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Octopath Traveller started to drag for me after I found all the characters.  It got too grindy.

Dragon's Crown is great.  I always played as the Amazon.

I didn't really play Hang On in arcades as a kid, but boy I sure do remember seeing it everywhere.  More specifically, I remember HEARING it everywhere.  Seems like every arcade owner wanted to turn the volume up as high as they could for Hang On, so everywhere I went in the arcade, I could hear the title screen theme, "donnnnggggg, donnnnggggg, donnnnnggggg..."  Only other arcade game back then I remember them having the volume up really high for was Punch Out, so after the title screen theme from Hang On, I would also hear "Bodyblow! Bodyblow!"

Here's an interesting video on Hang On:

When I get off work today, I'm spending Halloween night playing Animal Crossing, doing the Halloween event stuff.  I'm dressing up as a hot dog in the game.  No trick or treaters tonight because of COVID, sadly.

I watched The Wind Rises in a theater, too.  I sure do miss those.

2013 was a rough year because my grandmother on my dad's side passed away, but Animal Crossing: New Leaf came out that year and it helped me make memories with my family after the funeral, so that's why it won my GOTY that year.  I played it with my cousin and her kids after the funeral and it was nice to be able to play games with my cosuins again like I used to.  I'm sure our grandmother was happy to see that in Heaven.

I'm working on playing and reviewing many different little games.  It's definitely the busy season for that.  On one of my days off, I did go to the local Top Golf and tried out their new Angry Birds golf game.  Top Golf is like a golf driving range except it's very high tech.  The Angry Birds game would read your golf swing and show it's trajectory as it knocked down structures like in Angry Birds.  I may write about it later at GamerDad.com.  I've never played real golf before, so I expected to do really badly.  But I won first place in my group both times!  I've never won anything sports related in my life!  I did well because I was able to hit the ball the hardest in my group.  I guess working out and lifting weights heavily nearly every day for two years has helped.  I've gotten really strong!

I had a chance to review the G.I. Joe game but I declined because I was never a G.I. Joe fan as a kid.  I was more into Transformers, myself.

I think I requested a review code for that one, too, but wasn't able to get it.  That happens sometimes.

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!