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I really liked Super Lucky's Tale.  It's not perfect, but it made me smile, and games don't do that for me as much anymore for some reason.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2019/11/29/new-super-luckys-tale-switch/

I played Tales of Vesperia when it originally came out on the 360.  It was fun, but like most modern RPGs, I got tired of it because it was just way too long and drawn out.  My favorite characters in it were Repede the blue dog and Judith.  You can probably guess why I liked them.  My favorite Tales game is Tales of Legendia, but you'd have to drag out the ol' PS2 for that one.

I reviewed Jotun a long time ago, too!  I don't remember much about it now, but I'm sure it was way too hard.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2016/10/19/jotun-valhalla-edition-wii-u-ps4-xbox-one-pc/

I think I tried to request a review code for Hotshot Racing, but wasn't able to get it.  That happens sometimes.

Right now I'm working on reviewing a game called Wallachia: Reign of Dracula.  It plays like a classic Castlevania title, except instead of playing as a slow, lumbering whip lashing meathead, you play as a tough as nails female archer.  And while Simon Belmont from Casltevania always controlled like he ate a big breakfast, the heroine here feels like she took her vitamins and ate a can of spinach for breakfast! 

Unfortunately the game is way too hard.  I can't even get past the first stage on the Easy setting.  Usually what gets me is something off screen that zooms in to attack and I don't have time to react to it.  It's a lot of memorization, which was in a lot of classic styled games, but I just don't have as much patience for that kind of thing anymore.

Tank! Tank! Tank! is a really fun silly goofy tank game.  Just imagine if they combined Namco's other tank game Tokyo Wars with Power Rangers or Godzilla or something like that.  But yeah, the arcade cabinet for it is oddly shaped.

The places you walk around in Vinyl City remind me of touristy shopping districts like Universal CityWalk in Orlando or LA.  And actually parts of the nearby area where I live is starting to build up that way, too.  Thanks for reading!

I was surprised how good Mini Motor Racing X was. Either that or I liked it more than I should have.  

I've been to other states where they have video game lottery tickets like those, just at other times of the year.  So check gas stations and stuff and see what they have.

Thanks for reading!

My GOTY for 2012 was Theatrhythm Final Fantasy for 3DS.  It was a music game featuring songs from the FF franchise.  It was really good.  It spawned a sequel and a Japan only arcade game that I was lucky enough to play at Round 1.  In November, Square is making a spinoff music game of sorts with Kingdom Hearts.

2012 was also the year the Wii U came out. Even though it bombed, I really liked the Wii U.  I only got another new console that generation once the Wii U had 'died' and I found a PS4 on a Black Friday sale a couple of years after it released.  

I never played the N64 Castlevania games.  I never saw them to rent anywhere, and I certainly wasn't going to pay full price for them.   I'm not much of a Castlevania fan anyway so they were never on my radar.  But I'd be willing to give them a try given the chance. By the time the N64 came out, I was reviewing games for the newspaper, but I don't remember reviewing too many Konami games outside of a couple of Yu-Gi-Oh titles.

The only Konami N64 games I really regret not playing were the Goemon ones.  Mystical Ninja 64 came out early in the N64 life and was a 3-D title.  It was pretty commonplace in stores, but I was a poor college student at the time and couldn't afford to get all the games I wanted.  The second game was a 2-D platformer and was called Goemon's Great Adventure.  I would've been willing to pay for this one, but it was extremely rare and I never saw it in a store to buy.

Sometimes it's hard to prioritize what I need to review and what I want to play.  And it can be easy to get sidetracked.  Llke for instance, I just reviewed a game that was just like Puzzle League/Tetris Attack, but it was really hard.  I wondered if I was just getting rusty, so I played the Japanese version of Tetris Attack called Panel de Pon, on the Switch's SNES collection.  And I did pretty good at that, so I figured that the other game was just hard.  So then I saw that the Japan only Mario's Picross was on the SNES channel, too, so I started playing that for far too long.  Then I was like, "Argh!  Why are SNES games so addictive?"  I wondered if I'd be perfectly happy for the rest of my life just playing SNES games.  I had the same question when I first got my SNES Mini.  The SNES is my favorite console, after all.

You know, as a kid, I honestly don't remember seeing Scramble or Super Cobra in arcades back then.  But then, if I did see them, they probably wouldn't have made much of an impression on me since there were so many space shooters out there back then.

I think it's weird that sometimes Konami says that Scramble is part of the Gradius series.  Especially since the only things they have in common are that they're side scrolling shooters and you can bomb targets.  But then, sometimes Konami puts Rush N Attack/Green Beret in the Contra series, so yeah.

Only way to get me to play Overwatch would be if it were LEGO.

I'm revieweing a Hot Wheels game on my iPad, but you probably wouldn't like it because it's designed for very young players.

I just got finished reviewing WWE 2K Battlegrounds.  It's all right.  It's great for wrestling fans, but it didn't win me over.  Still a good game, though.  I made a female wrestler that was like a cross between Reiko Nagase from Ridge Racer and She Hulk.  Except I accidentally put a giant red bow in her hair but was too lazy to remove it.  

I remember going to computer game stores like Babbage's and seeing Populous everywhere, so I knew it was popular.  I rented the SNES version once and had no idea what I was doing.  But Populous was certainly influential, as you can tell it inspired other games, like my favorite 'god' game: ActRaiser on the SNES.