Maybe silly to admit, but the start of COVID saw me shotgun a bunch of extremely disposable licensed games that had nevertheless been on my to-do list for years. I realized that I was gonna be home a lot, and I decided that I was gonna need a lot of light entertainment to buck me up. Do keep in mind that I was playing a lot of these around re-listening to Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International (a favorite comfort series), so you sorta have to imagine me playing these while listening to ultra-violent urban fantasy to get the full effect of my early pandemic experience. I suspect a lot of folks have similarly weird tonal clashes like this in the media they consumed around that time, for one reason or another (see also: all those memes about Isabelle and Doomguy being best friends).

Anyway, Land Before Time. This was sort of a weird one to play, because while I watched the first like six or so as a kid, I haven't directly revisited any of the movies in decades. Also, because this game is kind of nothing, and I don't think I would've gotten much out of it even when I was a kid. There's something kind of hollow and lifeless to a game that is just a footrace. No modifiers, few obstacles, no significant strategy - just pick a character and go. At least in something like Sonic R, you have the fun soundtrack and the novelty of what the game is exactly. Great Valley Racing Adventure just feels like a small set of Crash Bandicoot levels without the crates to crash into. An inoffensive but perfectly bland experience, in other words.

I dunno, is there something else I can randomly bring up to pad out this write-up? There's genuinely so little to this game that there isn't much to say.