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Latest updates: Info and mini reviews for Adventures of Rad Gravity (NES) and Beyond Good & Evil (Multi) I beat Rad Gravity (NES) today and Beyond Good & Evil (GC) the other day, was playing the latter for most of the week. BG&E is a mostly linear Zelda-like with some interesting ideas and an unusua...

Latest updates: Info and mini-reviews for Draconus (C64, 1988) and Ratchet & Clank 2 (PS2, 2003), and a first draft for the third generation intro text.

^Like I said I sorted DE as an outlier. I prefer the term systemic game to IS since immersion is pretty subjective and they aren't like other simulation games. Latest updates: -Info and mini-reviews for Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (NDS, 2006) and Below the Root (C64, 1984) BtR is one of the very f...

Latest updates: Deus Ex (PC) and Spyro 3 (PS1). These are both outliers but share some elements with MVs

R-Type III, Actraiser 2 and Empire Strikes Back are pretty brutal.

The Sonic games are a dead cert MircoMachines For a 5 year old is tricky, is he even interested in playing games? Lion King Mickey Mania Those games are hard, the level with the Monkeys in Lion king is the reason why it never gets tuck out at events Yeah those can be tricky, though I did beat MM wh...

I loved the disney games as a kid so I'd recommend those, or at least the good ones: Illusion games Quackshot Aladdin Lion King Jungle Book Mickey Mania The Great Circus Mystery/Magical Quest 2 Pocahontas Chiki Chiki Boys, Batman and Sonic 3 might also be doable. Other than that, maybe Gunstar Heroe...

Latest updates: Chibi-Robo! (GC) and Battle of Olympus (NES) Really enjoyed the setting and story of Chibi-Robo, but was kind of bored with most of the gameplay and didn't care for the battery mechanic in combination with the day/night cycle. I will probably try the NDS sequel though as it supposedl...

Latest updates: Lyle in Cube Sector (PC) and Legacy of the Wizard (NES)

Landstalker and Star Fox would also be cool.

Latest updates: Brain Lord (SNES, 1994), Subgenres Key page https://worldsunraveled.weebly.com/td--iso-1994.html https://worldsunraveled.weebly.com/subgenres-key-aa--arpg.html Just added a page for succinctly explaining the various subgenres/spinoffs of the AA and ARPG genres. Let me know what you t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtkvcKRyBJc

The most prolific developers of the 1980s duke it out in a bar chart race! This shows the number of well regarded games made by each dev for each year, then tallies up the numbers at the end.

1990-1999 Games Bar Chart "Race":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFjbe2T ... e=youtu.be

Basically done with this now. Let me know if I missed any good games that aren't too obscure or if there are still mistakes. I can also link each phrase to something, but I'm not sure what to use it for yet if at all. Could link to gameplay or something like a HG101 or retro gamer article I suppose.

Guardian? No thanks, take your gatekeeping elsewhere