Yo-Yo Reviews!
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 On 07/20/2025 at 08:41 PM by Cary Woodham See More From This User » |
Yo! Yo! Yo! I’ve got new game reviews I’ve recently written over at GamerDad.com! Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe post a ‘like’ or comment or two. I’d appreciate it. OK let’s begin!
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yo-Yo (PS4)
The 16-bit Super Nintendo is my favorite home game console, but my favorite handheld is the Game Boy Advance (it was pretty much a souped up SNES, so that’s why). So I was pleasantly surprised to find that this game tries to imitate that GBA style. When you first turn on the game, it even shows a mock GBA handheld system with a cartridge entering it! Anyway. Pipistrello and the Cursed Yo-Yo is a top down viewed action adventure game. You play as Pippit, a bat who lives in the big city and is the nephew of the biggest mafia leader in town. But Pippit has no interest in that. He just wants to enter yo-yo competitions. But one night on the way home, Pippit finds his aunt, the leader of the Pipistrello mafia family, trapped by four other mafia bosses. Turns out they want revenge for her running the city’s power unfairly, so they try to trap her soul into four batteries using a machine. Luckily Pippit appears in time and tosses his yo-yo into the soul stealing beam. Now his aunt is trapped inside the yo-yo and they must work together to get the batteries back. This game is a lot like a 2D Zelda title, except the overworld is the city streets, and the dungeons are sewers, shopping malls, construction sites, and soccer stadiums! And because of the emphasis on top down platforming and yo-yo mechanics, this game also makes me think of Startropics as well! The very definition of a “hidden gem!”
Alongside the release of the Switch 2, Nintendo made some more amiibo figures based on the Champion successor characters from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I got them all so let’s take a look at them.
Irem Collection Volume 3 (Switch)
Irem was a video game publisher who made a lot of arcade classics like Moon Patrol, Kid Niki: Radical Ninja, Kung Fu Master, and R-Type. They also made a lot of console games, including a couple of my favorites: Kickle Cubicle on NES and Steambot Chronicles on PS2. Sadly they went out of business in 2011, but now you can play a handful of their arcade games in this collection. There’s nothing that really ties any of these games together except they are all 2D shooters that march to the beat of their own drum. This collection is available on most current consoles but reviewed on Switch here. Let’s take a look at the games on this collection!
Nice Day for Fishing combines two very different game genres. Fishing and…an RPG? Yeah and you know, it’s not the first time this has happened! I remember playing a Game Boy game called Legend of the River King that combined those styles, too! Anyway, in this game, you are a non-playable character (NPC) in a typical RPG, who can only say “Nice Day for Fishing,” and “Mornin’!” But one day you accidentally open a box that sets an evil monster on your world, kicking out all the regular players and letting you control this fisherman NPC. Now it’s up to you to use your fishing skills to save the day!
Back in the mid-2000s, I remember scrapbooking being a pretty trendy and popular hobby. And I don’t know, maybe it still is? And now you can play a game about it with Instants. Yeah they’ll make a game out of pretty much anything, won’t they? In the game you’re tasked with placing family photos in sequential order in a scrapbook you can then decorate.
Save the world and play as one of three anime ladies with flying suits in this 16-bit styled 2D vertically scrolling bullet hell shooter.
One day a brother and sister were messing around in an attic and opened a door to another world. Upon entering, your sibling changes into a cat, and you as the other sibling must farm and make friends, and tame animals to change your brother or sister back in this farming sim for Switch.
100 in 1 Games Collection (Switch)
Play 100 different mini-games on your Switch with 100 in 1 Games Collection. You can only play Story Mode where you challenge each game one at a time. Depending on how well you score, you can earn up to three stars in each game. You must get at least one star to progress to the next game. Each group of games is categorized on certain islands, but they don’t really have much rhyme or reason. In order to unlock the next set of mini games on an island, you must have a certain number of stars collected.
And that’s all for now! Thanks for reading my reviews and posting ‘likes’ and comments on them! I do appreciate it. Later! --Cary
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