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Power Rangers Samurai (2011)
Why even bother?
Power Rangers Samurai is the biggest what was the point I've ever seen in the series. As we all know Power Rangers takes their footage from the Japanese show Super Sentai and make their own interpretation of it, this time around they use Samurai Sentai Shinkenger and they basically just took the script put it in Google Translate and decided to remove every single Japanese cultural references in a Sentai thats main focal point was Japanese culture.
This was the first show in the Neo Saban era and in my opinion they should have just waited for Goseiger to finish and do that instead but they screwed that up too.
The cast in Samurai were awful apart from a couple of stand outs but the most insulting is Jayden who we are made to believe is half Japanese despite being a blonde white boy with no hint of Japanese features. Why oh why could they just not cast a Japanese American actor to do the role instead we got a poor performance from a guy who wasn't even an actor he was a model.
This show is funny because they took quite possibly one of the best Super Sentai series and turned it into one of the worst Power Rangers series how do you fail that badly.
Zeruda no densetsu: Buresu obu za wairudo (2017)
Legend of Zelda Breath of Fresh Air
I have spent my whole life playing the Legend of Zelda series loving each entry of the series, however over time I have noticed that the series has become far too formulaic and after Skyward Sword hand holding was taken way too far. Which is why I am glad to say that Breath of the Wild has taken every bit of the formula that was monotonous and threw it completely out of the window.
For the first time since the first entry way back in 1986 you have complete freedom of how you want to approach the game. From the very first moments you see the world unfold around you it won't be long until you get to explore the large and vast world of Hyrule.
After you complete the very brief tutorial of the game you can go wherever you want and do whatever it is you want to do. Feel like going straight to Hyrule castle to fight Ganon? Go ahead but don't be surprised if your ass gets completely handed to you.
One thing to note in Breath of the Wild is that the difficulty of the game when it comes to combat has become increasingly harder and you must learn to adapt to new ways of handling these encounters as you play. There were many times I would be killed again and again forcing me to keep loading back into the same confrontation which forced me to change my approach.
With all my praises of this game the one complaint I habe is the story itself which given the scope and scale of the game I expected to be much more. I soon realized the true story of the game is your adventure and when I came to think of that I didn't mind so much that the story wasn't stronger as my adventure and my journey throughout the game was so fun and compelling that there were times where I didn't even notice the story so much.
I really hope to see where Nintendo can take the franchise from here and with their new approach to the Zelda formula I hope to see many Zelda games with this level of freedom in the future. A definite must own for Zelda fans and even those who are curious or new to the series.