Games 0 Written by Distrobe February 28, 2017 Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex First Assault Online, One Year Later On the July 28th, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex First Assault was released to middling affair. The multiplayer only first person shooter took the depth and nuance of the GitS universe and boiled it down to a dirt simple, free to play Counter Strike clone that seemed to only use the source material […] Read More... Movies & Anime 3 Written by Distrobe February 9, 2017 Is Death Race 2050 Worth Watching? The classic Death Race 2000 by acclaimed director Paul Bartel, though dated and about as subtle as brick to the head, paved the way for a new breed of dark comedy (and inadvertently causing the first wave of media ire over violence in media). The series was then rebooted, a stark thirty-three years later, in […] Read More... Movies & Anime 0 Written by Distrobe January 18, 2017 “One More Final: I Need You” – The Cyberpunk Aspects of Neon Genesis Evangelion The poster child for character writing and world building in anime, both classic and modern, Evangelion reached out and touched a generation of viewers with its crucifix-laden hand. It drew us into a story and world that actively defied storytelling conventions and challenged our perceptions of what it means to be a human, an individual. […] Read More... Games 2 Written by Distrobe August 19, 2016 Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is Excellent, Yet Flawed I think it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that almost every one of our readers has had some experience with Deus Ex in the past.The premise alone launched many of us into a world of cybernetics, conspiracies, and weirdly delivered (Yet still endearing) dialogue. I’m happy to say that Deus Ex: Mankind Divided hits […] Read More... Games 0 Written by Distrobe July 20, 2016 Furi: Fast and Aggressive Cyberpunk Action L1, L1, L1. Three consecutive dashes slam me around three different waves of projectiles. The knight clad in neon armor braces for another assault but fails to reach his mark by half a second. Four consecutive hits and a grapple knock him to his knees as he discards his shield and two hands his great […] Read More... Movies & Anime 1 Written by Distrobe July 18, 2016 Armored Trooper Votoms: A Masterpiece in Cyberpunk Anime It’s April 1st, 1983, a full year before the release of Neuromancer. Across Japan, TV sets are idly tuned into the premiere of Ryosuke Takahashi’s Armored Trooper Votoms, a dark, gritty military drama, unlike anything the anime industry had seen before. Unlike the mecha series that had come before it, Gundam included, Votoms had a […] Read More...