REMINISCE OF THE TIMES OF OLD
NEVER THOUGHT THAT I'D BE IN A WARZONE

my parents bought this game for me back in 2003 when I was extremely sick and after playing it for a couple minutes I started vomiting again and crying

Docked a half-star compared to R/B for removing cool glitches and only having one starter

it's the same Meaty-O's you know and love but without those wonderfully sensorial Masahiro & Michiko Sakurai menu aesthetics so I'm docking half a star
the reason that game was great was primarily due to its effortless sense of style, and without that it's just a little bit lesser

great game if you're a child who has never heard of Yoshi's Island and therefore has no frame of reference

A beautiful collection of surreal prerendered liminal spaces, it's you, your club, your ball, and visions of the collective unconscious
Better than Mario Golf will ever be

Really really impressive how they fully ported (yes there's a complete version) the entirety of the SNES's biggest launchiest title to the console that Nintendo was trying to get you to put in the closet so you could buy the new console, just so you could play this game
But that's about all it is, a pristine conversation piece that shouldn't exist but was birthed out of the ingenuity of emerging markets, much like Somari
You're not an underprivileged child in the eastern bloc or nations adjacent to China 25 years ago. so there's no reason to play this when you can play the real game, unless you're a shithog for bootlegs like me of course

Bicentennial Man: The Official Game of the Movie of the Game of the Movie

if you haven't played this game co-op, you haven't truly played it

Out of every "Digimon Rumble Arena" game, this is easily the worst, and those other games are pretty bad so that should tell you something

Back in the primordial haze of 2002 my parents offered me a choice between this and Mega Man Battle Network
I picked this because I had a crush on Trunks, and I still have never played MMBN
It's been almost 20 years and even with almost the entire chronicle of my life playing out since then, with all my failures and foibles following this prologue to my story, I would still rank choosing this over MMBN as my life's worst decision
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