Well I'm glad NIntendo's still around because if it weren't for them, I'd be playing a lot less games right now. They seem to be the only ones making games I enjoy right now, for the most part.
I flip-flop every now and then and sometimes say that Super Mario World is my favorite Mario game, and sometimes it's Yoshi's Island. Whatever the case, Yoshi's Island is definitely one of the best 2-D platformers ever made. I have so many good memories playing this with my little brothers and my college roommate and his girlfriend (now wife). She loved Yoshi so much that she bought her own SNES so she could play Yoshi's Island in her dorm room! I'm really looking forward to Yoshi's Woolly World, too! But don't be dissin' the Yoshi puzzle games! Yoshi's Cookie rocked!
Sometimes I play as boy characters (like in Animal Crossing) and sometimes I play as girl characters (like Streets of Rage). But I don't really have any reasons why. I just don't think about stuff like that very hard. And I don't play online games enough for people to give me any grief about anything. I guess I just don't think about stuff like that very much when playing games.
Pinky and the Brain was awesome. Are you going to go see the Shaun the Sheep movie?
it is the same game, although strangely I prefer the original SNES version slightly more. The colors on the GBA look slightly washed out, and they replaced some of Yoshi's sound effects to make it more like Yoshi's current voice. It's silly, but I prefer Yoshi's 'bree-burp' SNES sound over his baby Yoshi voice he adopted after Yoshi's Story.
Well the SNES cart used a special chip for 3-D graphic effects and scaling and rotating sprites, so maybe the GBA one was easier to emulate?
Donkey Kong Country 3 was one of the very first games I reviewed for The Dallas Morning News. I thought it was pretty cool that I got to review such a big time game right off the bat.
Don't forget about Yoshi's Island and Chrono Trigger!
Yeah Fantasy Life is one of those games I'd like to play, but I haven't gotten around to yet. Two reasons why I don't have it. One, there's just no way I can play ALL the games out there. You know I play a lot as it is. Second, I don't want to get too addicted to it like I do Animal Crossing games. :) Ha ha!
Level 5 does a good job with a lot of their games. They may not always be perfect, but they have a lot of heart. There is an upcoming Level 5 game I'm looking forward to, though. It's called Yokai Watch. It's kind of like Pokemon, except you capture ghosts and goblins from Japanese legends and folklore, which are all collectively called "Yokai." The game is very popular in Japan, with two sequels and a second season of a kids' anime. We're getting the first game in the US later this year as well as the first season of the cartoon show! The game looks cute and has a tinge of a Ni no Kuni feel to it (another Level 5 game), and I think Yokai monsters are interesting so I'm going to keep an eye on that one.
What? No FF6 yet?
Two awesome games from 1995 to look out for: Yoshi's Island and Chrono Trigger.
I never liked how Amano drew people (too pale and wispy) but I loved how he drew their clothes, and also all the monsters!
