The Humans sounds interesting. I think I saw it on Xbox. Maybe I'll check it out.
Blog-A-Day Finish Line Reviews!
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 On 02/27/2022 at 08:55 PM by Cary Woodham See More From This User » |
Well we’ve reached the finish line of another BaD! Sorry I couldn’t participate, but writing three game reviews a week plus all my other life commitments is enough for me! But I sure enjoyed reading all your other blogs and I hope you all will continue to post blogs more frequently in the future! So to celebrate the end of another good BaD, here are game reviews I’ve recently written at GamerDad.com! Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
When I was a pre-teen/early teen in the late 80’s and early 90’s, one of my favorite games was Lemmings. I played the heck out of this series, and I’m sure most gamers still know about it since there were tons of ports and sequels. In these games, you guided a bunch of mindless critters to an exit by giving them tools and skills so they wouldn’t walk blindly off of cliffs and into danger. Back when this game was on store shelves in places like Babbage’s (remember those), another game that was next to it was usually The Humans. It featured cartoony art of cavemen so it always caught my eye, but I never played it back then even though it looked like another Lemmings style game to me. So that’s why I’m glad I got to review this collection now. Turns out the game is a bit more like The Lost Vikings than Lemmings (games with prehistoric themes sure were popular back then, what with titles like Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninjas and this). Anyway, The Humans is a puzzle platformer where you guide and switch between cavemen as you use tools and make human ladders to achieve goals. It’s available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch and PS4 here. Only problem I had with this game is that it has no instructions! This game came out when games needed printed manuals, but this collection has none of that. So I had no idea what I was doing most of the time!
Moto Roader was a launch title for the TurboGrafix-16, a video game console from the late 80s and early 90s. The game was a top down racer and the screen scrolled in any direction as you made laps to win (kind of like Micro Machines). Moto Roader had a couple of sequels, but I’m not sure if they left Japan. Moto Roader 2 had a futuristic feel to it, and the tracks scrolled mostly vertically up. The third game in the series, Moto Roader MC, went back to the lap tracks of the original, but ditched the scrolling, so everything was on one single screen. So it played more like Super Sprint or the Top Ride mode from Kirby Air Ride. And now you can play Moto Roader MC on most current game consoles, but reviewed on Switch here.
KungFu Kickball is a multiplayer cartoony sports game that really has more in common with a 2-D version of soccer or basketball rather than kickball. Choose from one of several stereotypical martial arts characters (old dude, karate guy, ninja lady, and more to unlock), and punch and kick a ball (or other players) so that it rings a bell on the opposite side of the field, like a goal. Up to four can play (two on each team), and the game is available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here. I first saw this game at PAX like, three years ago so it makes me wonder what these devs do for money when the game takes that long to release!
The NERF line is one of the most popular toy brands out there, earning nearly half a billion dollars annually. It includes not only foam sports balls, but also toy blasters that shoot out foam darts and other safe projectiles. And now you can play a first person shooter game based on the blaster toys. You are selected to compete in NERF challenges on a futuristic island. Go at it alone in obstacle filled challenges where you must zap robots, solve puzzles, and bypass obstacles. Or you can challenge others online in multiplayer matches.
Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage (Mobile)
There is a music synthesizer called Vocaloid that can replicate singing voices, and in Japan, they’ve created characters to go along with those voices. Probably the most popular of those characters is Hatsune Miku, an anime styled girl character with long blue pigtails. Pretty neat character designs on these Vocaloids, really. And now you can play a game where you help Miku and her friends play music, perform in band groups, and help others in this free-to-play mobile title.
There’s a kind of German cake called Baumkuchen, and you bake it by rolling batter on a spit and spinning it around. I’d like to try it, but it sounds like a pain to make! Because of how you make it, the cake looks like it has rings, like the ones you find in trees. In fact, the direct translation of Baumkuchen is ‘tree cake,’ Baum meaning tree and Kuchen meaning cake in German (my German classes in high school and college finally paying off). This kind of cake is also popular in Japan for some reason. And I learned all of this by playing Cake Invaders. Who says video games don’t teach you anything? Anyway, in Cake Invaders, you must protect slices of Baumkuchen from waves of aliens in this classic arcade styled shooter. It’s like a cross between Space Invaders and Missile Command.
Have you ever wanted to create your own video game character and have it star in a game? Well now you can with Draw a Stickman EPIC. You’ll draw a character and a friend for it to save, then you’ll explore top down doodle filled worlds and solve puzzles and avoid obstacles by moving around and drawing things. It kind of reminds me of Scribblenauts or Drawn to Life. The game has been popular enough to spawn a couple of sequels on mobile devices, and now the original game is available on most current consoles and PC, too (reviewed on Switch here).
Flow Water: 3-D Fountain Puzzle (Mobile)
One of my favorite puzzle games is Pipe Dream. In that game, you placed different shaped pipes to lead a path of water around. Flow Water: 3-D Fountain Puzzle takes that concept and adds 3-D visuals and gameplay to the mix. It’s available free-to-play on mobile devices, but reviewed on iPad here.
And that’s all for now! Thanks for reading and posting ‘likes’ and comments on my reviews! I really do appreciate it. Later! --Cary
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