Kevin C. Wong

Spot Reviews 01/06/23

Apple Arcade - Dear Reader (2019) [/] Word play puzzles based on literary works. You get a "book" where each chapter is about a paragraph from the relevant work. Puzzles can be (1) select the missing word, (2) rearrange sentence fragments, (3) unscrambling words and probably others. You earn credits which are used to buy new books. I did some of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice and half the difficulty is parsing the archaic text. Overall it's interesting if you like these kinds of puzzles.

Apple Series - Earth at Night in Color s2 (2021) [/] Season two continues this half-hour documentary series filming animals at night with very good light enhancing camera systems and post-processing. Main animals covered: African elephants, Patagonian puma, Australian Kangaroo, a coral reef, Namibian seals, polar bear mother and cubs. It's nice and short.

Netflix Anime - Romantic Killer #1.1 - #1.3 (2022) [-] High school tomboy Anzu Hoshino (Deneen Melody) is haunted by a small wizard who's mission is to make her fall in love which she is definitely against. Due to its machinations she ends up having to live with senior hottie Tsukasa Kazuki (Jason Griffith) for a month and to add to the drama another boy shows up at the end of episode 3. I didn't really like the comedy aspects. The occasional romantic moments are nice but the series is too silly for me.