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Link's Awakening is my top favorite Zelda game of all time!

"Arresting."  That's a unique word to use in this situation.

I'm glad I got to experience Journey, but it didn't wow me as much as it did others.  It's just a game about a ketchup bottle wearing a scarf walking through the desert.  Just joking, I know it's better that that, but it still didn't affect me as it did others.

Portal and Portal 2 really wowed me in the past five years.  I'm not big on the 'games as art' argument, as I'd rather games just be fun.  But this would be a good candidate for the games as art thing.  And it had good gameplay and storytelling, too.  And GlaDOS became one of my top five favorite villians almost instantly.  When I first saw the video where she comes back to life in the sequel and says, 'You monster," I nearly got chills!  Portal and its sequel are definitely one of my favorite games of the last console generation.

Did Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse come out in the last five years?  That was one of TellTale's best.  For a game based on comic book characters who revelle in immature humor, the game turned out very sophisticated.  In a way, it's too bad the creator of Sam & Max is now working at Disney.

Child of Light came out last year and really captivated me with its setting and 2-D RPG gameplay. I even liked it better than Bravely Defaut, another RPG that came out last year.  Right now I'm working on reviewing a 3DS game based on the cartoon show Gravity Falls, and it's made by the same people who did Child of Light, and you can tell!

And that's all i can think of from the last five year.  Further back and I'd be gushing about stuff like Katamari Damacy and Psychonauts.  --Cary

I know it seems strange, but I just have a feeling we'll be seeing Undertale on consoles.  I know Nintendo is pretty ticky about stuff like that, but they do have quite a big selection of indie games, too.  You'd be surprised.  I could very well be wrong, but after nearly 20 years of reviewing games, I have a sixth sense about these kinds of things.

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The cool thing about music is how vinyl records are making a comeback.  Last weekend I went over to a friend's house and listened to new records and it was amazing.

Yeah I like the designs in Skylanders, too.  The toys just seem to scream out, "Play with me!"

Please do!  I hope you come back and at least read the Skylanders review, as I put more effort into that series' reviews since it's a perfect fit for the site I write for.

There was a cutesy chibi Japan-only version of Splatterhouse that came out on the Famicom.  Too bad we didn't get that one.

There is already a Wizard of Oz RPG.  I reviewed it.

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2009/10/17/game-review-the-wizard-of-oz-beyond-the-yellow-brick-road-ds/

There was a third Pocky and Rocky game on the GBA called Pocky and Rocky with Becky.  Natsume just recenlty ported it to Wii U Virtual Console.  Not sure if the first two are on Wii VC, but you might want to check.  Also, when the Wii was the main Nintendo home console, a company was going to do remakes of Taito games, but Taito declined so that company went and made their games anyway without the Taito licenses.  So if you ever see a game called Heavenly Guardian, that was supposed to originally be a new Pocky and Rocky game.  I know a thing or two about Pocky and Rocky.

2007 was a rough year for me because that was the first full year at the job I hated (and I still work there).  I'm surprised I even lasted that first year.  Family life was rough, too.  Nothing really bad or dramatic, but deifinitely more stressful.

Like I said earlier, 2007 was the year I got an Xbox 360.  There were enough games on it I wanted to play by then, with promise of more to come.  Pac-Man: CE was the final straw that made me cave in.  The 360 ended up being my favorite console of last generation, and I still play it today!

I named my Game of the Year in 2007 Super Mario Galaxy, but I really wanted to give it to Portal.  But, it was part of the Orange Box, which I didn't want to pay full price for since the other two games on it I had no interest in.  But once the game got down to 20 bucks in early 2008, I got it.  I wish I would've gotten it earlier, as Portal and its sequel ended up being one of my favorite games of the last console generation.  I REALLY like Portal games!

I first heard about Gwange at 1up.  I'd rather play the more kid-friendly version: KiKiKaiKai (Pocky & Rocky). :)