Yep, it's another Christmas this year. This holiday season brings all the families and friends together while celebrating Christmas with amazing set of decoration & trees, making lovely Christmas dinner to eat and drink, dressing up as Santa Clause and his Elf, singing Christmas songs, and giving nice gifts to everyone in the house, so this is what Christmas celebration is all about.
I've already made my last year's another 10 Christmas wish list on my blogger, so if you haven't seen it from the last year then here's my link down below:
https://zeeshanmirzasblog.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/my-another-10-christmas-wish-list.html
I love spending time playing and collecting all retros and modern video games during the holiday season and I decided to make not 10, but my 5 wanted games that I planning to get one for the Christmas. So here is my 5 Christmas Wish List of 2017.
1 - Yakuza: Kiwami (PS4)
One of the SEGA's fans favourites series Yakuza was known for incredible story driven adventures, epic-brawling combat, badass cast of characters and amazing open-world exploration. The series was very popular in Japan gained much heavily acclaimed reviews and earned game awards while the western received generally favourable reviews from critics and fans, as the 2016 the series has sold over 9 million copies.
I really enjoyed three of the fantastic titles such as Yakuza 3 and 4 for PS3, and Yakuza 0 for PS4. I decided to give a try with Yakuza: Kiwami for PS4 which is a remake of the original 2005's game for PS2, featuring improved graphics, redone plot, and retaining similar combat style from the 2015 prequel's Yakuza 0.
I'm definitely looking forward to see this game because I'm a huge fan of Yakuza series after playing three of the awesome titles and I hope this will turns out to be looked better than the original 2005's.
2 - X-Men: Children of the Atom (SEGA Saturn)
Capcom was the top dog of fighting game genres from early 90's. The same publisher that bought you many of the greatest fighting game franchises such as Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, Cyberbots, Rival Schools, and of course the vs series titles such as Marvel vs Capcom, Capcom vs SNK and Tatsunoko vs Capcom.
X-Men: Children of the Atom was one of the very first Capcom's fighting game based on famous Marvel Comics series X-Men was originally released for arcade system in 1994, featuring playable rosters from X-Men series, voice actors from the series, comic-book styled animations, adding newer combo systems and multi-tiered fighting environments. The game was later released for PC, PS1 and Saturn in between 1995 to 1998. It gains positive overall for Saturn version as being one of most faithful ports from the arcade version due to better framerate and more animations than the other versions such as PS1 and PC has received poorly in comparison with Saturn version.
I was really surprised I still have Marvel Super Heroes for my Saturn collection last year and I hopefully able to get this game for this Christmas.
3 - Arcana Heart 3 (PS3)
X-Men: Children of the Atom was one of the very first Capcom's fighting game based on famous Marvel Comics series X-Men was originally released for arcade system in 1994, featuring playable rosters from X-Men series, voice actors from the series, comic-book styled animations, adding newer combo systems and multi-tiered fighting environments. The game was later released for PC, PS1 and Saturn in between 1995 to 1998. It gains positive overall for Saturn version as being one of most faithful ports from the arcade version due to better framerate and more animations than the other versions such as PS1 and PC has received poorly in comparison with Saturn version.
I was really surprised I still have Marvel Super Heroes for my Saturn collection last year and I hopefully able to get this game for this Christmas.
3 - Arcana Heart 3 (PS3)
Arcana Heart is a fighting game series, made by Examu, that I've never actually heard of it before, but after I've discovered the game it's a 2D fighting game for PS3, X360 and Arcade where you get to play as cast of females fighters with similar fighting styles as Arc System Works titles such as Blazblue and Guilty Gear series.
It features 23 playable characters with their own unique powers and uses force gauge allows the player to perform an Extend Force. The console version adds fully voiced characters for story mode and HD anime graphics for super moves, but they also include training mode, score attack, and online play.
I'm a huge fan of collecting every fighting games titles for any of game consoles, so I really loved the looks of cutesy anime-style graphics, interesting characters and overall presentation that made me want to pick this game up.
