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Here are my favorites from your list: Okami was my GOTY in 2006, even beating out Zelda: Twilight Princess.  Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil is definitely one of my top 5 favorite PS2 games.  The Ratchet and Clank PS2 games are some of the best 3D platformers of that generation.  Kingdom Hearts games are great, even if the story is unfollowable garbage.  Odin Sphere is one of the few games that made item management fun.  And I'm always interested in the Fatal Frame games since I like ghosts.

I don't really pay attention to all the different Power Rangers series.  The one my brothers liked was the original one in the US where they turned into robot dinosaurs or whatever.  As a teen, I hated that show, but I still liked watching it with my brothers.  I couldn't bash on the show because it was no different than the Ultraman and Godzilla shows I watched as a kid.

I've played the Global Test Run of Kirby Air Riders and yeah, it's the same Kirby Air Ride game I've known was great since the GameCube.  Can't wait to play the full game!

Yeah when the game first came out, I was going to try and review it since it was free.  But the only console I have that you could play it on was the PS4 and I had to have a PS+ onlin account to play it.  So I skipped out on it.  But later I found a game that plays similarly that I like better: Kirby's Dream Buffet!

Don't you dare ever trade Activision Anthology.  That's still one of the best collections to this day!

Ha!  You're watching Power Rangers?  My brothers loved that show when they were kids.  My brother Jeff's favorite was the Green Ranger.  He wanted to be the Green Ranger for Halloween but the character was so new to the show they didn't have costumes for it yet.  Luckily our aunt made him one, but since Jeff was so little bitty everyone thought he was dressed as an elf.  And Jeff would say grumpily, "I'm not an elf, I'm a Power Ranger!"

Another one of my brothers, Ben, really liked the Blue Ranger.  He was going through potty training at the time, and one time I told him that the Blue Power Ranger uses the potty.  I don't think he had another accident after that!

Kirby Air Riders comes out in a week.  I am so excited for that game.  That's really the game that sold me on the Switch 2.

Namco has had strong relationships with Atari in the past, so this DLC doesn't surprise me as much once I thought about that.  In fact, before Namco made arcade games of their own, they just distributed Atari's games in Japan.  

When I was a kid, I always thought that Atari made games like Dig Dug and Pole Position (kind of surprised that's not on this DLC), while Midway made games like Pac-Man and Galaga.  I was just a little kid, I didn't know! 

The first time I realized that Namco had something to do with these games was when I saw the Namco logo on the Pac-Man's Park maze in the arcade Pac-Mania game (which Atari distributed in the US).  Then as I did more research and learned that Namco made pretty much all my favorite arcade games, I was like, "OK I know who my favorite video game company is now!"

Replanted is just more or less a port of the original game with HD graphics and a few other small editions (like co-op play).  But it's still the same fun game you remember, now you can just play it on modern consoles and such.  I hate it that I missed out on the Garden Warfare games.  Those looked kinda fun.

When I played that Klonoa collection a few years ago, I realized just how much I like the series.  I hope you can get far enough in the second game to get to the snowboard level!  The music there is hilarious!

Speaking of Yars' Revenge, I reviewed a game last year that combined the gameplay of Yars with a Metroidvania.   It was called Yars Rising and was made by WayForward, the Shantae guys (who are making another Shantae game, by the way).

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2024/10/11/yars-rising-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc/

The first Asfalia is fine, but the second one has the glitch.  I found out that it's because I was playing it on the Switch 2 instead of the Switch.  The PR folks got mad at me because of that and said it was in their press release, but I don't remember reading that.  If it's not clear, it's not clear.

I just got a review code for Plants vs. Zombies Replanted.  I wouldn't mind them re-releasing Bookworm in the same way.  That one was pretty fun.

Did you notice the school nurse? :)

I'm glad it's here because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get past the second world.  But the original game didn't have it and I was able to beat it just fine without too much frustration.  I don't think my gaming skills have deteriated that much.  If they have, I need to find a new hobby!