PixlBit

I think I need to educate you on Final Fantasy Legend vs. Final Fantasy Adventure.  The Collection of Mana series has Final Fantasy Adventure.  It has NOTHING to do with Final Fantasy Legend.  In fact, neither of those games have anything to do with Final Fantasy at all!  In Japan, Final Fantasy Legend is part of the SaGa series.  Have you ever played any of the SaGa Frontier games?  Those are sequels to the original Game Boy trilogy.  Final Fantasy Adventure is the first game in the "Mana" series, which is why it's on the collection.  They were just changed to have the Final Fantasy name in the US for name recognition.  In Japan, the SaGa (Final Fantasy Legend) series have been more traditional turn based RPGs while the Mana (Final Fantasy Adventure) games are more like action RPG Zelda-ish games.

I wish I could help you on FF6 but I'm not really clear as to where you are.

Streets of Rage 2 is fantastic.  One of the few Genesis games that really impressed me.

I'm not a big fan of Sonic games, but I will say 2 is better than 1.  Mainly because Tails is in it.

My main problem with Lil' Gator Game is the same as yours.  Would love a map or something.  Still a great game, though.

I couldn't get into the first Mario + Rabbids game, so I skipped out on the sequel.

Shantae games are great!  I can't wait for Shantae Advance!

Here's my review of that Story of Seasons Picross game.  It's really good.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2024/03/22/piczle-cross-story-of-seasons-switch-pc/

I had the opportunity to review Botany Manor but it just didn't jump out at me.

I loved Lil' Gator Game!  I reviewed it last year!

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2023/02/20/lil-gator-game-switch-pc/

Yeah I do have to agree.  Regardless of the quality of some of these, the graphics on many of them look nice.

Yeah I will admit, I did enjoy college for the most part.

I've never been in an earthquake before!

I hear the Genesis version of TaleSpin isn't that great.  But then, I don't think the NES one is either, and that was made by Capcom.  The cartoon is fantastic, though.

The King of the Monsters games are SNK greatness.  The first one is a cleverly disguised wrestling game, but they changed it up for the sequel and it plays more like a cross between a beat 'em up and a one on one fighter.  

So in Link's Awakening it sounds like you've gotten the magic powder.  Have you tried sprinkling some on a certain animal in the forest?  Maybe a tanuki (raccoon) who says he has a sensitive nose and uses magic to get you lost in the woods?

The Sora amiibo has the Mickey shaped keychain, too.  

I think Nintendo is slowly getting out of the 'toys to life' amiibo figures as well.  I kind of doubt we'll see many more of them in the future.

Here's some interesting facts you might not know about Mappy.  You know how we have slang terms for police officers like 'cops' and whatnot?  Well they do in Japan, too.  One of their slang terms for police is "mappo," and that's how they got the name Mappy!

Here's something I learned fairly recently.  While Namco is best known for their arcade games, they've also dabbled in other amusements like robotics.  There's the Chuck E. Cheese style PicPac Robot Band and the toy dinosaur "Wagyan" for instance.  Both of those robots even appeared in games later on.  But did you know that Nyamco and Mappy did NOT first appear in the arcade game?  They were first robots!

In Japan in the 80s, a popular competition was to program robots to go through a maze.  Namco first entered the foray with a robot cat named Nyamco.  The next year they made a Mappy robot with a needle on its tail so it could pop balloons in the mazes, too. That's why in the bonus stages in Mappy, he pops balloons there as well.  After the arcade Mappy was released, Namco made some smaller toy robots of them as well to sell to the public.

Another reason why college is a waste of time.