Stone For The Nintendo Switch, XBOX ONE, & PC.

Stone, like the title states, is a Hip Hop Stoner Nior made by Convict Games. Released on PC in September 21st, 2018 and then later for XBOX ONE on January 27th, 2020 and Nintendo Switch on May 8th, 2020. I played the Switch Version given to me by Convict Games themselves.

FUN: If you like story driven games and comedy with a side of drama, then you will enjoy this game. This game is straight forward with what you need to do next and it is on the short side (about 2-3 hours depending on if you non-stop play it), but the witty banter and how you can change it when choices pop up will leave you with chuckles in each Act and Area. FUN - 1.5.

REPLAY: Since this is a kind of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure with the choices you make when given. I say this does have slight replay value since the story is short and if you choose one path in one playthrough you can choose the other in the 2nd playthrough as well as if you what you hear the witty voice acting of the story. REPLAY - 1.

STORY: Since this a story driven game, I will only say the beginning to not spoil anything. You play as Stone, a Koala, who wakes up after a major hangover and gets a call from a mystery caller saying that Alex, his lover, is gone. Now it's up to Stone to try and find Alex. STORY - 2.

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINALITY: This game Is like many other Nior type games. Search for clues, question people, go from place to place. However, The way that the characters are and how Stone is is quite unique due to everyone is Animals from Australia and that the voice acting fits each character well enough to be relatable. Also the areas you go to are more present day instead of classic Nior era dark tones. DIFFERENCE/ORIGINALITY - 1.

GAMEPLAY: The gameplay is short and sweet. No signs of any from of difficulty whatsoever. The only controls you use is the Control stick and the A Button (I played this on the switch mind ya). GAMEPLAY - 2.

TOTAL - 7.5/10.

There you go. My review for Stone. Hope this review peeks your interest to try this game out. I would like to thank Convict Games for giving me a copy to play this game. This has been Nostalgic Gamer 89. Until Next time, Keep on Gaming!

Luigi's Mansion 3 for the Nintendo Switch

Luigi's Mansion 3 was released on October 31st, 2019 for the Nintendo Switch. Made from teamwork between Nintendo and Next Level Games, This is the 3rd installment of the famous scared younger brother of Mario as well as the 2nd installment with the teamwork of Next Level Games.

FUN: Just like the other 2 games, Luigi is here to ghost bust or to exact ghost suck his way around this time a huge hotel. It's the same old things as the other two games where you progress through the story while collecting Boos, Ghosts, and Cash. If you liked the other two games, you will like this one. FUN - 1.5.

REPLAY: After you beat the story, the save file leaves you at the area right before the final boss. Unless you missed anything, didn't get top rank at the end of the game (which is A Rank), or wish to play online multiplayer with your friends, this game doesn't have much replay ability if you 100% the game. The somewhat good news is that new multiplayer DLC just came out and we are expecting more coming soon. REPLAY - 1.

STORY: Luigi, Peach, Mario, & 3 Toads (Yellow, Blue, & Red) all were invited by the Hotel Owner to stay free as charge. Right after they were shown to their rooms and Luigi fell asleep, Luigi awoke to screams from Peach and Mario. When he went to investigate, he finds out King Boo escaped for a 3rd time from Professor E. Gadd's lab. After Luigi dropped down a laundry shoot to escape being captured by King Boo wanting revenge on him, he finds the Professors car with a newer model of his trusty vacuum, The Poltergeist G-00. Now he is off to figure out what is going on and to rescue his brother and friends again. STORY - 2.

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINALITY: Not much changed or is new in this 3rd installment. Just like the 1st two games, Luigi has to rescue his brother Mario and his friends from King Boo. Another thing which is the same is that you collect Boos and Gems just like in the 2nd game Dark Moon (the 1st game had 50 Boos and was part of the game while Dark Moon and this game they are optional). The only true difference is the Hotel itself. each floor has unique themes to them as well as a unique boss ghost for each one. Of course the major joke original thing here is that the title is Luigi's Mansion but we are in a Hotel. DIFFERENCE/ORIGINALITY - 0.5.

