I'm skipping out on Sparks of Hope. I played the first Mario + Rabbids game and didn't like it much.
I wish I had that jigsaw puzzle. My dad loves jigsaw puzzles and I like to get him ones with pictures that would make him think of me.
What kind of game is Fishing World? Is it realistic or cartoony?
Thanks for listening. We just recorded an episode on our favorite 2-D platformers, so that should be up soon!
I'd love to get into the Dragon Quest games more, but when you say stuff like, "90 hours in," yeah, no thank you. Games don't need to be that long.
I reviewed the first Medievil game on the PSOne back in the day. It was all right. Kind of reminded me of Ghosts N Goblins. But Capcom did it better with the Maximo series on the PS2. Good games to play around Halloween, though.
Yup, Y2K, I was definitely writing for the newspaper then. I was at the top of my game around that time.
Stage Select:
I don't really play that many scary video games, so I don't have much to put here. Levels that take place inside a living thing can be kind of gross and scary, what with all the eyeballs and tissue and such.
Sometimes a game can successfully make a level unsettling by using less, like not having any music or little of it. The best example I can think of that would be when you first enter Magus' castle in Chrono Trigger.
When I was a kid, SiniStar scared the crap out of me in arcades. I would purposely avoid it. Also, one weird thing that always scared me was the medusa statues in Adventures of Lolo. They would always take me by surprise when you accidentally passed them and they'd make that SHOOM! sound when they'd turn you to stone!
Cage Match:
Rumble Roses wins simply because I've never played Rule of Rose. Plus you'd think a wrestling game would win in a cage match. I wasn't very good at Rumble Roses when I played it. I'm not really into wrestling games, although some of the characters in this one seemed kind of cool. One time at E3 a long time ago, Konami had a booth set up with a wrestling ring with ladies dressed up as Rumble Roses characters. I talked with couple of them while I was waiting for a press meeting. They were really nice. And that's all I have to say about Rumble Roses.
Hey I know you said once before that it's hard to listen to my podcast because it's not on iTunes. I haven't gotten there yet, but I would like to encourage you to listen to my latest one because it's about RPGs and I know you like to talk about those. All you have to do is simply click on this link and it should take you right to the podcast, so that shouldn't be too hard, right? Thanks.
https://anchor.fm/pizza-pixel-podcast/episodes/Episode-12---Our-Favorite-RPGs-e1oq240
Those ads look like they were printed around the time I was reviewing games for The Dallas Morning News. I remember previewing that Jackie Chan game at E3 anyway.
Living in the same area where GameStop's headquarters are, I've never had too much trouble with finding a game store. What I do miss are the smaller mom and pop places like Gamefellas in Austin and a couple of places I'd go to when visiting family in Alabama. One had the cool name "Player Two," and the other one looked kind of sketchy like it was just some dude's closet, not a store. But I got some of my best deals in games from those places.
You should go back to it. Luckily it's not too hard or long. But very fun and memorable.
I imagine a lot of game titles could make good band names. You folks have a knack for picking out the worst game in a batch of reviews to talk about. :)
