Top 10 Villains Round 2: #6 Lucifer

SPOILERS!!

 

So uh yeah it's been a bit since I did one of these. Work and life has been getting pretty heavily in the way and As you may know if you saw my cliff-hanger from the handsome jack review this doesn't match the tease. Well in the time I was introduced to a HUGE amount of new villains and the original six; Arkham from DMC3 just didn't match. I hate changing the numbers mid list but I just could not keep some of them in. Sorry about that.

 

I just want to point out that when on a top ten list of villains when THE DEVIL is number 6, That brings a lot of hope towards number 5.

 

Ladies and gentlemen if you haven't seen Supernatural give it a shot....just ignore the cliff-hanger at the end of season 5 and assume the series ended cause after that things start going a little bit stupid. Suffice to say that eve will NOT be on this nor will she EVER!!...Sorry that gets me a little worked up. Where was I?

 

Right Supernatural. A good enough series has some issues but generally a good time. As the series went on they started going from general monsters. (vampires, werewolves, bloody mary myths legends that kind of stuff) to more religious things like demons and angels. After they went to that there was only one more villain they could really bring in and have massive presence.

 

They already signed Mark Sheppard so they went to the next best thing. The Devil.

 

At the end of season 4 Lucifer was unleashed and the first thing he needed to do is find a host. He finds a man down on his luck. A man named nick whose wife and child were murdered by an intruder and Lucifer suffice to say has a fun job of sticking his finger in the wound. Making him hallucinate seeing himself covered in blood, Seeing his dead wife and probably one of the big reasons he's on this list making him see his deceased child inside of it's crib and about in the same shape it was in last time he saw it.

 

I'll spare you the image of the crib pouring blood out of it.....mostly cause I can't find the image.

 

I know we're talking about the devil here but that scene immediately hit me upon re-watching the episode (might I add one of the first in the season if not the first) that they are not messing around with this guy and that they wanted to make sure they created a villain worthy of the name "Lucifer"

 

He pops up a fair amount of times during season 5 to keep thing interesting but he always has such a calm mocking tone to him except the few times either his angel brethren or the even fewer times he calms down and actually tries to reason with Michael. But his tone and his very arrogant but still oddly fun to watch performance is due to two people. Normally Mark Pellegrino and during the end of the series Jared Padalecki. Yes He is damn menacing, He does thing during the season and doesn't just bugger off somewhere (Cough Kefka Cough) and the main thing he wanted during the season was his true vessel he gets. He takes over the body of one of the main characters and honestly if it wasn't for one thing making sam take back his mind long enough to seal Lucifer he would've won and in some ways he did cause he essentially killed one of the main characters.

 

 

I CAN'T SEE YOU!! >.<

 

Seriously though yes I know that he came back but I'll be honest I call ass pull just to keep the series going.

 

So he does everything right, He's a perfect example of a villain and he in a sense wins. Why in gods name is he at number 6? Well two reasons. First This is my list and maybe some of the villains coming up may not be better done but I like the style or design better. Second Like I said the idea of him being in sam's body and sealed in the cage is one thing but sam then coming out with no soul then with a soul and Lucifer mentally hounding him was again an ass pull and even with Lucifer being once again quite sadistic it just doesn't hit the same note and honestly kind of sours it. At least in my opinion and very slight recollection of season 6 and 7.

 

Lucifer is a fantastic villain though. Everything hits the right note but again just some minor things and the odd resurrection later on just seems off. Again this is all my opinion and I know those things may seem minor but It's just how I see it. As for the next villain we have coming up...well Lucifer isn't the only villain aquatinted with death.



ISWT Review: Wolfenstein The Old Blood

SPOILERS!!

 

 

 

One of my favourite games of last year was Wolfenstein The new order. It was the first game I played on the PS4 and between the very classic yet still with a few quirks gameplay and the fantastic writing both comedic and dramatic made this an absolutely incredible experience. Now I only heard about this Stand alone DLC for it when it came out and I was resistant at first because for some reason I was convinced that it was A completely different genre all together. I admittedly have no idea why I thought that but I did decide after hearing it was similar to the original to get it. Was it more of the same or something of a whole new kettle of fish?

 

To start off for those who don't know Wolfenstein back in the day was one of the first FPS (first person shooter) games to exist alongside games like doom.

 

 

The franchise took place in an alternate WW2 where the Nazi's used less conventional weapons like the occult or robots. And yes the boss of one of the first games is Mecha Hitler.

Suffice to say these games are glorious.

But the past games are not what I'm here to talk about. Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is A prequel to New Order set in the mission immediately before the mission that started off New Order as we once again take control of B.J.Blascowicz (And yes that name is glorious) This time trying to find Information from a Nazi Commander who specializes in the occult. Now while They never advertise this there is one big thing in this game that alters how everything goes about 2/3 of the way into it. Before this one moment it's generally the same as the previous game if maybe a bit less interesting with the lack of the timeline idea and a solid villain. But Remember how I said this Nazi Commander specialized in Occult?

Now Before people start to sigh at the idea of Nazi zombies if there was one franchise that had a pass it's wolfenstein. Now that we have that out of the way yes this introduces zombie enemies into the game and they do behave a lot differently then any other enemy in the game. This does move the game in a different way then New Order. Before this again it was just more of New Order. Not that there is anything wrong with that or even close for that matter but this does make things interesting.

For example sometimes when you kill and enemy they'll turn immediately and since zombies will attack other Nazi's it does make things interesting. As well how you handle zombies is very different to normal soldiers. Suffice to say they do swarm as opposed to try and cover and shoot. It's a cool dynamic but is there enough with it to justify the price if you already have New order?

Old Blood costs $25.00 right now and for how long it is I'm honestly on the fence compared to New order. It's not nearly as fleshed out or as varied compared to New order but then again It's half the price and does feature some new ideas and the same great gameplay. I guess in the end it breaks even but because In the end Price doesn't matter as much if you already own them, To me New order is the better use of money but if you have the money go for Old blood.

Long story short the new wolfenstein games kick metric tonnes of ass and I really hope Bethesda announces a new one this year at E3.

First reaction Avengers 2 Age of Ultron

I'd say spoilers but well.....You've probably already seen this movie.