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One of my brothers got married a couple of weeks ago, hence the title of this blog.  So congrats to him!  And I also got married as well.  Sort of.  You’ll just have to read on to find out!  Yeah, sorry to use clickbait on you all, but it’s fun when it’s fun.  Anyway after all this wedding stuff are more reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com.  Please click on the links and read as many as you can and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two.  OK let’s begin!

Anyway, about my wedding.  So have you ever heard of a game called Tomodatchi Life?  It was a 3DS game where you could create Mii characters and place them in a little town on an island and they’d interact with each other in funny ways.  They could make friends, become enemies, or even get married! Lots of that quirky Japanese styled humor, too.   I made a Mii of myself and a few of my family members.  And just for fun, I also made Miis of various video game characters.  I made Miis of Link and Zelda thinking they’d get married.  Well that idea backfired on me because Princess Zelda ended up marrying my Mii!  They even had a baby!  I didn’t know what to name him, so I named him Zelda Jr. 

Anyway, a couple of months ago, Nintendo released a sequel on the Switch called Tomodatchi Life: Living the Dream.  It’s basically the same idea as the first game.  I think I like the 3DS game better because it suits a handheld more, and it had more gameplay elements.  For instance, you could play a mini RPG in it, whereas the Switch sequel doesn’t have that.  But the Switch game has WAY more customization options, so it’s a tradeoff.  Anyway like the first game, I made Miis of me and my family, and some video game characters.  One I made was Reiko Nagase, the lady from Ridge Racer.  Well after the first day of playing, she wanted to marry my Mii!  Whoa!  Slow down there, woman!

Anyway, after about a week or so, my Mii caved in and married her.  And then a week later, they had a baby girl!  I named her Momo, after the Namco game Wonder Momo.  Hey, if Reiko Nagase can have a sister in the Ace Combat games, and they can be set in the same universe as Mr. Driller and Dig Dug, then I can make some Namco lore of my own!  OK, OK, enough of that nonsense.  On to the reviews!

LEGO Animal Crossing: Tom Nook With Balloon Present

Animal Crossing is one of my favorite video game series of all time (second only to Pac-Man), so I love the LEGO sets they have for it.  We’ve talked about them here at GamerDad.com in the past, with a few of the smaller sets and mini-packs.  They’re the only ones I can afford as LEGO sets are very expensive.  Plus with my vision disability, it’s hard for me to put them together myself.  Luckily there’s another mini pack that just came out that I’ll show you all today: Tom Nook with a balloon present!

Unplugged: In a World

In a World is a card game with gameplay similar to something like Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity.  The theme of this one is you have cards that present you with wacky worlds, and you must pick cards with things you would want in that world. 

R-Type Dimensions III (Switch 2)

Even though they’re no longer around, game maker Irem made some of the most popular games in the arcades back in the 80s.  Some of these include Moon Patrol and Kung Fu Master, but probably their most famous was the shooter series R-Type.  Consoles back then would often times show off their version of R-Type for its graphical prowess, and it was one of the most challenging shooters back then.  It’s so popular they still make R-Type games today, and I even reviewed one a few years ago (R-Type Final 2).  And here’s another one with R-Type Dimensions III.  I reviewed the first R-Type Dimensions, which was a remake of R-Type 1 and 2. And this one has R-Type 3, which was originally on the SNES and later on the GBA.

Psyvariar 3 (Switch 2)

And speaking of shooters.  Psyvariar was a vertically scrolling bullet hell shooter series in the arcades around the late 90s/early 2000s.  It had a sequel soon after, but I’ve never heard of these games, or don’t remember them.  But then, shooters like these were a dime a dozen back then.  And now, more than two decades later, here’s a third game in the series. 

Unbox the Room (Switch)

Last year I reviewed a game about packing things in boxes in a house.  It wasn’t very much fun, just like in real life.  But what about unpacking things from boxes once you move into a new home?  Would that make a better game? (turns out, yes it does)  Unbox the Room lets you unpack boxes and arrange the items in little rooms.

LumenTale: Memories of Trey (Switch)

Back when I was writing game reviews for The Dallas Morning News in the late 90s, I was designated as the resident Pokémon expert.  This was back during the initial boom, so I was writing Pokémon articles left and right.  I’d like to say that Pokémon helped pay my way through college.  But it also meant that I was reviewing a lot of similar games, too, such as Digimon, Monster Rancher, etc.  So it’s always interesting when I get to review another monster battler.  In LumenTale, Memories of Trey, you play as Trey, a young man who has lost his memory.  A kid finds you passed out in the woods and carries you back to professor’s house.  They decide that to help you get your memories back, you should become a Lumen, who captures and trains monsters (called Animon) to fight and help out people.  And so that’s what you do!

Atomic Owl (PS4)

In the mythical land of Judanest inhabited by bird people, an owl prince and his band of warriors protect the kingdom.  One day an evil crow named Omega Wing releases all the Tengu and uses a Dark Feather to hypnotize the prince’s troops.  Now it’s up to the owl prince to stop him in this 2D hack and slash platformer.

Nero & Sci: Integral Edition (Switch)

Here’s a fact about me.  I’ve never liked math.  If I ever became a super villain, there are two ways you could defeat me.  My only two weaknesses are country music and math.  So when I get a press release claiming a game will make me like math, I’m like, “OK, challenge accepted.”  So here’s Nero & Sci.  Nero is a shy lonely little alien who works at a library, and one day while dusting off some old books in the basement, Nero knocks off one of the books and it opens up and all heck breaks loose.  Then Nero meets a little flying jellyfish thing named Sci.  Together they must save the day in this 2D puzzle platformer.

And that’s all for now!  Thanks for reading my reviews and posting ‘likes’ and comments and such.  I do appreciate it.  So where should I go on my honeymoon?  --Cary