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Monkeying around has never been more fun! (Donkey Kong Bananza in review)

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     When I was a kid, I got Donkey Kong 64 along with my Nintendo 64, even though I picked it up a long time after they were off the market. It was the Nintendo Wii's time and I saw the older console with the Expansion Pak in it, which is what you needed to play this one massive game. I loved that game, though I never got even close to the end of it. Why am I talking about Donkey Kong 64 ? It was the one and only fully 3D adventure game for the ape for over 25 years. It came out in 1999, so it's been a while. There hasn't been any type of Donkey Kong focused game to come out since Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze in 2012, so I was really excited for this new adventure with everyone's favorite tie-wearing gorilla, Donkey Kong. There are many reasons for DK to get less love from Nintendo, for one thing, the rights are all weird with Rare, the creators of the Donkey Kong Country series on the SNES, as well as the aforementioned DK64. Rare was purchased by Microsoft ...
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A Worthy Successor? (Switch 2 Review)

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      Hey friends, I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a Nintendo Switch 2 really early on, and now that the console has been out about a month, I'm excited to share a little bit about how the console feels, and my impressions on the one Switch 2 game that I've been able to play so far, Mario Kart World . It has felt like a long wait, even though the system has only really been known about since February, but I'm glad that we're finally here and I hope that the games that are coming soon will be nice! The New (Old) Console!     The interesting thing about the Switch 2 is that this is the first console that I can remember Nintendo making where they didn't come up with a brand new concept. The NES to the SNES, they added a new controller with many new buttons, from there, we have the Nintendo 64, again with a bold and weird new controller that worked with 3D games while looking like a pitchfork. With the Gamecube, Nintendo finally switched from cartridges to...
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Back to game news! (Thoughts on Summer announcements!)

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 Hey friends! Long time no talk, I hope you're all doing alright! I told you a while ago that June was really packed this year, and so I missed a lot of news. Today I'm going to work on catching up with some of it here! I may just talk a bit about a few different things and then keep going for a few weeks as I do more research on exactly what I missed, because I'm sure there was a lot. I'll begin with the bits and pieces that I have seen and been told about by some friends who were able to catch announcements as they were happening! Summer Game Fest is still a thing, whether you watch or not!     The first week of June, I took a trip up to New York, so I was very grateful for my friend texting me every now and then about different game announcements that I may be interested in. The biggest one was definitely Resident Evil 9: Requiem . You play as Grace Ashcroft, a technical analyst for the FBI. It's very unclear what this game is going to be like based on the first ...
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June has been full of adventures! (Quick personal update!)

       Hey there, friends. It has been a few weeks since I've written anything, and I'm sorry about that. I've been really busy, and I would like to share a little bit about all that I've been up to for the past month. I'm not going to say that I haven't been really busy at other times in my life, but I'm having a hard time remembering a month that has been quite as packed as this one! I hope you'll join me as I unpack my work and play times, beginning with a little trip up to the big apple. I'm a little tired!     June started with a bang as we boarded a plane with our group of 34 folks (24 students and 10 chaperones) and flew up to New York. While there, we learned a bit about our nation's history as we visited a few historical churches. St. Paul's, which was a church that George Washington attended many times and then much later, was used to house the first responders as they worked to clean up the situation after 9/11. Plymouth Church in ...
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Just Breathe.

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     I was driving home the other day after doing something, listening to the Broadway channel on Sirius XM when I heard a song that I recognized, but I couldn't remember where at first. The song was "Breathe" from the musical,  In The Heights, by Lin Manuel-Miranda. If you can't remember it, or if you're not familiar with the show, I'll give you a bit of background about this song as well as one character in particular. We are told that Nina has just returned from college for break, and is spoken of very highly by everyone else in the show. Before she shows up, we meet her proud parents (or father, if you're watching the movie which removed her mother from the equation), and everyone is excited to see her. It's a really interesting way to introduce her to us, as the audience, first hearing about her before we actually see her appear, since she's one of the few major characters that doesn't appear in the opening number of the show.      Nina is...
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Flying, driving, and boating like never before! (Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed in Review)

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     This year is a weird one, it's not very often that we get three kart racing games in such close succession, but here we are, getting Mario Kart World in June, and then Sonic Racing Crossworlds and Kirby Air Riders sometime in the near future. As I'm preparing to get back into the racing spirit, I thought I'd take some time today to talk about one of my favorite racing games, Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed . I'm convinced that this is the weirdest racing game that we're ever going to get, and also one of the absolute best. The character roster is absolutely insane, while maybe not hitting quite the heights of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the roster is definitely a bit more wacky and unexpected. Pair that with some really cool mechanics to lean on, you've got a really good game on your hands. I'm very excited to talk about this one today, so let's get our thrusters set and get to it! More Than Meets The Eye!     Sonic and All-Stars Racing Tr...
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A Few More Fun Indies! (Thoughts on Rift of the Necrodancer and Star of Providence)

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      Hey friends, it's that time of year where I like to sit down and check out some of the new indie games that have caught my eye in the last few months. Today I have to talk about two of them that I've really been enjoying in the past few weeks. Even though one of them really didn't catch my interest until it was already out, the other one is something that I've been excited for. So I'll go ahead and talk a bit about each of these in what will be a fairly short post today. The Depths Of A Mysterious Factory, or a Funky Void?     The first game I'll talk about today is Star of Providence. You may remember last year that I talked a bit about a game called Animal Well, which was the first game being published by Big Mode Games, the company owned and headed up by the Youtuber Videogamedunkey. That game was great, so when they announced the second game, I had to check it out. I didn't think this game would be for me, because it's a roguelike ship-based sh...
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