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Hey, I recognize some of these! I played them on Capcom and Taito collections for Blog-a-Day. I wrote this about Magic Sword on Backloggery:

"In some ways Magic Sword feels like a continuation of the ideas in Black Tiger but I liked it much better. Some things are streamlined (e.g., no shop) and the floors of the tower are simpler in their layouts but the action feels better and the myriad helper characters add some nice spice. Good enemy variety and solid tunes make for a fun adventure. I just wish I could have played it co-op."

Like Cary, I remember liking Arabian Magic and Dungeon Magic but I would have to dig through my old blogs to see what I said about them. I was not thorough with those collections on Backloggery.

Ooh, Adventure Mode sounds cool!

And I probably will! I played the Super Famicom Picross game.

The Monkey Ball subtitles are just the most arbitrary things lol

That's so cool about how the Pac-Man World 2 devs sent you a signed copy of the game after you lost that newspaper job. Always great to see some kindness in the world!

I have a little stockpile of downloaded Picross games right now, but I will definitely be getting Piczle Cross: Rune Factory game at some point.

Man, I might have to check out Catagrams. I do like word puzzles and cats.

I would think that having talking guns could easily get really annoying, so I'm glad to hear that High on Life got it right.

My gosh, how is February over already?? Sounds like you covered a lot of ground. I think at the end of the year you should round up what you think were the best or most enjoyable games from these various catagories.

That Wii Kirby collection is good but yeah, it's just the traditional Kirby platformers. It would have been great if they'd included all the weird side games or even put out a second collection. But why has Nintendo not dumped them all on Switch Online???

The big expansion for Destiny 2 last fall brought the storyline that's been going since the beginning of Destiny 1 to a close...except it's a live service game, so nothing ever really ends lol. It was a pretty good expansion though. A new season just started this week, so maybe that's what you saw.

I had been waffling on SMTV since it came out. I played and enjoyed SMT IV on the 3DS but I have so little time for RPGs and the SMT games are pretty intense. BUT when I saw it was just $13 at VGP, I had to get it.