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Bandai Namco has been very supportive of me in my nearly 20 years of writing game reviews.  So I'm glad to read this.  Great feature.

I never could get into Dragon Ball Z, but I did like the original Dragon Ball cartoon.

The Digimon game sounds interesting and I hope I get to review it.  Clunkiness or not.  I reviewed a bunch of old Digimon games when I used to write for The Dallas Morning News.

The main reason why I'm looking forward to Tales of Zestria is that I read Go Shiina is doing the music for it, and he's my favorite video game music composer.  Normally, they have some othe guy do all the Tales music, but Go Shiina did the songs for Tales of Legendia so I'm glad he's coming back to do this one as well.  Go Shiina also did the music for Mr. Driller, Gods Eater Burst, and many songs in the Ace Combat and Tekken franchises.  I wish I could meet him someday.  I'd have him sign my imported Tales of Legendia soundtrack!

Did they have any Pac-Man stuff there?

I have to plan ahead!

That's cool, but your Tales collection is missing my favorite one: Tales of Legendia!

I liked the lock on cartridge idea, even if Sonic & Knuckles was meant to be part of Sonic 3.  It was at least creative.

My brother Jeff's favorite Sonic character is Knuckles.

This is kind of a sad story, but one of my other younger brothers had a good friend and neighbor, and this little boy drowned in a hotel in Mexico while his family was on vacation.  When we visited his grave, his parents put a bunch of his favorite toys around, and one of them was a Knuckles plush.  That just tore me up when I saw that.  Whenever I see Knuckles now, I think of not only my brother Jeff, but that poor little boy who passed away.

I got the first Bayonetta game when it was on sale.  It was a great action game, but got a little too bloody and gory for my tastes.  Yeah, I know, I'm a big baby.  Plus you had to fight angels, and I like angels, so I didn't want to fight them. So I just went back to playing my kiddy Kirby games. :)

I am working on a review of another game that Platinum just made.  It's called Legend of Korra, and is based on some Nickelodeon cartoon that I guess I'll have to learn more about now. :)

One time at E3, a lady dressed as Bayonetta and it was a really good costume.  But she couldn't sneak up on anybody because I heard her shoes go CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP as she walked behind me!

One last thing: After playing the first Bayonetta game, i had a weird dream that I went to the grocery store and bought a big bag of lollipops and gave them to Bayonetta.  And that was it.  She sure does like lollipops in the game!

Bayonetta likes lollipops and has guns on her shoes.  Silly lady.

I haven't played War of Cybertron, but I heard that Fall of Cybertron is much better.

I am the Milkman.  My milk is delicious.

(I'm surprised that quote didn't take off like 'The Cake is a Lie' did)

I'm going to be reviewing the Legend of Korra game.  Guess I'd better learn a little bit about the cartoon first. :)

My brother Jeff came over last weekend and we played Hyrule Warriors on Sunday afternoon.  It's WAY more fun with two players. Impa is awesome.

Like I said, Psychonauts was my Game of the Year for 2005, so you know I really liked it.  Keep playing it, there's so many great levels that are very creative.

One thing I would've noted in the pre-Sonic era were the many other mascots SEGA had.  Opa-Opa, Alex Kidd, and even Flicky served as a mascot and showed up in other SEGA games as power up icons or cameos.  Flicky is especially notable since the birds in that game have appeared in most other Sonic games, and some Sonic titles have even adopted the gameplay of the original Flicky title.  I wonder if Yuji Naka worked on Flicky?

Speaking of Yuji Naka, he didn't come up with Sonic right away.  His first idea for a mascot character was a rabbit who could grab onto things with his ears.  That type of gameplay proved too complicated for what Naka was going for, but the concept returned many years later in a game called Ristar (which I thought was a better game than Sonic).  And before Sonic was a hedgehog, he was actually going to be an armadillo.  But combining jumping and attacking made more sense with a spiky hedgehog, so that's what he went with.

I'd like to see that Sonic Boom cartoon, but Dish Network and Turner are under negotiations right now, so I can't watch Cartoon Network on my TV until they settle things, and that's the station that Sonic Boom will be on!  Ugh!  I bet Tails will be cool in it, too.  I've seen it a million times, but Knuckles new look still cracks me up!  He's been working out!

Good article, though.  Later!  --Cary