That was definitely 100% bullet hell, but I found it a lot more reasonable for some reason. I guess I'm normally pretty good at dropping into the flow of weaving through bullets while pursuing my objectives. For some reason I just couldn't get that flow going against the sniper (quite possibly because I only just…

I think the players are really enjoying it. In fact, I'd say I'm quite confident they're invested: they've taken the lead on forging relationships with my NPCs, they take copious notes and are making some of the connections before I'm rendering them explicit, and my girlfriend is helping me out a whole lot by drawing…

I feel the same way as you about Diablo III: it's not that it's bad, or that I hate it, it's that it's so utterly unremarkable that I just lost interest about halfway through. Yet, some people seem to really love it! And power to them! Not for me, though.

Blue Head Sniper Lady was the one bullet hell section that felt unreasonable to me… replaying that fight again and again for that one segment was the closest I got to ditching the game unfinished.

I am a near-complete on Adventure of Link at present: I've made it as far as that flying boss in the final dungeon. I intend to beat it once and for all with my MiniNES this autumn: my plan is simply to play normally up until I reach that dungeon, then snag all the 1-Up dolls at once and save state so that they are…

Thanks! I'm pretty psyched.

I believe my own campaign continues next week. I'm trying to wrap my head around the plan, as my "throw out a whole bunch of threads at the start of the campaign and then slowly weave them together" strategy kicks into medium-gear.

Mercenaries, man! Machiavelli was right about those guys.

I agree with everybody else's suggestions, by which I mean: you're going to have a hard time going wrong if you just keep picking up the things Nintendo published for this system. It's a pretty deep bench of excellent games: I've got most of the major Nintendo releases (and, at a count of 0, most of the major third…

Oh, wow: I hadn't realized that they abandoned the last-gen consoles for that DLC. At least the PS3/XBox360 owners got to enjoy… Jaws of Hakkon, another segment that is obviously just carved out of the original release.

Trespasser as DLC is indeed absurd: Corypheus is not compelling enough for his death to be the end of the story. I never finished the game, but milady finished it about ten times, and it seemed exceptionally unsatisfying until she got to actually play the ending of the story, after paying extra for it, many months…

Diablo III is… well, it's definitely a game. Me and milady slogged through the main campaign back in the days before we had something genuinely compelling like Divinity: Original Sin to play together. But finishing the game was enough for us. I hear that "the game doesn't really start until level 90!" but that's…

March and, now, September are our only full on losses. We've actually had more outright wins than second-attempt wins! The campaign will hopefully right itself tonight.

Haha, I know, there's no need at all to eyeball! I was just too eager to get into the game. We've instituted a strict "count the damn cards" policy going forward!

"Fuck Moscow" is our recurring theme, less because Moscow did anything bad to us and more because we coincidentally kept choosing to prioritize other areas whenever Moscow was in trouble at the same time as somewhere else, leading to it being our first Fallen city!

Ooh, Eileen's quest line is tricky! Even with a guide, a lot rides on your performance in a one-off event. Good luck!

"The most delightful game ever made" is a perfect description of Kirby's Epic Yarn.

Enjoy! Try to go in as unspoiled as you can!

Condolences. Be there for each other.

It's the actual move this week, so I don't know how much gaming I'll get in… hopefully "a lot," but that's just a function of how hope works rather than a reflection of the free time I'm likely to have.