My order has (apparently) shipped! Yay!
And says it's arriving Monday. Boo.

Skyward Sword has some very cool parts, great dungeons, and among the most interesting uses of backtracking in the franchise's history. It also has one of the most infuriatingly long tutorials and easily the most aggravating sidekick in the franchise's history, plus a not-great boss fight that keeps coming back to…

Plus side, the last time that "you weren't home" thing happened, they just sent me two of the same order the very next day (though I don't know what the heck I'm going to do with TWO copies of the board game King of Tokyo) so maybe I'll get two Switches out of it? Yeah, that seems likely…

I just got off another chat with another Amazon rep. He said it had "entered advance shipping status". "That's what they said yesterday". "Yes, but now it has a shipping ID". "Great, can you tell me where it's shipping from? I just want to make sure is somewhere that can plausibly get to my apartment within the next…

Amazon insists that my Switch (along with Zelda and 1-2-Switch) will be delivered today by 8pm, but my orders page shows that it hasn't even shipped yet. I chatted with an Amazon customer service rep named Rahul yesterday and he assured me they'd arrive on time. At this point, I feel like they'd better be coming from…

Same here. I keep telling myself I'm done with amiibo, and they keep releasing ones I actually want, like the Animal Crossing line, and Chibi-Robo, and now Qbby.

Agatha was simultaneously the character I was most excited to unlock and least excited to actually play as. I had such high hopes for butterfly swarm attacks, but she's just slow and unresponsive.

6:30 PM on the East Coast and Amazon says "Shipping tonight". It had better be shipping from a warehouse in northern New Jersey to get to Brooklyn by tomorrow evening.

Matt says in the seventh paragraph "And no, I haven’t played while on the toilet yet, and I probably won’t any time soon. Give it a few months."

I ordered mine from Amazon and have been driving myself crazy refreshing my orders page for the past day and a half. It says it should arrive tomorrow by 8pm (the console, Zelda, and 1-2-Switch), but it still hasn't shipped. I chatted with customer service about two hours ago and they assured me they will arrive on…

I had only dabbled in Fire Emblem before the recent mobile app, but I'm pretty hooked on it now. Hyrule Warriors was my surprise sleeper hit of the past generation. Fire Emblem Warriors is near the very top of my most-anticipated-Switch-games list, behind Splatoon 2 and Super Mario Odyssey. I worry that it will…

Adulting is definitely a big selling feature for the Switch to me. I'm getting married in a couple of months, but when she and I were just talking about moving in together I was concerned about how my gaming would play into our cohabitating. Thankfully, I received my review copy of Hyrule Warriors right around that…

Indies on Switch could be a big deal for both the indie community and Switch sales, in my view. Indies are the games I find I talk about the most often when out with friends, both because I generally find them more interesting than AAA titles and because people are less likely to know about them. When those games are…

Neighbor kids would knock on my door when they had trouble in their games and needed advice. We didn't have the major consoles, but I read all the magazines and memorized maps and button combos like a total dork.

1. Link's Awakening
2. The Wind Waker
3. Phantom Hourglass
4. A Link to the Past
5. Oracle of Seasons
6. A Link Between Worlds
7. Ocarina of Time
8. Four Sword Adventures
9. The Minish Cap
10. The Legend of Zelda
11. Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link
12. Oracle of Ages
13. Majora's Mask
14. Skyward Sword
15. Twilight Princess
16.…

I've had more encounters than I can count where one of my fighters was proving ineffective, despite the weapon triangle (an axe-wielder should be strong against lances, but for some reason nothing was connecting) and then my healer would roll up and use a light magic attack on the offending guard and just burn a hole…

OH THANK FUCK about SnipperClips. I was freaking out for the first couple days that I couldn't pre-order it only to come to my senses and realize that of course it's a digital-only title (although apparently in the UK you can get the download code bundled in with the purchase of additional Joy-Cons). When my fiancée…

I realized too late that I had been spoiled by my first two summonings, which each included one 5* and two 4*s. I thought they would all be like that. Instead, I'm buried in red 3*s over here.

Tomorrow is our first D&D session in what feels like forever, so that'll be interesting, shaking off the rust and all. The last few sessions have all been one-offs and holiday specials, so this quest is actually directly picking up from a cliffhanger we had back in… geez, it had to have been August or September! We're…

Nothing suspect about that recounting of Wii U memories. Nuh-uh. The sixth paragraph in particular is completely normal and unremarkable. I would applaud your tale, but such praise would suggest that there were something extraordinary or of singular note, and that would be patently untrue.