the churchher entire life. One night Lili becomes entangled in a turf war between three mafia families: the Falzone, Visconti and Lao-Shu families all seek to rule, and Lili is somehow the common key element for all of them. I've seen plenty of people express adoration for Lili as a protagonist, the sentiment generally being that she is brave and intelligent for a girl sheltered by the church. Her naively kind nature juxtaposed nicely with some of the mafias darker moments. Lili also managed to stand her ground around Yang when it was needed and was remarkably tolerant of someone so opposite to herself. That said, Lili did have plenty of dumb moments, such as walking down unfamiliar alleys alone in a crime ridden area and approaching hostile drug addicts. Lili also shows some initiative in escaping during Dante's route, but she doesn't ...