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Any old site can give you a review of how good or bad a game is, but only here can you get a review of how good or bad a game is several months after its release.
Replayability Reviews give you an idea of how good a game can be after you’ve stopped playing it for one reason or another. These reviews remind you of how good a game was, how bad it was, or how you should give that game a closer look.
For these reviews I started to replay old games that I hadn’t played in a while.

Super Paper Mario
Amount of time since I last played: eleven months
Reason I stopped playing: I got lost in the “Whoa Zone.”
Score: 8/10
Pretty good the second time around; didn’t get much better or much worse. I remembered how great this game was in the first place. Definitely worth giving it another go, even if you know all the secrets.

Wii Sports
Amount of time since I last played: roughly five months
Reason I stopped playing: better games came along
Score: 7/10
That opening music will always remind me of the first time I played Nintendo Wii. Wii Boxing: it’s kind of a shock and a relief that you don’t have to press any buttons when boxing, because I’m so used to pressing buttons from Super Smash Bros., and Mario Kart.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Amount of time since I last played: two months
Reason I stopped playing: Mario Kart Wii
Score: 7/10
The second time around I realized that the problem with this game is that the hype surrounding it was way too high. This is a fantastic game that every Wii owner should have, but it doesn’t even come close to what they made me believe through reading the “Smash Bros. DOJO!!” Great game though- if you’ve stopped playing it for one reason or another, it’s definitely worth giving it another chance.

Mario Kart Wii
Amount of time since I last played: about a month
Reason I stopped playing: frustration, jerks online running me over with their Bullet Bills
Score4/10
This was one of my favorite Wii games. I always enjoyed playing online, but then people started getting rather mean… it’s not that I’m one of those whiner types who can’t take being run over by a Giant Mushroom now and then, but it was happening once every five seconds… so I kind of gave it up. When I started playing online again, I found that the Wi-Fi players were just as unmerciful as ever. So, if you’re out for a nice lap around the track, play this again- just not online. If you’re completely hard-core and unmerciful, go online- you’re in for a treat.

Nintendo Brawl, Mario Kart, Paper Mario, Wii Sports

What’s this? It’s my very first Roller Coaster Tycoon Park: “BIG ABE’S SUPER COOL FUN LAND!”

I remember that in my early parks I had several habits:
– Naming the park after someone with a short name so that it would fit in the banner scroll (i. e. Abe, Bob, Bill, Al, Don, Pat… I had one park where all the rides were named after Presidents: Thomas Jefferson’s Ferris Wheel-o-Fun, James Buchanan’s Crazy Coaster).
- Using too many adjectives in the park name: Big, Super, Cool, Fun, Awesome, Terrific, Far-Out.
- Naming all the rides with variants of the park’s name. For instance this park has a ride called, “LIL’ ABE’S FUN SLIDE.”
- Using CAPITAL LETTERS FOR EVERYTHING and too many exclamation marks!!!!!!!
- Having a sort of pit in the park. Notice where the maze is in this park. Many of my early parks have that.

I’ve come a long way.

PC Games Roller Coaster Tycoon