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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  It’s your lucky day, too!  At the end of the rainbow lies a pot of…more games reviews I’ve written recently at GamerDad.com!  Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a ‘like’ or comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  OK let’s begin!

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Tactics (PS4)

I was a child of the 80’s, and Jim Henson stuff was a big part of my childhood.  I watched TV shows like Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock.  I saw films like The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, and heck, the very first movie I ever remember seeing in a theater was the first Muppet Movie.  So I was very interested in seeing the new Netflix series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.  And I LOVED it!  I don’t normally binge watch things, but one day when I was off work, I watched two episodes of it in the morning and two more in the evening.  It was so good.  I’d watch it again if I had time.  So I was excited when I heard they were making a video game out of it, but I was disappointed that it was a tactics strategy RPG game.  I don’t like those.  Could my love of the series and Jim Henson stuff in general save this game for me?  Well you’ll just have to read this review and find out!  Sneak peek, though, I loved it.  Mainly because I could put it on a super easy mode and breeze through most of it.  This was the first tactics RPG I’ve ever beaten, so that says a lot on how much I liked it. 

The Jackbox Party Pack 6 (PS4)

If you have a bunch of people over to play games, but not enough controllers to play with everyone, then Jackbox has you covered!  Their latest batch of party games is out, and all you need are cell phones to play them!  Just connect to Jackbox.tv on any phone and enter in the room code and you’re in!  It’s pretty simple and works well, and in some games, even people who don’t have cell phones can be part of the audience and participate.  Check out my review to see all the party games in this pack.

Underhero (PS4)

In this game, you start out as a generic hero ready to storm the evil lord Mr. Stiches’ castle.  As you approach, a few weak minions prepare for the worst, but one of the minions decides to kill the hero by dropping a chandelier on him!  After that, you take control of that minion!  When you approach the defeated hero, a talking sword hilt says that now YOU’RE the new hero!  But you still work for the bad guy, who tasks you with returning three special stones to the bosses that the original hero defeated.  But secretly, the sword hilt tells you to defeat those bosses again and get strong enough to battle your boss and become the Underhero.  Underhero is an action RPG game that turns RPG archetypes on their ear, since you are sort of on the enemies’ side!  It has action based battles and 2-D platforming VERY similar to the Mario & Luigi handheld RPGs.  So if you miss those since we won’t be getting any more of them any time soon since the company that made them went out of business, Underhero might fill that void for a while.

Glass Masquerade 2: Illusions (PS4)

If you like putting together jigsaw puzzles with pieces that look like broken bits of stained glass, then this game is for you!  It’s really more of the same from the first game, which I reviewed around this time last year, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing when it comes to these jigsaw puzzle games.  The theme of the last one was world travel, but I’m not sure what the theme is this time.  Weird stuff like clowns, jesters, and magicians, I guess.  I think I like the theme of the first game better.

Math Land (Switch)

I’m always up for reviewing educational games for kids.  Those games interest me for some reason.  This one has a pirate theme and tasks kids with practicing their addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and greater than/less than skills.  Adults can enjoy the game, too, because solving math problems in your head is good brain exercise

Tilt Pack (Switch)

Sometimes the simplest ideas can work out great.  That’s the case with Tilt Pack, a couch multiplayer game for up to four players for Switch.  All you do is move rectangle boxes with faces on them and they’ll flip and rotate as you try and knock the other boxes off the playfield.  And that’s it, really, but it’s surprisingly fun.  It’s like a sumo match with personified Pong paddles!  I liked it, anyway.

Battle Racing Stars (Mobile)

And last, in Battle Racing Stars, race as your favorite Halfbrick characters from games like Raskulls, Jetpack Joyride, and Fruit Ninja.  You’ll run on 2-D platform stages from those games as you jump and dodge obstacles and try to get first place.  It’s a fun little mobile time waster.

And that’s all for now!  Thanks for reading and commenting on my reviews!  I really appreciate it.  Don’t forget to wear green!  --Cary