Witch's Pranks: Frog's Fortune CE Review

 It's not often I can't wait to get home to play something these oh so jaded days. For some reason this is the one that did it for me. I don't know if it was the pleasing art or that I was able to make progress in the little bit of time I had to plays this in. So, if you like goofy and cute read on even if you are a gamer tm, branch out and have fun. 

 WP:FFCE has one of the worst names but it is kind of par for the course in the Hidden Object world which this game is most like. I say most like because it heavily leans on Adventure game logic and moving around to different scenes much like old ZX Spectrum games would back in the day. You'll end up traveling through a mirror to different inventive and frankly stunning worlds trying to transform frog princes back to just princes and probably have it completed in under 4 hours.

My only complaints are the fmv footage is fuzzy and stutters like an old PS1 game and I wish it had one more story in it since they didn't make any more of these. 

10 out of 10

Signalis - Review

This is the game I would tell me to play if they have never played a horror game before. It's such a good example of doing everything right and not doing the things that drag this genre down. It has just the right amount of gunplay but also let's you run around and not kill most things. It's perfect for Halloween. 

10 out of 10

Below is unfakeable proof my Tiktok video on Signalis had 666 views. 

Endless Fables: The Minotaur's Curse (Review)

 I will start with the positive and then go to the negative because the positive is very good and I don't want you to run away. The puzzles in Endless Fables are very well done. They are challenging but also extremely well laid out with lots of variety and they won't bore you. 

Okay, now let's talk about the constantly getting stuck because everything looks the same and oh my god I've been here thirty times already I'm just going to click hint, oh I'm in the wrong place, I'll just go back a screen and I'm still in the wrong place. This game likes to make the walking around it's world a slog. 

Also, FMV graphical issues due to how old it is I'm guessing. Basically, they were blurry and hard to make out even when they weren't blurry. Outside of Fmv problems the game was par the course for the time with good art that you can mostly make out.

Now story was fairly boring to me and not the least bit compelling. I was constantly trying to remember where this game even started and how we got here and should I care. 

5 out of 10

Endless Fables 3: Dark Moor (Review)

 Well, well, we'll, if it isn't my old friend HOPA. How are you my addictive but also low effort pal? Good let's begin.

If you like hidden object games than I will cut to the chase and say this one of them and it's very nicely paced and not too long, especially the second story. It's got good voice acting and great art. It's not too hard except for one very long and annoying puzzle that begged for the skip puzzle button and after 20 minutes I obliged. I knew how to solve it but at that point I couldn't be bothered to go through the paces on it. Big also here, I need these games to either let me go back to collect everything or let me know I missed something before I leave an area.

For people that don't like these kind of games stay away but for us weirdos this a solid one.

9 out of 10

Pinball FX - Swords of Fury (DLC)

 I love this table and I don't even play it right. It's my zen friend that I can go to and camp in the top left with my little flipper slapping the bad guys in the face over and over. Multiball is fairly easy to start even if I drain them almost immediately and most of the shots are fairly easy to hit as well. Everything has a weight to it like a great beat em up. It's like if Conan was a pinball table.

10💪 out of 10💪

A small review of each Game Boy game on Nintendo Switch Online

 Alone in the Dark The New Nightmare

I forgot how good this one is. It controls very fluidly and I might prefer it to some other survival horror games of its time. The fact that it plays so well still should make you try it if you haven't before

Game & Watch Gallery 3

This one I don't know if it was really necessary to put here at this point. Probably later would make more sense. If you like Game and Watch games this one's got a bunch more in it than the 5 games it lists on the front of the box.

Gargoyle's Quest

Great hard vertical and horizontal platformer that you should try or replay if you've tried previously. It's a spin off Ghosts and Goblins where you control Firebrand and try to survive. 

Kirby's Dreamland

Very short and sweet Kirby game that lacks the ability copying part. Almost an alpha version of what it became. Still very fun though. 

Zelda: Link's Awakening DX

Its the remake that was remade later. Classic Zelda highly recommended. 

Metroid II

It's the last Metroid before Super Metroid. Still spooky and hard.

Super Mario Land 2

I wish the first one was here but there is still a ton to like about the sequel. Better platforming, graphics, and control. And it still holds up. 

Tetris

Don't really understand why this is here. It's just Tetris, I'm guessing nostalgia but there are tons of games that would have been better choices. 

Wario Land 3

Super deep platformer with some puzzle elements. You are Wario and mostly can't die. Wish they would do more like this. 

ParaMonsters and the Haunted Escape Room (Review)

It's only my second review and I'm already breaking the rules of sticking to the backlog games. But I have a good reason. Hardly anyone has played this and it's very cute and Halloweeny. Yeah I'm using that not real but so real it hurts word, Halloweeny.

ParaMonsters is a short point and click adventure game mostly set in a haunted escape room that has you controlling the leader of a paranormal club. Did I mention all the characters are monsters.  You walk from room to room solving small puzzles until... 

You can purchase the game on Windows at the link below. 

https://moonmetrodigital.itch.io/paramonsters

85 out of 100

Rainbow Billy: The Curse of the Leviathan (Review)

Content warning (Death of a Parental Figure) 

My grandmother died while I was playing through the game and that may have influenced my not liking some things in Rainbow Billy that I might have otherwise liked if I wasn't going through what I was going through at the time

Rainbow Billy is a turn based RPG where you and friends you make along the journey try to befriend different creatures around the world in an attempt to turn the world back to color after Leviathan thrust it into black and white.

You move around the game trying to figure out what each creature is weak to by listening to them and talking through things they bring up. At the same time you are playing friends from a deck trying to discover through trial and error what symbols the creature you are trying to befriend is weak to. It's a great system with a glaring problem: the deck of friends does not have a limit which means you can't structure it for a specific situation and some battles ended up with me discarding my hand three or four times in a row just get the last symbol I needed to finish the battle. 

It has great moments throughout as you peel back parts of an overarching story which I won't give any away but I feel like it's important to say that the trigger warning should apply to not only this review. Those moments are spread out well but are obscured by the sheer amount of dialogue from all of the friends each having small storyline of their own. I could see two paths to fix this either cut down the amount of creatures you befriend or have less dialogue all together. 

With all that being said, if this is your cup of tea or you can look past the cons I've pointed out, you owe to yourself to play Rainbow Billy.

90 out of 100