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15. WarioWare: Twisted!

Release: 2004, GBA Beaten: March 14th, GBA Playtime: 1h 23m

My only gripe is that the microgame directions aren’t always that clear. Ideally, a microgame pops up with a quick phrase that makes it clear what you’re doing, but there’s more clarity issues than I notice in other WarioWare games. Still, it’s a hectic and fun experience which mostly works as intended. I’m definitely going to keep coming back to it to unlock some of the neat side content.

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14. Achievement Unlocked 2

Release: 2010, PC Beaten: March 12th, PC (Newgrounds) Playtime: 48m

I always hesitate to add really short games to my media threads, but this one took the better part of an hour and was played immediately after three other elephant games from this creator on a Discord call. Additional playtime for those three games was 25 minutes, for the record. And I do think that’s important, because Achievement Unlocked 2 follows up on the jokes of its predecessors in fresh and funny ways, in addition to just functioning as really good satire and gag comedy. You’d think you could only pull off this joke once, but they managed to do the joke a second time except better.

I’d like to also state that it’s a miracle this game still functions with the Newgrounds player, because it pulls off some wacky Flash shenanigans that people in call were worried might render it unbeatable. Thank god for preservationists taking initiative where tech companies fail us.

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13. Balloon Kid

Release: 1990, GB Beaten: March 12th, PC (mGBA) Playtime: 1h 8m (save states used)

I really like Balloon Fight but I don’t think it lends itself well to a longer format. The game is obscenely hard and the extremely limited screen real estate means you’ll often bounce across the screen in a half second or hang to the left and get killed instantly by an unseen obstacle. The slippery controls don’t work as well for precision platforming, and the new on-foot segments are also really slippery, which sucks. I think I could easily recommend this game (it’s kinda fun despite being hard) if it had unlimited continues, but it doesn’t.

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12. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy

Release: 2021, PC/PS4/PS5/Switch/Xbox One/Xbox Series Beaten: March 11th, Xbox Series S (Game Pass) Playtime: 19h 5m

This is an incredibly well-written game, with a really compelling and well-paced story, pretty consistent humor, great character development, and good dialogue. The biggest issue with this game is that there’s so much dialogue that it ends up cutting itself off or being easily missed. That’s not a bad issue to have, since the worse issue would be if the dialogue got grating. Maybe it would for some people, but I enjoyed it and loved all the characters and their dynamics with each other.

The gameplay elements are... passable. They’re not bad, but they’re not particularly exciting. Combat is pretty fun, if a bit unwieldy. The most enjoyable part of combat is swapping between Guardian abilities and gun elements, but there’s not really a consistently good way to perform those actions in the heat of battle with the control scheme. Combat mostly starts to feel pretty same-y, with a lot of repeat enemies or enemies that don’t do anything unique from other types, but I would argue that it’s not the main focus here.

The story is the most enjoyable part of this experience, and I was consistently impressed by it, even looking past some corny scenes and the occasional deus ex machina. I definitely enjoyed my time with the game and am glad I checked it out before it left Game Pass.

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