PixlBit

I reviewed Chrono Cross way back when for The Dallas Morning News.  Really felt like it should've been its own thing, and not a sequel to anything.  The battle system was just a cleverly disguised card game.  Graphics and music were nice, though.  I Am Setsuna felt more like a Chrono Trigger sequel than Chrono Cross did.  With a few storyline tweaks, I Am Setsuna could've been like a Chrono Trigger side story set in the ice age era.

I don't know how these devs survive when it takes them years and years to make a game!  I just finished reviewing KungFu Kickball, and I first played it at PAX around three years ago!  And it's not that complicated of a game!

Another arcade game Jeff really liked when he was litle was Circus Charlie.  That game is where we got the phrase "Turbo Horse" from.

MY GOTY last year was New Pokemon Snap.  You can read the rest of my picks here:

http://www.pixlbit.com/blog/20133/carys_best_games_of_2021_award_show

Chrono Cross wins out for me, but I've never been interested in those Devil May Cry games.  I reviewed Chrono Cross way back when for The Dallas Morning News.  Really felt like it should've been its own thing, and not a sequel to anything.  The battle system was just a cleverly disguised card game.  Graphics and music were nice, though.  I Am Setsuna felt more like a Chrono Trigger sequel than Chrono Cross did.  With a few storyline tweaks, I Am Setsuna could've been like a Chrono Trigger side story set in the ice age era.

I think the only PS5 game I'd want to play is BugSnax, and I can play that on PS4 if I wanted to, so I'm good.  I hear PS5's are hard to get now anyway so I'm happy with what I have.

You know what typing game I wish I would've played back then?  The Typing of the Dead for Dreamcast.  I hate that I skipped out on it.

I don't know if those versions I talked about are on consoles or not.  I played them on my iPad.

I've reviewed a few of the Ben 10 games.  It's been so long ago that I don't remember which ones they were.  Ben 10 is a fairly popular cartoon on Cartoon Network.  I've never watched it, though.

Yeah I don't have the extra online stuff that would let me play N64 games either.  The N64 was great and all, but I'm not paying that much more just to play them on Switch. I don't even have time to play the NES and SNES games they have!

I did rent Beetle Adventure Racing once and it was really fun!  I reviewed Crusin' USA for The Dallas Morning News back in the day.  It wasn't that great of a game, but I am curious about Crusin' Blast, the newest in the series. There's no reason why Nintendo couldn't put Banjo-Tooie and DK 64 on that service.  I reviewed both those games at the newspaper as well.  I'm old.

Glad you got a job.  I've never gotten into tower defense style games.  There sure are a lot of games and cartoons based on the Monkey King story.  Even Dragon Ball is based on that!