CreatING ABOVE AVERAGE REVIEWS
Hot Takes Reviews
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Pirates of the Caribbean
Yohoho and a bottle of rum. It’s a pirate’s life for me as I recap the 5 movies both good and bad. Find out which you should watch and the one you should avoid at all costs…
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Hollow Knight: Silksong
The game everyone has been waiting years for and that may or may not be game of the year material. I finally beat the game and now I’m gonna tell you how cool it is.
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Kaguya-Sama: Stairway to Adulthood
Kaguya-Sama finishes out its manga adaptation with a select few chapters that showcase some of the best snippets.
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The Future of Pokemon is Legends
Pokemon Legends Z-A delivers one of the best games in the series through changes to battling as well as a deeper story with a great cast.
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Scooped up by an S-Rank Adventurer!
Welcome back as I continue my study into the emerging genre of “I’m super strong but my friends think I’m useless for some reason so I set out on my own and immediately found new, better friends who all want to suck my dick.” Or something like that. I’m looking forward to guiding you some…
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Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra
Ah, another entry in the long line of “isekai but the main character is evil or a bad guy or whatever the fuck.” Except I’ve read the light novel for this one so I’m actually giving it a chance. Woo. Overlord definitely turned me off from this genre and I can’t say I’ve ever enjoyed…
What We Do
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TV Show and Movie Reviews
We consume an inordinate amount of media, and that makes us uniquely qualified to give average reviews on what we watch.
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Book Reviews
Book’s are like the written form of TV and movies, therefore were also good at reviewing these.
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Podcasts
What’s better than some guys giving average quality reviews about things you don’t care about? Hearing them yap about it instead!
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YouTube Channels
Nick has his own YouTube channel where he may or may not upload content that you can enjoy.
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Twitch Streams
Guess where Nick’s YouTube content comes from? Sometimes it’s over on Twitch!
Flash Reviews
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Chaos (Charles Manson Book)
★ ★ ★ ★
I was given this book way back in December 2024 by a coworker as a Secret Santa gift but never really got around to it. Recently, while on a cruise, I read the book and loved it. I toyed with the idea of a full review, but it’s got so many moving parts it would be too difficult to review fully. If you like journalism or true crime this is an easy recommendation from me to you!
-Michael
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See You Tomorrow at the Food Court
Verdict: Watch
Wada and Yamamoto are not two people you might expect to see together. The former looks like your typical proper student, while Yamamoto’s blonde hair emphasizes her gyaru appearance. Yet despite how they look to others there’s more to them, and I enjoyed spending my lunch breaks listening to them chat about whatever.
-Nick
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Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl
Verdict: Skip
What starts as a cute premise ends up seriously flawed, as an 18-year-old college student seems to know it’s wrong to date a 13-year-old and yet does not stop things.
-Nick
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What makes each of our reviewers tick? Find out but checking out our profiles and learning how we differ in our reviewing methods.
Review Process
Our Own Scales
We each use our own scales and methodology when reviewing a show, book, game or really anything. This means scores will vary by reviewer for the same topic, but each reviewer will have their own consistent reasoning behind reviews.
Differences of Opinions
We all have vastly different lives, backgrounds and interests. This means we frequently disagree on things. One of us may love a show and the others might hate it. This leads to some “healthy” debating and maybe one day we will show you what that looks like.
Flexibility to Adjust Our Scores
Opinions change and so do we! Sometimes we may go back to something we’ve already reviewed and give it a new score, these reviews will be tagged as “redos” so that they’re easy to find and they will always link to the original review if possible.
We Have Our Favorites
We all tend to have certain things we’ve watched, played, read etc that really hit home. For us you’ll quickly find out which are our favorites as we refer back to them as the “gold standard” for each category. We will tag our true top tier reviews as “gold standard” so that you can quickly find out what our favorites are.