Wish it’d gotten more updates befitting its status already; at this point, I think it’s too late for much to drag people back in, or create many new sales. Still, I can’t say I didn’t get my money’s worth out of it.

Problem is, we really need to make society less car-dependent before we can really get stricter on giving out car privileges.

IMO, the coolest thing scrapped from some of the Kingdom Hearts concepts - that could’ve had an actual chance of making it in - is Sora with a tail.

to subject these people, these career professionals to a sort of public humiliation and opprobrium and then the potential of a congressional investigation

Gotta imagine it’s 90% people just joining for the emotes or something, right?

Whereas the class before the upgrade, Marauder, is two smaller axes for... some reason?

Come on, everyone knows Greek and Norse are the only two mythologies!

I did feel like there was a little context missing I was glad to see, and the theater mode isn’t organized super well (it’s by world, which makes sense, and in theory would let you just binge through the main plot stuff instead of any of the mostly-retread-y Disney worlds... except with how the story kept going back…

Yeah, it feels like mobile games are some of the worst for preservation. Certainly, there’s all the online components squeezed in for monetization (and I do have to wonder if some companies are pulling games due to worry about the monetization being more closely scrutinized?)... and events to keep them fresh, for more…

All the chairs everywhere actually being usable impressed me at first, and there’s a few a things where you can activate or turn some animation on or off... but yeah, at this point, absolutely need more stuff you can use.

I'm so excited for this, the demo ruled!

Detective Pikachu was fun and I was really disappointed when it seemed like there wasn’t going to be any follow-up, so fingers crossed! 🤞🤞

Yeah, I’ve heard basically nothing about Fantasian (an RPG by some of the original Final Fantasy devs that looked cool as hell) since its launch there, and I’m scared it may die an exclusive, as IIRC Mistwalker hasn’t ported any of their previous Apple Arcade games.

Glad the main Minecraft YouTuber I watch these days has always masked up properly.

You know, you just reminded me, I don't think I've heard about Ninja since he switched platforms again a while back? It's been nice!

Hopefully this gets the “KOTAKU DOESN’T KNOW ABOUT MOBILE GAMES” crowd off your backs.

And then Among Us was made by the Henry Stickmin devs, which makes sense really but also still blows my mind every time I remember

Yeah, honestly what really got me was... lately Kingdom Hearts has gotten way into checkers and plaid, and... it took me a while to notice, but a lot of Rindo’s jacket is stripes instead! You can definitely still tell Nomura had a hand in these designs, but they do feel pretty fresh to me, and I like that.

Neo TWEWY has a surprisingly low number of belts, so far, at least going from the demo. Much heavier on the hoodies.

EarthBound 64 will always be one of my favorite what-ifs. Like, obviously the peak is “could there have been an EB64 that was at all a viable competitor to Final Fantasy VII”, but even well short of that lofty goal might’ve paved the way for a few more RPGs on N64 besides, well, Paper Mario and... Quest 64.* “How…