Toy Story

Completed Toy Story on gameboy to credits.

This game is absolute dirt, enraging!!! The last level nearly took all of my lives and continues because there was no way of knowing how to get past the truck at the end, turns out the way to get past it is to get hit by it.

Controls are clunky and slow, visuals are horrible, no save or password system means it's a one shot game, thank god its so short!

Never touch this game, the only reason I bought it was because I never completed it when I was a kid, now I remember why I never got past the third level and traded it for spiderman...

On a side note, I should get spiderman!

Crash Bandicoot XS

Completed Crash Bandicoot XS to credits.

A lot of elements were taken from crash bandicoot 3 on psx and with that considered it is a great example of a console title ported for handheld. The visuals are great, it seems like most assets were pre renders from the psx game which worked really well.

It was a little shorter than expected, only 20 levels with 4 boss fights, I got through it in about 6 hours.

All in all a great handheld title which holds up well today and really made great use of the limited resources of the GBA.

Pokemon Y

Completed Pokemon Y to credits. I really liked the game but most likely because of the nostalgia factor than anything else.

I didn't make much use of many new features, except for the global trading systems, that was pretty sweet.

My younger self would be obsessed with collecting every pokemon, but I couldn't bring myself to care enough, especially with so many other games to complete.... maybe one day.

Kingdom Hearts 3D (Dream Drop Distance)

Completed Kingdom Hearts 3D to credits.

I liked it a lot, I was mainly impressed by the visuals on the 3DS, I know how hard it can be to achieve great visuals on the handheld and square enix destroyed it.

As with every Kingdom Hearts game I've played I got completely lost in the wider story but if you focus on just the plot of this game, you can get away without knowing the wider lore.

It took me a while to get around to completing this, it was actually the second time I started it, I was completely lost after a year or 2 not playing my save so I decided to start again from square 1, and I'm glad I did, combat was cool, difficulty was just right and variety on environments was fantastic.

The Incredibles

Completed the Incredibles on GBA to credits. Pretty terrible game mainly due to slow unresponsive controls, some sections offered redemption however, the final boss fight was pretty good.

 I imagine it would be pretty fun on an updated system or if the controls in 3d space were improved.
The main gripe was with Elastigirls horrible targeted attack which only had 5 angles and was game critical in a lot of sections.

It was weird to drop back to a game without save functionality, I haven't had to scribble down level codes in a long time. Takes me back to the time when I bought Mighty Max on the SNES and the instruction book notes page was filled with all the level codes. In the days before google it was a big win for me. Need to get that game added to the list.

South park the stick of truth

Completed the stick of truth to credits on PS3, it was pretty kick ass.

Lots of South Park humour, some good gameplay. Levelling felt pretty linear, I can't imagine that different load out choices would have made a lot of difference to the play style.

Probably not worth a second play through for a while having revealed the plot and completing all of the side quests, it might be interesting to see how the story would be affected by choosing the opposite side (I chose to stick with Cartman on this playthrough).