It’s that time of year again! I really look forward to my Mini Review Marathon. It’s a good writing exercise to try and condense my opinion about a game down to just a paragraph or two. This year I have nine such reviews lined up for all of you! 1. Ultimate NES Remix (Nintendo 3DS) … Continue reading Mini Review Marathon 2021
Last week I talked about the Game Boy Advance, and today it's time to gush about the GameCube. The GameCube launched in November of 2001. Like in my last post, this was a time before I had regular access to the internet and so could only find out about games through TV ads, store demo … Continue reading The GameCube: Finally Appreciated After 20 Years
The Nintendo 3DS was born in March of 2011. Its last major game, Persona Q2, was released in June of 2019. That means the system had a good long life of 8 years. I still play my 3DS, so I don't consider it dead yet, but I've realized that I've never made a post solely … Continue reading The Nintendo 3DS, 10 Years Later
I'm so proud of Animal Crossing. When the original released on the GameCube, I knew only 4 people who played it: my family and exactly one of my friends. It felt like a cult classic, as most GameCube games did back then. It was one of the first games of its kind, a game to … Continue reading Animal Crossing: 6 Months Later
If I enjoy a game's soundtrack, I find myself forgiving said game's bland or unimpressive parts. If I enjoy it enough to listen to it in my spare time, I find myself even forgetting the game's flaws altogether. The music will transport me back to the environments I was in and the feelings that music … Continue reading My Favorite Video Game Composers
Animal Crossing New Horizons is a Life Sim game developed and published by Nintendo. It released on March 20, 2020 as a Nintendo Switch exclusive. It costs $60. Every day after school, I fired up the GameCube and played Animal Crossing, and I was bent on collecting everything -- every critter, every fossil, every K.K. … Continue reading Animal Crossing New Horizons: I Guess This is my Life Now
Most games have fighting of some kind in them. Whether it's decision-making in an RPG combat system, combo stacking in an Action game, or blasting monsters in a shooter, violence is conveyed in some way or form. You could even say that Mario jumping on enemies and them poofing out of existence is a... mild … Continue reading An Ode to Nonviolent Games
Hookshot, Charge Beam, Revive 