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Death Road To Canada [Video Game Review]

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Title: Death Road To Canada
Developer: Rocketcat Games / Madgarden
Publisher: Ukiyo Publishing
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Category: Action, Adventure
Release Date: May 8, 2018
How we got the game: I bought it on the Nintendo Switch eShop

 

 

 

Death Road To Canada is a game that will always hold a special place in my heart. Kris and I reviewed this game when it was on Steam back in 2017. We got it for the Switch shortly after it was released for the console. I played it again recently and thought of doing an updated review for it.

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In Death Road To Canada, you can create whoever you want. I tend to make myself and go on the journey with Kris. We can create other people or run into NPCs the game has already created. The point is to make it to Canada during the zombie apocalypse. Each character has a personality trait and skill trait. Depending on what they have, they may have an advantage in something. All characters have skills, though only some are revealed off the bat. You need to do something pertaining to that skill in order for it to reveal itself as really good, good, neutral, bad, or very bad.

What I love about this game is that no two playthroughs are alike. The story, even though you have 11 days left to arrive in Canada, is random. Anything can happen. You can run into anyone or anything. What you find is a crapshoot as well. You can have a run where you have great weapons but find barely any medical supplies. You may run out of gas super fast depending on your car and you may be starving most of the run.

The game is sassy and witty which makes it all the more fun. This game is fun to play when you’re by yourself or if you have a few friends with you. Which I love most about the Nintendo Switch version is that there’s four-player local co-op whereas on PC it was only two-player.

In Death Road To Canada, you head to various places like pet stores, grocery stores, trading camps, and more. Each place you look for food, weapons, gas, and medical supplies. You can also find other people and help them out or use them as bait in case you get in a jam. All the while you’re fighting zombies, which can be fast or slow depending on the time of day and their current temperament.

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For a zombie game, the music is fun and upbeat. You can tell the game doesn’t take itself seriously and that’s part of the fun. The graphics are charming. They’re not realistic at all, which is what I like best about it – otherwise, I probably wouldn’t give this game a shot. Zombie games aren’t my cup of coffee, but everything about the aesthetics of this game is awesome.

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There’s never a dull moment in this game. As I said before, no two play-throughs are alike. There’s always room to play more as you encounter different scenarios and use various characters with different traits. I still have yet to beat the game, though I’ve seen it done before. After you win so many times, you can unlock a hard mode. You also earn Zombo Points while playing, which allows you to unlock new traits, characters, and game modes. The ways to play this game are endless.

Death Road To Canada gets…
5 out of 5 lives.

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Top Tuesday: Favorite Unova Pokemon

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Kris and I completed our Pokemon Trio-Type Challenge not too long ago. I ended up playing Pokemon White 2 and it’s been a while since I’ve played the Unova region that I decided to talk about my favorite Unova Pokemon.

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Emboar

Emboar is the final evolution form of Tepig, the fire starter for the Unova region. I always go for the fire starters and Emboar is a bulky guy. I love his design and his moves.

Audino

I don’t normally have normal type Pokemon on my team, but Audino is pretty sturdy. While its attack isn’t all that great, it has a great defense. I think Audino is a pretty Pokemon too and I like how it’s associated with the Pokemon Center.

Stoutland

I raised a Stoutland for the first time recently for our challenge and I loved every moment of it. Stoutland is a great companion and has awesome defense and attack. Plus, who doesn’t want a pupper on their team?

Zebstrika

Zebstrika was the first electric type Pokemon I chose when White and Black first came out. He was on my team and he has a wonderful move set. I think he’s one of my favorite electric types of all time.

Unfezant

Unfezant is the final evolution of Pidove and is the “Pidgey” of the Unova region. I absolutely love this Pokemon though. The bird Pokemon, especially found in the beginning of the games, are always great. I enjoy Unfezant’s design and the move set overall is awesome.

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I Need More Paper Mario

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It’s been quite the weekend. Kris and I did a six-hour live stream showing off some of our favorite Nintendo Switch stream. We were totally dead afterward. It was a lot of fun though and I can’t wait to do it again sometime!

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While it was fun to play some games we haven’t in a long time, it got me thinking about how we’ve been in sort of a “gaming slump” lately. Keeping up with game reviews this year have been tough. Which is weird since there are a ton of great games coming soon or recently came out. Still, Kris and I have been more interested in playing games we started and never finished. Or maybe we’ve played them over and over again but had an itch to play them yet again.

I don’t know why – though I’ll blame Jett – I’ve been having a craving for Paper Mario.

I wanted to replay the beloved game for a while now, but there are so many other games on my list that are new, so I’ve decided to do those first.