GAMEPLAY: The gameplay is very well balanced. Controls don't mess you up. If they do it's very rarely and usually the aiming of shooting things from the vacuum. However, the aiming target helps guide you when its having issues. If you are good with these types of games the game will become casual while new players will have a perfect amount of challenge without it being rage inducing. GAMEPLAY - 2.

TOTAL - 7/10.

There you have it, My 1st Switch Game Review as well as the 1st Game Review of 2020. This has been Nostalgic Gamer 89. Until next time, Keep on Gaming!

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer for the 3DS

Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer was released on Sept. 25th, 2015 by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS.

FUN: In this version of Animal Crossing, all you do is Design Houses, Lot, Buildings, and add as many pieces of Furniture you want without worrying about Bells to buy the items you are using. However, that's all you do. No Bug, Fish, Fossil, or Painting Collecting. Just Designing. FUN - 1.5.

REPLAY: This is one of those Neverending type games. It doesn't have an end. You just keep making designs until you drop. REPLAY - 1.

STORY: You are the new employee at Tom Nook's Homes. And apparently, the only pro when it comes to designing. Everyday, you do a designing job, write a report (aka Saving), and go to the next day while a run-on gag of Tom Nook's meetings and business is just playing Golf. STORY - 1.

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: Not much Original content for this game. It's like any other Animal Crossing Game except that they only have you do one thing, design rooms and lots. Besides that Difference, you don't have to worry about Bells and you can design and add things to your heart contents. DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL - 1.

DIFFICULTY: This is an Animal Crossing Game... there is no Difficulty in this series. DIFFICULTY - 2.

TOTAL - 6.5.

There you have it. Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer. Until next review, I have been Nostalgic Gamer 89. Hope you continue to read my reviews!

Super Mario Maker for the Wii U

Super Mario Maker is a Create & Share your own levels game for the Nintendo Wii U. Released on Sept. 11th, 2015 for North America by Nintendo.

FUN: Super Mario Maker (or SMM for short for the rest of the review) is what I call Neverending. All you do in this game is Create new Levels, Upload your Levels, and play Mario Challenges that uses other gamers Levels. There are 2 Mario Challenge Modes; 10 Mario Challenge & 100 Mario Challenge both with an Easy and Hard Mode. Besides that, there is not much else. FUN - 1.

REPLAY: As I said before, this game is Neverending. There are unlimited number of Stages to play from other Players. There is an ID Number featured on every uploaded Level for easy share. And it's always different each time you play the Mario Challenges. As for the Creating Part, that only ends when your imagination ends. REPLAY - 2.

STORY: There's is no story. None at all. STORY - 0.

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: This whole game is Original when is comes to Create-A-Level stand point. Unless you are a Hacker and made Bootleg Mario Games, this is the 1st Mario game where you Create the 8 World Levels. DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL - 2.

DIFFICULTY: This one is hard to pin-point... Every Level is different due to actual Players like yourself Creating them. Some are hard, some are balanced, and some are easy. I guess it can be said that this game is balanced due to the ability to skip hard levels in the Mario Challenges. The main difficulty is to actually get people to give a star to your levels. The More Stars you get, the more Medals you Profile has. The More Medals you have, the More Levels you can Upload. Only Problem is that you need real players to play, beat, and star your levels in order to get medals. DIFFICULTY - 1.5.

Total - 6.5.

There you have it. Super Mario Maker for the Nintendo Wii U. Until Next Time, This has been Nostalgic Gamer 89. Keep On Gaming!

Splatoon for Nintendo Wii U

Splatoon is a game made by the company Nintendo and released on May 29th, 2015 at Midnight. It's a 3rd-Person Shooter involving creatures called Inklings who love battling in turf wars.

