by Charliz Chan, Grade 12 Hudson Taylor

Genshin Impact is an open-world adventure game packed with lots of places, items, puzzles, music, collectibles, and characters to explore and experience. It is developed by a game development company, miHoYo, which has a lot of experience in making RPGs (Role-playing games) such as Honkai Impact and Guns GirlZ. With this experience, they were able to make Genshin Impact into a popular online game with around 50 million people playing it as of the present. 

by Phoenix Sze and Elizabeth Swa of Grade 12 Hudson Taylor

In February 2005, the first ever episode of the critically acclaimed Avatar: the Last Airbender (ATLA), aired on Nickelodeon– a decade and a half later, the series was added to Netflix, triggering another boost in its popularity. The show centers around the story of a 12 year old boy named Aang, someone who the audience soon finds out is the aforementioned Avatar in the title. The viewers follow his journey as he tries to master the four elements, air, water, earth, and fire, in order to defeat Fire Lord Ozai, the leader of the Fire Nation. Its plot seems pretty straightforward and rudimentary, and it leans a lot towards the narrative of this cartoon being just a mere kids’ show, however, it is far from it. Through this review, we wish to delineate and dissect the reasons behind why this show can connect with people of various ages, and how it managed to do so for such a long time. From its world building all the way to its characters, the nuances found in this cartoon series show the amount of blood, sweat and tears the creators have put into this project, and all of this hard work has definitely not gone unnoticed considering how the show is still incredibly well known and talked about to this day.