I had the opportunity to review this, but I passed on it. Just didn't look interesting to me. If you liked this game, you may want to try VA-11 HALL-A. I reviewed it last year:
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2019/06/05/va-11-hall-a-switch-vita-pc/
I never had a Kinect. Mainly because I didn't have space for it. Where I had my 360, it was in a small room, and if I moved it to the bigger living room, there were skylights in there that would mess with the lighting. So it just wasn't a good fit, unfortunately. You could really tell the Kinect was just a knee jerk reaction to the Wii's popularity.
I did review a lot of Kinect games, though. Luckily I had a couple of friends who had a Kinect, so I would just go over to their houses to play the games I needed to review. Most of the Kinect games were pretty awful, but there were a couple of standouts.
One was The Gunstringer, a shooter where you controlled a cowboy puppet. It was made by Twisted Pixel, so it had that irrevelant humor they were known for. Man I miss that company! The other good Kinect game I played was a Sesame Street game. Don't laugh. it was actually made by Double Fine so it was very high quality. They even encouraged adults to play with the kids, and would make it fun for adults, too. Just a very charming kids game.
One cool side note: one of my guilty pleasures is watching those ghost shows on TV where people try to investigate haunted locations to find proof of ghosts. Yeah, I know those shows are dumb, but we all have our guilty pleasures, so don't judge me! Anyway, one of the tools ghost hunters use now are Kinect cameras to detect slight bits of movement in a room, so that's interesting.
So yesterday on my day off, I played some of Super Mario 3-D All Stars. Super Mario 64 is still very good even after all these years, but I've played it to death and the controls seems slightly off for some reason. Probably because it's wireless now. Plus that's one game in dire need of a makeover. Super Mario Sunshine is still good, but boy the controls are slippery. I remembered that on the GameCube, but it still holds true. And it gets frustrating really fast. I must've been a more patient gamer back then. But Super Mario Galaxy? I had forgotten just how GOOD that game was! I've always said that I would've given Portal my GOTY in 2007 had I played it that year, but Super Mario Galaxy is still a fine choice.
Oh yeah, and I finished No Straight Roads, now time to write the review.
So when I first looked back at 2009, the only thing I could remember is that I gave the Klonoa remake on the Wii my GOTY award. But then I pulled up my GOTY article that year, and I played a LOT of good games! So many that I'm just going to post the link to it here.
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2009/12/30/carys-best-video-games-of-2009-awards-show/
Yes. I had to look it up, though.
Well I'm glad you got that Sylvester Jr. reference. I wasn't sure if you would. You know what's funny about Sylvester Jr. is that when my cousin had her first baby, one time I was over visiting and was holding her baby at the computer and we were looking at pictures of Looney Tunes characters to entertain her. She just stared most of the time, but when I pulled up Sylvester Jr., she would laugh and giggle and really react. I could pull up a picture of regular Sylvester and she'd be like, 'meh,' but I'd pull up Sylvester Jr. again and she'd go crazy again. Months later they visited us and we went to Six Flags Over Texas. At the Looney Tunes gift shop there, can you guess which plush toy she picked out to buy? That's right. Sylvester Jr.! So aside from the paper sack, "Oh the shame..." bit, that's the other thing I remember about Sylvester Jr.
Yeah that Street Fighter book made me want to buy other Udon books. Haven't yet, but I want to!
Oh yeah, SiniStar is WAY hard. I finally destroyed him once in one of the Midway collections. I never did it as a kid because I was too scared to play it in the arcade!
Yeah sorry about sending you stuff in Animal Crossing. You know I'm a freak with that game. I bought a 7 dollar Animal Crossing shirt at Wal-Mart the other day.
Here's my review of Mini Motor Racing X. I really liked it. If you don't like the controls, you know you can always change the camera angles from top down to behind the car, and it might make it a little easier.
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2020/09/30/mini-motor-racing-x-switch-ps4-pc/
Nintendo just released a Japan only SNES Picross game on the SNES player that i'm going to try at some point.
Well you know I liked The Dark Crystal game. It'll probably be my RPG of the year. The story makes more sense if you watch the show. Highly recommended. Shame it got cancelled.
