Yeah, I had wondered why would have such thick non-braille books under her bed when she only got back home (to a home she had only known as a blind girl) a few weeks prior. She arrived with no possessions from her time away and they never showed her going to any book stores or libraries, so those books seemed…

While I wasn't wild about the inclusion of a school shooting (was there any foreshadowing of that through the previous episodes? I didn't notice it, so it just felt like sudden and shocking violence to me) I didn't have as much of a problem with the overall story and character as many other voices online seem to. I…

I've played a number of games based on the same mechanic as Roundabout before, but that game's general presentation and sense of humor carried it far in my books. Delightful, and I really enjoyed learning more about the "open world" maps so that I could find easier or more rewarding paths for each new fare.

Thankfully, if you "rematch" the person you lost against and win on the next go, you gain more Toads than you lost (assume that all "you"s in that sentence were "I"s because, yes, this totally happened to me. Twice already) so it still feels like a win for the kingdom.

I am definitely enjoying Super Mario Run so far. I was impressed by the way each stage has multiple layouts depending on which special coins you've collected (the black star coins will be positively brutal). I do find the ghosts in Toad Run a little bit distracting, especially at the start of a run when I often miss…

That section was so very mean. My method for that area was "solve as many as you can right now, then walk away, get a glass of water, maybe watch an episode of comfortable television like The West Wing, come back and solve the next one." Every time those damn flashing lights and screen-shifting puzzles fried my brain,…

The Witness is probably my pick for GOTY, though I am conflicted about that choice. I (like everyone else who played it) just got so obsessed with the puzzles, thinking about them all day, every day, looking for every hidden detail on the island for clues to larger puzzles, and restraining my fiancée every time "The…

Aw man, I watched this last night and found her charming (though I was mostly glad someone finally beat Tim, who had definitely outworn his welcome). I'm sad she's gone, but glad she got to finally be on the show (and win!)

There were a few interludes along the way. "Limits & Demonstrations" between acts I and II, "The Entertainment" between II and III, and "Here And There Along The Echo" between III and IV. Still, it was about a year and a half between "…Along The Echo" and Act IV, so while there are a lot more experiences than just the…

A party game where (let's assume eight people at the table) five people present "real" news headlines and three present "fake" news headlines would actually be a really fun modernized version of this. The amount of daily research to pull this off, though, would likely put out all but the most socially active recent…

My character for the past 2.5 years is a rogue, and I've often done the most damage against big baddies thanks to leaning into skills that boost my sneak attacks, but I'm also very clothy and quickly knocked out of the fight whenever my tank-like teammates set off a trap. Our team (often seven or eight players!) only…

Tomorrow is our final D&D of the year and several members of our group can't make it, so it sounds like we're going to do a one-off adventure, hopefully testing out 5e with some pre-made characters (I've been wanting to switch to 5e for the past two years and start fresh with a Bard).

It took me a minute to remember which puzzle you guys were referencing, but now that I have I am firmly rolling my eyes at that game all over again. Once I saw enough of it to know what I was looking for, yes, it was very much a brute-force type of puzzle, which are the worst kind in the game. Thankfully, I think the…

Like I mentioned below, I pretty much never used the co-op in the Wii U version (which I loved) so I expect this will be divine based on my time so far. My only complaints right now are that rotating the camera is much more finicky with the C-stick on the New 3DSXL than with the right stick on the Wii U (which means I…

You either need the add-on peripheral or a "New" 3DS (I have the latter, in XL). It might be worth it if you have enough games that use them (for me, there's 3D Picross 2, Hyrule Warriors Legends, Animal Crossing New Leaf, and Kirby Planet Robobot, sometimes Super Smash Bros), but if they aren't features you…

Asylum delighted me greatly, and I made a special point of burning through the final chapter the before going on a two-week cross-country caper specifically because I knew it would weigh on my mind the whole time if I didn't.

Ooh, that's such a good way to do it! My review of the original Hyrule Warriors was also an experiment to see how much gaming my girlfriend (now fiancée) could tolerate in a weekend (I brought the Wii U over to her place, and this was a couple of months before we moved in together). I spent the whole two days pretty…

The Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales were too much to resist. I finally picked up Batman: Arkham Knight and The Witcher 3: Complete Edition from the PSN sale, but I think they'll both have to wait until the holiday break later this month.

I am sad about how quickly I burned through 3D Picross Round 2. It really is a lot of fun, with decent enough challenges that only occasionally left me scratching my head and circling the puzzle looking for clues. I wish it had more amiibo support, though, as the few amiibo puzzles I did unlock were delightful…

HOLY COW, I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE JOKING, thanks YouTube for this, very possibly my new text message alert.