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Welcome back to the final part of my eagerly anticipated games list of 2020.  Let's get going! Rune Factory 5 for the Nintendo Switch. I do enjoy me some nice, peaceful farming games every once in a while, like Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley.  If you're not familiar with the Rune Factory series, it is basically Harvest Moon but mixed with a JRPG, so you have to explore dungeons and fight monsters at the same time as making sure your crops are watered and your livestock is looked after. This sort of game really works well on a handheld so it's a great fit for the Switch. Streets of Rage 4 for the Nintendo Switch. Whether or not this one actually turns out to be as good as the classic entries in the series for the Sega Megadrive remains to be seen, but at the moment I am looking forward to checking this one out. I quite like the art style that they've gone for - it's both modern and retro inspired at the same time. I hear that Yuzo Koshiro is only doing part of

Due to the rise of streaming services and the convenience they afford us for accessing high quality media, the poor old Blu Ray has gone into something of a decline over the last few years.  One great side effect of that is that they are now incredibly cheap and can be picked up for next to nothing.  I recently did just that, and The Butler was one of a dozen or so movies that I acquired. I had never actually heard of the film before, which is surprising, but I decided to take the extremely small risk of spending 50p on it as it sounded interesting.  What I discovered was a fascinating tale about a man who served eight different American presidents through their terms in the White House. The Butler is based on a true story, though it is a fictionalised version of events so certain things may have been exaggerated for dramatic effect.  As the film begins the main character Cecil Gaines (brilliantly played by Forest Whitaker) is just a boy, living and working in a cotton plantation for

Welcome back to part three of my 2020 gaming list! Bravely Default II for the Nintendo Switch. While I find it very peculiar that Square Enix have chosen to ignore the fact that they already released a perfectly decent sequel to Bravely Default, called Bravely Second, I do welcome the idea of more games set in that world and with those characters.  If you're not familiar with the Bravely Default series, they are basically a call back to the earliest Final Fantasy games - turn based combat, a robust class system and gorgeous hand painted backgrounds are all staples of the series.  There are some nice modern touches as well though, such as the ability to speed up random battles so they go by four times as fast, or you can also decide to turn them off altogether. Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3 for the Nintendo Switch. I have thoroughly enjoyed both of the previous entries in this indie series, where you take control of a busy kitchen and via a series of different mini games, attempt

The Personal History of David Copperfield is the latest project from writer and director Armando Ianucci, who has worked on other such hilarious movies and TV shows like Death of Stalin, The Thick of It and Veep. It is of course a brand new adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens story, a story that is no stranger to being constantly told and retold over the years.  Dickens stories have always had an element of humour and the absurd about them, even as characters find themselves beset by poverty and misery at every turn.  This version is no exception. The basic outline of the plot is that an older and wiser David Copperfield has written a play based on the many places and people from his eventful life and is now presenting them to an audience for the first time.  The film begins on the stage, but as Dev Patel as Copperfield starts to narrate what's going on, the film transitions into flashback scenes depicting what happened. The film charts his life from a young boy living happ