Summer announcement! YAY!

Hello everyone!

The page I posted last week was Chapter 2´s last... and with it I decided to take a break from the series; no I am not giving up. Basically my routine has been Get up. Eat. Work. Vlamirka. Sleep. hence and repeat.

To put it simply... I´ve been suffering from heavy burn out recently; so much so that I´ve even had to take the weekends to work on the series because during the main week days I have to go to my job 8 hrs a day and it takes a tool on me... I just need some time off to recover myself and be fresh and new again! Besides, it´s summer after all!

I want to take a breather it´s all...
The series will continue because I am not giving up!
I just need a little rest...

How long? 3 weeks more or less... I still have to work my job through these days so at least during this time I won´t feel the rush of having to finishing a new page every week.

So... you are probably wondering just what exactly can you expect of me during this time?
Well... I have Twitter and Instagram where I plan to be very active; I´ll post doodles and share stuff where I usually don´t post very much, with this free time I plan on sharing some content with you!

I plan on posting some drawings on Instagram and I´ll share some of it to on Twitter!

I know it´s not very much and you are probably here for Vlamirka and The Golden Wolf only; that´s more than fine, if anything I am glad to see regular views coming everyday. I care very deeply about this project and I will continue it.

I remark a lot on this because you are probably very familiar with abandoned projects online (I know I am), I want you guys to be at ease while there are no pages these few weeks.
Take care guys! I´ll keep you posted I promise!

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Important Update

Greetings!

I know what you are thinking: "HEY YOU LOOSER!!!WHERE IS MAH NEXT COMIC PAGE!!!! YOU SAID EVERY WEDNSDAY!!!!!!!!!! GET TO WORK YOU LAZY BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

...look... It might be hard to belive, but i do have a life.

You see here is the story: Recently i landed a new job, this is both a good and a bad thing...

On the one hand it will help supporting myself wich is a perk i didn't had back when i started; the bad is that this will take away from the time i can invest into the production of the series. Has if that wasn't enough this new job has taken me abroad wich is a BIG change (if you have ever moved into another country you know what is like).

If that wasn't enough, i am having issues with my equipment, i litterary CANNOT WORK has much has i really want to... My point with this is not to say "i am not doing this anymore because i have a new job and i dont wanna do VGW anymore, its too hard; i give up", my point is that right now i cannot do any work on the series has much has i really want to because i have a lot on my plate + technical difficulties.

I've wanted to make this post for a long while by now and i hope that with this i've answered some questions, i havent forgoten nor have i given up, is just that life gets in the way... I hope i can sort all of this out has quickly has possible so i can get back on schedule.

Until then, stay tuned!

Twitter activity

Hello!

Happy New Year! (A little late for this site)

I just want to remind everyone that I have been very active recently with my comic series witch has recently reached te 5k view mark, you can keep up with me via twitter here: https://twitter.com/Inlikeflynn007

Update + Work preview

Hello Everybody:

I wanted to tell you all a few things considering the lack of updates on this blog site, I have been working intensively on Vlamirka and The Golden Wolf since it´s lunch and I am not slowing down thus I wanted to give you  some news:

1. I am very active on my twitter so if you want to be up to date with me fallow me there: https://twitter.com/Inlikeflynn007

2. I have more reviews underway for my YouTube, because the comic is my top priority the production of these will be slightly slower but will still come out on: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN62Ev4l4nGX8S28nQ8aV2g

3. Have a fantastic day! :D

Resident Evil Extinction Movie Review

This video is under fair-use

Stay tuned for the next video where I will talk about Resident Evil Afterlife!

Important Update

Hello everybody:

After a long vanishment on my part I find myself in the need to explain, the game and movie reviews I have made on this site has mostly been the reason why I started this blog site... although I will definitely continue to update the site regularly I might never do written reviews anymore but instead in video form so that way you guys can hear my sexy spanish accent...

Anyway, I will leave you with this video update I made a short while back and I explain everything there:

Fallow me on Twitter to keep in touch I make regular updates there: https://twitter.com/Inlikeflynn007

VGW Update

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New page here: https://tapastic.com/episode/405753 so go check it out!

Lot's of reviews are down the pipe so stay tuned!

Resident Evil 5 Game Review

Capcom is no stranger to the gaming industry, they have made many famous games nowadays and they have had an undeniable impact (Mega Man, Street Fighter, The Vs. Series, etc...), but out of all of their franchises, Resident Evil is without a doubt their most popular.

