Chesstown King's Reviews and Thoughts

 Hey guys! today i finally got a Nintendo Switch 2!!! It came with Mario World...and you know me; i had to get Ocarina of Time remake!!! So far the process of switching stuff from the switch 1 to 2 has been really easy! Excpect a review of the system soon and I will review games too so look out for that! My intial impressions of it are that its a very refined system! Nintnedo is doing their thing again!!

 Over the past decade I've become a fan of the WNBA. I gotta admit it took a while to learn the teams and I'm still learning a lot. Having WNBA modes in NBA 2k games have really helped though. Lets get into it 1st Round 1)Minnesota Lynx vs.8)New York Liberty: I honestly thought this would be a monster series.....I was wrong. New York was the most dangerous 8th seed maybe ever. Minnesota wasn't playing well to end the season. They got whooped in both games easily. The rookie of the year Olivia Miles was damn near un-playable. Oh well ,she'll be back. 4)Atlanta Dream vs. 5)Washington Mystics: I think this was another sweep. The Dream were just too much for this Mystics team. None of the games were close. 2)Goldenstate Valkeryies vs. 7)Dallas Wings: Now we get some parity. Goldenstate won won the first game rather easily but lost the 2nd setting up a do or die game in the Bay. The eventual champions got it done here tho but it wasn't easy.  3)Las Vegas Aces vs. 6)India...

 I gotta admit this album really grew on me. Tyla is a beautiful singer and she has a really nice voice. Songs like "Fairytale" are really smooth. "Kiss" is a banger too. I know she gets a lot of Rihanna comparisons and honestly I can see why. Rihanna is one of her inspirations and you can hear it. "Chanel" is a really dope song. I didn't even realize that song was on this album till I got it. Production wise the album is pretty solid. Overall though I feel the album could of used another feature or two but the ones here like Zara Larsson on "She Did It Again" are decent. Yeah I've got to hear her first album now. This was a nice album that grows on you. I hope she has a long career. Tyla is awesome! Lyrics 22 Beats 22 Depth 23 Tilt 23 Verdict 90

 Recently my best friend and I beat Gears of War E-day. I don't own an xbox anymore. I was able to play on my MacBook Air via Gamepass. It was a load of fun. I played about 40-50% of the campaign alone. I've now beaten every mainline Gears of War game and I've got to say this one was the hardest!     In this Gears game you get to see the very beginning of the war between the Cog and the Locusts called Emergence Day. It is a very dark game. Things are pretty scary especially early on. You're literally at a bar getting drinks after a ceremony when the earthquakes happen and all hell breaks loose. I found the new characters Mags and Lucas to be really good and well fleshed out.  Even tho this is a prequel there are plenty of new weapons to use like the Gut Puncher which is a grenade launcher. There's also the Ripper which was a personal favorite of mine. The Incinerator was cool too which is an imulsion firing gun. Also there is a good amount of customization to your a...

 Just when you thought Tinashe was losing her touch after the last album she drops a masterpiece. Popstar is a Pop album and a damn good one! Lead single "Melatonin" is a certified club banger. I love the edited vocals she uses here. On "Empty Stadium" Tinashe sings as if just no-one is listening to her in an empty stadium. I like the vibes of that one. "Flashbacks" has a nice smooth feel to it too. The 3 song run of "Crash Out", "Pillow Fight", and "Nobody Wanna Dance Anymore" needs to be studied. The former is really dope. Kinda reminds me of some of her earlier work on her Nightride album. None of these songs are long so it makes for a perfect listen. The production is very good too as is her performances here. She talks about the industry on the title track which is interesting. Basically this is the album I always hoped Tinashe would make. Put some respect on her name! Lyrics 24 Beats 24 Depth 25 Tilt 25 Verdict 98

 I just beat Spider-Man 2 last night. Omg it was so good. The combat felt and traversal felt better than the first game . However the story wasn’t really as good. The game is open world throughout basically the same New York as the first game which is cool. The game lets you play as Peter Parker and Miles Morales. Both are similar but have different special attacks. At first Peter has the mechanical arms from the marvel movies. But later he gets the black symbiotic suite. It’s very powerful and plays a role in the late game. Miles has electric attacks and they’re very potent. He can turn invisible too but I often forgot I could do that.  You also get access to upgradable gadgets like the upshot that really help out a lot in battle. This game has quite a bit of enemy variety too. Early in the game you’ll be facing alot of Kraven’s hunters. There’s a lot of different types. There’s just regular dudes, shooters, snipers, shield wielding ones, and sword wielding ones. The sword gu...

