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I'll admit. Valhalla Knights is an interesting case of a game series being brought to Nintend despite having no previous iterations on a Nintendo system. The first two installments were for the PSP. So what exactly is so bad about this action rpg? Well we'll get into that in today's review! Grab your popcorn and start munching...we're getting groovy!

Pixlbit Army I know Tuesday can’t hold you back, how are you good people doing? For you East Coasters continue to stay warm. Currently it is a nice 46 degrees here in abnormally warm Sunny Southern California, and today I continue with my Game Library. For today I want to write about my favorite handheld ever, the Playstation Portable. There was a lot of hate towards the Playstation, but I felt it was an awesome handheld that could a number of things, kind of like the preview to the tablets and smart phones we have today. Yes I know Microsoft had a tablet around the same time but seriously who bought that thing? The PSP was my all in one media device, it played games, it played mp3s (this was before my mini-disc and phone that played mp3s), it could play movies…if you converted them to whatever proprietary Sony format, and it could go online. The online portion was rough, like 56k rough. All it was missing was that connecting sound.

Most of us older folks have good memories of games like Wing Commander, and Strike Wing scratches that space dogfighting itch. It's harder to get a feeling for a game like this in the short time I spent with it than with some quick twitchy game, but there seems to be an interesting story here, some nice graphics and music, and, most importantly, fun dogfights. You can control your ship using the built-in accelerometer, though I prefer the virtual joystick (it floats so that you can touch anywhere on the left half of the screen). The missions seem to be mostly "kill all the bad guys," but maybe there is more variety later on. You can unlock better ships and play challenge missions for extra experience. There seems to be a lot of content, too, with both free and paid paid DLC available to download. Sure, it's not Wing Commander but for a game on my phone, it's pretty good.

Got the achievement for getting to level 30 on Hardcore. I stayed in the game a little longer so Mark could get the same achievement. Now there's just one left and that's getting 5 million in gold. Trick is, this is 5 million that you pick up from the world and not gold you get from selling items. I forgot to look at what I have so far but Mark has a little over 3 million, which means I'm probably at 2 million. That's a lot of moola to go find and pick up. I have a few ideas though.

 Still not Nintendo Related

I'm actually kind of dry for first impressions. I don't feel like doing one for Devil Survivor Overclocloked, since I had only played it once so far and I have a first impressions outline for two or four I haven't fully developed (and some I may won't....). In that absence, i'm going to instead post short but to the point recommendations for Web Games, otherwise known as Flash Games (even if some of them are not made in Flash). They are pretty much games that you can play instantly on a brower (as long as you have Flash and/or Java installed of course) on websites like Kongregate and Newgrounds, and they are a staple of millenials like me. With that said, let's begin with:

Anyone who has listened to the last episode of my podcast (thank you so much, btw) knows that I've had initial bad experiences with the Alien franchise. How appropriate that I decided to make my first playthrough of Alien: Isolation public through Twitch.

You know I have nothing against on rail shooters. The Wii had a lot of great ones.  Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, House of the Dead Overkill and even Disaster: Day of Crisis had fun on rails shotting mechanics mixed with adventure platforming/Quick Time events. So for every good  game there are so many bad ones. Games like Target Terror come to mind and that's what I review today.