I have talked about Resident Evil before, (even made a couple of video reviews) and today I talked about one of the most polarising entries in the series has well has the most successful sales wise, Resident Evil 5... a game that me in particular find a lot of enjoyment out of.

Originally released in 2009 for the PS3 and 360, later on PC that same year; the story fallows Chris Redfield, working for the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (or BSAA for short) on a mission to stop BOW weapons trafficking between terrorist happening in Africa. Accompanied by a local BSAA branch member, Sheva Alomar, Chris will soon discover that there is more happening to this mission than meets the eye... will he be able to discover the truth and survive the horror long enough to discover it?

While the RE series has never been high art in story telling, this game serves a much bigger purpose to the series that many realise and that is giving closer to a chapter in the general saga, I won´t spoil much but If you have played the game and are familiar with the RE story then you know what I am talking about... that is not without saying that the story is all perfect, the writing is ok but is many of the choices present in the game that overall hurt the experience... here is what I mean: judging by the story presentation, the writing's weak points and late implemented gameplay elements it feels like RE5 turned out completely different than what it turned out and while all of this is not bad per say it did damaged many of the potential the game had. RE5 was originally going to be single-player with moments where you team up with other characters but most of the time you were going to be Chris alone in a one men fight against horror BOWs in Africa... but then co-op was implemented...

Witch takes me to the gameplay aspects of the game, RE5 is simply put RE4 with co-op; the whole of the game is available to play with a friend from beginning to end and it is a fun ride having someone with you helping out blast monsters. On top of the cooperative element, RE5 adds much more melee attacks and weapons than any of it's predecessors, but despite all this improvements it still somehow remained in it's laurels when they set up the game to have you completely still while firing... at the point RE5 lunched; games like Gears of War and Uncharted already had expanded upon the huge foundation that RE4 stablished with it's over-the-shoulder perspective (pretty revolutionary back in the day believe it or not), but the fact that the people in production made no attempt to incorporate the improvements brought in by others shows that either they thought the improvement weren't required for the game or that they were dumb.

The game's complete edition that goes now for all the consoles includes the Mercenaries mode, where you kill has many monsters has you can before the time runs out and I'll just say right now that this iteration of the Mercenaries mode is my favourite so far, the maps are fun, the monsters you face are fun and the flashing constant action happening on screen makes it a really addicting experience... not to mention it includes the largest rust of characters we have seen in any other iteration (or at least more interesting and fun characters than RE6 IMO). Lost in Nightmares takes you inside an Spencer Mansion type setting similar to the original Resident Evil, Desperate Escape is an action oriented affair where you battle through multiple enemies in an unseen chapter from the story and of course the Versus mode where you battle other players in a Mercenaries type setting... it's an alright mode but is nothing like other competitive experience that you can get from other games out there so don't get to exited about it.

Resident Evil 5 sold many copies, making it one of the most successful entities in the series (the most successful if you only count sales), but fans weren't fully satisfied: Many seem to agree that it's a fun action title for it's time, but many more felt alienated by the fact that it left behind the puzzle solving and exploration of entries past in favour of a more action oriented take to the series (maybe even more than RE4). While I perfectly understand this criticisms and are right, I still find myself enjoying this title... maybe because it's still the same RE4 formula I like but with a little more spice and the addition of cooperative play it's a better way to share the experience with someone else.

RE5 still looks great, even after almost 8 years it holds up amazingly well to the point that proves just how much a good art direction can take your game from looking good for it's time into timeless. That's not to say the visuals are all perfect, the character models can look pixelated up close and the lightning hits show their date by the bloom effect.

Even with all of it's flaws and more, Resident Evil 5 is a fun ride for me, it's not perfect or mind blowing but who says a game has to be does things to be a fun experience? I enjoy RE5 for being a fun action rollercoaster and giving closure to a chapter in the saga of Capcom's beloved series and that alone is enough to make me happy I spent the asking price.

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I am sorry for the lack of content on the blog; but if you fallow me regularly you are probably aware that I have started publishing my comic series here... I want to let you guys know that later today is the Prologue 15 so stay tuned there!

I will try to post more reviews and other stuff regularly.

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PS: I am working on another review right now (Resident Evil), so stay tuned!

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The Blaire Witch Project Movie Review

Yep... another found footage horror movie at Inlikeflynn's Corner! Yay!

This one is little bit different for me though, the hype for the movie was in 1999 (the year in witch it came out) and I was around 5 years old when people talked about this movie like it was the scariest movie of all time.

