I never got into Costume Quest. You'd think I would, but the battles just didn't draw me in like a Paper Mario or Mario & Luigi game does.
I have a physical copy of TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, too. It's a very good game.
I rented the Willow game a couple of times as a kid and was pretty impressed with it. But then, I was a bigger fan of Capcom's NES gamse than Nintendo's own back then. I think there's a new Willow series on Disney+ now. I watched the original movie a couple of times as a kid but it's been a very long while so I don't remember much about it.
Yeah I rented Mischief Makers once. It was fun, even if I did have the same problems with it as I did other Treasure games.
The N64 was really lacking in 2-D platformers. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are Yoshi's Story, Mischief Makers, Kirby 64, and Goemon's Great Adventure. I hate that I missed out on that last game. It came out when I was just graduating college so I was still poor and couldn't afford to buy it, and it was also really rare, even back then!
Stage Select:
Well I did give you all a superhero game idea a few podcasts ago, but NOOO, you all rejected it, you big meanies! Just joking! But yeah, do you remember my idea about a superhero who has no superpowers except he or she can turn anything they touch into a superhero? So if you needed to rescue a cat from a tree, just touch the tree and it'll turn into Super Tree and save the cat. Just be careful not to touch too much stuff or you'll have a world full of super toilets. I think that would make a silly comic book or cartoon, and even a sillier video game. I like that you all said it was like Katamari Damacy the last time I sent you that idea.
Cage Match:
I've never played either game. Not really a big fan of Spiderman.
Yeah the three games you mentioned are definitely some of the better titles in this batch. I took a survey from PlayDate recently and they asked how much I'd be willing to pay for a season 2. If they ever did one, I hope it doesn't cost too much!
The LEGO Movie video game is pretty standard LEGO stuff. The movie is fantastic, though. Pixar quality in my opinion.
The movie sequel wasn't near as good, but at least they tried something different with that game.
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2019/03/22/the-lego-movie-2-video-game-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc/
I think the reason why we don't see any Prof. Layton games anymore is that Level 5, the makers of those games, is just as concerned about marketability as well as making good games. Have you noticed their last few projects have had anime cartoon tie ins? Their most successful one in recent memory was Yokai Watch.
I don't know what Warren Spector is doing now, but I bet it's not making video games after the failure of Epic Mickey 2. He also wanted to make a DuckTales game but Capcom made DuckTales Remastered about that same time so I bet that's why he didn't do that. Too bad he couldn't make a DuckTales game based on the reboot.
One frustrating thing for me during the roundtable is that everyone else wanted to ask hiim about Deus Ex, another game he made, and not Epic Mickey 2. At least I got to squeeze in a couple of questions about the game we were supposed to be there for.
Those are two of the better games in this batch.
Last night I watched a documentary on the history of Erector sets and LEGO.
Wow I don't remember all the games I played in 2010!
I reviewed that Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces game. It was made by the same folks who did the Ace Combat titles. The anime wasn't very good, though.
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2010/01/12/game-review-the-sky-crawlers-innocent-aces-wii/
I didn't play the main Dark Void game, but I did play Dark Void Zero. It was pretty good and felt like a long lost NES game. But like a NES game, it also got too hard!
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2010/01/30/dark-void-zero-dsiware/
Loved the Data East Classics Collection. Had a lot of titles you just can't play anywhere else, especially since Data East is long gone.
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2010/02/24/are-you-a-bad-enough-dude-to-play-data-east-arcade-classics/
I reviewed Split Second, but I don't remember much about it. Brother Jeff named it one of his favorite racing games in one of our podcasts.
http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2010/05/26/game-review-splitsecond-pc-ps3-360/
Plants vs. Zombies was a fun little game. I kind of want to play the first person Garden Warfare shooters based on that franchise.
I played the first Prof. Layton game but didn't like it because of all the math word story problems. I hate math! But I did play and beat Prof. Layton vs. Phoenix Wright!
The Namco Museum Remix and Megamix games on the Wii are kind of weird. Especially how they slapped Pac-Man in each and every one of the remix games.
Epic Mickey wasn't perfect, but I still liked it and its sequel. I'm glad they put Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in them because he's one of my favorite Disney characters and yes I did know about him way before those games. One time at PAX I got to participate in a roundtable discussion with Warren Spector on Epic Mickey 2. That is one of my feathers in my game reviewing cap!
