Well, Uncharted 2 is the only game I actually played in its entirety in April. But I'm sure glad to have Powered Up and Kid Icarus off my back! I hate having unfinished games loom over me to for long periods of time.
I envy your copy of Suikoden 2. I've heard so many good things about it.
I've never played any of the Max Payne games but we do have the third one. My wife got it for $10...quite the deal! I'll play it sometime.
Did you have anyone to play RE6 with? That's the only way I'd want to play that.
I love Chrono Trigger! What a great game. Are you playing it on the DS?
That's a lot of Harry Potter games! Have you played them? I heard most of them weren't very good 
The toughest boss I've beaten is the final boss of Metroid Prime 2. There's an optional weapon at the end of the game that you're supposed to find before the final boss because it's made specifically for that fight. Well, I missed it somehow and didn't even know it. That fight was brutal! I played it again and again and again. I'm normally a fairly calm and reserved person but when I finally conquered that boss I jumped up off the sofa yelling 
Not sure what I'd say the hardest boss I've ever come across is. I never did beat Henry Hatsworth though. That final boss was just too hard.
I know! That's why I included the original too. It's incredible how much the remixer changed while keeping it recognizably the same song.
A lot of the Final Fantasy music is worth owning. VII for sure. Glad you liked the remix!
That is unfortunate about the lack of editing in HG101 books. I didn't know that but typos usually don't bother me too much unless they're very egregious or extremely frequent. So I'll just have to find out how bad it is by reading lol. Personally, I like the GameSpite books Jeremy Parish puts out. They can be kind of expensive but I think he just sells them for whatever it costs to make them. They few that I have I got when I found a half off Groupon for Blurb, the website tha prints them.
That's a staggering number of iOS games! Wow, I can't imagine the total number of apps that came out during that time. I keep up with things via Touch Arcade, a website that just focuses on iOS games. They preview and review games but the best part is that app they have. It has a Watch List that you can put any game into, upcoming or already released, and it will automatically give you updates whenever anything happens with that game. So more than once I've seen a game that looked cool, added to my Watch List, and then a month or two later I get a notification that the price has dropped to free. Can't beat that 
And I wouldn't have known otherwise. I've been meaning to do an iOS blog for a while now but haven't yet. Maybe soon...
My wife is doing better now that she's got an antibiotic, though her cough seems to be hanging on. It's hard to get enough sleep when you have an infant. My throat hurt for a couple of days but that's passed and hopefully was the worst I'm going to get from it all.
I just wanted to throw one more thing out there since I know you have a decent backlog. Have you ever looked into using Backloggery? I got on there in January and it's really helped me stay focused and finish things. And it's nice to look back and see when I got or beat a game. Anyway, I found out the other day that Aaron B is on there now and so I thought of you. You can add other users to your "multitap" and see what your friends have been playing as well as a sentence or two about their progress. Initially putting in your backlog is a little time consuming but maintaining it is easy after that if you stay on top of it. It's pretty cool. Anyway, just wanted to throw that out there in case you might be interested.
I have not heard of this Game Dev Tycoon but color me intrigued. And I see there's a Mac version now, so I could actually play it! Always a plus.
Nice reviews, Cary. I left you comments on a couple of them. And I wanted to mention that I loved the PDA game in Alien Hominid (you alluded to it here but not on GamerDad). You had to cooperate but you could screw each other too, to hilarious effect. If BattleBlock is at all like that then I know I'll like it 
Ah, so many good times with all these series (well, I suppose I haven't played much Street Fighter). I think my favorite Bomberman game for multiplayer is Bomberman Land Touch! 2 for the DS. The single player was a ho-hum minigame collection (so popular at the time) but the multiplayer was classic Bomberman and allowed up to eight players to go at it from just one game card. And you could fill in any empty slots with computer players, though they were awfully good.
I played so much of that first Mario Party game! I remember we'd use our palms for those minigames that had you rotate the control stick and we'd get blisters from it! Ouch, but good times lol.
