Interesting u didnt like hat in time. A lot of good word of mouth for that. Ill look at romancing saga later. I hope u had a grand time at pax
PAX South Reviews
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 On 01/19/2018 at 12:51 AM by Cary Woodham See More From This User » |
Hey everybody! I’ve got more links to reviews I’ve written recently at GamerDad.com! I hope you get a chance to look at some of these especially, because I just got back from PAX South last week and wrote my article on that. Also managed to snag a box of Super Mario Cereal and wrote about it, and I got a few fairly high-profile game reviews, too. So please click on as many links as you can and maybe even post a like or comment or two. I’d really appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
So yeah, I just got back from PAX South in San Antonio recently. It’s a little show, and a bit smaller than last year’s, but it was still very productive for me. I took lots of pictures and wrote about a lot of games, so I hope you can read this one. I have to brag a little bit here, though. Stack-Up is a charity organization that donates video games to the military, and at their booth at PAX they had a push-up contest. Well I managed to get second place the first day. I’m not super buff or anything like that, but I guess I’m stronger than I thought.
This stuff is a big deal for two reasons. One, it’s a cereal based on Mario. And two, the box also acts as an amiibo you can scan into games! I hear it’s hard to find, too! I haven’t seen it in the wild myself, but my family managed to snag one of the last few boxes at Wal-Mart! If you’re curious, you’ll definitely want to read this article. I also included a “Brief History of Video Game Cereals” afterwards. In the comments section, let me know what video game cereals were your favorite, and which video game cereals you’d like to see.
Romancing SaGa 2 Remastered (PS4)
Back when the Super Nintendo was hot, I was a teenager and was big into RPGs, mostly the ones from Squaresoft. I couldn’t get enough of them. So it killed me when I’d see images of Super Famicom RPGs in Nintendo Power magazine that would never see the light of day over in the US. One of those was the Romancing SaGa series. But now there is a remastered version of Romancing SaGa 2 that you can download on most US home consoles and handhelds. So was it worth the wait, or should it have stayed in Japan? Click on the link to the review and find out!
There have been a lot of 3-D platformers lately that are trying to recreate the magic of the N64 and GameCube eras. A Hat in Time leans towards the GameCube side, and reminds me most of Psychonauts (thought not near as good). I’m sorry, but I guess I just didn’t like this game as much as everyone else did. I felt that the controls were kind of bad, it had awful stealth missions (I hate stealth missions), and while I like weird games, this one was just too absurd to make any sense. I even liked Yooka-Laylee better than this, and that game had serious problems, too.
Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King (Switch)
Now this one I liked! It tries to imitate classic 2-D Zelda adventures like Link to the Past, although it’s a bit more straightforward and linear and the controls aren’t quite as good. Plus it’s a bit shorter. But I still enjoyed it for what it was. So if you are craving a bite-sized classic Zelda adventure, you should check this one out.
When I went to Round 1 Arcade last year, one of the prizes you could win with tickets was a LED Pac-Man clock. It was really cool, but too expensive for me, either with tickets or ordering it online. But luckily I got one for my birthday a while later, so I finally got a chance to write about it.
Phantom Breaker Battle Grounds Overdrive (Switch)
This is a simple 2-D side scrolling beat ‘em up featuring chibi anime girl characters and retro styled graphics and chiptune music. It’s mindless and repetitive, but I still enjoyed it for what it was. I’ve been trying to review this game ever since it came out on the 360, and I finally got a review code on the Switch!
School Girl Zombie Hunter (PS4)
I know what you’re thinking, “Cary, you don’t review these kinds of games.” And no, I usually don’t. But Aksys just sends me codes without me even asking, so I just reviewed it anyway. It’s a third person shooter where you play as Japanese schoolgirls defending their school from zombies. The levels are short and bite-sized, and meant to be played in small bursts. It kind of reminds me of another low budget Japanese zombie game series called Onechanbara. I wonder if the two series are related somehow? You can do awful things in the game like make the girls strip down to their undies to distract the zombies, but it’s presented in that campy Japanese anime way that makes it look not as bad as what it really is. And personally, I didn’t think the game was THAT bad, especially if you just want a simple little zombie killing game.
Another one from Aksys. It’s more of a survival horror game and reminds me of a low budget horror film. A group of teenagers are exploring a haunted house and your character, a Japanese foreign exchange student, falls into a cave and she must find the others and escape. All the while a lumbering monster is chasing them. It’s presented in a 2-D fashion and has point and click adventure elements, but it’s less scary and more tedious than anything.
And that’s all for now! Thanks for reading and posting likes and comments. I do appreciate it. Hopefully next time I’ll be able to post my Game of the Year blog finally. Later! --Cary
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