Bringing the Adventure!

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Have you ever played on a switch or DS? If you haven’t, now is the time to try it. There are many games on the switch and DS that are fun to play, but tod ay I am going to review Super Mario Odyssey game.

Overview

This game brings new life to the Super Mario bro’s franchise. Odyssey does a great job of keeping some of the original things like music and mechanics for the characters. While bringing new characters and new costumes to the screen. To add to that, the game features 16 new worlds for you to try! All with unique challenges for tons of fun.

Goal:

 The mission is still the same in Odyssey. Mario must save princess peach from Bowser. The only difference is that this time he intends to marry her. What we come to learn is that bowser went to the Hat Kingdom and took a tiara for Peach. That already spells trouble for the princess. I like how they changed it up a bit though because without it most players would know the story and it would become stale. Odyssey did well in avoiding that.

Characters:

 As I mentioned, there are several new characters in the game. One of those being Cappy. Who is Cappy?  Well, Cappy is a hat. I was waiting for something to happen with his hat because it is signature of Mario.  Cappy has powers now. Some of his powers are spinning in place, Mario can run and Cappy springs him higher, and he can capture enemies. That adds a fun new twist for sure! This game does not have Bowser Jr, or Koopa’s. instead, it has four Broodals who are evil wedding planners.

 Controls:

 Mario still has most of his normal mechanics in Odyssey, such as he can still jump, run, triple jump, wall climb, and more. But unlike other games he can’t punch. Meaning he doesn’t get the fire suit and the game doesn’t have mushrooms. Mario cannot shrink or grow like in previous years. Instead, he has health points and you can get up to six in total.

Levels:

As you go beat a boss, you can not only move on to the next level but now you can choose to do puzzles like a side mission. Some of those vary from easy to very hard and you will be running around the world in tons of different places. Through lava, poison, among others. All to get something called a Power Moon. They allow you to move on to the next challenge but here’s the catch. If you don’t have enough power moons and you don’t give them to the Odyssey, you will have to move around trying to collect them. They can be hidden in plain sight, under some objects or you have look for them in a challenge. When everything is said and done you should have enough to do in Mario Odyssey.

My final thoughts are that if you have enjoyed previous Mario games, you will enjoy this one. It is a mix between and old for all ages and there’s something for everyone in Odyssey.

Hi, my name is Paige and I have been playing games since I was about 10 years old or younger. Some of the games I am playing currently are NHL and MLB the show. Other games I have played in the past include the Walking Dead, Nascar, Ghost of Tsushima, and Call of Duty. I hope you enjoy reading my blog!

Call of Duty Ghosts

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Call of Duty Ghosts was once a game for these who wanted an extreme thrill, but in the last few years has died off. Today, I am going to talk to you about the one player gameplay, playing with friends, and the Team Deathmatch mode.


If you are looking for a mode that will be solely focused on your character, then this mode is for you! It starts off with a guy and his family and the house blows up and he tells the family to leave the area but as he’s chasing them, they disappear. When I played this for the first time it took me a few tries because a fog came over the screen making it seem like a ghost was there so when you are playing this be patient. The mode gets more interesting as you progress because you enter into the army to fight the ghosts. The game has various kinds of missions for you to complete, and like any single player mode you always have the option of customizing your character. When I played this game, I would finish the whole thing and redo it on a higher difficulty to make it fun.


The second mode in Call of Duty Ghosts that I enjoyed was the multiplayer mode. If you have your friends over, they can play with you. This is underrated mode in my option because it made for hours of fun and competition. The one downside in this mode is the loading time. To go from loading screen to playing, takes a few minutes so if you want to play this don’t expect to be able to hop in right away. I liked this mode because it forces you to strategize and be able to collaborate with your team to win the game.


Team Deathmatch mode was a favourite of mine but one I had struggled with because in this mode you are in teams, and you have to see how many people you can kill before time is up. It creates a great adrenaline rush because you are in a time crunch, but I don’t think the mode does enough with the AI teammates and the bots on the other team. Your teammates don’t help you and the AI on the other team is often too powerful they could hit you in one shot when it would take several times for you to get them down. Plus, their aim is perfect, while yours is off which results in you being on the losing end.


While I think that Call of duty ghosts is a great game, it lacks in several areas. That being said, when this game came out, we didn’t have the technology we do today and that has a factor in it as well. I think if they fixed some bug issues with the loading screens, focusing more on letting the player make choices in single player, and making the AI bots more on a human level, I think the game would become better and attract more people to play it.


Hi, my name is Paige and I have been playing games since I was about 10 years old or younger. Some of the games I am playing currently are NHL and MLB the show. Other games I have played in the past include the Walking Dead, Nascar, Ghost of Tsushima, and Call of Duty. I hope you enjoy reading my blog!

MLB The Show

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Do you want to be the next best baseball star in the MLB? If so, you should pick up MLB 23 to start your legendary career! This video game series has long brought viewers endless hours of what it feels like to be a player in the MLB with several different game modes including Road to the show, franchise mode, Dimond dynasty, and March to October and many other offline modes that I will get into in this review.

Experience:

First, it doesn’t matter what experience level you have because you can practice batting, pitching, and fielding even before you start playing. This will allow you to get an understanding for the game and the controls before you hop into a game mode. I really like this because the biggest difference I noticed from MLB 22 to 23 is that the pitching is more realistic in terms of how much time you must see the ball. It can be a big adjustment.

Franchise mode:

 The first part of this review will be on franchise mode. When you play MLB, the user has so much control over the mode. Franchise mode is a wonderful place to start in MLB. The user can pick the team to control the lineups, and the outside things like signing players. Having this allows the user to feel like they are managing a real MLB team. A few downsides to this are that the game doesn’t allow you to see the background stuff. Like if you were to be setting up the lineups, how does that happen? What’s the process that happens in real life? In future games of the games, it would be nice to see the game expand.

Road to the show:

Another mode is road to the show. There are several reasons to love this mode and reasons to dislike it. Be a pro is focused on the character and how your player’s career shapes out. The good part about this mode is again that the user has much of the control, but the main complaint is that the player doesn’t have much personality that is shown in the game and the player doesn’t have a voice. Mostly what we see is the coach talking to the player or the agent talking to them, but without a voice, it is less interactive. This is a great mode to play if you want to focus simply on one player and not a whole game,

Dimond Dynasty:

The next part I want to focus on is Dimond Dynasty. This mode is probably one of the most fun to play because it allows you to play in challenges to get player cards where you can draft and build your own team to create the most dominate force on the field. When you win challenges, the user is rewarded with player cards to build the team. Some even as high as 99 overall. The fun part isn’t just getting the players it’s beating the challenges because after a certain number of games, the user faces “a boss” that can be the hardest level.

Finally, the last point is talking about March to October. This is a mode I haven’t played much of, but it is still great. In this mode you play as one player, and your job is to play in late game moments to get your team to the post season. This can create a feeling of thrill and maybe make you feel like you must preform to get to the end. Similarly, this mode may feel more like Road to the show in terms of controlling one person, so it is limiting in that way.

Overall, I think MLB 23 is a great game and provides people of any age the ability to not only learn but play the game too.