Me being a little boy, avoided this movie like the plague for being a little scaredy cat with horror movies back then... even many of my classmates talked about the movie in class, it really was a huge phenomenon back then (some people even actually believed the movie was real life). Years passed and I still didn't watched it mostly out of fear...

The story fallows 3 film students lost in the woods and being hunted by someone or something; that's pretty much it... The entire movie is shoot like a homemade movie and that helped to bring home the fact that it is "real" and that it "actually happened", the movie had little than a small budget indeed and I think that holds more water when you see it's three kids with a camera and shooting a documentary helping to bring home the scares. The bulk of the film is just this kids lost in the forest for what seems like almost a week with hauntings while they try to leave the forest.

The reception towards the movie seems to be very split, some consider it one of the scariest movies of all time while others consider it a mess of a movie where you can't tell at all what is happening, but to the films credit, the movie makers didn't had the budget to make a big epic scary fest... could they have made a true scary masterpiece? I don't know but regardless, the movie turned out pretty good if you ask me! While I don't find the movie scary in the slightest it is a very interesting film for what it is and how it was made with it's limited budget: I like how we never see the Blair Witch at all through the whole movie thus leaving us, has viewers, to imagine how this "ghost" or whatever looks, even though there are descriptions about how she looks at the beginning of the film it paints a picture in your mind that stays there until the rolling credits.

Now... how does the fear factor stacks up? it's not scary at all (at least to me), I will say though that I like how the movie subtly let's the tension be built around the situations that the main characters are in instead of relying on cheap jump scares with no build up or good real pay off.

Many horror movies rely on the anticipation of fear rather than the actual scare, some movies do this right others not so much, I feel like Blair Witch Project at least treats the viewer with a certain level of respect... witch is more than what I can say from many other horror movies that play it super safe and fallow an strict pattern of dumb.

Blair Witch Project is fun, and is made even more evident by the way it was portrayed to the audiences, being a success in all frontiers (with critics and at the box office) plus all the inspirations it gave to movies like Paranormal Activity and Grave Encounters... I wish the movie was truly more scary that what it is but it's still a fun movie to watch in a dark night... alone.

Grave Encounters Movie Review

This movie draws me... not in the "it fucks with my mind" kind of way but just by the idea of it.

A crew of filmmakers decide to lock themselves up inside a clearly creepy abandoned mental asylum for a reality TV show called "Grave Encounters". Has they lock themselves up during the whole night they experience certain hauntings and paranormal activities just has they wanted and has the time to leave approaches... something is clearly wrong with the place; something evil and dangerous.

I guess the reason why I somewhat like this movie so much is because I like the idea of a haunted place with angry spirits that kill people who trespass their territory (is golden creepy pasta stuff), the crew are an alright bunch with them being clearly playful bunch just doing their job, characters like T.C. do get on my nerves for being unlikable but with a situations that confusing and all out crazy I can't blame him when he or any of the other characters get natural frustrated and start to loose their minds.

The "found footage" style of horror is somewhat common now days with all the Paranormal Activities and such... so the movie is another attempt at cashing in on the style right? with it being relatively easy to shoot and such, well yes and no. Grave Encounters works for me because of two reasons: the story and the editing, the story is about filmmakers shooting a reality TV show inside an old abandoned insane asylum so it naturally makes sense to see the cameras being put in movie-ish ways and the editing help minimise does awkward camera angels of handheld shots by the main characters clearly done for "dramatic purposes".

Has you may have been able to tell I haven't talked about the fear factor of the film at all and that is because fear is subjective... some people are more easily frightened than others, I can say that I personally wasn't scared nor was it a nightmare inducing thriller, for me it was just a fun little movie and nothing more. I suppose if you are easily startled by the occasional jump scare with loud SFX and creepy looking face or stuff like that then yeah... it will be scary for you.

I guess what I am trying to say is that Grave Encounters is a film i can tolerate  better than many obnoxious horror films that I usually come across... I love good horror movies and I like seeing good horror movies so it is a breath of fresh air to see one that is not bad but actually fun to watch and I want to see it again in the future when it feels fresh again.

If you decide to check out Grave Encounters just keep in mind is really nothing special in terms of horror movies but it is a fun ride still witch is in my opinion the most important thing a movie must achieve first and foremost.

PS: don't watch the sequel, is shit...

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Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai Anime Review

Or just "Shomoseka" for short...