FUN: This game can be quite addicting. It's mostly a Multiplayer Online game, but it also has a Single Player part to it as well. Only downfall is that the game does not balance high leveled players with new low leveled player very well, thus leaving some battles unfair and one sided. However, even if that is the case, the game is so addicting that you will just try and win the next battle. Single Player mode is pretty much just a bunch of missions to save the Great Zapfish that apparently alien Octos stole. FUN - 1.5

REPLAY: This game, which is easy to say, is just an Online Shooter. However, the way they set it up, it never gets boring. When you join your friends sometimes they will be your teammates and other times your foes. Also, they set up a set of arenas to battle on and after a while they change the arenas to different one, allowing us to play different areas without giving them to us all at once. REPLAY - 2.

Story: There is none or very little. Sure the Single Player mode tells a story in missions, but not by much. This game is more of an Online Shooter. STORY - 0.5

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: This whole game is more or less unique. The only thing I saw that is not unique is the fact that it is a Online Shooter. There are a lot out there. DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL - 1.5

DIFFICULTY: Now for difficulty, it has to do with your foes' skills vs yours and your teammates' skills. Other then that, nothing. No choice of difficulty. No added difficulty. It's all skills. DIFFICULTY - 2.

TOTAL - 7.5

There you have it. Splatoon for the Wii U. Not much to the game, but addicting and fun nonetheless. This has been Benjamin P. Parker aka NostalgicGamer89 & Nintendo Rater. Until next time. Keep on Gaming!

Ducktales Remastered for the Wii U (PS3, XBOX360, & PC too)

Ducktales Remastered is a remake of a old classic NES title "Ducktales" made by CAPCOM in Sept. 1989. With the help of WayForward, CAPCOM released this version for 4 systems in Nov. 12, 2013. I played it on the Wii U, so this game will be reviewed under that system.

FUN: If you remember the classic NES game as well as the Saturday Morning Cartoons, then this game will bring Nostalgia overload. When they Remastered the game, they change little to nothing about it. The controls are still great, the music is still memorable, and they even added Voice Acting that bring childhood memories of the cartoons back. FUN - 2.

REPLAY: This game doesn't have much replay value. However, it is so simple ad enjoyable for many players that replaying the levels for the humor and music is still fun. On top of that, on your first playthrough, you are not able to find enough money to be able to buy all the gallery items to unlock everything. The good news still, one the game is beaten the first time, all the stages are unlocked for you to pick and play. REPLAY - 1.

STORY: It all starts off with the Beagle Boys breaking into Scrooge McDuck's Money Vault. You play as Mr. McDuck as you are going through your Vault battling the Beagle Boys with your only weapon, your cane. Within the Vault, you find you Nephews Huey, Dewey, & Louie trapped by the Beagle Boys.

After rescuing your Nephews and saving your Vault, Scrooge McDuck finds a Treasure Map leading to 5 different places with 5 highly valued treasures. It up to you as Scrooge McDuck to find these treasures to make yourself even richer! STORY - 2.

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: There's not much differences in this game nor are there any original content. This is a remastered version of the classic NES title. However, there are a few changes. The most major change in this version is the last level.

In the classic NES title, they had you replay one of the past levels as the final level. In this game, they added 2 new levels, The Vault as a opening level & another one just for it to be used as the final level. Another change is that the game actually has Voice Acting. The NES version had it's limitations, so they couldn't do any voice acting. The comedy between Scrooge McDuck and LaunchPad will have you laugh time to time. With the Wii U tablet, You are able to keep the map displayed as you play the game on the TV. The last add-on is the Gallery. The Gallery can only be unlocked when you spend your founded new cash on the items. DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL - 2

DIFFICULTY: This game actually has 4 different difficulty settings; Easy, Medium, Hard, & Extreme (only unlocked by beating the game on Hard). Each difficulty setting has it's own set of rules. There's also a mode called Hard Pogo (for your cane, since you use it as a pogo stick). The controls are simple and easy to use. However, a newbie can have trouble at times with the jumping from rope to rope and jump distances. All these issues can be annoy, but you soon get a hang of knowing how soon enough, so you will learn fast. DIFFICULTY - 2.

