I would have rather paid up front like Super Mario Run (which ironically is a lesser game, in my opinion, than F2P FE Heroes), but I’m sure I’ll take this for a spin. I’ve racked up more than a thousand hours in the four real AC games, plus more time in Happy Home Designer and Amiibo Festival, so I assume I’m the…

Reiser’s recent work has been a lot of fun to watch and I look forward to seeing him here as well.

Her?

Whoa there, Spidey.

And GF even gave us a Halloween episode with “Summerween”, which itself borrows from the somewhat spooky but ultimately safe tale of “Spirited Away”, and I think a story about an evil witch, a curse, a dragon boy, an eight-armed boilerman, and the bath house for spirits after dark fits the Halloween bill just fine.

Grover’s absolute panic, and the way the pages “deconstruct”, really bothered me as a kid. Dude comes unglued with the book.

These last few years I’ve put more effort into sticking with games. I won’t play them if they’re not fun, but I try to generally stick with it and see it through, though sometimes a break is necessary, like in FE Echoes, where I took a monthlong break when it got a bit more annoying than I had the patience for.

It’s not as if the album reviews section was a hotspot before... this.

If I’m watching YouTube and that deliriously upbeat commercial comes up, all 1:48 or so of it, I watch the entire thing every time. It’s the perfect ad for a game that looks incredibly fun.

Yeah, the innings not great. Even if I’d play a ton of it now it would immediately be railroaded by Odyssey for weeks.

This actually makes a certain kind of sense if we consider that all AAA games now have to have some element of Games as a Service. They put a kind of cap on the story at the end of Act III, but there’s no way WB is going to let players beat the story and just walk away. It’s been a long time since Arkham Asylum and by…

Exciting! What color are you going with? We went with a spring green for Intern Flam (which went with the Fisher-Price rainforest theme at the time). It looked great in the sunlight but turned an almost-disastrous shade of mint when the light was less intense.

Well, he’s young. He’s not an infant, but he’s certainly not a fully grown Elephant in the game world.

You monster. She was the best of us.

I think Minecraft’s enduring popularity is because, as you’ve put it, it’s a “software toy.” It’s a game that has rules and boundaries but beyond that just cuts the player loose to do as they will. You can play the build craft survive, you can run aroudn swooping off of mountaintops in your cape, you can play as safe…

I feel like the demo for Octopath is a lot of fun but once I’m sold on the game, I don’t want to play more until it’s done. I’ll be back then.

I would love to say FIRE EMBLEM... WARRIORS!, but I promised that was a Christmas gift and so my Special Edition with those soundtracks I crave will go into the closet with the rest of the sugar plum dreams, next to the SNES Classic. In a week Mario Odyssey will hit, I’ll just hum the song until then. Just a week left.

Oh man, I was so, so angry. It came back up early, just shy of nine central, but it was way too late by then. I may try again in November and see what we get. Thanks for letting me know you tried.

It is a very overrated episode and I don’t get the love at all.

I would seriously like to hear more about “I’m a spiteful dick when I lose”, because as the parent of someone I would describe the same, I’d like to know how that’s worked out. What have you avoided, what did you like, etc. etc.? I feel like hearing about it from an adult who knows and accepts this about themselves…