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Agreed. Hyrule Warriors is glorious Zelda fan service through-and-through. A pretty fun and generally-mindless button masher (really only the later levels and adventure maps require much thought or strategy beyond "run and bad guy, smash, repeat") with oodles of affection for decades of Zelda lore and ephemera.

I never knew there was a crowd-sourced leaderboard for this! According to a Facebook profile photo from 2008, I should be the 194th best Wii Sports Tennis player in the world, which makes me think maybe I should play this game again and see if I can improve.

This is definitely a concern. I'm not a father, and I don't plan on being one any time soon for personal reasons, but many of my friends have recently become parents, some naming me an honorary uncle, and I'm about to become real-on-account-of-blood-relations uncle, so I've been thinking a lot lately about how to be a…

I wouldn't, myself. Firewatch is largely a game about adults trying to escape their own responsibilities and ties. They may act like teenagers flirting on summer vacation, but Henry is basically running away from his wife and his home life. Henry and Delilah aren't threatened by the overbearing world the way the teens…

The heightened sense of world-ending drama is one of my favorite tropes in teen-centric narratives. When you compare the X-Men comics Chris Claremont was writing in the 1980's, the main team of adult superheroes were generally fighting cyborg mercenaries and a government-sponsored team of evil mutants, while the…

Fred Van Lente's four-issue "Taskmaster" series is the one I always recommend, because it's fantastic and most people have never read it. It's a great conspiracy action thriller with plenty of Marvel history Easter eggs and loads of humor setting up the types of stuff he would later do in Valiant's Archer & Armstrong.

There absolutely must be a scene somewhere in the series where Rocket asks Groot about something important, like whether saving one man's life is worth sacrificing a whole star system, and you are prompted with these conversation choices:
• I am Groot
• I am Groot
• I am Groot
and whichever you choose it says "Rocket will…

I was facing down a guardian while trying to get one of my last memories the other day, my sixth guardian of this particular run, and suddenly a Yiga assassin decided it was the perfect opportunity to strike. I was screaming at the TV "your throwing stars do nothing, but you are making it impossible for me to target…

I'm really enjoying Team Kirby Clash Deluxe as well. It's like Monster Hunter, only 2D and everyone is Kirby. I'll add my friend code here once I have a chance to look at my 3DS.

My main horse for the past couple of weeks has been a solid blue beauty I found hanging out in the same field as the giant (Ganon) horse. She's feisty and strong, blue from head to toe, and we named her Mary Berry. When we registered Rosalina (the Princess Zelda horse, so named because she's the only other Nintendo…

Took a break from Persona 5 a few days ago and haven't gotten back in yet. It was my first day in the second Palace after the forced mid-point, I successfully snuck through the room full of security lasers and hopped through the paintings and got to the security room, but then I ran into a red shadow and had an…

Those retina-searing puzzles were the ones that took the most time for me. They're not hard puzzles at all, they are just physically very taxing. I think my method was to solve two or three, then walk away, get a glass of water and look at anything other than the tv for a few minutes, then come back and do the next…

Very excited about Puyo Puyo Tetris. I got the PS4 import a while back (Anthony Agnello sent my now-fiancée on a quest to find it as a sort of test to prove she was cool. Two years later, she still hasn't quite forgiven him) and just loved so much of it, even if I couldn't read the menus or story sections. Played the…

I did two full summon rounds last night, hoping to secure some last-minute Easter five-stars. The first round, when the pull rate was a measly 3%, netted me four brand-new four-stars and one three-star dupe. Elated, I plunked down for another summon, this time at a slightly more favorable 3.25% pull rate, and got……

I believe I'm about halfway into the second Palace now, with Yusuke on my team. This Palace is flippin' fantastic as a dungeon, I just love lurking around the museum, hiding behind gallery partitions to sneak around shadow guards. Disarming the security systems have been fun if not-especially-involving diversions…

Bubbles CutiePie (I love when the teacher asks me a question, "what about you, CutiePie-kun?") and Wet Bandits (the thieves from Home Alone)

This is part of why I try to take a picture of every single material and weapon, so I can add them to my compendium and have a slightly easier time finding them again when I need more. All I need to completely max out my sheikah armor is a few more bass, I think.

The end of Breath of the Wild is in sight. All four Divine Beasts down. 70-something shrines. This week I cleared all three labyrinths for the Barbarian clothes and paid off the final Great Fairy. Kyla insisted I max out a piece of clothes immediately just so we can see how the physical interaction with the fairy…

Not sure if you're joking, but you're close. The one Matt is honestly referring to is the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the system of trains, buses, subways, bridges, and tunnels in the New York metropolitan area. I can't count how many times I've been smushed into other people like a sardine in a can similar to how…