Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore is a quirky game best described as a J-Pop-centered JRPG with a light touch of Fire Emblem elements.

Last year we saw the launch of the most successful Fire Emblem title in the U.S. to date: Fire Emblem: Three Houses. With its unexpected popularity, many new players have become better acquainted with Fire Emblem combat and lore. Today, January 17, 2020, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore released on Nintendo Switch. It’s considered to be a crossover between the world of Japanese video game developer, Atlus – the creators of Persona 5, and the world of Fire Emblem. But players shouldn’t expect a Fire Emblem experience from this game.

This is a re-release of the Wii U title, Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, and it centers on the world of Tokyo teenagers who are out to save the world from evil. The game hasn’t been out very long, but so far, user scores indicate that the game is well-liked, overall by those who have played it.

First Impressions

I picked up…

Name: Dragonair (Japanese: ハクリュー Hakuryu)

Classification: Dragon Pokémon

Type: Dragon

Generation: Gen I Kanto Region

Gender Ratio: 50% Male to 50% Female

Height: 13′ 1″

Weight: 36.4 lbs

Evolution:

Evolves from Dratini at level 30.
Evolves from Dratini with 25 Candies in Pokémon Go.
Evolves into Dragonite at level 55.
Evolves into Dragonite with 100 Candies in Pokémon Go.

Alternate Formes:

Shadow
Purified

How to catch in Sword/Shield: Not Available Yet

How to catch in Go:

Evolve from Dratini

Description: More than twice the length of Dratini, Dragonair is colored very similar to its previous form. Dratini’s fins have been replaces with tiny wings, its snout is now blue, and it is adorned with three blue crystal balls, one at the neck and two at the tip of its tail. The white bump it once had is now a horn at the center of its forehead. Capable of giving off a mystical aura, Dragonair can easily fly. The massive amounts of energy it contains can be fire…

Name: Dragonite (Japanese: カイリュー Kairyu)

Classification: Dragon Pokémon

Type: Dragon/Flying

Generation: Gen I Kanto Region

Gender Ratio: 50% Male to 50% Female

Height: 7′ 3″

Weight: 463 lbs

Evolution:

Evolves from Dragonair at level 55.
Evolves from Dragonair with 100 Candies in Pokémon Go.

Alternate Formes:

Shadow
Purified

How to catch in Sword/Shield: Not Available Yet

How to catch in Go:

Evolve from Dragonair
Raids

Description: A massive bipedal Dragon, Dragonite bears no resemblance to Dratini or Dragonair. The first psuedo-Legendary Pokémon, Dragonite remains a fan favorite among Trainers. It has thick arms and legs, and small scaled wings with teal insides. It’s belly is cream colored, while the rest of its body is orange. It has grayish-green eyes, a pair of antennae and a small orange horn at the top of its head. Whereas its previous stages were slim and elegant even, Dragonite is quitebulky.

However, despite looking like it would be quite sl…

Name: Dratini (Japanese: ミニリュウ Miniryu)

Classification: Dragon Pokémon

Type: Dragon

Generation: Gen I Kanto Region

Gender Ratio: 50% Male to 50% Female

Height: 5′ 11″

Weight: 7.3 lbs

Evolution:

Evolves into Dragonair at level 30.
Evolves into Dragonair with 25 Candies in Pokémon Go.

Alternate Formes:

Shadow
Purified

How to catch in Sword/Shield: Not Available Yet

How to catch in Go:

Spawns, especially near water
Eggs
Special Research

Description: Shaped like an eel, Dratini is a long, blue and white Dragon Pokémon. It has whit, three-pronged fins on either side of its head and a white bump at the center of its forehead. Its snout and belly are also white and it has very large purple eyes. As its life energy builds, Dratini continue to grow, reaching lengths over six foot before evolving. They are incredibly rare, so much so that they were once considered to be a myth; however, in recent years, an underwater Dratini colony was discovered. While Dratini…

Big-screen TVs are the greatest, but a 55-inch probably doesn’t make much sense in your bedroom, kitchen, or smaller living room. A 32-inch model is often the perfect size for these spaces, and these are the best 32-inch TVs you can buy. Keep in mind that, though you may want to go as HD as possible, 720p is more than enough for any TV under 40 inches.

Top pick

Samsung N5300 Series (1080p)

Staff Pick

If full HD is essential to you, then you want Samsung’s N5300 Series TV with its 1080p resolution that uses Samsung’s ”HyperReal Engine” processor to deliver gorgeous visuals. This model also has Samsung’s much-improved smart platform, which lets you download streaming apps, games, utility apps, and more. If you’re buying this TV, however, you’re buying it because you value picture quality above else.

