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Stardew valley, noob mum review.

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Hello again, I know it's been a while. Well in my corner of the UK it was May half term last week so I was a little pre-occupied. Also trying my damnedest to find a job for the summer and still being unsuccessful. (Those of you who have read my 1st post will know, if not you can find it  here.  )  So with the help of coffee and some amazing 90's tunes (my taste in music is diabolical) I shall tell you what wonders I discovered. What caught my eye first were the graphics. Yeah I know they aren't the amazing 3D, 4K graphics of an unreal engine but that is part of the charm. For me it was nostalgic, early 90's adventure style. I mean look how adorable is this?! (OOOOOH Mambo no 5 just came on, excuse me). I mean look! OK granted it does look like a standard Facebook game, but its not. It is so much more and NOT on Facebook. (Eiffel 65 now, you know the words ).  So I had a little look around the internet... OK YouTube. People were saying how it is just like Ha...

The adventures of Sonic, DD and myself

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Hello again readers. (I should think of a more original name for you guys). It was a rainy Saturday morning and I was consuming my usual mug of morning coffee. I was trying to think of something to do with DD. I had a few things in mind and the one she jumped at was "Setting up the mega drive" Awesome. So we powered up the mega drive, it's one of the ones that was released the other year with about 80 games already on it and selected Sonic the Hedgehog. You know, that classic from 1991, the one i played endlessly as a child around the same age as DD. We played by the standard 2 player on a single player game rules. 1 person plays until they die or complete an act. Soon enough Green hill started and so did our session. We did pretty well, by the time we had got to Spring yard zone act 3 we had 8 lives, a continue and 2 chaos emeralds. Pretty good going for an adult and child tag team. DD defeated the Spring yard boss and everything was looking good, until... The scre...