I adore Crash Bandicoot, but there's very few series like it. Semi-linear 3D platformer with occasional branching paths and shortcuts. I'm not looking for a full-on collectathon like Spyro or Banjo, but something more linear with optional collectibles.
I have played Kao the Kangaroo, Sylosybil, and Lilo and Stitch, all of which are Crash style games.
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I don't believe in reincarnation, but I'm not sure what I believe in terms of the afterlife and what lies beyond this life. I'm open to hearing other peoples' beliefs about what happens next. Why do you personally believe in reincarnation? Do you believe in an afterlife as well?
I'm new to musicals in the sense where I know songs from some of them (Beetlejuice has a great soundtrack), but I haven't watched very many. Are there any good professionally filmed musicals on either Netflix or Youtube? I'm not looking for movie adaptations, but rather the actual stage musical. I plan to watch Legally Blonde, but I don't know what to watch after. Thank you in advance!
This review will be spoiler free.
Nearly 30 years ago, the Doctor Who novel Lungbarrow released and gave fans answers to questions they may or may not have been asking. The question of Doctor "Who" was somewhat answered, with a new question taking its place; who exactly is the Other? We learn that the Other is the founding Gallifreyan who would later be reincarnated as the Doctor, but we don't get a lot of his past or his motives.
In the new spinoff novel Cwej:Lungbarrow by Loomlight, author Tomoko M Banks sets out to cement the Other's place in Doctor Who mythos while telling a sequel to the divisive decades old novel. Since this is a spinoff novel that only has certain licenses to specific characters, some characters and concepts are given new names. The Doctor becomes "the Defector", timelords are "Temporal Superiors", and so on. After a few chapters this didn't bother me, but it can feel like a puzzle at times early on.
The plot of the book is interesting. Chris Cwej, former companion to the Doctor, has amnesia due to tampering by the Timelords. He is recruited by the Timelords and the house of Lungbarrow itself to find and assassinate the Other before they can become the Doctor. A majority of the book is Chris jumping through time Quantum Leap style and learning new bits of Gallifreyan lore. This book is a lore fest, tying in lore from the classic series, wilderness years, and modern series in a mostly coherent way. The lore does take top billing here, with much of the plot and character developments happening in the latter half of the story.
What's here is pretty solid. The characters work despite some of them appearing very briefly, the lore from the New Adventures novels and the television series is woven together nicely, and you get a lot of information about the Other which is nice for long-time fans. The structure of the story falls a bit flat with a specific twist character near the end of the book, as they barely get any page time, nor a real reason or motive to be there.
Overall, I really enjoyed Lungbarrow By Loomlight. It's a fun adventure that revisits concepts and characters from the wilderness era of Doctor Who, which I have a big soft spot for. I don't think this book will be for every Doctor Who fan. I reccomend reading it if you're the sort of person who loves the lore of Gallifrey, if you miss the creativity of the wilderness years, or if the concept of a Lungbarrow sequel interests you at all. If any of those describe you, you will probably enjoy Lungbarrow by Loomlight. It's a fun book with a nearly poetic style to it that feels right at home in the 90's era of Doctor Who.