I have Paper Mario on the Nintendo Wii. It’s been quite a while since I’ve turned that console on so who knows how well it would even work (though it should work just fine). I could play The Thousand-Year Door on the Gamecube. It’s been way longer since I’ve played that one and I don’t remember it by heart like I do with the original Nintendo 64 Paper Mario.

I definitely want to play through the whole series again. Maybe I’ll do so on stream if I can get all the games to work. But I honestly want a new Paper Mario.

The last Paper Mario game we got was Color Splash for the Nintendo Wii U. I would love a brand new Paper Mario game for the Nintendo Switch. You know, one that’s like the original game and Thousand-Year Door. Granted, I was pleased with Color Splash, though it’s not my favorite.

Having a Paper Mario game on the Switch – whether they port the Nintendo 64 and Gamecube ones to the Switch or make a brand new one – would make me extremely happy. Actually, they can just do all of that. Port the first two games and give me a brand new Paper Mario similar to the first two games.

I don’t like be like, “I need this” or “I want this.”

But…

I need this. I want this. Please and thank you, Nintendo.

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Ace Attorney Is Here!

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Rachel Mii | DoubleJump.comHappy Tuesday!

I had no idea this day was coming until about two days ago. And boy, did it get me excited.

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The Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series has a special place in my heart. A random purchase turned into something so much more than that. Not only did Kris and I enjoy the games and we had so much playing together, but we got our oldest sister into the series as well even though she stopped playing video games a long time ago.

We have a lot of great memories with the original trilogy and have wished the games after that came to home consoles so we could play together on the big screen with our sister again. Kris and I don’t mind huddling over the 3DS together, despite how uncomfortable it gets, but it’s hard to do that with three people. Needless to say, our sister didn’t get a chance to finish the series. She only played the original trilogy.

While I’ve been waiting for a brand new Ace Attorney game for a long time (Duel Destinies came out in 2013!) I’m excited to see the original trilogy on the big screen again.

Kris and I got the games on the Wii Ware way back in the day (when we had a blocky TV in our bedroom with the Gamecube and Wii hooked up). We had no idea the games originally came out for the DS. We also have no idea they had an order to them – we just thought there were three games total so we ended up buying the third games, Trials and Tribulations, first and played through it. We beat it and then realized it was the third game in a trilogy.

The trilogy came out for the 3DS years later and I, of course, got it. I had an itch to play it again and while I never finished it (mostly because it was more fun with Kris but also I knew the outcomes of each case despite forgetting how to get there).

Now the trilogy is coming out yet again for the Nintendo Switch. I have it on the Wii and my 3DS… do I really need it for the Switch? Um, yes. Yes, I do.

I haven’t played the games in so long – the cases are fun and tricky, the story is amazing, and the characters are so loveable!

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney trilogy comes out on the Nintendo Switch today for $30. That’s $10 per game which is a steal. I got it and I can’t wait to start playing relive those cases again!

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Bubble Struggle: Adventures [Mobile Game Review]

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Rachel Mii | DoubleJump.comHappy Thursday!

I’ve got another mobile review this month, which happens to be a game I used to play on PC all the time when I was in elementary school.

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Bubble Struggle was a game I used to play all the time when I was younger. It was formally known as Bubble Trouble on the PC. Kris and I were thinking about it the other day and I decided, for the heck of it, to see if it would be on the app store. Sure enough, Bubble Struggle: Adventures was the first thing to pop up.

It was free, so I downloaded it and started playing it right away. The set up is different than from what I remember, but the gameplay is the same.

You play as the red alien guy moving left and right using a touch-screen joystick on the bottom of the screen. He can shoot his gun up into the air straight above him, but nowhere else, and that’s by tapping a button on the touchscreen on the bottom left side of the screen.

That’s all there is to it as you try to pop all the bubbles. The bubbles come in various sizes, the bigger they are, the more bubbles they’ll turn into. For example, a smaller sized bubble will turn into two bubbles that are even smaller. Hit those two and they’ll pop. There are giant bubbles that take up a good amount of the screen that will end up turning into many bubbles. The screen can certainly get crazy and overwhelming at times. However, it’s not a hard game.

There is a “hub world” of some sorts. It’s a bunch of doors, each leading to a hallway. Once you get to the end of one hallway, there’s a “boss” which is just a harder level of what you’ve already done. Beat that, and you can go up the stairs and do it all over again on the next floor.

There were a couple of levels I got stuck on. Way back when, each level was an open area. Bubble Struggle: Adventures has obstacles in each level. There are stairs where you can go up and down if there are bubbles up top, there are half-sized walls that can block your shot or making the area smaller for you to get to a certain bubble. So, I did have to try a few times are certain levels to get myself in the right spot to get all the bubbles.