 This new Rick Ross album is pretty good. When I looked on iTunes and saw a lot of negative reviews it was due to people dissing the album cause he pushed the release date back lol. Ross raps of elegance and such. "Mahogany Caskets" which features T.I. is a banger. I love the energy the two have here. "Minks in Miami" is another great track with a dope beat. That one features French Montana and Max B. I'm happy that Ross brought back the Maybach Music song series with "Maybach Music VII". It's pretty damn good but I'm not really feeling the Don Toliver hook tho....Jeezy raps well on it of course. "Living Large" which features BigXthaPlug is one of my favorites. "City Lights" with the Dream is another highlight. I liked "She's My Star" with Yung Miami too. Overall this is a good album but maybe a little average for Rick Ross. I wasn't disappointed by it. Look he's been out for 20 years at this point. Ros...

This album hit me by surprise and it is a worth successor to the Documentary series .The Game spits really well here but that doesn't really surprise me. He always seems to bring it lyrically. Honestly this album grew on me. At first I want too big on it. A song like "Sticks" is kinda odd but I like it. "Geezus", the first song is really dope as Game raps, "Ima make you a celebrity overnight". I didn't really like the song "Party at Game's"....I mean I see what he was going for but nah. "Baby" is pretty damn good tho as it samples Ashanti's old song with the same name. There's 2 Kanye West assisted songs "40 Nights" and "LA Monster". Both are great.Kanye is really great on the former."Do You Love Me" is interesting as a woman tells Game "yeah I love you" LOL.The Game gets really personal on songs like "Nothing 2 Hide" and "Meet the Parents". "I Won'...

  6) Tha Carter VI: It’s no secret the latest Carter album is the worst. Most of these songs are pretty mid to bad. What was he thinking on “Peanuts 2 N Elephant”? I kinda like “Cotton Candy” with 2 Chainz. “Welcome to Tha Carter” is great. I liked “Hip-Hop” which featured BigXthaPLug. “Island Holiday” and “If I Played Guitar” were very bad tho. Overall you can see why many said Wayne was washed in 2025. D+ 5)Tha Carter: I gotta admit I haven’t listened to this one that much. It’s fun to hear a pretty young Wayne here. He’s not as refined here but he’s still pretty good. I love “Bring It Back” and “Go DJ” helped put him on the map. “I Miss My Dawgs” and “Cash Money Millionaires” was good too. Overall yeah its a decent album.  B- 4)Tha Carter V: I’ve listened to this album all the way through only a few times. The album is very top heavy imo. There’s some really great songs here like “Dedicate” and “Uproar”. Weezy’s mic presence is pretty good here. I love the storytelli...

Opening Opinion 98/100 Disc 29 29 Intro-An old timey like song plays about going to Carolina. It kinda sets the tone for the theme of the album. This album is a love letter to J.Cole’s hometown. Gunshots end the track which is wild.  6/10 Two Six-The lead single. I love Cole’s flows on this track. The beat is fire too. It sounds laid back and menacing.   9/10 SAFETY-J.Cole’s raps from the perspective of his friends from his hometown telling him about what’s been going on. It’s really creative and well produced. When he talks about the gay guy he almost calls him the f word but he stops himself lol. 9.5/10 Run A Train-This is a pretty interesting song. J.Cole is joined by Future who sounds pretty invigorated on the chorus. “Fuck do you know about my passion, fuck do you know about my pain, fuck do you know about my struggle, fuck do you know about Jermaine?”. It’s a decent song. It’s pretty laid back. 8/10 Poor Thang-This is a more intense song. I love Cole’s break down when he...

