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My Game of the Year in 2013 was Animal Crossing: New Leaf.  Other 2013 gaming highlights include:

Ni no Kuni

Game & Wario

Attack of the Friday Monsters

Scribblenauts Unmasked

NES Remix

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies

Toki Tori 2

Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon

Super Mario 3-D World

BattleBlock Theater

Dragon's Crown

DuckTales Remastered

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

And I still don't have a Vita.  --Cary

I just got finished reviewing this at the site I write on.  For the life of me, I couldn't get the hang of the controls, so I did not review it very highly.  Since it was orignally supposed to be a Wii game, I think it might play better on the Wii than instead of the Wii U.  But I'll never know because NIS cheaped out and just sent me a Wii U review code.

If I had a pet dog and a pet rabbit, I would consider naming them Sam & Max.

YOUR pretend present is a super vitamin pill that'll give you super powers for life!

Yeah I was disappointed with how TellTale has become.  It just baffles me how so many people named The Walking Dead their Game of the Year when it came out.  I guess that's why I was so pleasantly surprised with the new Adventure Time game since it was so much like classic TellTale stuff.  By the way, I'm working on reviewing yet ANOTHER Adventure Time game!

YOUR pretend present is ALL the Skylanders!  Yes, all of them!  Even the silver Spyro I got at E3 one year!

Wallpaper like on your computer desktop or what you stick on your walls in your house?

A Skylanders display at a library?  That seems kind of unusual.  But then, I haven't been to a library in a while.

Skylanders are super popular with kids and have spawned multiple products.  The franchise has made more money for Activision than Call of Duty!  There was even a Skylanders balloon at last year's and this year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2014/11/26/skylanders-balloon-to-appear-at-this-years-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/

Certain Skylanders can open certain areas, depending on their element and what game they are in (Trap Team figures have an extra skill, for instance).  I don't know if you get achievements for that since I reviewed the games on Nintendo systems.

I don't really like having to go online to read instructions, though.  I did figure out about where to put the characters on the pedestal so you can play their levels, but it took a while to figure it out and I don't remember them telling you how to do that in the game.

Yes, being able to use any figure pretty much anywhere you want is a plus.  That's something that LEGO Dimensions and Skylanders does right.  The licenses are awesome, though, I do agree with that.

Yeah LEGO stuff in general is expensive.  That's why I usually only play the games.  I used gift certificate money to pay for this one.  Thanks for reading!

I'm surprised there aren't more products like that.  There's not very much Gravity Falls merchandise, that's for sure. 

YOUR Pretend Present is a grappling hook!  If you like the cartoon, you'll understand that joke.

It IS a great cartoon!  I'm worried that the series might be over soon, though.