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Valentine Reviews!
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 On 02/10/2019 at 10:13 PM by Cary Woodham See More From This User » |
This week has Valentine’s Day, so I’ve got some Valentine’s treats for all of you! Game reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com! Yeah, I know, just what you wanted, right? Anyway, please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a comment or ‘like’ or two. I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!
It’s about time they made these! Remember in elementary school when you’d get those cheap cartoon character valentines to give to everyone in the class? Well these are Mario ones. They also had Minecraft valentines but I didn’t get those. I wonder if we’ll ever get Pac-Man or Kirby valentines? What video game valentines would you like to see? If you could give a valentine card to any video game character, who would it be? Can you guess who I’d give a card to?
So you may be thinking to yourself, “What the heck is Pang?” Well if you lived in the US in the 80’s, you may know the Pang series better as Buster Bros. It was originally an arcade game where you play as two boys who use harpoons to pop bubbles bouncing around. It wasn’t quite as popular as others, but I still remember it as a kid at the local Mr. Gatti’s Pizza, and I also have fond memories playing it with my brothers when Capcom published the Buster Bros. Collection on PSOne. So I was excited to find out about a new game in the series.
So in Clock Simulator, you are the clock. You must press a button to count down seconds, but make sure they’re right on the dot. And that’s it. I wouldn’t even call it a music/rhythm game, because there is no music. It’s just a rhythm game. It’s really weird, too.
I wanted to like this game so much, I really did. It’s like a cross between Captain Toad and Lemmings, and has cute graphics and colorful characters. The world needs more games like this. But the unique thing about this game is you control it with your cell phone, and it doesn’t work very well because of that. Plus you have to have two players to play it. I don’t see why they couldn’t implement regular controllers, too, and let you play single player as well.
This game plays almost just like Ghosts N Goblins right down to the weapons and settings, which is both a blessing and a curse. You play as a princess and the game feels like it could’ve been a Capcom SNES game, which is cool. But like Ghosts N Goblins, the game is way too hard and goals and objectives are unclear in the adventure mode. But if you like Ghosts N Goblins, you may want to check this one out since I don’t think Capcom is going to revisit this series anytime soon.
Outside of Elevator Action, there’s not many games that features elevators as a major gameplay aspect. But now there is with Lifty. You operate an elevator up and down picking up passengers and dropping them off before they get too impatient and explode. As a free-to-play game, I hate how you have to use earned coins to save your progress, as that’s not fitting for a mobile game. I think Lifty would be better as a reworked arcade title. “Elelator go up, eletator stop. Elelator go down, elelator stop.” If you can get that reference, you get a gold star.
And finally, this is like a fast paced version of connect the dots. I do like the cute graphics, but the game just didn’t draw me in. Which is strange because as a kid, I loved connect the dots. When I was a kid, I loved things like connect the dots, sticker albums, and spinning around and around until I got dizzy and fell down. But as an adult, those things just don’t appeal to me anymore. Especially that last one.
And that’s all for now! Thanks for reading my reviews and posting ‘likes’ and comments. Happy Valentine’s Day! --Cary
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