Andramerican
Don’t try to get all the star coins in the entire game. You have friends who are worried about you.
Spider-Man is so ripped that every time I play this game I feel the incessant need to go to the gym afterwards.
2018
A survival game set against the backdrop of an alt-right Christian cult taking over an entire county in Montana should have been an instant 5 star game for me. Unfortunately, the actual game seems to forget the urgency of its own message. No, Ubisoft, the cult leader has kidnapped women and children, I don't want to go fishing.
2017
Minus half a star for the stupid last jump rope moon I will never get.
Severely missing Galaxy 2, and also is barely a remaster, rather than the full generational remake that the first Super Mario All-Stars was. Galaxy controls are also mid. Somehow this game still warrants 3.5 stars in my head, despite these criticisms.
2017
Objectively the greatest of the entire series, and with the DLC is now functioning pretty well as a semi-anthology. Why Nintendo in the Switch era makes this and SSBU, but releases the worst and most bare bones Mario sports and party games in history, I'll never understand.
Made it all the way to the end of FF I and couldn't beat Chaos due to my idiotic party configuration. Never go Red Mage. Will update this review after I play FF II.
Played through this game when it was first released and did not Game Over once. Immediately played it with cousins in co-op, and got 25 Game Overs by the end of World 2. Multiplayer is truly goated.
Culturally insane. Arabian Sonic fanfiction with Monkey Ball controls. Still better than Sonic '06.
Complete pseudoscience that at least has Sudoku.
Probably the second and final peak of the Pokémon games. The use of the Pokétch and the Pokédex are unequaled in this one. The contests are legitimately fun, use and gaming of primary and secondary stats is probably at its pinnacle, the underground is a super fun time sucker, the post game was fairly good, WiFi battling was legitimately bananas, and, most importantly, Empoleon is cooler than your favorite starter evolution and it's not a debate.
This is also the final wave of Pokémon that aren't just... completely lame, and it is also the last vestige of a Pokémon game that didn't feel lazy to some degree. Does not reach the Gold/Silver/Crystal pinnacle, but Pokémon has never even reached Diamond heights again.
P.S. I found Giratina legitimately by accident, caught it with a Dusk Ball, and it was probably the highlight of my twelve-year-old life.
This is also the final wave of Pokémon that aren't just... completely lame, and it is also the last vestige of a Pokémon game that didn't feel lazy to some degree. Does not reach the Gold/Silver/Crystal pinnacle, but Pokémon has never even reached Diamond heights again.
P.S. I found Giratina legitimately by accident, caught it with a Dusk Ball, and it was probably the highlight of my twelve-year-old life.
GOATED
1999
One of the first two video games I ever owned. This game is fundamentally broken. Literally cannot progress past a glitch in the fourth level. Iconic.