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My Friend Pedro: Old Fashioned Fun with a Sentient Banana

My Friend Pedro, released in 2019, is an indie game with a simple premise. You befriend a talking, floating banana named Pedro who will help you in your quest to kill everyone that wants you dead. It turned heads when it was announced and demo-ed the year prior, and made those same waves when it was released. You have multiple weapons in your arsenal with the added ability to slow down time for short periods of time. The most fun part isn't even that gimmick: it's the many ways of killing that you can have at any given moment. For instance, you can walk in a room and enter slow motion to take out everyone one by one while avoiding death, or you can throw up a frying pan and shoot at it to kill everyone in seconds with your ricochets instead. It also doesn't take itself seriously, hence the banana. At times you enter his banana world and hop around on clouds and other fruits while he talks to you. There is another point in the game where you have to infiltrate a warehouse fu
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Epic Mickey: An over-looked, under-appreciated piece of Mickey Mouse history

Epic Mickey, released in 2010 for the Nintendo Wii, holds a special place in my heart. Developed by the now defunct Junction Point Studios, it took a much different approach to the world of Toontown, Mickey Mouse, and the introduction of Walt Disney's original mascot, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. While the game has many issues in game-play and sometimes a sense of feeling lost, it still has its memorable moments of creative expression. The story is that Mickey Mouse plays Sorcerer again and accidentally trashes his master's vibrant world, turning it into a sludge mess and sucking him in with it. He finds himself in a land of forgotten and lost Disney characters, and is forced to see how everyone lives in his shadow. One of these characters in particular is Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, created in 1927 by Walt Disney himself. This is unknowingly a major appearance, as Oswald had not been in any Disney made production since the 30s. Understandably in this game, he is angry at Mickey for s
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Fallout 4: Post-Apocalyptic Fun For Those Who Seek It

Fallout 4, released in 2015, is one of the best games I have played to date. Coming from someone who had never played any of the previous installments, I fell in love with the world as if I had been playing for years. The basic premise of these games is that sometime in the late 1940s, our nuclear war with other countries escalated and nukes were dropped on our country. Anyone who could make it to deep underground shelters survived and waited over a thousand years in cryogenic freezers for the world to be safe to walk in again. The goal now was to rebuild society and basically start from scratch again, but with the radiation the world was now different. There were monsters running around and the landscapes became barren. This is now the world that you, the player, explore. In this game you are a father looking for his son, who was abducted before he was unfrozen. Throughout the game you explore a post-nuked version of Boston and meet many types of characters along the way, while listen
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