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Everyone, thanks for coming to our taco dinner!
みんな、来てくれてありがとうございます！ ありがとう！！

Were the tacos good?
そのタコスは美味しかったですか？

Everyone ate a lot of tacos, so I'd say they were pretty good, huh?
みんな たくさんのタコスを食べました ので、たぶん美味しかったね ；)

Thank you again. We love you all so much!
みんな、本当にありがとう。愛しているよ！

  

Where Mario Golf did not deliver my urge for fast, arcadey handheld golf, the PSP was able to step up and deliver with Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee, or as it's called in Japanese みんなのゴルフ. That actually means "Everyone's Golf," so obviously not a direct translation. Names aside, you simply spend 30 seconds creating a profile, then choosing your character, game type, and course, then you're in. Bam. Easy as that.

After the initial feeling out process, it's surprisingly easy to get into. It borrows a lot from other cartoony golf games such as the aforementioned Mario Golf series, though I can't point fingers for unoriginality because I'm not sure which series came first. Meh.

There's an online mode which would probably be cool if these PSP versions weren't like 5 years old and still had players. As it stands, there's the potential to play against people all over the world, but I'm unfortunately late to that party on this one.

After playing having success in a few tournaments and matches, new courses and characters can be unlocked. While this is cool, I do feel the options available right away are a bit limited, as one only has 2 characters and like 4 courses to choose from. That's on the low end for sure, but eh, I was looking for a quick handheld sports fix and had golf on my brain; Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 scratches that itch quite well. I've played quite a bit, especially on trains. I'll definitely be doing so for a while.

Score: 4/5





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See you on Saturday?

We are almost full! We have room for 2 more!

EDIT: Correction, we are now full! Thanks for your rad interest!

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モンスターハンターはPS3に来ている.


Wow! It looks great!

-A few Images-



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Man, loving some Game Boy Advance. Digimon (デジモン) Racing is what we call, in English a "ripoff." Somone obviously saw the success of Mario Kart and said "...Me too." People have done some similar things books, music, and movies. Perhaps Cypress Hill described it best when the band said, "There's gonna be another cat coming around looking like me (and) sounding like me next year. I know this. It'll be a flipside to what you did. Somebody trying to spin off like, something serious."



But fortunately and surprisingly...this game isn't bad. There are a lot of aspects to it that are juuuust a hair inferior to Mario Kart Super Circuit, but there are also several things juuuuust a bit superior. I find the Digimon characters a nice vacation from the Mario cast that populates seemingly every good Kart racer, but the cast is by comparison, small, and so is the track selection. I like the idea of each character having a specific "special" power (Mario Kart did this in the GameCube version), but they seem imbalanced in this game, to the point some of them are almost useless.

Nonetheless, the visuals and music are good, and the gameplay itself is decent enough fun. It rips off Mario Kart but does an actual good job of it. Not bad.


3/5

  

Mario Tennis Advance, sadly, was made by the same folks that made Mario Golf Advance. I don't just mean the same company, I mean the exact same specific people.

Once again, I fired up a game looking for a quick-and-easy game fix. 10 minutes to burn till I had to get serious, so I wanted to play a fun game that's easy to understand and I can jump right into it. Mario Tennis games, tradiationally, have been just that!

...But...


Uuuugggggghhhhhh. I mashed A and B for the entire 10 minutes skipping through a retarded story with throwaway dialogue. Honestly where's the tennis? Just give me the tennis. Cripes.


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1/5   

After my ridiculously stupid encounter with Mario Golf, I decided to go with a different Mario-branded sort-of sports game to satisfy my urge to play something rightthehellnow on GBA. Enter Mario Kart Super Circuit.


Whereas I spent 17 hours mashing A to scroll through text in Mario Golf, I was racing a car within 30 seconds of firing up Mario Kart Advance. That's what I came here for, to play a game.

It's basically what we've come to expect from Mario Kart games and certainly one of the best handheld racers around, even at its old age. The only problem is that it seems to really be in love with 90-degree turns, like back to back to back ones. Fine for a challenge, but dang does this game do that a lot. Aw well, still surprisingly fun to play. I give 'er a good three stars.

Score: 3/5
  

No more waiting on them, as you rise inside new rooms.
It's offical: you've gone.
You can live for no one else.
Man, the guilt must be huge.
As there's no gain in failure, you succeed at being mine.
Yeah, old friend, see you there.
I will be proud from afar.
I can paint a picture in a moment of memories, and there aren't many left.
I am extradited.
Uninvited.

It's just another Saturday.

Take a step to freedom.
You and her lothing this cruel world.
Take a breath of shelter and exhale trust and allegiance.
Liberate yourself from us.

It's just another Saturday.

  

I've been playing some Game Boy Advance games lately, and wow, is this one a stinker.

What a lie of a title. I popped this sucker in and was treated to some goofball story about godknowswhat, just mashing the A button because I intended to play some freaking golf.

Right?
That's the name of the game, right?
Wrong.
They gave me control of some twirp kid and I found myself walking around a castle. Screw this, I wanted to go outside and play some golf. No, I'm stopped as if in the middle of a JRPG and told "Some girls was looking for you. Better go find her." Oh hell no. No no no. No that did not just happen. I skipped through how much dialogue to get to the GOLF and now I have to putz around looking for some girl, and it turns out I needed to pay attention to the dialogue? No thanks.

I already play enough RPGs. If I want to play an RPG, I will, but I put this game in for the express purpose of taking a break from that tedium.

1/5


If I have to turn off your golf game for lack of golf and lack of game, that's a problem. Sorry, Mario Golf Advance Tour. I don't have the time for you.
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I made this video today. It's not very good, but...the message is from my heart.
今日、僕は これを つくりました。あんまり上手じゃない、でも。。。このビデオ
は、僕の心から来ました。