I never even played X and Y. If you have an N64 and feel like opening that copy of Snap, I recommend playing it. It's a short runthrough, but a very fun game. And if you like it, you can pick up the new one if you have a Switch!
Yeah it wouldn't surprise me if Red Dead Redemption had better horse riding physics than Breath of the Wild. The horse controls in BotW were wonky. I hardly ever rode my horse. SPOILER ALERT, SKIP TO THE NEXT PARAGRAPH IF YOU DON'T WANT BOTW SPOILED FOR YOU. At the end of the game they let you ride your horse to defeat Ganon, and the horse controls and camera were so bad that Ganon stomped my horse flat. And since it was the end of the game, I couldn't even go to revive him. So we had a moment of silence for Turbo Horse after I beat the game.
I played Tales of Zestiria for a little bit. I skipped out on the Tales game before it, Tales of Xillia, but I heard that Zestiria's music was done by Go Shiina, so I picked it up. Turns out Go Shiina only did SOME of the music and none of the songs in the game sounded like his. In case you don't remember, Go Shiina is my favorite video game music composer and did the music for games like Tales of Legendia and Mr. Driller. The rest of Zestiria was bland and I didn't stay interested for long. I haven't played a new Tales game since. What could Namco do to get me back into the Tales games?
And right now I'm mostly playing New Pokemon Snap. It's great so far!
I didn't play that many racing games on the SNES, other than Super Mario Kart. I rented F-Zero and other friends had that one, so I played that one a bit, too. And years later I got Stunt Race FX. But when you have Super Mario Kart, one of my top five favorite games of all time, what else do you need?
Right now I'm playing New Pokemon Snap! It's great so far!
Someone should name a racing horse "Turbo Horse."
While Cirqus Voltaire is my favorite real life pinball game, my favorite video pinball game that plays like real pinball is Big Race USA. You should look that one up sometime.
Yeah the earlier LEGO games were pretty rough around the edges. They've gotten a little better over time. My friend described LEGO games once as "They're not good games, but they're fun games."
I actually liked Secret of Evermore. But then, when I played it, I was a super big Square fanboy. Of course, with their track record at the time (FF4, FF6, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, etc.), can you blame me? I don't know if I'd like it much now, but I will say I still think it was a good first try by Square USA.
A lot of people bash on this game, saying they should've released the true Secret of Mana sequel: Trials of Mana, instead. But after playing Trials of Mana on the Mana Collection, I'd have to say Trials is a hot mess and Square USA made the right decision.
The game uses the exact same engine as Secret of Mana, that's why they're so similar. I was really impressed with the text in this game. Since it was made in the US and had no translations to go through, it really flows well. I think it's one of the stepping stones to having better text in games. The music is really unique and ambient, and Jeremy Soule would later go on to do music for popular PC games.
I think I remember getting stuck in a forest maze, but figuring out that there are birds in the trees that help you figure out which way to go. But if you think the mazes in this game are bad, you should try playing one of the early Ys games!
Cirqus Voltaire is my favorite pinball table in real life, so I'm glad they put it on Pinball FX3.
I'm OK with it. The newer ones have a colorful, cartoony look and I like that.
I never finished Tales of Vesperia. Just got too long and meandering. My favorite characters in it were Repede and Judith. Maybe someday you can play my favorite Tales game: Tales of Legendia. It's only on the PS2, though. My favorite character in that was Grune. The music in it was so good, as it was done by my favorite game composer: Go Shiina.
The orginal Ratchet and Clank is good, but I really like the two PS2 sequels that came after it. They improved so much!
I watched a lot of the Pokemon anime when it first aired since I was being paid to know everything about Pokemon. You know what's weird is that at that time, I was living in Austin for college, and the rest of my family was in Dallas. But for the first few months, an Austin TV station was showing the Pokemon anime, but not in Dallas! You'd think it would be the other way around. So what I did for a while was record every episode, then bring the VHS tapes home so my brothers could watch them when I came home to visit!
Another funny story about the Pokemon anime is that when I was in college, after a couple of weeks they showed a repeat of the first episode. I was about to turn it off since i had already seen it, but then my roommate yelled out, "Wait, turn it back on, I want to see how it all began!" Which surprised me that he'd say that, since most of the time he wanted nothing to do with the dumb cartoons I'd watch, and would often make fun of them. He was still a good friend, though, so don't think less of him for that.
I have all those gold cards from Burger King and the Pokeballs they came in. While Burger King is most famous for Pokemon promotions, thanks to the plastic Pokeball recalls, did you know that the first fast food restaurant to do Pokemon promos was actualy KFC? Through them you could buy four different Pokemon plushes: Zubat, Vulpix, Seel, and Dratini. I still have them.
