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Spoooky Reviews!
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 On 10/29/2015 at 08:27 PM by Cary Woodham See More From This User » |
Hey folks, here’s another batch of games I’ve been reviewing lately over at GamerDad.com. And just in time for Halloween, most of these are spooky and kooky games! Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two here or there. I’d really appreciate it. Happy Halloween!
But first a little Halloween spooky game related rant. I’m not big into horror games, but I do like ghosts and ghost stories, so I was thrilled when I first found out that Nintendo was releasing the new Wii U Fatal Frame game in the US. I was even planning on writing a blog about it and the few other M rated games I’ve enjoyed over the years as well. But Nintendo went and botched up the release of the game in the US. First of all, it’s download only, which I wouldn’t have much of a problem with except that I think it costs the same amount as a disc game. You can start it for free, which is cool, but to play the whole thing I think it ends up being as much as a regular game. I also don’t like that nickeling and diming approach for paying for games. But what’s worse is that the game is over 10 GB. If you have the Wii U with the bigger hard drive, like I do, that’s still a third of it right there. I review a lot of games, and I like to keep a large space available in case I have to review something, and I still don’t have enough room for the new Fatal Frame game! I know that eventually, all games will be download only. I’m not looking forward to it, but I know it’s coming. But I don’t think we’re quite there yet. Any game that’s over 4 GB should have the option to be bought as a disc. I’m not going to buy the game and then have to buy more memory, too. I have to say that when we do get to the point where games are all download only, I have a feeling I’ll be playing and reviewing less games, which is sad. But instead of complaining about how Nintendo botched the US release of Fatal Frame, I’m just not going to buy it. It’s a shame, too, since Japan and Europe got disc releases of it. So instead I got Xenodrifter and Steamworld Dig on the Friends of Runbow Sale, which were both less than 100 MB and cost about 6 bucks each thanks to the Friends of Runbow Sale. That’s what a download only game should be. OK, now onto the spooky game reviews!
Skylanders Superchargers Super Special!
Well, okay, this game isn’t really scary, but it does have monsters in it. Skylanders is a big deal for kids, so naturally I make it a big deal on the GamerDad site as well. It’s one of the reviews I really put a lot of effort in every year, so that’s why I posted it here first, and I hope you all get to read it. There are two big things in this Skylanders entry. One, they introduced vehicles you can ride in. The toy vehicles are cool, too, as they include moving parts like rolling wheels. The other cool thing about this Skylanders is that the Nintendo versions of the game have a couple of guest characters as Skylanders: Donkey Kong and Bowser. They even have their own vehicles and you can switch them out from Skylanders to Amiibo figures! Even though I only got to review the Wii U version, which includes Donkey Kong, the folks at Activision were nice enough to mail me the Bowser and airplane figures! I think that out of all the ‘toys to life’ figures and games (others include Disney Infinity, Amiibo, and LEGO Dimensions), I think Skylanders gets things right the most. The toys just scream, “Play with me!” And admit it, if you were a kid, you’d go nuts over Skylanders, too.
This is a downloadable Wii U title that reminds me of a cross between Bubble Bobble and Ghostbusters. You move around single screen areas and must pick up weapons to kill ghosts. Once you make it to the next round, they add one more ghost, and the ghosts follow the same path as you did in the last round. So if you remember how you moved in the last round, you can anticipate how the ghost will move, too. And if you jump around and shoot a lot, the ghost in the next round may end up being harder to get. Up to four can play at the same time. I don’t know, I just liked this game for some reason. But then, I also really like Bubble Bobble and Ghostbusters!
This is a cleverly disguised point and click adventure. You play as a girl who must find her dad in a haunted house. She has a magic amulet that lets her turn into a ghost so she can talk to spirits and pass through certain walls and possess certain objects. You move your character directly like in a 2-D platformer, but most of what you do is find items like keys to open locked doors. The game definitely has a very ‘casual’ feel to it, and it’s not very hard or lengthy. But I was still entertained by it anyway and played it to the end.
I never really got into the Goosebumps books, as I was too old when they first came out. MY favorite books as a kid were the Chronicles of Narnia series. My brothers were too young to read them when the Goosebumps books first came out, and when they were old enough, Harry Potter was big and so they were into those books instead. When my little brother Jeff was little, he took swimming lessons once and we had to get him a big beach towel, so when we went to the store he picked out a Goosebumps beach towel and thought he was big stuff! And that’s really all I can tell you about what I know about Goosebumps. The game is like a point and click adventure and it was made by WayForward. Unfortunately, it’s not very good, but I bet fans of the books will like it. It kind of reminds me of those ‘choose your own adventure’ books. I hated those; I could never get the good endings in them!
Reader Review: Final Dusk (PC)
Had a couple of my friends review some spooky games for me, too. This one is a 2-D puzzle platformer where you play as a vampire girl and must find ways to avoid the light. The artwork reminds me of NIS titles like Disgaea, which makes sense now why my friend wanted to review it. He loves those games and characters.
This same friend also reviewed this game on his own. A lot of people have been talking about this humorous RPG lately. Even my brother Jeff downloaded it! It’s very Earthbound-ey. I could be wrong, but I have a feeling if this title gets more popular, we’ll see it on a console soon.
Reader Review: Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (Vita)
Another one of my friends really like the Danganronpa series of text adventures, and he reviewed the other ones for me, too. So I had him review this one as well. Turns out it’s a spinoff game and a third person shooter. Now I feel kinda bad for having him review it. Whoops, sorry friend!
Well that’s all the spooky games I reviewed, so here are the leftovers. Snail Bob 2 is a puzzle game that’s kind of like Lemmings where you guide a snail around obstacles and dangers. It’s designed for little kids, so it’s not too hard, but I still enjoyed it a lot anyway. Just a fun, simple little charming game.
Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? (3DS)
And finally, this is based on the TV game show. The video game just ends up being a trivia challenge, but it’s still fun and educational for fans of the show. I didn’t like how small the text was, though. I’m not a big Jeff Foxworthy fan, but I do have respect for some of the shows he hosts. This one is a good family educational show, and another show he hosts, I really like as well, and it’s called The Great American Bible Challenge.
Boo For Now!
And that’s all for now! Thanks for reading my reviews and posting comments and such. I really do appreciate it. Now’s the time of year that I have a lot of games to review because of the holiday season, so I have to eat my spinach and turn into Super Cary and write a lot of reviews! Later! --Cary
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