BroForce Forever

 Rating: 7/10 😸😸😸😹😾🙀😸
Ages: 8+

One of my sons exposed me to the chaos that is BroForce. Chaos is the right description. This game is a parody of all the early video games where you had to slaughter lots of enemies, save your friends, then escape on a helicopter. So in this game, you and up to three of your buddies have to slaughter a lot of bad guys, aliens, and a bunch of other things, blow up the landscape but not too much or you end up with bottomless pits you can jump over, die a lot but save each other, then escape on a helicopter. At least on the early levels. The later levels have different win conditions. My son's advice, when I asked what the objective was, was simple, "Go to the right and try not to die."

The characters are hilarious. All of them are puns on 'Bro' and various action heroes. RamBro shoots a machine gun and has a red bandana. McGyBro hurls explosives and has a mullet. Brophy the Vampire Slayer throws wooden stakes and holy water. You get the picture.

Game play with four players is an absolutely chaotic mess of explosions and various weapons firing. You die. A LOT. But it's all okay and fun. We laughed a lot, blew up everything a lot, and generally had a very cathartic time blitzing levels.

*Lots and lots of cartoon violence
*Lots of silliness and bad puns
*Occasional hard levels that caused some outraged cries of "WHY did you just BLOW UP EVERYTHING?"

Bonus - this one is available on a lot of platforms, not just Nintendo Switch.

Summer Paws

Rating:  8 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻

Ages 1+, no reading, just point and click, can be a little frustrating to find that last cat, but overall just simple and cute.

I bet you thought you were going to get DragonQuest/DragonWarrior 3. Nope. I'm off to a convention this weekend and I've had grandkids visiting so I need a short and sweet review for a short and sweet game.

Summer Paws was one I picked up on a whim. It was on sale for only a couple of dollars and it looked cute. It's on Switch and Steam. I played it on the Switch so I'm linking to the Switch store.

In this game, you visit islands and look for sleeping kitties among all the awake ones. Click on them and they wake up. You can shift the camera view, zoom in and out, open windows, close umbrellas, and basically click on everything. It's a very kid-friendly game, even for little ones. I only played it with the controller, but tapping on the screen would probably work even better.

The controls were a bit touchy and some of the cats were really hard to find, but overall this short game was very cute and surprisingly relaxing to play. No time limits, no tricky jumping, just looking for sleeping cats so you can wake them up to join in the fun.