The newest game in the Mario & Luigi RPG series just came out on the 3DS: Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam. It’s a crossover title between Mario & Luigi and the other popular Mario RPG series: Paper Mario. In honor of that, here is a blog where I rank every Mario RPG game in a top ten list (granted there’s only been ten of them, so, yeah).
1996 in gaming. Ah yes. The N64 came out. I didn't get one that year though. I was still mainly on PC playing shooters and strategy games. Somehow I also had a Playstation, SNES, Genesis and NES. How I got all that stuff, I don't remember. I had little money and had to have gotten them cheap second hand. It was the day of flea markets where you could get stuff cheap. My friend and I went to them most weekends to pick up anything gaming related. The internet ended all that. Thank you internet. NOT! Below is a list of the stuff I played most.
Nintendo just released some new Mario Kart 8 tracks, and it made me think about other fun Nintendo themed DLC and bonuses in games. So I wrote a blog about it. Enjoy!
It started out simple enough. I went to McDonalds to get a little lunch (I had slept in a bit longer than normal) and hit up the Nintendo Zone for Miis (I got six, I found out later). I think I'd better be careful about this Mickey Dee thing. It's really not very healthy. Next time I'll order something like coffee or a hot chocolate. I'd eat nothing but I feel too weird walking in there just to get the Spot Pass. Then I headed over to Gamestop to preorder Etrian Mystery Dungeon, out on April 7th (I went to the one where I get the feminine smiles and not the one where I get the upselling).
First off, I had an X-ray for my knee which I smashed on a icy sidewalk a month back. It wasn't broke, which is what I kind of expected. I should listen to my intuition and save some cash.
First up today was Super Mario RPG (Wii virtual console). I played this up unitl the first major boss, Mack, and beat him. I really love this game. I almost played it all day, but I decided I'd play up until a boss every weekend for a while. I guess it's so I can fit in some 360 gaming with Mark. I kind of like the idea of playing a game just up to a major boss and then doing something else. It breaks up the game into nice chunks that give you some time to think about it afterwards.
I finally got my Super Mario RPG Blog finished! Holy cows! only took me...MONTHS! But with things chaning I have been finally feeling the blogging groove come back! Also I am thinking of doing something fun for October like Horror theme blogs for video games/anime/movies/etc. So Super Mario RPG is not Horror but...it's a horrifyingly awesome game so it works!
Hey Everyone! Can't believe it is almost the end of September already!
I've been a bit busy lately. I want to game, but I hadn't had much time to do it. I have more than a few games set up though. As time becomes available, I put in a few mintues here and there when I can.
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.
So I failed to post one more BaD blog in time. My excuse? Work. I'm drowning in overtime hours. I come home and all I have time to do is watch a hour or two of tv or game and then sleep. I wake up, clean and dress up and head back to work for 12 hours. That's what it has been like from Monday through Thursday. I can't blog with no energy and even less time.
I seem to be in an rpg fix as of late. But while I sink in countless hours into games that I will never finish I want to talk about leveling or level grinding for this blog. Rpg's usually follow the staple of the highest level being 99. This is usually the case in games like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest. It's the golden number. The one you hope to achieve. Often though you will get games that buck that trend.
Life has been quite busy for the last couple of weeks. You might have noticed that I missed posting last week's OCR Spotlight. There's just too much going on right now and I'm having trouble keeping up. Hence why the recap of last month is just now going up. But better late than never, I guess?
Hi everyone! This weekend I want reintroduce you to one of the best consoles of all time: the Super Nintendo. With E3 looming upon us in a couple weeks, I thought that now would be a good time to revisit this system and maybe explain why it was so great.
One of my more random gaming related hobbies is looking up articles and scans from old magazines—EGM, Gamepro, and so forth. I was an avid buyer of various mags when I was little; I’d go to the convenience store 5 minutes away from my house almost every weekend and pick something up with my $5 allowance (which was baller money back in elementary school). It’s fun going back to them from time to time and seeing what was what from an adult perspective.
If you were paying attention yesterday during Nintendo’s "Nintendo Direct" address, you might’ve noticed a common theme undercutting the entire broadcast. Let’s take a look at some of the biggest properties put on display: Yoshi’s Island 3, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, The Legend of Zelda (A Link to the Past 2), Earthbound, and Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, which saw a change in visuals/perspective that makes it even closer in style to its spiritual predecessor, Super Mario RPG . Maybe it’s just me, but this line-up is conjuring up some strong memories of the SNES.
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, and the upcoming release of a certain game next week, I’m going to write a little tribute blog to one of video gaming’s most famous green-clad heroes: Luigi! I’m not going to take a look at EVERY game Luigi’s been in, just the ones I feel are most important. At one time, Luigi was originally my favorite Mario character. That is, until Super Mario Kart came along and I realized how awesome Toad was. But Luigi is still tops in my book, way cooler than Mario anyway. Anyway, let’s take a look at some of Luigi’s highlights in gaming.
This year was a bit thinner than what we were expecting, especially with Nintendo supposedly pulling back the curtain on the Wii U. But while we were left a bit underwhelmed and with more questions than answers there were still plenty of games on display to get us excited for something.