TOTAL - 9.

There you have it! Ducktales Remastered for the Wii U! I highly recommend this Nostalgic Trip for anyone who wants a cheap, simple, but fun game. Until next time, this has been Benjamin P. Parker aka The Nintendo Rater.

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse for the Nintendo 3DS

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse is a Nintendo 3DS & Wii U eShop Exclusive game by WayForward. Released on October 23, 2014, this is the 3rd game of the Shantae series.

Shantae is a Half Genie and the Guardian Genie for Scuttle Town. In this game, thanks to a pirate named Risky Boots in the previous game Shantae: Risky's Revenge, Shantae is no longer a Genie.

FUN: This game captures the essence of what a classic platformer game should be. Since Shantae is no longer a Half Genie, she has to use Tools and Weapons, instead of transformation magic from her previous games, she picks up along her journey to aid her even further. The Touch Screen for the 3DS makes for easy access to her items such as health items and extra attack weaponry and power.

The controls are smooth and the button placement makes anyone who hasn't played a Shantae game before easy to pick up and play. The characters and music also makes the game quite enjoyable. FUN - 2.

REPLY: The reply value for this Shantae game is actually quite unique. There are 3 different ending for this game; Any% complete, 100% complete, and 100% Speedrun. However, you can't unlock the 100% Speedrun until you beat the game once with either Any% or 100% complete. On top of that, beating the game once will unlock, Pirate Mode!

Pirate Mode allows the player to start the game with all the Pirate weapons and tools you picked up during your 1st playthrough. This allows quick shortcuts and gives you a better chance at the 100% Speedrun ending for the 2nd playthrough. REPLAY - 2.

STORY: The story starts off with Shantae getting awoken by a load bang outside her lighthouse. When she goes and checks it out, she finds out that Ammo Baron is taking over the city! During her trek through Scuttle Town, she finds the Mayor you told her that Ammo Baron owns the town now! After finding and defeating the Ammo Baron, Shantae is given a summons saying that she is fired as the town's Guardian Genie for attacking the owner!

After being assigned to her house until further notice, Shantae gets captured by Risky Boots. Risky then tells her to give her back her crew and weapons. Shantae being confused by this quickly states that she doesn't have her crew and weapons. Risky then shows Shantae that her Uncle has one of her crew member locked up. Before Shantae tried to find an answer to why, a dark mist enters Risky's crew member and transforms it into a Cacklebat! Risky releases Shantae when she realizes there's a bigger problem, the Pirate King is being revived! It's up to Shantae and Risky to stop this from happening before the whole world becomes the Pirate King's. STORY - 2.

DIFFERENCE/ORIGINAL: In all of the other Shantae games, Shantae was a Half Genie. Being a Half Genie gave Shantae the power to Transform into animals by dancing. In this game, thanks to Risky Boots in the previous game, no longer has that power. Instead, Shantae has to use weaponry and tools she picks up and buys in order to complete her quest. That's preety much the only difference about this game. DIFFERNCE/ORIGINAL - 1.

DIFFICULTY: The Shantae series and WayForward knows what makes a great platformer. Smooth controls and easy button placements. Those two things makes the game easy to pick up and only your skills and what you learn from playing the game will help you along the way. Most of the time, it will be you own doing that will get you killed. From not having enough healing items to forgetting a simple pattern to get through. Most of the mistakes will be you and not the game's. DIFFICULTY - 2.

TOTAL - 9.

Well, that's Shantae and the Pirate's Curse in a nutshell! I will be reviewing Shantae 1/2 Genie Hero for the PS Vita when it comes out, so be sure to check out my Non-Nintendo VG review Blog to read it! Until next time, this has been the Nintendo Rater! See ya!