$275 at Amazon

Best value

TCL 32S327 (1080p)

TCL’s 32-inch is the perfect blend of affordability and quality, thanks to its excellent picture and built-in Roku TV platform, whic…

Name: Tyranitar (Japanese: バンギラス Bangiras)

Classification: Armor Pokémon

Type: Rock/Dark

Generation: Gen II Johto Region

Gender Ratio: 50% Male to 50% Female

Height:

6′ 7″ (Tyranitar)
8′ 2″ (Mega Tyranitar

Weight:

445.3 lbs (Tyranitar)
562.2 lbs (Mega Tyranitar)

Evolution:

Evolves from Pupitar at level 55.
Evolves from Pupitar with 100 Candies in Pokémon Go.
Mega Evolves into Mega Tyranitar with Tyranitarite.

Alternate Formes:

Mega Tyranitar

How to catch in Sword/Shield:

Trade in Sword only
Max Raid Battle
Bridge Field
Dusty Bowl
Giant’s Mirror
Giant’s Seat
Rolling Fields
Stony Wilderness
West Lake Axewell

How to catch in Go:

Evolve from Pupitar
Raid Battles

Description: A large, green, dinosaur-shaped Pokémon, Tyranitar is fierce and intimidating. It has spikes going down the back of its head, neck, and shoulders, as well as around the tip of its tail. Like its first stage, Larvitar, Tyranitar has multiple dark holes in it’s hide: four on it…

Use a shortcut to quickly open your favorite TV shows and movies.

Shortcuts has proven to be an excellent tool for productivity and everyday tasks, but what about entertainment? When I sit back and relax in the evenings with my iPad, I often find myself wanting to binge a few episodes of a favorite show, or put on a favorite movie. The Shortcuts app helps me work and take care of life’s little tasks — can it entertain me, too?

Turns out, yes, it can. There are several ways you can use Shortcuts for everything from playing music to jumping to your favorite TV show on Netflix. We’ll be focusing on the latter ability in this guide by building a media launcher.

Inspired by the work of Federico Viticci of MacStories and his Apple TV+ Launcher, I’ve created a couple of similar shortcuts that I find particularly useful when I want to watch a particular favorite show or movie. These shortcuts utilize the Dictionary action in Shortcuts, as well as a few other scripting capabilities.

Wh…

At launch, the new web browser for Mac includes limited privacy settings you can change.

The third-party Microsoft Edge web browser for Mac offers two significant privacy settings to users. These include web tracking prevention tools and the ability to remove browsing data with ease. No doubt, more privacy tools will arrive in the coming months in future app updates.

Set your tracking prevention level
Clear browsing data

Microsoft Edge for Mac

Free at Microsoft

Mac users should try Microsoft’s new Edge browser out without feeling guilty about it.

Set your level of protection

Microsoft Edge offers three levels of protection when it comes to web trackers. These are those pesky tools that companies use to collect data about how we interact with a site. By doing so, they can offer web content and ads customized for your benefit. Unfortunately, some web trackers can also cause harm. Microsoft Edge addresses the good and bad web trackers in a way that other browsers do not. …

The 2018 iPad Pro simplifies importing photos from a standalone camera.

If you love taking photos on a standalone camera, like a DSLR or mirrorless camera, rather than on your iPhone, one of the major frustration points has always been getting the photos from your camera onto a device for editing and storage. This could be particularly annoying if you’re trying to do so with an iOS device like an iPad, where you’ve needed one of two adapters, either Apple’s Lightning SD card reader or the Lightning to USB Camera Adapter.

This has changed with the arrival of Apple’s latest generations of iPad Pro. The 11-inch and 12.9-inch models released in late 2018 feature a USB-C port instead of Lightning. This change allows you newfound freedom when importing your photos onto these new iPads, including the use of third-party SD card readers, as well as direct camera-to-iPad connections, sans adapter.

USB-C and adapters

Like the Mac lineup before it, the iPad Pro now uses USB-C. Among other th…

Based on the children’s book ’Here We Are’.

What you need to know

Apple is to celebrate Earth Day 2020 with a short animated film on Apple TV+.
It will star Meryl Streep, Chris O’Dowd, and Ruth Negga.
It’s based on the best-selling children’s book ’Here We Are’.

Apple will celebrate Earth Day 2020 with a short animated film on Apple TV+, starring Meryl Streep.

According to The Hollywood Reporter:

Meryl Streep will lend her voice to Apple TV+ in an animated short film celebrating Earth Day.

The three-time Oscar winner will star with Chris O’Dowd (Sundance’s State of the Union), Ruth Negga (Preacher) and Jacob Tremblay (Doctor Sleep) in Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth. The 36-minute film is based on Oliver Jeffers’ best-selling 2017 children’s book.

It’s set to premiere April 17 on the tech giant’s streaming platform, five days before the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day celebration.

The story follows a ”precocious” 7-year-old boy who learns a…