 Have you been wondering what video games I've been playing since the late 2010s and till now in the mid 2020s? Well here you go Ok so after I traded in the Xbox One in 2018 I got a Nintendo Switch. OMG this thing was great. I think Breath of the Wild was my first game. I would get Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Mario Odyssey too. I was still playing my ps4 a lot too. I was playing God of War (2018) and Horizon Zero Dawn.....but I wouldn't beat either one of those until about 2020. For Switch I would eventually put over 500 hours into Super Smash Bros. Ultimate making it my most played fighting game! Later for PS4 I was able to play games that were technically ps5 games like Horizon Forbidden West and God of War Ragnaraok. Both games were absolutely amazing! Back on the Switch I would play some really great games like Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Zelda Skyward Sword remastered. I really was playing quite a few Pokemon games annually too like Shield, then Brilliant Diamond, t...

 Ah the final album of the Drake trilogy. I gotta admit I kinda like this one quite a bit more than Habiti. This one is apparently for the ladies. "Road Trips" has a nice uptempo vibe to it. "Cheetah Print" with Sexyy Red is a lot better than their collaboration on Habiti. In fact it's rather wild lol. Lyrically the album is pretty passable. The production is solid. Not every song is good. I don't know what he was thinking on "Princess". It really sounds bad and it's the last song too. "Which One" with Central Cee is pretty fire. I mean most songs are decent however. You gotta hand it to Drake for making a pretty decent comeback in 2026. I thought he was done after the very popular 2024 beef.  Lyrics 20 Beats 22 Depth 19 Tilt 20 Verdict 81

 This new Ariana Grande album is very polarizing it seems but I really like it! The single "hate that I made you love me" is really nice. This album seems to have a different sound than her past works for the most part. It's darker for sure. "Petal" has some really interesting production. Sometimes I found Ariana's singing would be kinda drowned out by some song's production but it rarely happens. "freak" is a highlight. As is "like I do" where she flaunts she'll do her lover better than anyone else. "oh well" has a really nice flow to it too. I could see someone being a little disappointed that this album doesn't really cover anything from her personal life. But the album is really good. Not as good as her last album but it's better than Positions from 2020. I actually have the album cover that shows shoes and her legs and not the regular album cover. So I guess it's the special edition of the album. It says...

Opening Opinion: 96  Wow its hard to believe its been over 20 years since T.I. released one of (if not his best) albums, King. The album is just amazing. It didn't leave my CD player for a while after I got it. Let's get into the review. I believe it was heavily used in the movie ATL which I saw on my 18th b-day.  Let's start with the DJ Toomp produced "What You Know" and man, this is probably his best solo song. The beat is infectious. I love the hook too. "Somebody get bet get bruh, fo he get sent for, say you wanna squash it, what you still talking shit for", raps T.I.. The 2 songs before this are really good too. "King Back" which is produced by Just Blaze is also amazing. The song is so triumphant. It really gets me hype. A perfect opener. I love how he tells you to listen to his past albums to get a feel for who he is. "Front Back" features UGK (Bun B and Pimp C) and is produced by Mannie Fresh. Man this beat is just  fire. All ...

 This latest MC album is pretty good. Sure she's beginning to not be as great a singer as she's been....but she's still great. The opener "Mi" is fun and energetic. "Play This Song" features a good Anderson .Paak feature. She straight up raps on "Type Dangerous" but I think it works. I mean let Mariah brag a little bit lol. "Sugar Sweet" with Kehlani is very smooth. Ironically I matched up Mariah and Kehlani in my R&B tournament. Search for that post. Sheneseea also joins the ladies on that song. The album's production is good but nothing amazing. I found myself liking most of these songs. I mean at this point Mariah is a legend for sure. The full ranking of Mariah Carey's albums is coming so look out of that. Lyrics 22 Beats 20 Depth 23 Tilt 22 Verdict 87