Optimism for NISA’s Trails of Cold Steel 3 Translation Announcement

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Trails of Cold Steel 3 is officially being translated for English release Fall 2019. The news broke on twitter January 17th and immediate fan reaction was mixed. NIS America will be handling the translation of this recent entry in Nihon Falcom’s Kiseki/Trails series. This breaks from the series past translation exclusivity with Xseed. The mixed reaction … Read more

Die Another Day falls apart in the last act.

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Die Another Day is the final Bond film starring Pierce Brosnan, and marks the 40th anniversary and 20th film of the series. After the disappointment that was the World is Not Enough, fan expectations were high. News of Hallie Berry, an Oscar winner, coming on board helped drive excitement. Die Another Day was to pay tribute to … Read more

The World is Not Enough is laughably bad

In my review for Tomorrow Never Dies I called The World is not Enough a disaster. Looking at the box office results suggests otherwise. $362 million worldwide is fantastic. Hell, it was the most financially success Bond film at the time of its release. If money told the whole story we’d remember the film differently … Read more

Tomorrow Never Dies is Brosan’s best?

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Critical reaction for Tomorrow Never Dies was mixed and audiences were disappointed. Box Office results remained relatively stable, dipping only $20 million from Goldeneye, but today it’s a forgotten James Bond film. Not remembered fondly like Brosnan’s first and not the disaster of his next one, it vanished from the popular culture. I genuinely couldn’t … Read more

Goldeneye restarted Bond in the 90s

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Goldeneye was the Bond franchise’s do or die moment. Six years had passed since the last film, the longest gap in the long running series history. Timothy Dalton’s License to Kill ended his run the British super spy, and people doubted whether Bond made sense in post-cold war 1995. People genuinely believed the franchise was … Read more