This is the game to make me realize how amazingly consistent Mario games have been. This game is pure fun, one of the only games where I tried to get all the collectibles (other than Bowser's Fury).
What to talk about, I played the original Mario 3D World on Wii U a TON with my little sister, we both really loved that game, so when she knew there was a remake I ended up getting it for her and we played through it. Never did end up beating Champions Road (or even getting the first star), but we did here! What an exhilarating ride. The new Bowser's Fury DLC, while short, is absolutely amazing with it's ideas and the world it's made. Feels like there's a secret waiting to be discovered in every corner, it's just pure platforming fun. Mario games really are for everyone they're just such a great time that anyone can enjoy. Highly, highly recommend this game even if you're not into platformers much.

Didn't get the platinum, my wrists hurt after doing 3 speedrun routes in a row for this game, I got the 100% speedrun, 100% any time, and beating the game. I'm not doing the speedrun as I literally did the 100% speedrun my wrists cannot take it lmao.

I really, really do love the Shantae series. One of my favorite VG series, the character writing, dialogue, level designs, etc... are all super fun. My favorite Shantae games being Pirate's Curse and Risky's Revenge. Now while I do think this game is better than HGH I don't think it's crazy good either. The load times are horrendous on PS4, I miss the old transformations of monkey, elephant, etc... and it's missing a lot of QoL features such as being able to mark things on a map. It's still fun but I feel like the world wasn't nearly as interesting as Pirate's Curse or Risky's Revenge. It feels like the world and the dungeons are drastically different in how they play, instead of the world keeping secrets for you to find it just feels like you use the abilities you get to make it to story based areas, while it still has some secret collectibles, it's not nearly as many. All of these add up to make a fine game, but not as great as the previous ones. Still infinitely better than HGH though lol.

Gravity Rush is a series that I've always wanted to get into. I've owned the first and second game for a really long time (since my sister wanted to play them). I don't know why but I could never get into GR2, but I wanted to play the original GR for some reason. Either way, I got into the first game and it's a pretty fun game. The story is fun near the beginning, but at the end I have genuinely no idea what was even happening, and I don't think I'm the only one. They introduce these extra characters who barely get any development and add in some random ideas that they want to explore (sort of). It's just a very confusing story that I feel like had to rush the ending.

On the other hand, I absolutely adore the art style, animation, and music for this game. Has to be some of my favorite in gaming. Everything about the general aesthetic just is so well done.

Gameplay is a mixed bag, at best I felt it was good, at worst it was incredibly frustrating. The gravity mechanic is fun on it's own, but adding in the endless amount of Nevi which I feel are just so unneeded, it's gets tiring. I was just getting so tired of the same gravity kick the Nevi routine.

I still feel like it was a fun game overall, just something that I don't think I'd want to play again anytime soon. Once again, really love the aesthetic, gameplay is alright, and the story is... there. The two "main" characters being Sid and Kat's dynamic is cool though.