Project Luminous/ High Republic

There was a time when I thought working at Lucasfilm was a dream job with the most talented people in the entertainment industry! But thanks to the below trailer I think I was mistaken.
This trailer for Project Luminous ripped my soul out of me!
Specifically this white board!

We have 3 columns created by a multitude of  writers, the Lucasfilm Story Group members and a bunch of suits and these bullet points are what they believe are the pillars of Star Wars are!?!

If the utter excrement that was the Sequel Trilogy killed Star Wars, this shit is robbing the grave for body parts to re create a monstrosity that only resembles it's former self on the surface!
For fucks sake Diversity...TWICE.
There is no other Fantasy/ sci fi universe that is more diverse than Star Wars! Humans, Twi lek, Ug Naught, Wookie, Ewok, Hutt, Mon Calamari, Gungan, Trandoshan, Rodian, Zabrak, Chiss, Neimoidian, Kaminoan, Devaronian, Geonosians, Bith....to name a few.

NOT PRO WAR???!!! Did these people even understand George Lucas's story???? Star Wars IS NOT PRO WAR!!!!! It's literally the opposite! Jesus Christmas Trees!!!!

Erase Actual Ending and replace with Actual Story with a beginning, Middle and Conclusion....ya know like Episodes IV, V and VI!

Dinosaurs...

I had heard about Project Luminous a few weeks ago and it sounded promising but after seeing this video with the VP of franchise content and strategy, the Sr Creative Executive for franchise story & content and the Director of Creative publishing it feels more like this project is more about selling Star Wars Stories from the Old High Republic Era like DLC and waiting to see what grabs the hearts and minds of masses.

Netflix War for Cybertron : Seige Trailer

I was starting to wonder if this series was cancelled....
Thankfully not, the trailer just dropped from the NY Toy Fair and it looks very similar to the Machinima series from a few years back.
The trailer looks to explore the time just prior to the Autobots exodus from Cybertron. It also gave me hope that Seige will delve into the polical climate of Cybertron where Megatron makes his bid to become a Prime! I'm also hopeful we get to see Orion Pax and Alpha Trion in this series.
 

Castlevania Season 3 trailer

I've been anxiously waiting for this trailer!
20 days till season 3!

Happy Valentine's Day from SquareEnix! Final Fantasy VII remake Opening Cinematic

I remember waiting in line out side the Software Ect. in Cross County Shopping Center to buy Final Fantasy VII 23 years ago. I used to go there to read the articles in EGM about FFVII leading up to the release. This was the first game I waited on line to buy and the first time I got game swag.
Here we are almost a quarter century later and once again I'm ready to wait on line for this game!
This trailer is the actual opening movie and is absolutely stunning, I'm sure nostalgia is adding to my hype but regardless I guarantee this game will break sales records. I'm not sold on the episodic content approach though. And I'm not sure whether to buy it day one for PS4 or hold off to get it later this year for PS5.

Ghost in the Shell SAC 2045 Netflix Series Trailer

I was super hyped when I heard we were getting a new GitS SAC series on Netflix this year, but honestly this trailer did not grab me. the animation style looks unfinished. It's coming from production IG who were responsible for SAC and 2nd gig as well as Arise so I know they know what they're doing. As long as the story is intriguing I can look past the art style, I made it through GitS 2 Innocence! The combo of CG and hand drawn in Innocence was awful!
So SAC 2045 takes place chronologically after 2nd GIG, and the story revolves around a "systematic sustainable war", the members of section 9 are reunited against a new threat, a dude wearing a hood with the deepest voice I've ever heard and a guy that looks alot like Stephen Lang and is refereed to as a post human.
I'll definitely binge this as I'm a big fan of the franchise! April isn't that far off.