Another ten on my list to play this year going in order on the Metacritic all-time best list for DS.
It’s time for my “Best Video Games of 2025 Awards Show!” Keep in mind that this is my list only and no other outside opinions contributed. And if a game isn’t on this list, it either just didn’t appeal to me as much or I haven’t had a chance to play it yet. Ok with that out of the way, let’s begin!
Got another batch of game 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. I’d appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
Around this time, I like to make a list of games that are releasing in the coming year that I’m looking forward to. Of course, this isn’t a full complete list, as there will assuredly be titles announced throughout the year that I may get as well. But anyway, here’s what I know now, for the most part, so let’s take a look at what games I’m looking forward to in 2025!
This month, Nintendo is releasing Mario vs. Donkey Kong. It’s a re-release/remake of a game on the Game Boy Advance that came out about 20 years ago! It’s also the first appearance of the Mini Mario characters, an army of little wind up Mario toys. These little guys would go on to star in their own series of spin-offs. But those games kind of all run together because many of them look and play similarly. So I thought in honor of the new game’s release, I’d go over each one and see what makes them special, if only for a little bit. This Mario vs. Donkey Kong series also has quite a few games in its belt, more than what you might think. And the history of these games stretched back farther than what you might expect, too! So let’s check ‘em out!
Happy New Year! Around this time of year, I like to make a list of games that are releasing in the coming year that I’m looking forward to. Of course, this isn’t a full complete list, as there will assuredly be titles announced throughout the year that I may get as well. But anyway, here’s what I know now, for the most part, so let’s take a look at what games I’m looking forward to in 2024!
I made a list of what I played in 2010. Here they are in chronological order.
A new WarioWare game has been recently released on 3DS: WarioWare: Gold. It’s kind of a ‘best of’ the series with over 300 games from the franchise. So in honor of that, I figured I’d post a blog about all the games in the series, as it is one of my favorites!
Can you believe it’s May already? Anyway, I’ve got another crop of game reviews blooming over at GamerDad.com, so here are some links and things to those reviews. Please click on and read whatever you can, and maybe even post a comment here or there. I’d really appreciate it. Thanks for reading!
So as I've mentioned my plan worked and I was able to pick up a New 3DS XL for no out of pocket expense. Ok, that's kind of a lie, I had to pay $1.45. LOL
Hey folks, are you ready for another batch of game reviews to read? Well you’d better get used to it; because with Christmas coming up, I’ll be doing lots more game reviews for a while. Anyway, I hope you do get a chance to click on the links and read my reviews and maybe even post a comment or two. I’d appreciate it. I know there are a bit more iPad games in this batch, but keep in mind that I was on vacation to Disney World in between posting these reviews. But I promise my next batch will have more console stuff. One tough thing about reviewing games this time of year is that it’s harder to play the games I want, like Hyrule Warriors and Smash Bros., because I have to review other things. But I’m not complaining. People who get to write game reviews semi-professionally like this have NO RIGHT to complain! So anyway, let’s get on to the reviews!
Recently I’ve been playing and working on reviewing the newest BlazBlue fighter: BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma. Like the others in the series, it’s a 2-D, one-on-one fighter featuring hand drawn sprites and a storyline so complicated that you need a flow chart to understand it all. The games are also made by the same folks who did the Guilty Gear series, I believe. Anyway, normally when I play a fighting game, I like to talk about all the characters in a separate blog. But I did that already a couple of years ago on 1up.com, and I don’t feel like doing that again. Plus, many of the characters don’t interest me as much, as they are generic anime stereotypes, and I don’t have much to say about them. So my blog would end up being mostly reading like, “Ragna is just some fighter looking dude.” So instead, I decided just to talk about my top five favorite BlazBlue characters instead, because I’m lazy. So let’s go!
I started the day by watching The Wind Rises in the theater. I knew I was going to cry like a baby all throughout and, sure enough, I did. There were several other people there, so I had to contain it to a certain extent.
In honor of the release of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for Wii U at the end of this week, I thought I’d write a blog about my top five favorite Donkey Kong games. How high can you get? It’s on like Don…er, a stubborn monkey!
Recently I got Game & Wario for Wii U. It’s in the WarioWare series of titles, but they probably didn’t use the name because the games are a bit different this time around. More like longer mini-games instead of the two second microgames of the past. They spoof Game & Watch with the title, and the start screen for each game feature cheesy ‘box art’ for every mini-game. So as I always like to do with these kinds of things, here’s a rundown of the mini-games you can play in Game & Wario.
If you have fond memories of lazy Saturdays taking turns with a friend’s Game & Watch, the possibilities for recreating those experiences have been pretty sparse in the last decade. Today, the primary way to get your hands on LCD-style games is through Nintendo’s own Game & Watch collections for the DS and, strangely, in this summer’s Deadlight on XBLA. Outside of those cases, though, the LCD game is essentially dead. Or so it seemed, until Retro Pocket swooped onto DSiWare and packed several Saturday afternoons’ worth of LCD-style games into a package that will have some peering over the top of their sunglasses to take in something so rad.