Konami decided to photocopy Shinobi and made the protagonist a spaceman, disarming bombs and killing everyone he sees. Unfortunately, unlike Rolling Thunder and like Konami's own Contra, that spacesuit means nothing when it comes to protection, as getting touched by an enemy equals death. Also, no continues on the final stage, which includes a stressful platforming stage and a cheap final boss that can decide, nah, I'm just going to block your shots randomly.

There's a few unique things about this game; the game tells you "U Did It" whenever a bomb is picked up, the player is called a "High_Speed Dude" if they complete the level quickly, and, most unique of all, the bonus rounds are quiz games that test your knowledge of space and sci-fi movies with two babes that will blow you a million kisses if you get every question right. That alone is worth a credit or two, even if there aren't that many questions. If one likes the original Shinobi and Shadow Dancer, this is more of it.

The last official DDR home version ever that isn't a mobile game or a subscription service. On the plus side, it has double charts, it has full versions of songs, and, once fully unlocked, it includes a lot of the songs from the arcade X2. Pretty much all of the gimmicks from the last Wii games are gone, including any use of the Wii Remote in the gameplay, so if you liked that, this is not for you.

In hindsight, this game does have this hacked together feel to it, and the license list is not great.

The humans are dead, and the animals reign supreme. The original Darwinian instinct kicks in as your animal has to eat plants or smaller animals and avoid threats like stronger carnivores and the toxicity those pesky humans left behind. Eat, you-know-what, fight. Eat, you-know-what, fight. Eat, you-know-what, fight. Yeah, I could see why this game wasn't a huge hit with its somewhat repetitive gameplay loop, but I can't deny the concept is interesting enough for me to play this for a while back in my peak PS3-playing days.

It does take a long time to unlock the more interesting animals, and a lot of the animals in between are just Pomeranian but faster or Sika Deer but stronger, and it can get frustrating getting so close to unlocking the next animal only to get one-shotted because a lion managed to acknowledge your existence. But, that's the way nature is, isn't it?

I never managed to beat the story mode; I mostly stuck to survival mode. I guess I never got to it.

If you never played a fighting game before, if you're an expert, or if you are someone like me who is somewhere in between, there's a lot to love about Street Fighter 6. Two great control schemes that can be played alongside each other, a pretty cool World Tour mode that has tons of nods to the Street Fighter/Final Fight lore, and a bunch of characters both new and old with their own gimmicks. I barely played Street Fighter V when I rented it, and, while I heard it got better with updates, it was 6 that got me back into Street Fighter.