4 - Super Turrican (SNES)
Turrican series is always be a greatest run 'n' gun classics by same developer behind Star Wars: Rogue Squadron series. The very first original game was first debuted on Commodore Amiga in 1990 which was well received for the release, while it was spawned with sequels such as Turrican 2, Turrican 3 (Including Mega Turrican for Genesis/Megadrive ports), and of course Super Turrican 1 and 2 for SNES.
What really made Super Turrican so special on SNES is the unique presentation with interesting opening sequences at the start, well presented level design with quality looking 16-bit graphics showing the power of the SNES's hardware, innovative weapon's power-ups and realistic SNES's soundtrack with dolby surround support was done by Chris Hülsbeck is one of the best video game composer knew how to make really great soundtrack that handles well on the SNES's sound chip.
This game is quite expensive to pick up from the online store or retail store, so I will still have to wait and see until I find this game with better price cost.
5 - Diddy Kong Racing (N64)
Imagine combining both Mario Kart and Donkey Kong universe together which turns out to be Diddy Kong Racing for N64 was released in year 1997. It was made by same developer was the mastermind with their famous titles for Nintendo's consoles such as Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, Goldeneye 007 and Banjo-Kazooie.
This game is very similar to Mario Kart series, but it really has shares with interesting concepts such as 5 worlds with 4 racetracks each and ability to drive 3 vehicles such as car, hovercraft, or pilot that newly adds the fun of the racing game genres. It features eight playable drivers such as Diddy Kong, Krunch the Kremling, Tiptup the Turtle, T.T. the Stopwatch, Pipsy the Mouse, Bumper the Badger, and two playable guest such as Banjo the Bear from Banjo-Kazooie and Conker the Squirrel from Conker's Bad Fur Day.
The game was received critical acclaim upon release and has sold 4.8 million copies since release, as being the Nintendo 64's eighth best-selling game on the list. It's a shame that Rare are no longer part of the Nintendo's third party developers due to Microsoft had purchase Rare for £375 million in 2002 meaning there will be no sequel to Diddy Kong Racing, but I definitely still considering to get this game for my N64 because it's still a classy racing titles for N64 library.
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It features 23 playable characters with their own unique powers and uses force gauge allows the player to perform an Extend Force. The console version adds fully voiced characters for story mode and HD anime graphics for super moves, but they also include training mode, score attack, and online play.
I'm a huge fan of collecting every fighting games titles for any of game consoles, so I really loved the looks of cutesy anime-style graphics, interesting characters and overall presentation that made me want to pick this game up.
4 - Super Turrican (SNES)
What really made Super Turrican so special on SNES is the unique presentation with interesting opening sequences at the start, well presented level design with quality looking 16-bit graphics showing the power of the SNES's hardware, innovative weapon's power-ups and realistic SNES's soundtrack with dolby surround support was done by Chris Hülsbeck is one of the best video game composer knew how to make really great soundtrack that handles well on the SNES's sound chip.
This game is quite expensive to pick up from the online store or retail store, so I will still have to wait and see until I find this game with better price cost.
5 - Diddy Kong Racing (N64)
Imagine combining both Mario Kart and Donkey Kong universe together which turns out to be Diddy Kong Racing for N64 was released in year 1997. It was made by same developer was the mastermind with their famous titles for Nintendo's consoles such as Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, Goldeneye 007 and Banjo-Kazooie.
This game is very similar to Mario Kart series, but it really has shares with interesting concepts such as 5 worlds with 4 racetracks each and ability to drive 3 vehicles such as car, hovercraft, or pilot that newly adds the fun of the racing game genres. It features eight playable drivers such as Diddy Kong, Krunch the Kremling, Tiptup the Turtle, T.T. the Stopwatch, Pipsy the Mouse, Bumper the Badger, and two playable guest such as Banjo the Bear from Banjo-Kazooie and Conker the Squirrel from Conker's Bad Fur Day.
The game was received critical acclaim upon release and has sold 4.8 million copies since release, as being the Nintendo 64's eighth best-selling game on the list. It's a shame that Rare are no longer part of the Nintendo's third party developers due to Microsoft had purchase Rare for £375 million in 2002 meaning there will be no sequel to Diddy Kong Racing, but I definitely still considering to get this game for my N64 because it's still a classy racing titles for N64 library.
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This is Zeeshan Mirza's Blog and I'll see you next time, happy blogging and have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.
