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Thank goodness February is over.  Never liked that month.  We’ll start off the new one with another batch of game reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com.  Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a comment or two.  I’d appreciate it.  Thanks.

Unplugged: Poop: The Game

Get ready for a Cary Woodham Game Review Milestone!  In the nearly 20 years I’ve been reviewing video games, I’ve also written lots of reviews of things like accessories and controllers, and I even dabbled in movie reviews (that didn’t turn out as well).  But this’ll be my first time reviewing a card game!  At GamerDad.com, we have a section called “Unplugged” that is about board and card games, and usually another guy writes about those.  But I took a stab at it this time and I think it turned out pretty well.  I even got to interview the guy who created the game!  He designed it with his six-year-old son.  Poop: the Game plays kind of like UNO with third-grade potty humor.  If you’d like to know how to get your own copy, check out my review and click on the links in the interview!

Adventure Time: Game Wizard (iPad)

I’ve reviewed TONS of Adventure Time games!  This one’s a pretty good idea, though.  It’s a standard 2-D platformer with some Metroid elements and you can switch out characters.  You can finally play as my favorite character from the cartoon: BMO!  But you can also design your own levels!  You can do that with the in-game design tools, or you can print off special sheets of graph paper, draw lines and symbols on it, and use your tablet to scan your drawing into a level.  Unfortunately this didn’t work out well for me, but I was probably trying to make something too complicated (a Pac-Man maze).  So as long as you don’t make anything too complicated, and make sure your lines are straight, it probably works better. 

SpongeBob HeroPants (3DS)

Speaking of popular cartoons, this one is a quick cash-in of the recent SpongeBob movie, and plays exactly like another SpongeBob game I reviewed a couple of years ago.  It’s not very interesting and I was never a fan of the cartoon anyway.  But I did like the starfish.

Pokemon Shuffle (3DS)

I really didn’t think this free-to-play 3DS game was all that bad.  It doesn’t bombard you with ads like tablet freebies do, and they don’t pressure you to buy anything.  You know how free-to-play games reel you in, and then once you get so far they make it impossible to progress unless you buy something?  I haven’t gotten to that point yet in Shuffle, and I’ve been playing it for a good solid few weeks.  I’m not going to spend any money on the game because I don’t want to encourage Nintendo that it’s OK to nickel and dime us, but for what it is, I feel like I’ve gotten more than my money’s worth from it.  Worth a try if you like quick puzzlers.

AG Drive (iPad)

This is one of the better, more ‘console quality’ iPad games I’ve played.  It’s a futuristic racer similar to F-Zero or Wipeout.  Looks pretty good with silky smooth and fast frame rates.

Reader Review: Pix the Cat (PC)

It’s an arcade style game that sounds kind of like Pac-Man Championship Edition.  My friend reviewed this one for me and he really liked it!

Reader Review: Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 (PC)

That same friend reviewed this one, too.  Unfortunately he didn’t like this one very much.  It’s an RPG that was originally on PS3, and I think I reviewed it there.  Now you can get it on Steam.  Compile Heart and Idea Factory just can’t make a good RPG to save their lives.

LuckyPop (iPad)

And last and definitely least is the most useless app I’ve ever reviewed.  I shouldn’t have even taken it, because you have to connect it to Facebook for it to work, and I don’t like connecting games to Facebook.  You tap on the screen to earn points that you can use to send virtual gifts to your friends, and they’ll give you gifts in return.  I don’t have any Facebook friends who would be willing to do such a stupid thing, so this ended up being one of my shortest reviews ever.  Oh well, they can’t all be good ones.

Conclusions

And that’s all for now!  Thanks for reading and commenting!  I really appreciate it, thanks!  I’m running kind of low on blog ideas right now, so March may be pretty sparse for me unless you can think of a blog topic idea that you’d like for me to write about (just post in the comments section and if I like it, I’ll do it).  Later!  --Cary