Yui is a young girl who lives in a fantasy village with her family.  One day, during a festival celebrating the light that protects their village and the people who harness it, evil shadow beings come to invade.  They capture a bunch of the villagers, including most of Yui’s family.  Many years later, Yui is older and lives in the crumbling remnants of her town.  One day she stumbles upon living ruins with the power to send her back in time.  Now Yui must travel from the future to the past to stop the shadows and save her family in YesterMorrow.  It’s a 2-D side scrolling action adventure platformer game, and it’s available on most current consoles but reviewed on PS4 here.

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While it may not have movies like Angry Birds, or TV commercials like Candy Crush, Fruit Ninja is still one of the most popular early mobile games.  You might’ve even had it for free pre-installed on your first smart phone!  I think it was one of the first mobile games I saw at PAX, and I even reviewed an educational game based on the franchise a few years ago!  I’ve even seen versions of this game in arcades!  And now it’s finally getting a sequel! (reviewed on iPad here)

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Here’s a weird freebie mobile game.  Slingshot cartoon animals into pixel sculptures of objects until they disappear.  And that’s all you do!  Use the touch screen to simulate pulling back and aiming your critter, and then let go to send it flying.  If you can shoot off a big chunk of pixels, they’ll disappear and you get extra points in the form of coins.  After you clear one pixel sculpture, which could be anything from a screwdriver, magnet, or a rainbow, you start the process over again.

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It’s free-to-play week here at GamerDad.  In Blowie, play as a little Q*bert style critter as he shoots bullets from his nose in this simple vertically scrolling shooter for mobile devices (reviewed on iPad here).  Use the touch screen to move your character around, and he’ll automatically fire.  Shoot all the enemies within the time limit and you can move onto the next level.  When you get hit, you must start the stage over again, and when you get hit three times, it’s Game Over.  You can continue where you left off if you watch an ad, though.

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Open up and run your very own cat café in a magical land in Calico.  But what is a cat café?  Well, apparently they exist in real life and are just restaurants where they let cats roam freely in it for you to watch and pet.  Sounds fun, but I can’t imagine how they keep from getting cat hair in your food!  Anyway, Calico is a laid back, relaxing kind of game that has aspects from other titles like Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing.  It’s available on nearly all current game consoles, but reviewed on Switch here.

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Does anyone remember the Nickelodeon cartoon CatDog?  I was a little too old for it myself when it was on TV, but my brothers liked it.  Anyway, it was a show about a creature with a talking cat head on one end and a talking dog on the other, and how they got along together despite being attached to each other inseparably.  It was pretty weird.  Well if they were ever to make a video game version of that show, PHOGS! would be about the closest thing to it!  In PHOGS!, you play as a weenie dog with two dog heads on each end.  So instead of a CatDog, it’s a DogDog.  One or two players control each head separately as you wriggle around obstacle filled 3-D worlds, solving puzzles in areas based on three things dogs like to do most: sleep, eat, and play!  The game is available on most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.

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I love playing and writing about classic game collections and compilations.  Usually I’m pretty knowledgeable about the games on collections because I love classic games, plus I’m old.   But the games on this particular collection, I’m not as familiar with.  Mainly because these games were more popular in Europe, and originated on computers that were more prevalent over there, like the Amiga.  The Turrican series are run and gun 2-D platformer games and they were programmed by the same guy who did The Great Giana Sisters, which has an interesting history in its own right.  Anyway, Turrican Flashback includes four games: Turrican, Turrican 2: The Final Fight, Mega Turrican and Super Turrican.  The collection is available on Switch and PS4, but reviewed on Switch here.

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Nintendo’s Animal Crossing game franchise got a big boost in popularity this past year thanks to the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons right in the beginning of the COVID pandemic.  It was just what a lot of people needed, including myself.  But I’ve always been a big fan of the series.  Anyway, the recent popularity of the game is probably why they now have Animal Crossing Valentines!  You know, they’re like the ones you used to give out to classmates in elementary school, or maybe you have kids who do that now.  Anyway, I found these at a Kroger grocery store, so let’s take a look at them!

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Boy they’ll make a game out of anything these days!  Body of Evidence is a 3-D first person game where you are tasked with hiding and getting rid of dead bodies in creative ways.  Blech!  It uses light puzzle solving and lots of rag doll physics, and is available on a couple of consoles and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.

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Ditch the honest life and become a thief in PickLock.  Featuring stylized blocky graphics, rob neighbors and businesses blind and use your ill-gotten loot to furnish your house, purchase new getaway cars, and even buy new houses in other countries!  This stealth action game is available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.

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