PixlBit

So I saw on the Nintendo Switch eShop channel that there's a new Picross S game and it has a theme, too.  The theme is characters from a famous Japanese manga artist(s) and some you might've heard of, like Doraemon.  I probably won't be getting the game myself, because while Doraemon is cool, it's not cool enough to buy a game of for me.  I wonder if the characters from Q-Taro are in the Picross game, too?  The guy who created Pac-Man cited the Q-Taro characters as inspiration to how he created the Pac-Man ghosts.

I know that streaming services that you have to subscribe to are probably the way of the future and they do have some nice convienences.  But all in all, I don't like them.  The only reason why I have the ones I have are becasue I'm mooching them off my brother.  And I don't have Netflix either.  I only watched the Wallace and Gromit movie on it because I went to my dad's house and they have Netflix.

I'm a HUGE fan of Animaniacs, so I rented the SNES version as soon as I saw it.  Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed.  I found it more annoying than anything, which is a shame because Konami's Tiny Toon SNES game they made before it was really good.  But then, that Tiny Toons game was made by the same team that would later form Treasure, so you know.  I hear the Genesis version of Animaniacs is better.  But I didn't have a Genesis back then.

I've heard good things about QuackShot and the Taz games on Genesis.

Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion is actually a sequel to the Castle of Illusion game on Genesis!

Unfortunately, I'm not going to review it.  Sometimes I play games just for fun, espeically the ones I have to buy.  It's why you also won't see me reviewing Ys X: Nordics.  All you need to know is...both games are good.

I'm not really reading or listening to anything significant, but I sure am enjoying the heck out of Hello Kitty Island Adventure on Switch!

I think you would like Hello Kitty Island Adventure.  It's a lot like Animal Crossing, just more goal and mission oriented.

I DO play more grown up games from time to time, though.  Stuff like Soul Calibur and Phoenix Wright.  Later this year I'll be playing a new dark take on Pac-Man called Shadow Labyrinth (yeah, look it up, it's weird).  Gotta play it out of morbid curiosity if anything.

I loved the new movie.  I'd watch it again in a heartbeat.  Kind of sad it didn't win the Oscar for best animated movie, but I guess I need to see the winner, Flow, on HBO Max before I get too biased.

If you liked Curse of the Were-Rabbit, you should check out Vengeance Most Fowl.  I loved it.  You can watch it on Netflix.

Sounds like the total opposite of what I'm playing right now: Hello Kitty Island Adventure!  I mean, the worst thing you have to do in that game is that at the very beginning, you have to jump out of a plane holding floaty balloons because the cake baking machine on the plane was malfunctioning and spitting out cake at everyone!  The threat is real!

Ninja Gaiden definitely has good controls.  Only other company I can think of who had games with snappy controls like that is Capcom.  Ninja Gaiden was still way too hard, though.  The thing I remember most about that game was the song they play when you die.  "Dun dun dun, dun, dun, dun dun DUN!"

A lot of those 16-bit ones are good in the arcade, too.  Especially Magic Sword and Dungeon Magic!  Played a lot of the former in arcades with my friend back in the day.