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Bad Beer game review
Oct. 24th, 2024 07:29 amNice write up about my latest IF game.
Oct. 24th, 2024
Bernice Summerfield: The Draconian Rage
Oct. 24th, 2024 12:41 pmContinuing Big Finish's series of audio adventures with Doctor Who spinoff character Bernice Summerfield. And we get to this one. Which sees Benny off to an alien world, negotiating courtly intrigue, deadly plots and some truly horrific treatment.
This is the first Benny in a while where I'm not familiar with the alien species depicted. Shock horror I have never seen 1973's "Frontier in Space" (first aired when I wasn't yet a year old). So I've had to look up to find out about the species and its history. And even what it looks like. That's ok, I'm fine with that.
What I'm less happy about is that this audio is a sequel - and not in a slight way - to an earlier Big Finish main range Doctor Who audio featuring Benny, Ace and the Seventh Doctor. To be fair that Doctor Who audio was originally released just a few months before this Benny audio. But at this distance of 21+ years I'm listening to the later audio and haven't heard the earlier one. And as a listener - or reader, or whatever - I always feel frustrated, admittedly somewhat irrationally so, when there's a major callback to a previous story I don't know. I feel I'm unfairly missing out on stuff, and not getting the full feelings I would if I'd heard/read the earlier one.
Now I was told much that I needed to know about the prior story in this audio. But I had no familiarity with a past prominently featured and mentioned character. And little emotional connection with the past events at all. So that aspect of things fell very flat for me.
But there was much to like. Beware though some truly gruesome things happen in this audio. Which you are not spared from by hearing just the audio only. If anything that may make things even worse. Extremely effective sound effects! But yes, I enjoyed, with a major proviso.
This is the first Benny in a while where I'm not familiar with the alien species depicted. Shock horror I have never seen 1973's "Frontier in Space" (first aired when I wasn't yet a year old). So I've had to look up to find out about the species and its history. And even what it looks like. That's ok, I'm fine with that.
What I'm less happy about is that this audio is a sequel - and not in a slight way - to an earlier Big Finish main range Doctor Who audio featuring Benny, Ace and the Seventh Doctor. To be fair that Doctor Who audio was originally released just a few months before this Benny audio. But at this distance of 21+ years I'm listening to the later audio and haven't heard the earlier one. And as a listener - or reader, or whatever - I always feel frustrated, admittedly somewhat irrationally so, when there's a major callback to a previous story I don't know. I feel I'm unfairly missing out on stuff, and not getting the full feelings I would if I'd heard/read the earlier one.
Now I was told much that I needed to know about the prior story in this audio. But I had no familiarity with a past prominently featured and mentioned character. And little emotional connection with the past events at all. So that aspect of things fell very flat for me.
But there was much to like. Beware though some truly gruesome things happen in this audio. Which you are not spared from by hearing just the audio only. If anything that may make things even worse. Extremely effective sound effects! But yes, I enjoyed, with a major proviso.