Expi Feliton's Corner

I can’t really deny that I’ve never really been a big fan of the Xbox line of consoles. Growing up, my brother had an Xbox 360, but all I really played on it was The Simpsons games he had for it plus a few Sonic games, and even when I truly felt like I got into gaming, I was always more interested in the libraries of both the Wii and PlayStation 3. Had it been up to me, I would have definitely gone with the PlayStation 3 if I had to make the decision between the two. I did review the original Xbox in 2018 (albeit the OG Xbox I had failed a couple weeks after I got and reviewed it) and did express some interest in it’s PC-like architecture and even some of it’s exclusives but I felt that even then it didn’t really have the vast variety that both the GameCube and PlayStation 2 had. So, going into the Xbox One’s announcement, I was just kind of apathetic to it all. After the Wii U’s announcement and release I was still somewhat interested in seeing everyone else’s offerings for the ei...

NOTE: This review is part 4 in a retrospective on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Feel free to read the other Sonic reviews I’ve done here - https://expithecat.blogspot.com/search/label/sonic%20retrospective So now we get to the last game in the Genesis trilogy (or quadrilogy if you count CD), that of course being Sonic 3 & Knuckles. The game turned out to be 2 parts sold over 2 separate cartridges, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was released on Groundhog’s Day of 1994 (or… Hedgehog’s Day) with it’s second half, Sonic & Knuckles, being released in October of the same year. The two were intended as one whole game, but due to time constraints and a McDonald’s promotion, only Sonic 3 was released with the first 6 levels of the whole game at first with the rest coming later. Sonic & Knuckles used what Sega called “lock-on technology”, coming in the form of a cartridge slot that had another on top of it, and by attaching it to a copy of Sonic 3, you basically got the full game as ...

For a while, I’ve been considering doing a top list of my personal favorite consoles of all time. I did a top 10 list of my own in 2015, one of my earlier video game-related posts, but in retrospect I’ve found myself not really agreeing with what I put for my original list. I guess that’s to be expected - after all, it’s been almost 5 years since I wrote that and not only have I gotten older but have also collected more consoles over time and my game collection has generally gotten much bigger and of course my tastes have long since changed as I continue to gain new experiences. I mean, I’m sure that in 5 years my top list will be different from what it is now, but for now I still want to talk about what consoles I consider my favorite and why I feel that way for each system. But before I get started, I decided to put a couple rules for myself, similar to what was on my original list. In my original list, I decided not to count any consoles that I have little to no experience with (f...