A Wii shovelware game where you swing the remote to win without much thought, but somehow pushed onto mainline consoles with the control scheme consisting of wildly swinging your analog stick in all directions to completely destroy its lifespan, pretending you are using a spade. It is so clearly not made with other consoles in mind, you have zero control in terms of movement for the most part. It's basically an autoscroller with a few minigames, all of which have the depth of a Warioware boss battle.
There's zero charisma between characters. Knockoff Antonio Banderas speaks for most of it, repeating lines in this game that lasts about an hour total. Took me more because it crashed constantly. Actually a tragedy that this is the only console outing for the character given the recent resurgence in popularity.
Also, there's God of War-like, uh, "romantic" moments. I am not kidding. There's some big fuckoff dangerous situation happening and he just stops, serenades the other cat, goes "pleasure is all yours", there's a screen transition in the shape of a heart, and he goes back to autorunning. Whomst've approved this in a kids game?
There's zero charisma between characters. Knockoff Antonio Banderas speaks for most of it, repeating lines in this game that lasts about an hour total. Took me more because it crashed constantly. Actually a tragedy that this is the only console outing for the character given the recent resurgence in popularity.
Also, there's God of War-like, uh, "romantic" moments. I am not kidding. There's some big fuckoff dangerous situation happening and he just stops, serenades the other cat, goes "pleasure is all yours", there's a screen transition in the shape of a heart, and he goes back to autorunning. Whomst've approved this in a kids game?
PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH is a magnificent, surprising delight of a movie. I put off watching it for so long because a sequel to a Shrek spin-off didn't sound the most appealing. But I kept hearing good things about it so I finally dove in and was astounded.
PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH in the sixth entry of the Shrek franchise, but don't let that stop you from watching this if you dislike the Shrek movies. Coming out 11 years after the previous movie, THE LAST WISH serves as a sort of soft reboot to the franchise...in both tone and style.
Long gone is the outdated, realistic CG animation of the previous movies. Taking major influence from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, THE LAST WISH takes a much more stylistic and painterly approach to its animation. It's simply stunning at times.
The overall tone and sense of humor has also shifted away from the bawdy, edgy jokes of the original Shrek movies to a more light-hearted, family-adventure vibe...even though this movie contains some extremely dark moments and themes.
I don't want to spoil any of the plot or detail the movie's best sequences, as I believe it is best going in completely fresh.
It's way too early to say if this starts a renaissance of Dreamworks Animation, but I can easily say this was the best animated movie of 2022.
PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH in the sixth entry of the Shrek franchise, but don't let that stop you from watching this if you dislike the Shrek movies. Coming out 11 years after the previous movie, THE LAST WISH serves as a sort of soft reboot to the franchise...in both tone and style.
Long gone is the outdated, realistic CG animation of the previous movies. Taking major influence from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, THE LAST WISH takes a much more stylistic and painterly approach to its animation. It's simply stunning at times.
The overall tone and sense of humor has also shifted away from the bawdy, edgy jokes of the original Shrek movies to a more light-hearted, family-adventure vibe...even though this movie contains some extremely dark moments and themes.
I don't want to spoil any of the plot or detail the movie's best sequences, as I believe it is best going in completely fresh.
It's way too early to say if this starts a renaissance of Dreamworks Animation, but I can easily say this was the best animated movie of 2022.