I am so happy to hear that from someone else.I always feel like a heretic when I tell people I prefer DQ to FF. The way some of them respond, I half expect them to show up with pitchforks and torches.
Those Disney games for the SNES/Genesis generation were brutal. I have Aladdin and Lion King for the Genesis, and I never finished either one. I've played one of those Taz games (can't remember which one now), and it was fun and I did manage to beat the game (probably on the easiest setting). My favorite platformers for the Genesis were Bubsy and Lost Vikings. Although, Lost Vikings is probably more of a puzzle platformer. I got to the last level and got stuck, because back in prehistoric times, as you well remember, most of us didn't have access to the internet and walkthroughs.
You aren't the first person to make the comparison with Little Nightmares. I wouldn't say it's a bad game, lots of people loved it, it just wasn't for me.
Tom Holt's first book, Expecting Someone Taller, is also good. It's a riff on the Ring Saga. Hapless guy runs over a badger, who, with its dying breath, manages to weakly tell him "I was expecting someone taller" and it goes on from there. I used to own that one, too, but I think it was a victim of the Great Mouse Plague in the loft of my grandmother's garage, where my sister's ex-husband put all of my stuff.
That turn-based RPG theme sounds cool. I'm looking forward to hearing what you've got on the list. The DQ III remake is pretty good. They prettied it up nicely and put in a full orchestral soundtrack.
I look forward to reading your review.
My nephew and I recently had a conversation about why, with all the games we own, we keep going back to the same ones. Neither of us had the answer.
New Horizons. I'm still in awe of all the small details in that game. Like the door on Red's boat being held on by duct tape.
Sounds like what I might need after Bramble. I almost put a warning in the blog saying "Cary, this is most defintely not a game for you".
I can handle violence and some gore, but this was just too much for me. After doing a quick search, I now see it's tagged "horror". If you havn't played it yet, Röki is a great little adventure title that I really enjoyed, also based on Nordic folklore.
I've read a ton of Asimov's short stories, but this was only the second novel of his that I've read. The other one was David Starr, Space Ranger, a YA book written under a pseudonym. And I know what you mean about binge reading a series. I did that with The Rivers of London series two years ago.
You always have such cool projects going on. I can't fous like that. I'm a whim reader/gamer/media watcher.
Ah, Shinobi 3! Such a love/hate relationship with that game! I don't think I ever made it more than three levels.
