The Heisei Gamera trilogy: Guardian of the Universe, Attack of Legion and Revenge of Iris; is considered one of the high benchmarks of Kaiju films. Those three films excel with story, special effects and Kaiju design… This is not one of those films… no, this is the first film starring the giant turtle that later on those 3 films would make amazing, but before that…
Gamera, The Giant Monster https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/04/16/gamera-the-giant-monster/ #Film, #Heisei, #Kaiju, #Monster, #Sgathaich

Out of any art form I find animation is the one I love more than any other, even more than video games which I do consider an artform. That said I’m aware of the bleed over between those two which helps that I like both.
Animation and me. https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/04/09/animation-and-me/ #Animation, #Art, #Cartoons, #Sgathaich

 I really miss Akira Toriyama. His distinct art style, his crazy worlds. One day I should look into more of his non Dragonball works, see Dr Slump, play Dragonquest games one day… But today we look at something special, his last work.
Dragonball Daima was the last thing Toriyama worked on. #anime
Dragonball Daima https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/04/02/dragonball-daima/ #Anime, #Cartoon, #Dragonball, #Sgathaich

The original Banjo Kazooie was amazing. At the time it was considered the only game on the N64 that exceeded Mario 64, especially when it came to platformers. The game ended on a hook of a sequel if you beat the game 100%. And so we waited....
Banjo Tooie https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/03/26/banjo-tooie/ #Gaming, #Nintendo, #Review, #Sgathaich

And instantly that is the big draw for most people, the sheer volume of Dragonball characters available, starting with Z but also including GT, Super and the movie characters, and though dlc Daima (which isn’t out yet at time of writing but has been confirmed). Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/03/19/dragon-ball-sparking-zero/ #Dragonball, #Gaming, #Review, #Sgathaich

The premise of Predator is simple, let’s get a bunch of Action movie stars; do a basic action movie complete with being tricked into doing something they didn’t want to because they don’t want to just be killers…
Predator https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/03/13/predator/ #Film, #Horror, #Review, #Sgathaich

This is the world our lead Maomao lives in. The daughter of an apothecary, she uses her skills to aid the somewhat legendary brothel near where she lives… until while getting a bit too over eager on getting herbs, she’s captured and sold to work in the Imperial Palace.
Apothecary Diaries https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/03/05/apothecary-diaries/ #Anime, #Crunchyroll, #LightNovel, #Sgathaich

Donkey Kong Land sets a clear challenge, can it recreate the gameplay, fun and experience of Donkey Kong Country ( Sgathaich: Donkey Kong Country 2 )but on an 8 bit handheld mono colour system? Well happy to say the answer is yes, but it’s not a one to one or even a toned down version of DKC. Donkey Kong Land does a fair few things differently, and I don’t mean simplifying levels.
Donkey Kong Land https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/02/26/donkey-kong-land/ #DonkeyKong, #Gameboy, #Gaming, #Nintendo, #Review, #Sgathaich, #Switch

Boltgun is a retro style shooter in the homage of the original Doom, sometimes referred to as a boomer shooter. It fits given the Doom universe and the Warhammer universe mesh quite well, so the style of play with over the top action and violence all fits.
Warhammer 40000 Boltgun https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/02/19/warhammer-40000-boltgun/ #Gaming, #Review, #Sgathaich, #Warhammer40K

The Eerie Man Spider is both the first episode of all of Kamen Rider, and also the first monster a Kamen Rider faced. Airing in April 3rd 1971 it stars Takeshi Hongo played by Kunihiro Fujioka who in the 90s would play the memetastic character Segata Sanshiro for adverts advertising the Sega Saturn, but that’s a bit of a tangent for now.
Kamen Rider: The Eerie Man Spider https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/02/12/kamen-rider-the-eerie-man-spider/ #Japan, #KamenRider, #Review, #Sgathaich, #SuperHeroes, #TV

Ranma 1/2 is the story of Ranma Saotome who has been entered into an arranged marriage by his father and his fiancé Akane Tendo’s. BUT there’s a problem.
Ranma 1/2 https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/02/05/ranma-1-2/ #Anime, #Manga, #Netflix, #Review, #Sgathaich

Where to begin with Street Fighter 4. It’s the game that reinvigorated the fighting game genre and made it bigger than it had been even in the heyday of Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat. You can defend SF3 as much as you want but it was eclipsed by 4 in both gameplay and sales. It also had the old trend of the name updates as it was just before DLC became the go to way to update the games.
Street Fighter 4 https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/01/22/street-fighter-4/ #Gaming, #Review, #Sgathaich, #StreetFighter

The game sees the brothers venture into a new world (hashtag Mario and Luigi Brothership is an Isekai) namely the ocean world of Concordia. Full of Plug/Socket and other electrical appliance references
Mario & Luigi: Brothership https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/01/15/mario-luigi-brothership/ #Game, #Luigi, #Mario, #Nintendo, #Review, #Sgathaich

The seeds of Deep Space Nine go back before its first episode. But deep dives and retrospectives of the show can tell you that far better than I can. What this show does is start with a bang. ..
Star Trek Deep Space 9: Emissary https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/01/08/star-trek-deep-space-9-emissary/ #DeepSpaceNine, #Review, #ScienceFiction, #Sgathaich, #Space, #StarTrek, #TV

For the last article of the year (though you are probably reading it in the next year) rather than review something, it seems a good time to look over the events of the year 2024.
Sgathaich: 2024 https://theorkneynews.scot/2025/01/01/sgathaich-2024/ #ComicCon, #Gaming, #Godzilla, #Sgathaich, #Transformers, #Warhammer

First big change is Mario isn’t out to save Princess Peach as she’s very much a girl boss in this series, no instead it’s Luigi who got split up from his brother in the pipe, and then captured by some Shy Guys and sent to Bowser.
Sgathaich: The Super Mario Bros Movie https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/12/25/sgathaich-the-super-mario-bros-movie/ #Animation, #Film, #Illumination, #Mario, #Sgathaich

The film opens on a party held by, as they put it, our “favourite fearless Hero”. It soon turns into a fight as the real owner of the building arrives, and then a bigger fight as fireworks awaken a giant....
Sgathaich: Puss in Boots - The Last Wish https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/12/18/sgathaich-puss-in-boots-the-last-wish/ #Animation, #Cartoon, #Dreamworks, #PussInBoots, #Sgathaich

The film stars Jean Kayak played by Ryland Brickson Cole Tews. Jean is an Applejack seller as told during our opening musical number…. and then one of the big apple barrels rolls down and explodes burning down the entire orchard. ..#hundredsofbeavers
Sgathaich: Hundreds of Beavers https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/12/11/sgathaich-hundreds-of-beavers/ #Film, #FilmReview, #Sgathaich

The film stars the Cogless Mining Bots Orion Pax and D-16 in a journey that will turn them from best friends into the legendary enemies Optimus Prime and Megatron. It will delve into discovering hidden truths that while it will save their world, will turn them against one another...
Sgathaich: Transformers One https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/12/04/sgathaich-transformers-one/ #Film, #Review, #Sgathaich, #Transformers

The new show, set about a year and a half after the end of the original Kinnikuman series ended, sees a peace treaty being signed by the main 3 factions of Chojin (basically the super human wrestlers) the Justice faction, the Devil faction and the Perfect faction. ...
Sgathaich: Kinnikuman: Perfect Origin Arc https://theorkneynews.scot/2024/11/27/sgathaich-kinnikuman-perfect-origin-arc/ #Animation, #Anime, #Netflix, #Sgathaich, #Violence, #Wrestling