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Finished Hyper V-Ball.  I have mixed feelings on this one.  It started off pretty fun, if a bit rough around the edges but has the difficulty spikes in the later matches its flaws really start to show.  Namely, you can't always see your players to move them into a correct position and sometimes the AI doesn't adjust to a player to move.  The opposing team also has a much better advantage in placing the ball out of your reach since they can seem to control each of the 4 team members but you can only control 1.  The game is also a bit of a slog, having to beat every team other than the one you select for 11 total matches.  The default settings (which I played at and didn't realize you could change until much later) have each team starting at 7 points, you need 15 to win in a best of 3 set.  However you must win by two points so if its 14-14, you now need to get to 16.  Also you can only score if you are serving unless its in the tiebreaker match.  I did power through the tournament to win though, not sure I'd recommend it unless you like arcadey sports titles and even then there are better options imo.

Topps

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Wacky Packages

The second Sunday shmup was not nearly as good - Strike Gunner STG.  This one was pretty bland and frankly kinda boring.  The same enemies throughout, weird upgrade/weapon system - you pick a secondary weapon at the start of each level but you can only use each one once per game. You can get upgrades to your laser and speed but it seems random whether you get those or ammo for your secondary.  It also only has like 1 track of music that gets very repetitive quickly.  It's fine if you like shmups but there are many better ones for the SNES.