amphibious_ReViews

I've been putting off reviewing this game for a good long while. It just didn't feel like we played it enough, but I think that ship has sailed. Dragon Tales: Dragonseek is seemingly going to be the last game where my eldest daughter sits on my lap and shares a controller. Shortly after we started playing this together, I downloaded the Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream demo and my girl got curious enough to try playing it without my direct assistance. Since then, she's been choosing to either play games independently, or just be my personal cheer squad while I play games beyond her current skill level. I know it's cliché, but it's just been a bit hard for me to accept how much she's grown. While I want her to become her best self, I also need her to need me, and reviewing this game feels like I'm closing out one of those chapters in her childhood for good. With all that said, I'm not disappointed that this is the game we ended on. Dragon Tales is another...

  Thanks to the mixed reviews I had already heard , I initially approached Metroid Prime 4 with a cautious optimism. I love the Metroid series, and have historically disagreed with the popular opinion about its games on multiple occasions. However, it was hard to ignore some of the negative reactions I've heard from reviewers I trust. Thankfully, I shared almost none of the opinions that had worried me. I found Metroid Prime 4 to be a technical showcase for my new Switch 2 and was pleasantly surprised by how many spectacular moments left my jaw dropping. That's not to say I didn't have my own complaints. It's just that none of them were serious enough to ruin the game for me. Having not played the second or third Metroid Prime games, I was a little worried about being out of the loop for the story. However, it seems like the handheld entries were actually the required reading this time around, and I had at least played Hunters ! The game starts with Samus assisting the ...