I loved Twisted Pixel's games back in the 360 days. I got to review pretty much all of them. They were semi-local (Austin, TX), so I would meet them every year at PAX and had good contacts with them. When they used live action video in games like Comic Jumper and LocoCycle, I even recognized some of the places they filmed! I loved the humor in those games. Really miss them.
Is the the game with the little wooden "Meeple?" I think I played the board game version of this a long time ago with friends.
When it comes to racing games, I really just prefer the silly stuff like Mario Kart. Probably the most 'realistic' racing game I enjoy is Ridge Racer.
Never heard of this one.
Bust-A-Move/Puzzle Bobble is one of my top three favorite puzzle games of all time, right up there with Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo and plain ol' Tetris. I think they must've made Bust-A-Move Again to appeal to US audiences, since they removed any traces of Bubble Bobble characters in this one. Snood did get a release on a handheld console, I believe. Not sure if it was the GBA or DS. There's also a bunch of Puzzle Bobble rip-offs on mobile devices. Puzzle Bobble just had a new game in the series and it went 3-D and you can even use VR with it! I reviewed it here;
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2021/10/29/puzzle-bobble-3d-vacation-odyssey-ps4-ps5-psvr-oculus/
I liked the soundtrack to Shovel Knight so much that I bought it on CD at PAX one year. And I only buy game CD soundtracks if I REALLY like the music. Makes sense that a Mega Man game music composer helped work on this, since the soundtrack definitely has a Mega Man quality to it.
This game kind of reminded me a bit of Adventure Island mixed with Ghosts N Goblins, with a Japanese 'Yokai" theme. But if I remember correctly, it was one of those 'one hit and you die' kind of games, and I'm not a big fan of those.
The newer DKC games do have great music, but they are less memorable to me because those games were just too darn hard! And I'm not bad at DKC games, I don't think. I beat the first three on SNES anyway. So I don't know what it is. I do remember one of the newer games had a boss that was also a mine cart level and I was like, "Yeah no thank you." But it still amazes me how they were able to pull off the CD quality music on the SNES, especially with tunes like the underwater theme from the first game. Wow!
I got my PS4 at a Black Friday sale, too. I believe it was in 2016. I still play it. Don't feel the need to upgrade to PS5 yet.
I kind of liked Balloon Bomber. It had a bit of strategy as you would try to shoot the bombs swinging around and not the balloons. I also liked the derpy music they played in the background. "Da-doop-a-doop, da-doop-a-doop." On the PSP Taito collection Taito Memories, they updated a few of the games with better graphics and gameplay tweaks, and Balloon Bomber was one of the games they did that with, but they still kept the derpy music!
