I did finally buckle and buy the Steelbook Dual edition of Pokemon Ultras, my first journey to the Alola Region (and first Pokemon game since X/Y), but that’s going under the tree, so I won’t be talking about it for some time yet.

This game never really clicked for me the way I expected it hoped it would, but then again, my experience with truly 3D Mario games is rather limited. Fair bit of Sunshine, some Galaxy, and just a bit of 64(DS) and Galaxy 2. My favorite game in the series is 3D World, and I figured the next big console Mario game…

I am familiar with the level as someone with about an hour in MARIO 64. I “got” it but didn’t know a thing about it otherwise (you drain the moat?), so there was no “aha!” at my house. But I liked it and felt it grounded the adventure in a generally familiar environment, even if my experience wasn’t Nintendo’s…

I held out hope until the end that Peach or Luigi might become playa me, or that Yoshi might join for more than he does, though the way the game implements control over him, and the mechanics at large, preclude this.

My son is nine and he spent 60-70 hours on BOTW. He beat Odyssey over the weekend and moved on with his life. Each kid is different, but BotW, I think, provides a playground environment to experience and play in, while Odyssey is more about exploring isolated levels and trying to conquer each challenge that arises.

Did she change the radio to some soothing classical music, too? Or just cautiously check for cross traffic when turning right at a red light to Guns N’ Roses?

Renegade+

Being a petulant tyrant who sues for peace when things don’t work out but is otherwise an aggressive world-ender is the only way to play, as I understand it.

I know not every map could support it, especially now, but I’ve always been disappointed we didn’t get more Mario Kart tracks backwards. Mirror Mode is lame. I want backwards!

I think my best friend and I spent more time lazily screwing around in games than actually playing them correctly. In addition to endless Halo map faffing about, we also played MX vs. ATV Unleashed, or some variant in the genre, where we’d just race around on the big empty wasteland open environment. The best part was…

Also Pacey’s hair has to be seen to unearth the memories of the late 90s we thought we’d never revisit again.

Super lame that Wolf Amiibo (a very good Amiibo!) doesn’t unlock the Link costume. It does do a BIT more than others, since it’s a physical DLC unlock in TPHD and gives you a, what do they call them - good boi heckin’ pupper - in BotW, but otherwise yes, you’d expect it to work like a Link Amiibo in other games.

I would obviously spring for a Captain Toad. He wouldn’t even have to be riding his own custom mine kart!

I was a roller for a long time but the limitations of it were starting to grate on me in Splatoon 2. Obviously brushes and rollers have value (I ran into someone last night who wielded the Dynamo Roller like a pro), but the rollers especially I think require more finesse and preparation than before to succeed with.

I saw you were taking Yono for a spin last night. In some ways it is exactly what I expected and in others a bit less, but I’d be interested to hear your thoughts.

I thought I’d collect Amiibo for a long time until I secured the Guardian Amiibo. I can’t say why, but something about its surprising awesomeness basically made all other Amiibo look half-hearted by comparison, and I have a tote full of the things that do what I need, mostly. Beyond that, Nintendo’s failure to truly…

Internet is an outrageous ripoff. I pay $60/month and it’s the only quality game in town, and even THAT is a discount off of what they want me to pay. When you add the cost of cable to services I subscribe to in order to round out video offerings, it’s... $120/month? Something stupid like that?

I always thought houses followed some basic and obvious planning until the Mrs. Flam and I went house-shopping, though it was mostly for pricing comparisons because we knew what house we were getting. And the weird array of downstairs bars, airplane-sized bathrooms, and clearly not-up-to-code additions boggle the mind.

I can finally breathe normally now that my Amazon shipment of Super Mario Odyssey is local and expected to deliver today. Seriously, the way Amazon tells you on Wednesday that a game coming out on Friday has shipped out, only for it to not update at all for 36 hours, drives me nuts. On the plus side, using Amazon…

As much as I loathe F2P wait timers, they are handled well in FEH (well, now - doubling the original stamina bar made a big difference, and I have 200 full stamina restores because the game hands them out like candy), and as you’ve said, Animal Crossing games are about checking in here and there. And then waiting. And…