Last year I got something cool for my birthday that I wanted to show you all.  It’s a Pac-Man clock with a bunch of LED lights that simulates an old arcade screen.  I originally saw it as a prize you can earn with tickets at Round 1 Arcade, but it cost too many tickets and buying it online was expensive, too.  So I’m glad a family member bought it for me for my birthday.  So let’s take a look at it!

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This game starts out with a grandfather telling his two grandkids a story.  So they kind of act as narrators in the game.  You play as Lily, a new knight recruit.  When the king’s evil wizard brother casts a sleeping spell on the king, it’s up to Lily to search for ingredients to a potion to reverse the sleeping spell, and then find and defeat the evil wizard.  Blossom Tales looks and plays nearly exactly like a 2-D Zelda title, and it’s available to download on Nintendo Switch and PC (Switch version reviewed here).

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Big news for fans of video games, cereal, and amiibo figures (that describes me pretty well).  Super Mario Cereal is out in stores and even has amiibo functionality on the box!  Thanks to my family, I was able to get a box of it, so let’s take a look at it in more detail!

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Zombies are invading a Japanese girls’ only high school, and it’s up to five teenage girls to fight back and survive.  School Girl Zombie Hunter is a downloadable PS4 third person action shooting game with plenty of guns, zombies, and Japanese quirkiness.

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Play as one of six chibi anime female archetypes (maid, priestess, schoolgirl) and battle thugs and demons in this retro styled 2-D beat ‘em up.  It’s cartoony, silly, mindless, and pretty fun as well.  The game is available to download on Switch and PS4, but reviewed on Switch here.

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We’re going to do things a little differently this month.  Usually at the beginning of January I’ll post my Game of the Year blog, and then I’ll write a blog after that about the games I’m looking forward to in the coming year.  But this time we’re going to reverse that and I’m going to do my looking forward blog first.  There’s a couple of reasons why I want to do it that way.  First, there’s a couple of games that are coming out early this year that I want to put on this list before they’re actually released.  And second, I want to wait a bit on my Game of the Year blog so I have time to play a couple of games that came out last year to see if they’ll make my list.  So that blog won’t go up until later on in January.  Hope nobody minds.  Anyway, let’s take a look at some of the games that are coming out next year, at least the ones I know about anyway.

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When I first saw this game, I thought it might’ve been based on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie of the same name, but I knew better than that.  But this game could’ve been a low budget horror movie anyway.  Four teens explore a haunted mansion rumored to have a monster inside.  You play as Arisa, a Japanese foreign exchange student in the group.  Shortly after arriving, an earthquake causes her to fall through the floor and into a cave under the mansion.  Now she must escape the caves and find her friends, all the while avoiding the monster who haunts the place.  Creeping Terror is one part survival horror, one part point and click adventure, and one part 2-D Metroid style game, downloadable on the 3DS.

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Back when the Super Nintendo was hot, I was a teenager and was big into RPGs, mostly the ones from Squaresoft (now Square Enix).  I couldn’t get enough of them.  So it killed me when I’d see images of Super Famicom (Japanese SNES) RPGs in Nintendo Power magazine that would never see the light of day over in the US.  One of those was the Romancing SaGa series.  But now there is a remastered version of Romancing SaGa 2 that you can download on most US home consoles and handhelds (reviewed on PS4 here).  So was it worth the wait, or should it have stayed in Japan?  Read on to find out!

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“You don’t see too many 3-D collect-a-thon platformers like you used to,” would be a phrase I would say, but this past year alone we’ve had a bit of a revival in that genre with games like Yooka-Laylee, Poi, and Super Mario Odyssey.  And now to round things out, we have A Hat in Time as well, which looks and feels exactly like a 3-D platformer that you’d find on the GameCube.  In the game you play as a nameless girl, but we’ll call her Hat Girl.  She wears a top hat and cape and flies in her spaceship in hopes to get home.  But along the way, her fuel falls out and scatters all over the place.  For some reason, her fuel looks like hourglasses and has the power to change time.  So now she must visit all sorts of crazy worlds to get her hourglass fuel back.  The game is available to download on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.

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Usually at the end of the summer, I’ll have watched enough movies to write a blog about them.  And sometimes, that happens in the winter, too.  This is one of those winters!  So here’s a blog about the movies I’ve seen in the past couple of months.  There might be some slight spoilers here and there.  Nothing too significant, but you’ve been warned anyway.

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Tags: Movies with Children