Power-ups do fall from certain bubbles. For example, your character can have a double-shot, a vine where it’ll stick to the ceiling and only go away until a bubble bounces into it, or even a shield that will allow you to get hit once and not die right away. That’s another thing – there’s no health. If you get hit by a bubble you die immediately and have to restart.

I haven’t gotten through all the levels yet and I’m not sure if I ever will. Still, I have the game on my iPad in case I ever want to go back to it. It’s a fun, mindless game to sit and play a few levels for a couple of minutes.

Bubble Struggle: Adventures gets a rating of…

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Overall, Bubble Struggle: Adventures was a nice blast from the past. If you used to play the game on PC, definitely look into giving this one a try, especially since it’s free in the app store. If you’ve never tried the game even but are into casual shooters like this, again, give it a try. It’s fun.

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Top Tuesday: Favorite Card Games Growing Up

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Now that we’ve been doing more card game reviews, it got me thinking about some games I used to play when I was younger. I don’t play card games often, but here are some favorites of mine.

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Uno

Uno is a classic. One thing I love about this game is that it can last five minutes or it can last an hour. It’s so easy to screw over your opponents and yet, it’s so easy to form a temporary truce with an opponent while you both gang up on another player. This game is a lot of fun and yet can be increasingly frustrating depending on the cards you’re dealt or just the people you’re playing with.

War

This is another game that can last a few minutes or last forever – most likely forever. War is simple where you split the deck evenly between the players and flip your cards one at a time. Whoever gets the highest, takes both cards. Whoever loses their deck, loses and the game is over. This is one that can get competitive quickly with my family – especially me.

Go Fish

This is the first game every child learns how to play as soon as they can hold a hand of cards. At least, I think so. I have fond memories playing this game when I was younger, especially with my grandparents. It’s a good game to just relax with.

Solitaire & Spider Solitaire

Speaking of relaxing games, Solitaire and Spider Solitaire are great relaxing games. I have to admit, I was never good at either of them. I used to play Spider Solitaire on the computer when I couldn’t get onto the Internet because my mom was talking on the phone. Show of hands – who remembers those times? Still, whenever I played Solitaire, I used to just click around and if a card moved, that was great. But then I would often get myself stuck and have to start over. It was always a great accomplishment when I actually won a game.

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Throwback Thursday: Playing The Sims on Playstation

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If you know me, then you know I love to play The Sims. I started off playing The Sims 2 and for a while, I thought that was the first Sims I ever played. But I realized the other day that I had played The Sims on the Playstation 2.

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Eons ago, I remember going to my friend’s house. She’s not a big gamer, but she did enjoy games like Just Dance and that was something we used to play together all the time. However, the first game we ever really played together was probably The Sims.

I have to be honest, I don’t remember too much of it (seriously, I probably say this in every Throwback Thursday post) but she put on The Sims on her Playstation 2 and we sat in the living room for a good few hours playing. We created a female who lived alone. From what I remember of the game, it was dark and the graphics were terrible.

What did we do? I don’t remember that either. We just fooled around and had fun taking turns with the controls.

What I do remember is that the house caught on fire.

We told our sim to make herself dinner and she set the house on fire instead. Now, we all know that sims are pretty stupid without their “God” to help them out. In The Sims 4, they’re a lot smarter and will do simple tasks themselves if they really need to. This includes either running out of the house if there’s a fire or pulling out the fire extinguisher and putting out the fire themselves. Of course, having a fire alarm helps as well so the fire department automatically gets called.

Well, our sim didn’t have a fire alarm. The only way to get the fire department to come was to call them. The only way to call them was if the sim was far enough away from the fire, the sim needed to be “safe.”

Our sim was stupid. I recall spending at least a good 30 minutes trying to get her to call the fire department. She refused to run out of the house. She only wanted to stand directly next to the fire. When she did listen to us and go outside, before we were able to tell her to call the fire department, she was running back into the house in a panic.

You know how some sims feel the need to panic right beside the problem, point to it, and yell, “OMG! FIRE!” and not actually do anything productive about it?

Yeah. That was our sim.

We even paused the game once we got her outside at one point, cancelled her “panic” task, and ordered her to call the fire department. When we unpaused, she stood like a dope, and then ran back inside to panic some more.

We did eventually save her and the fire got put out. It was shortly after that we saved the game and never went back to it. We were too frustrated with her at that point even though we were laughing hysterically the entire time. Though, I think we were laughing because otherwise we’d be crying.

Now that I think back on it, I wonder if we were missing something? Maybe we had forgotten to give her a phone or something. I don’t know. Still, it was quite the adventure.

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