Wish there was a Hallmark arcade cabinet ornament this year to add to my collection. SNES looks good though.
Steel Assault looks like Metal Slug.
Hava Jenga for Xmas.
Cary's Pretend Christmas Party 2021!
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 On 12/10/2021 at 01:40 PM by Cary Woodham See More From This User » |
Merry Christmas everyone! I’ve got some presents for you! Game reviews I’ve recently written at GamerDad.com! Just what you always wanted! Please click on the links and read as many reviews as you can, and maybe post some ‘likes’ and comments, too! I’d appreciate it. And in the comments section, give me a pretend present and I’ll give you one, too! It’s the thought that counts…literally!
Hallmark 2021 Video Game Christmas Ornaments
Hallmark always has a wide annual selection of new Christmas ornaments and series, and in the past few years they’ve even done video game related ones! This year they had even MORE than ever (my wallet is still crying), and I got most of them, so I thought I’d share them with you here.
The Jackbox Party Pack 8 (PS4)
If you have a bunch of people over to play games during the holidays, 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 or tablets to play them! Just connect to Jackbox.tv on any mobile device 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, too. The Jackbox Party Pack 8 is available on most anything that can play games, but reviewed on PS4 here. Let’s take a quick look at the five games on this collection. This is a weaker set of titles than ones before, unfortunately.
Teacup is a frog who loves tea, but on the day before her big tea party, she runs out of ingredients! Oh no! Help her explore her town full of animals, talking with her friends and playing mini-games to gather everything she needs to have the best tea party ever. A very chill game, it reminds me of those old Humongous Entertainment point and click adventures for kids.
If you think shipping anything during the Christmas season is stressful, wait’ll you play this one! Jeff and Debra are two kiwi birds who have just applied for a post office job in a Podunk town in the middle of the Australian Outback. Unfortunately the mail room isn’t designed for two pint-sized kiwis, so they’ll really have to work together and use their beaks and butts to type out telegrams, mail letters, and sort inbound and outbound packages!
Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan (Switch)
In the Land of Imagination, the residents are about to celebrate a festival of colors. But when guest of honor Rainbow Billy launches the fireworks, they wake up a sleeping monochrome dragon under the sea! This angry Leviathan steals all the colors from the land, and now Billy must bring them all back and rescue his friends, and make more than 60 new ones, too! Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan is a turn-based RPG with elements of Paper Mario platforming thrown in. And the battles aren’t really battles at all. You must talk your way through each skirmish to make new friends out of your foes! I like everything about this game except the battle system, and unfortunately, that’s the meat of the gameplay in an RPG.
In a fantasy world full of talking dogs, cats, goats, bears, and others animals, trouble is brewing. An ancient calamity has returned, making monsters more aggressive and endangering the lives of the people. You play as a young cat imperial soldier, sent to a small town to help defend the village. There you’ll discover that to keep the calamity at bay, you must collect several relics from dungeon caves. And so your adventure begins! Kitaria Fables is a top down action adventure game, similar to titles like Zelda or more obscure ones like Brave Fencer Musashi. There’s a heavy emphasis on crafting materials and items, too, so you’ll do a lot of mining for ores and farming crops. So the game has a lot in common with titles like Rune Factory as well. Neat game, but I didn’t like how fiddly the menu system was.
You are Taro Takahashi, a resistance soldier on a revenge mission against the dictator who lords over the ashes. Run, jump, climb, and smack enemies in this 16-bit arcade styled 2-D action platformer.
Pretty Girls Panic! PLUS (PS4)
Play a classic styled arcade game to reveal pictures of anime ladies in Pretty Gals Panic! PLUS. It’s very similar to Pretty Girls Panic, which I reviewed recently, but adds new graphics, characters, and gameplay mechanics.
And that’s all for now! Thanks for reading and posting ‘likes’ and comments. I do appreciate it. And don’t forget about the pretend Christmas presents in the comments section! Merry Christmas! --Cary
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