Originally a light novel lunched in 2012 by Hirotaka Akagi and Eito Shimotsuki later adapted into a manga since 2014 and recently into a short 12 episode anime in summer 2015. The story revolves around a future where the japanese government has banned all kinds of lewd material (from pornography, to simply dirty jokes, etc...) and all citizens are forced to wear PMs or Peace Makers on their rists to analyse every word spoken and hand gesture that could break the law.

If you have seen my top 10 anime cliches you may remember I said that fan service is out of control in recent memory, Shimoseka still has plenty of fan-service but instead of going in full blown out of the reasonable it does manages to contain a certain amount of self control, witch is quite surprising considering both the attractive girls in the show and all the opportunities the show has to show it right in from of your face.

The main character is Tanukichi Okuma, he is has bland and boring of a main character has you can get, he is the typical blank slate you see every time in bad anime... thankfully the other characters fair much better, like Ayame Kajou (SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE MAIN CHARACTER BTW), she is the "super hero"/"Terrorist" trying to fight in a world where the obsession of banning people from having access to obscene material exists and all while under the secret identity of "Blue Snow".

Other characters like the stern Hyouka Fuwa has many funny moments or Anna Nishikinomiya who starts a has a pure hearted and innocent council president becomes cartoonishly funny later in the series. I can say all the characters stand out except for the boring main character.

In a general sense however, I should hate on this show... it includes many tropes of things I absolutely cannot stand: dirty jokes, stupidly forced "romantic" plot lines, absurd amounts of fan service and sexual innuendos that add nothing at all... but for whatever reason I managed to stay through the entirety of the series and found myself attracted to it despite being something I should not be able to stand: It's like I said at the beginning, does hateful forces sexual innuendos don't go has far has some other anime that rely solely them do, it does what it does and it moves on, many of the good jokes in the show don't come from the dirty humour but from the situations the main characters get involved in has well has many of their reactions to does situations can be funny.

Another thing I love is the character designs, the way many of the characters are build physiologically should be for an ecchi style of scenes and shots showing us every nook and cranny but I feel a really interesting self restrain, not to mention the many female characters have a dress up way that covers their body whole heartly, of example: Anna Nishikinomiya is a pure innocent character and her uniform shows it, she wears a long skirt (the longest in fact) in the whole series and that also applies with the other female characters... even the male characters don't have that much attractive get-up styles to them actually.

I guess another thing that is really interesting is that the anime does carry a message about censorship and how far it can go. We live in a world where the internet is a part of our lives and when a government or a company attempts to censor people is received with a general negative backlash at the simple attempt; I do firmly believe that people have a right to express themselves about how they feel and I am sure many would agree with me. The plight of Ayame to fight censorship is something we can all relate to and sympathise with.

Do I recommend Shimoneta to Iu Gainen ga Sonzai Shinai Taikutsu na Sekai? Ehhh... yes and no...

If you think you have the stomach to get through the foul comedy of the anime then yeah why not, but if you can't stand that kind of humour then avoid it because it won't be pretty...

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Ghostbusters (1984) Movie Review

I have always believed that any press is good press:

Case and point... the new Ghostbusters movie by Paul Feig, a clear reboot that capitalise on the stablished franchise. Although my intent here is not to talk about the new film but about the original movie released in 1984, I believe it is imposible to do so by addressing the clear elegant in the room that is the negative reaction to the new movie... It is very possible for this movie to be good, who says it can't? but obviously the trailers haven't been good enough to sell us on a good movie but rather on a subpar comedy and this is what people are really angry about.

I have recently decided to watch the original 1984 movie that is still to this day being hailed has one of the greatest comedies of all time and although I do consider it a very good film... I don't know if I would call it "amazing". Now before you get me wrong, this film was released years before I was born so that means that either some jokes don't strike too much of a core with me because it's before my time or because I am an idiot...

Ghostbusters fallows the story of 3 gentlemen who study the paranormal, and thus they decide to create a "pest control" like group called the Ghostbusters with the addition of another new member to their team, they must eventually fight a dangerous force that can destroy the world. Has simple has it's sounds is this story, however is the characters what shine through: they are outcasted nerds that struggle to find their way in society... I am sure that almost everybody in the world has at some point found themselves alone through life and feeling like nobody likes or cares about what we do and love; witch is why is incredibly easily to relate to our main characters.

At the par with the Ghostbusters being relatable it is also very funny at some points and serious at others helping to give credibility to the world and helping you care for the situations at hand.

If you are young and haven't seen Ghostbusters then do yourself a favour and do so.

I may not consider it a master piece but it is a good fun and enjoyable movie... and that alone is good enough for me to enjoy it!

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