I finally downloaded Kirby: Planet Robobot last week based on all the positivity I'd been seeing in comment sections, especially our own, and a few particularly amusing text messages from Agnello while he was playing it. Kirby is one of my favorite franchises, but I was not wild about Triple Deluxe so I held out on…

Gravity Bone is a favorite of mine, and one of the keystone moments that cemented my fondness for indie games at the height of that movement in 2008. Thirty Flights of Loving is, of course, delightful, but I don't think anything will ever shock and amaze me the way Gravity Bone did at the time.

I feel like there were more apparent ramifications of the smaller decisions in LiS than in TWD. I was really surprised on my "play Max as an asshole" second playthrough when I came back to my dorm room to find it had been vandalized by the Vortex Club. It doesn't affect the game at all, but it was a neat touch to show…

I wrote about both for the staff list and while they're both first-person adventures surrounded by beautiful flora, they're two very different things. For me, Firewatch was an evening of being wrapped up in really excellent dialogue and a pretty okay mystery, while The Witness is several weeks of slowly going insane…

Kirby's Epic Yarn is indeed delightful, but people should absolutely not sleep on the fact that Kirby Mass Attack is also on the Wii U Virtual Console today for only $10 and that game is FANTASTIC. It's like a cross between a traditional Kirby platformer and Pikmin, with you tapping to command an army of up to ten…

I appreciated how short Second Son's campaign was. Made it that much easier to play the game twice—as pure good and as pure evil—and compare the differences. The good playthrough took me a couple of evenings, but the evil playthrough took me only an afternoon, since I was already familiar with most of the missions and…

I definitely had this interpretation in both 999 and VLR, particularly when I would make a decision with knowledge from another scene and the characters would all react "Why did you know that? How could you possibly have known that?" and the player character says "Yeah, how could I have possibly known that?" I never…

Fairly often, yes, more often at home or on long train rides. I also visit the Nintendo store in Manhattan at least once a week, but it's a convenient three minute walk from my office, so it's no different from going to the convenience store, just full of Jigglypuff. I may not be the best barometer for this particular…

Oh glob, yes, do every side mission you can as soon as you are comfortable (some of them specify whether you should be a certain level to complete the battles in the sidequest). You get so many wonderful new skills from sidequests that make battles both easier and more entertaining to watch.

I don't remember any problems with the Bio Lab. It took me a few minutes to consider separating fluids with the centrifuge, but once I stumbled onto that it was pretty straightforward. I don't remember any problem with the shower drain, any time I see numbers I would immediately write them down assuming they were…

My copy of Zero Time Dilemma finally arrived late last week and I burned through it over the weekend. Gotta say, I really did not love having "fully animated cut scenes" instead of the visual novel stuff. I've never felt a game make me drowsy so consistently, I just felt the need to take a nap every few fragments. It…

After a while, I just made myself accept that running away from Savage Enemies is okay and even made it standard practice. Usually, if I'm in a dungeon, I'm on a quest of some sort, looking for something or gathering resources. Savage encounters don't give me what I need in those scenarios and they are tough so it's…

Oh man, just wait until your idols start learning duets. Basically, mid-session you'll be prompted to initiate a duo performance, like Tsubasa and Kiria singing a song together or Touma and Eleonora acting out a staged fight sequence together, and in addition to some special effect like a health or SP boost it can…

I deliberately avoided Dustforce this time simply because I feel like I nominate it for every Let's Playlist. We've only used it once so far (for the Valentine's Day playlist) but I've definitely nominated it for two or three others. It's my go-to chill-out album, so it's always on my mind. I rather like the game,…

The topicality was certainly not lost on me. I'm just glad it wasn't Krabby. Or Weedle. Or Exeggcute. Or Caterpie. Or Ekans. Or Charmander. Or Gloom. Or Machoke. Or Jynx. Or Slowpoke. Wait… maybe Slowpoke would be okay.

I was getting ready for bed last night and decided to open the app one more time. Lo and behold, a Cubone appeared standing directly on my crotch. I caught him as quickly as I could, mostly so my girlfriend wouldn't catch me pointing a camera at my (marginally clothed) junk. I felt a little guilty until I saw that the…

Yes! I was a Kickstarter back on both editions of The Metagame (the first was specifically focused on games, hence the name, it was a game about games, so you would discuss "Which could be the basis of a cult?" where the cards played were Tetris, World of Warcraft, and Super Mario 64. the second is the pop-culture…

The gate for all three dungeons appears in the Bloom Garden, your home base where you go to upgrade your weapons and skills and hang out with the Fire Emblem characters. I was greeted with a warning, though, that each part of the DLC appears in-game only after certain criteria have been met, but I think that had more…

There are five DLC packs on the eShop right now (all are included with the Special Edition box).

Like Matt, I've been soaking myself in Rhythm Heaven Megamix whenever I can. I wrapped up the excruciatingly long and obtrusive story and am digging into all the side stuff now, which feels so much better by virtue of having fewer (but still more than usual for the series) text prompts. It's great playing the classic…