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Undertale Review | Green Ornstein's Bucket List Of Games

You know those games you always heard were ground-breaking and era-defining but you never got round to playing? The ones you know, as a devout gamer, you must experience at some point in your life?  Have you piled up 50 or so of these games over the years and need an excuse to play through them?  ...No?  Well I do! Welcome to Green Ornstein’s Bucket List of Games! Where we go through the classics, the gems, and the hyped to which we all went “Wow, I should play that...if I have time and it goes on sale”.  Will these games ring true to their reputations or will all those recommendations have been for nothing? Either way, let’s have some fun. So lets venture to somewhere even lower than my sense of worth. If I had to highlight one game out of the mass-grave of old video games I’m excavating, it’s Toby Fox’s Undertale (2015) . I’m always told how this game is a phenomenon, the ultimate Indie Darling. Since it holds one of the top 50 high...

Garfield is Super Weird

Words by Curmudgeon Film Talk . Title image compliments of Green Ornstein . Garfield is super weird. Sigh… I suppose I should qualify that statement, but alas…all in good time, dear readers. All in good time… Garfield should require no introduction. The contentiously curmudgeonly cat is an icon of American comics, and I’m guessing you wouldn’t have clicked on this article if you didn’t have at least some prior familiarity. Authored by Jim Davis in the mid-1970s - 1976/1978, specifically - the adventures of Garfield follow a pretty standard format. Garfield is a lazy, churlish feline with an obsession with lasagne and a propensity for self-centredness, much to the chagrin of his owner, Jon. Credit:  https://garfield.com/ It’d be far from controversial to say that most comic strips lack longevity. After all, their family-friendly values and basic, slapstick humour doesn’t translate so well to the modern day. Cultural milestones like The Simpsons ...