While I wasn’t much of a Shadow the Hedgehog fan, Sega recently released an animated prologue to the game and gee willikers is it awesome!
Did you see that? Shadow being all serious, then all sad, then all angry. And the fighty-fight fights! Wow! Oh, Rouge. You’re so sassy! You’re my favorite flying rat ever. Sorry, Ray.
This is the one. The one game I MUST play. I have to know what happens between Shadow and Maria Robotnik. Do they reunite due to time-travel shenanigans? Is the timeline forever changed to include Maria or at least a time displaced version of her? Will Shadow get to say goodbye to his friend if this truly is the end? I must have answers. Time to order Sonic x Shadow Generations!
The best Dragon Ball fighting game since the last one!
Just look at those amazing graphics and impressive gameplay. There’s even a story mode with What If scenarios. As a long time Dragon Ball fan who’s only played Dragon Ball Fighterz for five minutes during a free trail, I’m so excited to one-day play this game for at least an hour before deleting it out of frustration over losing every online match to fighting game experts with months of gameplay experience and high cholesterol under their belt.
At least I was until I found one glaring problem with this otherwise fantastic game:
Where are all the characters?!
Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero currently hosts a measly 182 character roster. Are you kidding me? Where’s Super 17 from Dragon Ball GT? The Farmer from the first episode of Dragon Ball Z? Mr. Popo? Jaco? Android 8? Dende? Grand Elder Guru? Gine? Dr. Briefs? How could Bandai Namco forget about them?!
Also, why are there so few Goku alternate characters? Where’s Heart Disease Goku and Recovering In Medical Pod On Namek Goku? What about Pink Shirt Vegeta, Baseball Star Yamcha, Cell Egg, Mildly Depressed Tien, and Pregnant Videl? They’re all nowhere to be found. What the hell’s going on here?!
And you can just forget about playing as a guest character. No Arale from Dr. Slump, Beelzebub from Sand Land, Mihawk from One Piece, or Sailor Uranus from Sailor Moon. Ghostface from the Scream franchise was such an obvious pick I’m flabbergasted he still hasn’t been announced at the time of this review. Even freakin’ Superman from DC Comics is nowhere to be seen.
I can only hope these characters and more will become available in future DLC. Although, it’s a shame another video game developer has potentially gatekept hundreds of fan-favorite characters just to make an extra buck.
Shame on you, Bandai Namco. Grow some dragon balls and stop giving in to corporate greed.
Nintendo made a Legend of Zelda game starring Zelda. In The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, you take the role of Zelda, Princess of Hyrule. Why?
Because Nintendo supports monarchies.
Oh? It’s fun living in a country under a dictatorship when you can just turn it off when your thin-crust pizza arrives, huh? Well, I say if we have to pay taxes, so does Princess Zelda!
Move over Dead By Daylight, there’s another unbalanced asymmetrical horror game headed for the big top.
Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game is based on The Dickies’ Killer Klowns music video that was later turned into a hit movie back in the 80’s—one of the scariest times in human history.
From watching others play the game on Twitch, I learned you can play as either a Killer Klown or Human. During a match, three Klowns are tasked with finding, killing, and emoting on humans, while seven Humans must work together to escape or bully the Klowns until they uninstall the game.
The Klowns look as scary as they do in the music video. All your favorites are back including Jumbo, Shorty, Rudy, and Bianca Del Rio. My personal favorite is Buggy. His special ability is making humans walk the plank. At least, that’s what happened in the dream I had last night.
Things aren’t all cotton candy and cream pies in Klownland however. The recently released game has several bugs and balancing issues the developers are diligently working on fixing between yoga classes and walking their dogs. Besides, a broken weapon or two isn’t that bad. What did you expect them to do? Wait until the game is finished before release? Get over yourself!
Also, other players curse—a lot. It must be a requirement to play the game because I haven’t heard that many f-bombs at a get-together since that time the church picnic ran out of potato salad.
Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game is not a movie. But it is a video game. So, if you don’t have the game, just do what I do and hold a controller while watching the movie. And, hey! If you do it while watching the music video, you’ll unlock the ringmaster costume skin. Neato!
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is back. And I, for one, can’t wait to give you my thoughts on the game.
I never played the original 2004 version, but I still feel nostalgic for the series because everyone else is and I want to fit in. Let’s get this out of the way: the game’s graphics on the Switch are amazing in the trailer. Mario looks 2D, just like paper! Bravo, Nintendo! It’s like playing a storybook on my TV…is what I’d be saying if I played the game.
And the controls? Well, someone on Reddit loved the controls while someone else hated them, so I’ll just guess they’re okay. It’s not like the controls are so bad you can’t play the game, right? But, if I was eating pizza (with a gluten-free crust, of course), it would probably be difficult eating and playing at the same time. Shame on you, Nintendo. You should’ve fixed that with a Day-1 patch!
All in in, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is absolutely a video game and I highly recommend it to anyone whose played the older version or follows gaming trends to feel like they’re part of a group and emotionally distance themselves from any harsh realities happening in their life they want to avoid. Let’s-a go!
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