Gotta Trick or Treat 'em All!
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 On 10/16/2025 at 10:30 PM by Cary Woodham See More From This User » |
It’s spooky season, and I’ve got some treats for you! No tricks! It’s game reviews I’ve recently written at GamerDad.com! About half of them are Pokémon related, so that explains the title of this blog. Also there’s a new Pokémon game that just came out. I’ll probably get it soon, as I did like the first Pokémon Legends game pretty well. Anyway, please click on the links to the reviews and read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
Hallmark Halloween Pikachu Ornament
Every year I always get some video game themed Christmas ornaments from Hallmark and write about them here. I plan to do that this year, too. But in this year’s batch, there was a video game themed ornament that doesn’t belong with the Christmas stuff. You see, Hallmark has gotten into making Halloween ornaments as well. While I think having a Halloween tree is a bit much, some people do like their spooky stuff! Usually they have things I’m not much interested in, like Harry Potter ornaments. And even the ones I think are kind of cool I wouldn’t get, like Peanuts and Disney’s Haunted Mansion ornaments. But when they released a Pikachu Halloween ornament this year, I just had to get it. So let’s take a look at it.
If you’ve ever wanted to have Kisses with Pokémon, now’s your chance. OK that sounded ALL wrong! Anyway, Pokémon have teamed up with Hershey’s Kisses to make some limited edition wrappers so you can try and catch ‘em all!
There’s a snack brand called Pirate’s Booty that I think mostly does popcorn kind of snacks. I don’t really see them much in stores that I visit frequently, though. I think the last time I saw them was at World Market and I haven’t been there in years. But recently a close relative bought me these packs of Pirate’s Booty snacks featuring Pokémon. And you know me, I’ll write about anything video game related, no matter what it is. So let’s take a look at them!
You’ve arrived in a new town to start your very own Pokémon plush toy shop. Kind of like a Build-A-Bear with Pokémon I guess. But while unpacking, your yarn gets all tangled up. So now you have to solve Pokémon themed puzzles to unravel your thoughts, and the yarn in Pokémon Friends.
Garfield Kart 2: All You Can Drift (Switch)
When I was a kid in the 80s, Garfield was huge! Newspaper comics strips were a popular form of entertainment for all ages back then, and the fat orange cat was right at the forefront. Not only that, but he had countless merchandise, Emmy award winning TV specials and a Saturday morning cartoon! So yeah, Garfield was a big part of my childhood. So good or bad, I’m always happy to review a Garfield video game. So here comes Garfield Kart 2: All You Can Drift, a typical cartoony kart racer featuring the fat cat and his friends. I’ve never played the first one, so I don’t know if this one improves anything in any way.
Cuphead was a run and gun action platformer with unique visuals in that everything looked like a cartoon from the 1930s. It was actually pretty amazing looking, and the only reason why I didn’t play it was it was too darn hard! But it was pretty popular and even got an animated series on Netflix. And a few imitators, too. Here’s one of those. Acecraft is a top down 2D vertically scrolling shooter where you play as cute animals in airplanes shooting down all sorts of cartoony baddies.
The Edge of Allegoria (Switch)
The best way to describe this game is that it’s Pokémon with a potty mouth. The Edge of Allegoria is an old school styled RPG with a green and white color palette similar to the Game Boy. It has some similarities to Pokémon, too. You don’t train and fight monsters, but the battle screen and the map are very similar to that series. In the game you play as a generic person who goes out to make something of themselves. You come to a town with a goblin problem, and beat up the leader in a dungeon, only to have other goblins come and demolish your house. Then a fairy comes to tell you that the world is not in balance anymore after you fight her. And in typical RPG fashion, you just go on from there, visiting towns for clues and items and fighting monsters on route to dungeons. Only other thing that sets this game apart from others is that it uses more curse words in the text than any other video game I’ve ever seen!
Don’t be fooled by the title of this game. There aren’t really 40 full sports games on here. Just multiplayer mini-games based on things you do in sports. It feels like a title from a bygone era from the Wii days.
King of Ping Pong MEGAMIX (PS4)
I’ve never been a big fan of tennis or ping pong video games, because they just seem like glorified Pong games to me. But this one has arcade style gameplay and wacky characters, so let’s see how this one fares for me.
And that’s all for now! Thanks for reading my reviews and posting ‘likes’ and comments on them! I do appreciate it. Happy Halloween! --Cary
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