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I watched the Mario movie a couple of weeks ago.  While I can understand why the critics had problems with it, I still enjoyed it.  Sure it had no plot and the dialogue was mediocre at best and I wasn't always thrilled with the voice cast.  But it was a heck of a lot better than the last Mario movie we got.  I'm a big fan of MST3K and Rifftrax and I can sit through a lot of bad movies.  But I couldn't sit through five minutes of that live action Mario movie. Ugh!

My two favorite things were all the references and Easter Eggs to find, and the music score which had loads of Mario game licks thrown in.  It was also great to have a movie the whole family could enjoy and not have any political or social commentary thrown in.  I also really liked their plumbing van and the commercial rap that made reference to the old cartoon.  I only wish they would "Do the Mario" at the end credits!

I hope in the future we get a Luigi's Mansion movie.  I think that would make a much better movie than a generic Mario one.  Or maybe one of Nintendo's other franchises that I like way more than Mario, like Kirby, Animal Crossing, Zelda, Metroid, etc.

Sorry it took so long to respond to this blog.  I was actually busy this past week doing something else Mario related!  This past week I went to Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios in Hollywood!  As soon as I collect my thoughts and organize my pictures, I'll be sure to talk about it all in LOTS more detail later.  Long story short, though, is that while I enjoyed it and was glad I got to go, I don't think I want to do it again.  At least not for a LONG while!

I wish it wasn't so persnickety.

I think I had the opportunity to review this, but I didn't.  It either didn't appeal to me or I had too much on my plate already at the time.

It's a pretty original idea.  And kind of relaxing in a way.  Kind of how sometimes cleaning relaxes people.  I had a relative who loved to vacuum for instance, and I like to do laundry in the same way.  The game just got too maticulous for me.

Thanks for reading and commenting!

I reviewed a few of the Ben 10 games a long time ago.  Never watched the cartoon, though.

I really loved this game when I reviewed it.  Probably one of the best indie games I played last year.

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I'm so glad you got the LIttle Nemo game.  It's one of my favorite NES games.  I don't know if you has a NES to play it on, but I hope you can make time to play it soon because it's so awesome.  That was the game that caused me to try and learn more about Little Nemo the newspaper comic strip from the 1900s that this game is based on.  Really interesting stuff.

Rampage: Total Destruction got a lot of bad reviews back in the day.  I didn't think it was THAT bad, but I don't think it was any better than Rampage: World Tour either.  Did you know I met the guy who did the box art for Rampage: Total Destruction?

I really didn't like Tales of Zestiria that much.  I got it because I read that Go Shiina, my favorite game composer, did some of the music in the game.  Turns out he did very little of it so I was disappointed.  And I had a hard time getting into the game otherwise.  My favorites Tales game is Tales of Legendia on the PS2, which Go Shiina did ALL the music for.  It's known as the 'black sheep' of the Tales series, but I like it anyway!

Here's some video game songs I think are pretty:

Sacrifice from ActRaiser

Lost Harmony Among People from Ys Seven

Terra's Theme from FF6

Not sure if I've ever played an AO rated game.  I think those are pretty rare.