Considering the last mainline Pokemon games I played were Black and White, I've definitely played more spin off games. But I do find them more interesting. The mainline games are competent RPGs, but the battle system is very rudimentary compared to other RPGs.
I played the original SaGa Frontier back on the PSOne. It was a hot mess.
The 3DS Pokemon games that have a Hawaiian theme are Pokemon Sun and Moon. Speaking of Pokemon, I just posted a blog about it in honor of the upcoming release of New Pokemon Snap. I encourage you to read it if you get a chance.
I reviewed 80's Overdrive on Switch last year! I enjoyed it way more than I should have. It's basically just OutRun, but not as good. I still had fun with it, though.
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2020/06/08/80s-overdrive-switch/
I usually write these big blogs in pieces. I do a few paragraphs each day until I'm done.
Namco is my favorite video game company. Not so much for what they do now, but for what they've done in the past. I can still play many of their arcade classics and still have fun to this very day. I think Namco was at their best in 80s arcades and 90s PlayStation era.
I've kind of fallen off the Tales game loop lately, though. Last one I played was Zestiria and lost interest in it pretty quickly. My favorite Tales game is Legendia, which is the one most people say is the 'black sheep' of the series, and is the one most people don't like. But I like it! Go Shiina did the music. My favorite character in it is Grune. :)
Sometimes I forget which amiibos I have, especially Fire Emblem ones!
Yeah Ori has some really hard jumps! Right now I'm stuck on a spot where I have to launch myself around using enemy projectiles while gliding around spikes! This game ain't easy!
And my Pokemon blog is up! So go read it when you can!
I always thought it was neat how they took some liberties with the Nintendo Skylanders characters. Like how DK is dressed like a stunt daredevil, and Jeff always called Skylanders Bowser "Cosplay Bowser." But the designs on all the Skylanders are neat. Definitely would've been something I would've been into as a kid.
I got my first vaccine the other day, too! Wasn't really affected by it. We'll see what the second dose does.
Right now I'm playing a game that was orignally on Xbox One, but now it's on Switch. It's Ori and the Blind Forest. Pretty much half of the games I wanted to play on Xbox One are now on Switch!
But here in about another week or so I'll be hopefully playing New Pokemon Snap! I'm going to post my blog about my favorite Pokemon spin off games in the next day or so.
I reviewed the original Oceanhorn game. I would've liked to have reviewed the sequel, but that never happened.
There's a bit of history about Red Dead Redemption that I find interesting. You know the first game in the series was called Red Dead Revolver. Originally, it was going to be published by Capcom, and one of the things they were planning to do with it was change the name to Gun.Smoke, and have it be related to their classic NES and arcade western themed shooter. I always thought that was interesting and might've played the game had it been called Gun.Smoke instead because I rented the NES game quite a few times back in the day.
Right now I'm playing a game that was orignally on Xbox One, but now it's on Switch. It's Ori and the Blind Forest. Pretty much half of the games I wanted to play on Xbox One are now on Switch!
But here in about another week or so I'll be hopefully playing New Pokemon Snap! I'm going to post my blog about my favorite Pokemon spin off games in the next day or so.
That's still pretty impressive. I have all the amiibo and the variants (luckily there's not many), but one thing I do not have are the 'dark' variants of Skylanders Bowser and Donkey Kong, which were a GameStop exclusive. They also acted as amiibo figures and I do have the regular ones of those. Just now I found out there is a Monster Hunter Stories amiibo that is included with the special edition of that upcoming game. I hope you can buy it seperately, though!
