The only game I've really sunk any time into this past week has been COOKING MAMA: Let's Cook! on my iPhone. I'm actually surprised how perfectly suited the smartphone is for these games. I had seen it in the app store for a week or two, but didn't hop on it until my li'l sis texted me about it (somewhere there's an…

Blowing up classrooms on the first day over a simple misunderstanding? Yup, feels like Generation X.

Huh, I wonder if the order in which kart pieces are unlocked is totally randomized or if there's some logic I'm missing out on.

I had three first-party games on launch day and then—Splatoon Testfire aside—nothing new until last week when my Switch library DOUBLED with Mario Kart, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and Tumbleseed. Add Thumper in a couple of weeks and this is already an extremely solid gaming machine.

Oh my, the joys of rediscovering your 3DS library on a NN3DS. I definitely played Phoenix Wright with the 3D on far more often after transferring everything over to the NN3DS. It actually started to disappoint me when games lacked stereoscopic 3D, like Pokémon Moon or BOXBOY.

Being able to shame my opponents as Baby Rosalina in a tiny carousel kart with two wooden horses bouncing up and down in front is the important part.

It's literally the only way I know how to tell stories. Long, gross, and sinewy ways to get to Zelda jokes.

Nope. The only DLC vehicles I noticed upfront were the City Tripper and the Bone Rattler. I had to unlock the Leaf Tires and still don't have any other vehicle parts from the Animal Crossing pack. I didn't start with anything from the Zelda pack, though I have so far unlocked the Blue Falcon, Tanooki Kart, and Hylian…

Vehicles are NOT unlocked from the start. I'm grinding through low-cc grand prix just to collect enough coins to unlock all the vehicles. I three-starred everything on 100cc and STILL don't have my beloved horse-and-buggy kart!

Me too! TMS totally spoiled me by vastly improving the combat mechanics over all the other SMT games. That game is blatantly just Persona: Nintendo Edition and I loved it.

I really love Puyo Puyo Tetris on Switch. I got the Japanese import on PS4 a couple of years ago, so I knew how great and stressful Swap mode was, but I definitely didn't understand any of the story. Now that it's been translated and on a platform with an easy screenshot button (the PS4 import blocked your Share…

The doctor frowned when she told me that my insurance only covers two biopsies per visit so we'd have to schedule another visit in a few weeks. I laughed like "ha, you want me to do more than two of these in a single sitting? Nah, we cool."

I've been playing a lot of Tumbleseed on Switch which, hoo boy, is a tough game, but I'm loving it so far. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a ton of fun, but since I already had the Wii U version with all the DLC, I find myself wanting for even more.

I work in book publishing, so… yes, more and more, Amazon kind of hates me.

My copy was delayed by Amazon and should be arriving today, but I did meet up with an old friend last night and played a few races of MK8D at the Nintendo NY Store in Manhattan (we played three races on the giant screen with a bunch of tourists watching, which was… intimidating, before moving over to a smaller…

Approaching the memory outside Hyrule Castle, towards the north of Hyrule Field, I took down three of the walking Guardians with a single Lizalfos shield, no problem. Then, two of the stationary half-buried-in-the-dirt Guardians managed to burn through SIX of my shields because I just couldn't get the timing right on…

Bomb arrows are your friend. I went back to that basic Lynel on top of the hill in the Zora region (where you sneak around to steal electric arrows) and even with him hitting me a few times he only managed to take away about 1-1/2 of my hearts by the end of the fight (upgrade your armor early and often! hunt down all…

If you liked the "approach" of the Zora Divine Beast, good news, there's a similar encounter for each of the other Divine Beasts, and they're all pretty equally rad*! The Gerudo and Rito ones are pretty similar to the Zora one, structurally, but the Goron one is… a bit different. You'll see. Have fun!

I've definitely eased off of Breath of the Wild a bit simply because I can see the end in sight and I'm not ready to say goodbye yet. This week we got the final couple memories (the one inside Hyrule Castle and then the final one where Zelda sends Link to the resurrection chamber) and I started just picking fights…

The original 2DS came out day-and-date with Pokémon X & Y specifically because those were the first 3DS-exclusive games in a huge-selling franchise that is especially popular with younger children, whose parents might be scared off by the warning labels on the 3DS about affecting vision on children under a certain…