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Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda

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Dude, I love this thing so much, what the hell. This awesome little device was made for me. Zelda 1, Zelda 2, AND the original black-and-white release of Link's Awakening all in one cute little Game & Watch themed collectible? The three best classic Zeldas altogether, yes I know what I said? Perfection. Yeah, sure, can I play all of these games on emulator, or on like a dozen other consoles? Yes! Of course I can. Well, not the original Link's Awakening - that's actually never been rereleased before, and since the original LA is such a big part of my life, having it get rereleased was really the selling point for me here (LADX is fine, but it's not the version of the game I grew up with).

But, I dunno, this thing is just so damn cool, okay? You can even play the Japanese version of all three games, which is also really interesting since the Japanese versions of Zelda 1 and Zelda 2 are actually quite a bit different. It also comes with a little Zelda-themed G&W game, and a weirdly cool clock feature where you can watch Link run around by himself doing stuff in Zelda 1. There's also a timer feature which also doubles as a sort of time attack minigame for Zelda 2 where you have to defeat as many monsters as you can before time is up, and since I'm someone who actually likes Zelda 2, this is fun for me. Am I ever actually going to use this thing as a timer? No! But it's fun as hell and I miss the days when they made dumb little toys like this. Remember Game Boy Camera, or Super Mario Bros Deluxe? That's the kind of spirit that's being tapped into here that I really love.

I think you're supposed to just respectably display this device on your shelf or something but fuck that, I've actually put like 15 hours into this thing just playing the games on it, because I can never get enough of Z1/Z2/LA. Obviously, I'm not going to rank this in my actual top 50, but I'm in love with this fucking thing and it needed to be on a list somewhere.

Together BnB

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Okay, I didn't actually PLAY this game, but I laughed so hard at it and enjoyed it so much that I feel like I did, and I feel like I need to give it an honorable mention of some sort. Slowbeef and Diabetus of Retsupurae did a stream of this game and it really brought me back to the old days of Retsupurae, because this game feels like a bad kickstarter project come to life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTfDlLCz8xo

Slowbeef did a review of this game in his GOTY list in which he pitched it as "A completely inept dating sim that includes the entire feature set of Unreal Engine 4 for no good reason", and that basically sums it up. It's supposed to be a shitty dating sim set in an asset-flipped house but you can also just go outside, get in your car, drive to a grocery store that's more well stocked than most actual grocery stores, or just go into the woods and shoot some wolves and collect pelts for some reason. It's absurd, it's incredibly glitchy, the voice acting is comically awful, there is so much going on here, and it really deserves to be one of the great meme games out there. I want to see more let's plays of this fucking thing.

Dragon Drop

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I played a lot of random games from the Ukraine Bundle, most of which I don't really feel the need to mention here; the one I liked most was probably Co-open, a game with really cute bird people in which you're a cute bird on your very first trip to a convenience store by yourself, but I didn't have a lot to say about it except "I walked around, talked to some cute bird people, then accidentally fell through part of the world that was still loading and fell through the map". So I guess this list is really 8 games. Sue me.

Anyway, another game I played for five minutes was Dragon Drop, a little local multiplayer thing that's still in alpha. It's a sort of Bomberman-ish premise, where you have cute little dragons and you try to make the floor fall out from other peoples' dragons. I don't have anyone to play it with, and it's not very fun against the AI, but the game isn't really that important here. What's important is that on the results screen, you can make your little dragons run around, and if they touch each other, THEY KISS. YOU CAN MAKE THE DRAGONS SMOOCH. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

No seriously that's all I had to say about Dragon Drop. You can make the dragons kiss. I wish every multiplayer game was this unafraid of showing intimacy with your opponents after a match.