The VOICE of the FAMILY in GAMING TM Legend of Mana, Miitopia, Trine 4, Knockout City, and more this is- sue. Mario Golf Super Rush is swinging for the fairway! ISSUE #166 May 2021 May CONTENTS 2021 166 Links: Home Page Section Page(s) Editor’s Desk 4 Female Side 5 Comics 7 Sound Off 8 - 10 Look Back 12 Quiz 13 Devotional 14 In The News 16 - 23 We Would Play That! 24 Reviews 25 - 37 Sports 38 - 41 Developing Games 42 - 67 Now Playing 68 - 83 Last Minute Tidbits 84 - 108 “Family Friendly Gaming” is trademarked. Contents of Family Friendly Gaming is the copyright of Paul Bury, and Yolanda Bury with the exception of trademarks and related indicia (example Digital Praise); which are prop- erty of their individual owners. Use of anything in Family Friendly Gaming that Paul and Yolanda Bury claims copyright to is a violation of federal copyright law. Contact the editor at the business address of: Family Friendly Gaming 7910 Autumn Creek Drive Cordova, TN 38018 [email protected] Trademark Notice Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft all have trademarks on their respective machines, and games. The current seal of approval, and boy/girl pics were drawn by Elijah Hughes thanks to a wonderful donation from Tim Emmerich. Peter and Noah are inspiration to their parents. Family Friendly Gaming Page 2 Page 3 Family Friendly Gaming Editor’s Desk FEMALE SIDE have the room for that. Once we get some We work hard on keeping our advertisers Continuous Improvement debt paid off we will be looking at that. This Planning for the Future happy. We stick to our guns in terms of our one may be five to ten years from now. guidelines and topics we do not allow. If we Something we embraced sixteen years ago was continuous How often do you plan for the future? Do you ever con- allowed casinos and gambling we would have improvement. Back then that phrase was not being used. sider where you want to go and what you want to do in Other projects are ones we had looked at and a lot more ad revenue. We do not feel right Instead we talked about taking and making baby steps to the future? Do you then consider what you must do to get talked about before pulling the trigger. The about advertising those business due to the make things better as often as we could based on finances there? I will give you an example. I want to do some more recent background art work screen layout damage it has done to so many families. We and time. There are always projects to work on. There are FFG Arts n Crafts videos. I need ideas on what to make. I that was released on our streaming channels stay true to the faith, ethics, and morals. We always things we want to do to make Family Friendly Gam- need materials to make the products. Ya’ll are also able to is the perfect example. We found a wonder- also continue to be obedient to God. Neither ing even better. It never stops and it never ends. I take life purchase those craft items from Family Friendly Gaming if ful gentleman to work with at Fiverr and he Paul or myself would have chosen this min- one day at a time. Some days it is one hour at a time. Most you do not have the time and materials. I need to practice provided exactly what we wanted. We plan istry work. We reach so many people, and of our projects take multiple days to complete. We have making the product to make sure it works as I expect it to. on doing that again in nine months to a year. pray God uses us to reach even more. We are some projects that take months, and others have taken Over the years I learned me a few things about what does Pick a different color and tweak the design. making this world better one day at a time, years. We are constantly looking at what we can do to and does not work. Some materials work great until the We still have a ton of work to do. one person at a time. make things better. We never sit on our laurels. We never item is in a situation where it is exposed to too much sun- think we are perfect and have it all down. Instead we look light for example. Other materials might be too cheap. Still God bless, God bless, at where we were and see how far we have come. Then we other materials break too easily. There is a lot to consider Paul Bury Yolanda Bury look at where we would like to be. How do we get there? when making these kinds of products. The biggest thing is What are the steps needed to progress to the next level? to keep your mind open to the changes God places in front Who else has gotten there before? How did they do it? Can of you. This goes for life as well. we implement the same strategy? Does that strategy need to be tweaked? By now you should have seen the FFG Live Haul for March of 2021. You know we have invested in additional mi- Some of our plans for the future will happen this year. crophone products. Family Friendly Gaming is not stop- Some will happen in the year after. Lord willing we are still ping there. We are constantly looking at what needs to be around and the Earth is still here there are plans we have improved. Paul and I discuss these things quite often. He for ten years from now. When we are talking about some- also sound boards all kinds of different ideas by me. I love thing that far out we know it may get altered drastically or hearing and seeing how some new piece of equipment never be needed. As finances come in we are able to esca- works great, lasts a long time, and provides us new features late many of our plans. There are things that we planned and functionality we never had before. The microphone for way down the pike and then finances came in and equipment did just that. they were now getting done. Other times something hap- pens that will increase the priority of something. Take for We see a need in the future for a dedicated studio room. example the microphone arm that partially broke recently. We also realize that a two story town home will not be that That increased the priority, and now we are awaiting the great for people with knee injuries. So we are planning for arrival of our online purchases. We did not just replace that the future. We are looking at options while using financial one microphone arm. We are trying different equipment blessings to diminish any and all debt we have. That pro- out. Maybe they will work maybe they will not work. Time vides us more options in the future. We have not moved in will tell. Another great example was when the video upload over a decade. I am not fond of the prospect, but complete- laptop was having lockup and crashing issues. We quickly ly understand the need. purchased a replacement that is working much better and faster. Less time uploading videos gives us time to do other We continue to grow Family Friendly Gaming. We keep things in other areas. We want to have a dedicated stream- adding to our advertiser and sponsor family. We are con- ing and video recording room. Our current house does not stantly finding new people and companies to work with. Family Friendly Gaming Page 4 Page 5 Family Friendly Gaming Lesson-based EDUCATION & FUN Mission SOCIAL MEDIA Statement TIDBITS Family Friendly Gaming (FFG) was cre- ated in March of the year of our Lord 2005 as the first ever Christian video game magazine. The goal of Family Friendly Gaming is to report on video games from the family view point. Family Friendly Gaming takes a fair and bal- anced approach to all news, previews, reviews, interviews, features, and other Colossians: 9781935915010 | 1 Peter: 9780976054870 | 2 Peter: 9780976054887 | Phillipians: 9781935915010 | James: 9780976054863 articles found within. The secular video 1 Timothy: 9780976054825 | 2 Timothy: 9780976054894 | Interactive Parables: 9780976054801 | Interactive Parables Spanish: 9780976054818 game media reports mainly on the most morally bankrupt games and call those games good. The major secular media Interactive Bible Series for Windows by GraceWorks Interactive reports on the bad side of video games mainly. Most other Christian media outlets claim video games turn the player into a zombie, or they completely wor- ship video games. Family Friendly Gam- ing reports the good, and bad side effects alog features 1 to video games. It is the belief of the s cat 500 Thi + owners that readers are smart enough to vailable Homesch come to their conclusions without those 0 a ool 00 titl in the media handing opinions to them. DVD-ROMs contain PowerPoint Bible stories, 3 - 5 on 9 es each disk. The PowerPoints contain stunning lifelike of . Those of us at Family Friendly Gaming still graphics. Not cartoons, but computer generated photorealistic imagery. Their purpose is to provide a believe by giving you the facts, you can great backdrop while the teacher articulates the story, decide for yourself. There are plenty of re- there is no audio, but a lesson outline is provided for the teacher along with Bible references. Each story also has ally good video games on the market that a printable PDF activity sheet and a coloring page.