Category: Video Game Musings

Is It Still Better Than Nothing If You Get Nothing?

Source: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/01/after-what-feels-like-a-lifetime-amazon-is-cancelling-mighty-no-9-3ds-and-vita-pre-orders

Apparently, Amazon – the seller of reputable items like NES multicart and dodgy emulator boxes – have cancelled pre-orders for the non-existent 3DS and PS Vita versions of Mighty No. 9.

You remember Mighty No. 9, no? The brainchild of Inafking that YOU thought was going to be the spiritual successor to Mega Man and ended up being… better than nothing?

I honestly don’t know why Amazon took this long to get the hint that these things weren’t coming, considering Mighty No. 9 is no longer a thing and Inafking’s Comcept company was absorbed by another company not long after the game’s release and not so much as a fart was mentioned afterwards. I’d understand if there was still any chance of this being a thing, but the 3DS and PSP (or is it Vita? I don’t even care anymore) are but distant memories now. Would anyone even care at this point?

 

Another Minecraft Movie Trailer

Listen, I’m not a Minecraft player. I know nothing about Minecraft. The appeal of Minecraft is not foreign to me, but it’s just not something that I ever found myself tempted to play. As such, I have no real interest in the Minecraft movie starring Jack Black as Puppet Steve.

That having been said… this looks like every comedy movie where kids get sucked into another reality and meet a kooky character to try and escape this world or learn to live with it. It’s nothing we haven’t seen done better or worse before. It looks like harmless fare that you take the kids who are more into Minecraft than you are to watch. If this popped up on Netflix somewhere and I had nothing better to do, I’d probably pop this up as background noise or something to keep me occupied or something.

Honestly, this looks like typical kids fare. Not much to say about that. I’ve seen worse video game movie outings. Hell, I’ve seen worse movie outings. This doesn’t look like any of that. It’ll either be a big hit or it’ll be quickly forgotten about save for the couple memes some moron on Twitter might pull out of it, but either way, it’s a thing that’s happening and then everyone moves on.

A Minecraft Movie hits theaters in April of this year.

Tetris Added To Nintendo Switch Online

For those who need a friendly reminder, Nintendo Switch Online recently added the NES version of Tetris onto their NES gimmick. This is significant in that not only has this version not seen a re-release since 1989, but it also marks the first time that Japanese audiences would be exposed to this version of Tetris, which never saw the light of day on the Famicom back then. Considering the amount of Tetris games they were getting, I don’t think they’d be missing much, but still, it’s a treat.

In addition to NES Tetris, the Game Boy gimmick also added Tetris DX among their ranks. Tetris DX is the Game Boy Color upgrade with more play modes and slightly tweaked game mechanics that makes for a smoother controlling game. So if you’ve got an NSO subscription, you can sample both games to your heart’s content… as well as abuse rewind and save states for alleged expert plays.

Remember… Alexey wants you to “play Tetris, my friends.”

Not “Cheat at Tetris, you capitalist pigs.”

Please Wrap It Up… And Throw It In The Bin…

Tomorrow will see the annual Game Awards take place; the walking advertisement for non-game products with occasional game trailers you could watch online and a handful of award presentations with winning speeches from people who are told to please wrap it up so we can give Christopher Judge ample time to talk. No beef with the guy, but just because he played a character who said very little for over a decade on a popular sci-fi show doesn’t mean I want to hear him make up for lost time.

Then again, what do I care? I follow an annual tradition with the Game Awards that continues to this day… and that is not to watch it because I have better things to do with my time… like giving the dog a bath. In fact, I never bother with this thing unless other people I frequent are talking about… which is almost never because nobody outside the influencer circles gives a flying fib about the Game Awards.

So yes, this is me telling you that I’m not watching the Game Awards. You don’t really need to know this. I’m not enhancing your life by relaying this information to you. Nobody cares if I have any interest in this thing. I just felt like letting the world know because… that’s a thing we do nowadays and I don’t have anything more substantial to add to the proceedings… which probably describes the Game Awards in a nutshell.

Your “Homework” For This Afternoon – The Eurocom Ernie Hudson Interview From 2008

Source: https://www.eurogamer.net/ghostbusters-ernie-hudson-interview

Today’s scheduled review (and everything else this week for that matter) has been pushed back a day due to technical issues on my end. To keep you busy, here’s the Eurogamer interview with Ernie Hudson from 2008 talking about the (at the time) new Ghostbusters video game. The byline should give you a clue as to what our next game is going to be.