Yeah, it’s hard to imagine no one is mentioning this. Even if people are going to buy fast food, a fast food burger for $2 is a much better value proposition than most breakfast items. Breakfast food at fast food places tends to be MORE expensive than their lunch/dinner items and yet it’s made of cheaper ingredients…

Yeah.  Who wants to rush out at 8-9am to grab some eggs and coffee when they're heading back home anyway?  My eggs and coffee are better.  And if I'm going to waste money to have a convenience meal,  I'd rather it be late in the day when I'm worn out and for food that is significantly more complex to make.  Even…

You say you're prone to headstrong gaming behavior and thus wrote the battle lab off.  If that's true, how did you find out about this and also.. if you're so headstrong, how can you justify to yourself turning on free answers to the puzzles?!

“Now, I’m a savvy modern person who deals with technology professionally...”

I kind of forgot this was even a thing. Hmm. Not sure if I’ll get it if it’s not on Switch or PS4. I don’t get a chance to PC game as much (or PS4 for that matter, but the game share system let’s me buy one copy instead of two for me and my fiancée) I’d like, so we’ll see.  The original did have a sort of beat-your-fac…

Who cares what happens on my island after I abandon it?!  I won't be going back, so those suckers are on their own!

Even if you did blow through it a month, what's wrong with that?  By then, surely you've gotten tons of hours of gameplay, had fun and enjoyed the experience.

It was going to be one book as Robert Jordan had planned it.

I can only assume you have no idea the release cadence of The Wheel of Time or you’re unaware that he was old, sick and dying in his last few years. He published 12 books in 15 years with as little as 10 months between a book to a maximum of 2.5 years. And his books were easily often twice as long as some contemporary…

This is a well written article and I don’t think what you want is a huge ask and I hope gaming continues to grow in a direction that offers you a haven for what you’re looking for. However, there is no question that Byleth is either male or female depending on the player’s choice.

It really depends on what the draw of the game is for me. If the fun of it is the difficulty, I’ll often crank it to max. A few examples would be the Tales series RPGs and a lot of other action RPG games where the combat is heavily skill based and not just stat based. But I tend to find it very dull in classic turn…

I didn't like a lot of the design choices in GX.  X was better.

It makes me wonder why they designed her at all, though.  It doesn't seem like anything else in the game of in any files related to it ever had an inkling of humans, unless I'm mistaken.  I'm not 100% up on my Starfox lore.  But it seems strange that they'd make just one human pilot and then scrap the idea entirely.

Maybe the real issue is people keep making ROM hacks that have to get taken down. If Nintendo is going to take it down and if it’s illegal, why do people keep making them, then get mad when what they knew would happen ends up happening?

First off, I’d like to say that I’m in complete agreement in actually wanting to 100% this game and not wanting to do so in most other games. Not only does it give strong narrative reasons as you mentioned for the poor toads, but how can I possibly leave giant, unsightly monster bites in the fabric of reality? And…

Nintendo tends to like to do a lot of in-character explanation for systems in their game. They don’t have many that just so the Xenoblade approach of dropping a tutorial window on the screen with raw data. Mario being silent and Olivia being the only companion with you at the start makes her the defacto tutorial…

Just a heads up, but the radar doesn’t tell you anything until you’re nearly right on top of the toad. It’s not a reliable method for finding where toads are and it has a battery system and you have to travel back to town, take a warp pipe and go to a special building to recharge it for 500 coins, so you can’t just…

I actually have been wondering the same thing about pending.  What are the specific rules?

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“weapon-based platformer in the vein of Megaman and Zelda II: The Legend of Link”