Tag: Trailer

But What About The Muppet?

(Update: Helps if you embed the correct video, dumbass.)

A little late to the party, but they released the trailer for the upcoming fourth and penultimate season of Strange New Worlds, which is due to begin July 28th. It has dinosaurs, it has spatial anomalies, it has Spirk, it has other stuff… less of a focus on the so-called “big swings” that the past couple seasons liked to toss around.

Strangely missing from the trailer is the muppet. I’d imagine most people were thrilled by that omission and expect the “dumbass Muppet episode” to never be a thing. Well, I’m here to tell you that not only is that Muppet episode a thing, it will be such a thing that it’ll go “double dumbass on you” all the way to the bank… or something.

Yeah, sure. It looks fine. Showing all the right things, it looks to be doing. Whether the season holds mustard is another story. I guess we’ll see come July.

Another Street Fighter Movie Trailer

Welcome to an alternate 1993 where everything you lived through in 1993 is wrong because nobody knows (or cares) what 1993 actually looked like. Also, for a movie called Street Fighter, I’m dismayed by how many fights look to take place in a warehouse and not, you know, the streets. Even Street Fighter II had a stage that took place on a street (Chun Li’s stage, of course.)

Other than that, this looks like some tasty corn.

The ’94 film was its own brand of cheese, The Legend Of Chun Li exists for worse and worse, and Assassin Fist was a big bowl of meh. At least this knows the source material is absurd and is leaning into it. It doesn’t have to be total parody, but treating it deadly serious isn’t the way to go either. Hopefully, this strikes that nice balance.

Goddamn… I’m actually looking forward to this.

Go figure.

KNUCKLES Trailer (& Knuckles)

Well, it’s the trailer for the six-episode “event” or whatever the fuck they’re calling it… because everything has to be an “event” these days. Nothing can ever just be a mini-series or even a series.

Anyway… it’s more Knuckles… and you can do no wrong with moar Knuckles…

Unless you throw in a DWAYNE…

Sonic Origins Trailer (Remastered Sonic Games Compilation)

A little late to the game, but yeah… Sega’s Sonic Origins compilation, which collects remastered versions of Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, and Sonic CD in one package. And yes, there are the Whitehead/Headcannon ports, which means widescreen, playable characters across all four games, and other bits and bobs. A nice, wholesome package, for sure.
The only caveat is that in a few weeks, Sega will be taking down the individual releases of these games from these digital storefronts. So if you want to get classic Sonic stuff off Steam, Playstation, or Xbox, get ’em while you can because once they’re gone, they’re gone for good… fried chicken.
Lame move to dampen a pleasant reveal, but that’s Sega for you. They’d fuck up running water.

Pong Quest Trailer

So this is a thing that Atari is doing at the moment; a new PONG game with RPG elements and stuff.

The visuals are an automatic turn-off for me and I’m not particularly inspired by the gameplay that they’ve displayed. It reminds me too much of that one Pong remake from the 90s; too much gimmicky bullshit to make the whole thing worth a damn.

That having been said, though, a part of me is morbidly curious about this will turn out… not enough to actually go out and fork money over for it… but whatever, right?

The Intellivision Amico Pre-Order Gameplay Trailer

So Intellivision just put out a new pre-order trailer, featuring gameplay footage from some of the games for the system. A lot of these games look to be remakes of older Intellivision and Atari games from the 1980s and others seem like the kind of games you’d find on Steam or your mobile phone. It’s not the type of thing that appeals to me – I’ve got more than enough legacy titles on a variety of legacy systems to keep me occupied and the one Intellivision Lives compilation seems to satisfy the INTV itch just fine.

Double Dragon IV… and it looks awful.

A couple thoughts, actually…

1) Very smart idea to call this Double Dragon IV… so we could try and forget about the Double Dragon V game that was released in 1994. That was the subpar fighting game based on the subpar animated series for anyone who is wondering… I have a review on said game that I did a few years back. Also, if this is Double Dragon IV then where does that leave Super Double Dragon?

2) Goddamn does this look shit. I mean, I get what they’re trying to go for here with the whole 8-bit throwback style that’s been beaten to death over the years, but this looks like somebody stuck ancient NES sprites onto ill-fitting backgrounds, much like a lot of older fangames made in Multimedia Fusion way back when. This feels like amateur hour.