I had a threefer on my Birthday week because two of these games were short and one was so damn boring I really could not see myself doing a full playthrough of it! No points for guessing which game that was.
Mario is Missing: During my Birthday-a-thon stream I put up a poll to see which game I would play from a blessed list and a cursed list. Then I put the winners of those two against one another; it was F-Zero GX vs Mario is Missing and the public decided that I needed to not play the good game. I wouldn't say that playing Mario is Missing is suffering, but I think it’s pretty bad at its intended use of being a children learning tool. A good tool wouldn’t use really strange phrases and slang with little context to teach a child they may be in New York or Italy so they can bring Yoshi with them in order to leave the region to go into the next Bowser pipe. Sure asking questions about the historical macguffin is a good lesson but sometimes it just isn’t clear, and a child could just brute force the questions anyways if they wanted out. That’s what I did because I’m a 35 year old Adult and I just wanted to finish the obligation.
Bubble Ghost fared better: a Game Boy port of an Atari ST game in which the goal is to use the air blowing powers of a cute ghost to navigate a bubble through hazards to reach the exit. The bubble is as fragile as a normal bubble is which means contact with anything pops it and you lose a life (the ghost doesn’t die though, he just gets upset at you for failing). There are also other momentum altering hazards such as fans and candles in the game that need to be taken care of before you can progress, but they are easily handled with a nice puff of air. There is about 30 screens to navigate, all with their own difficulties but there are warp opportunities that also give 1ups so you can shorten your time spent in the game but these warp paths tend to be difficult to get to. The game is challenging but never frustratingly so and it doesn’t outstay its welcome so I recommend playing it! Also the single song in the game is an outright bop as well.
Yu-gi-oh: The Falsebound Kingdom had to suffer the fate of the reject pile. It's a game that I feel like I would enjoy on my own, but that also means I would have to keep the emulator set to around 150% speed because this game is SLOW. I don't mind slow, I like Ogre Battle a lot and that is what this game is copying with its map system but sometimes you just don't want to play a game at a sped up rate for a captive audience. Just doesn't sit well with me. Might give this a spin on my own time just...too slow to be a fun stream game IMO. If the streamer isn't having fun, then chat isn't having fun.