Went on vacation this week, and consciously left the Switch at home so Mario + Rabbids and Breath of the Wild would not tempt me out of being present. I did, however, bring the 3DS, so Pokemon Picross, Stretchmo Land, and 3D Picross 2 have all seen progress during slow stretches.

I did, one night, take a…

What loadout are you using? I found the spreadshot to be vital.. so often the best move is to be right up in the boss’s face for a bit, and using it speeds up the fight quite dramatically. I also used the auto-parry a lot (granted, it’s more useful for A-ranking where you need to complete 3 sometimes-tough parries),…

Oh, and how can I forget Cuphead??? I really enjoyed this game, and even replayed it to try and get all A-Ranks until a bug on one boss’s score calculation made me stop. Just gorgeous, and the short levels really make playing it practically compulsive. The only time the difficulty got me a little grumpy was on King…

No thieves in the BG universe??

*Imoen throws up her hands, sighs dramatically, and sulks off into the shadows*

Finished Mario vs. Rabbids this week, and have been plugging away at the final challenges while commercials and timeouts drag on during football games. It’s nice to play a console-style game in handheld mode at times like this.. really dig the Switch. Also, I’m still not tired of the gameplay.. kudos, team, you came…

Other people can’t see the custom names of your Pokemon in gyms, so that kids can’t see your ‘FuCkBoI~*69*~’ Pikachu. So HA HA Russia, HA HA ha ha, ha... ha....... ha........... sigh.

I see where you’re coming from in the wider discussion, but this is an article about people literally saying that a game promoting ousting literal Nazis from America is a “political stance” that they are unhappy with. I’m guessing they’re probably fuming about something in the wider discussion, but it’s factually…

I just got back into school, and the trip is being discussed.. I think it’s a few days away. As for the new character, I found most of the party members (and many social links) to be kind of annoying and exaggerated at first, but they grew on me as they were fleshed out. I’m assuming this one will as well. Although I…

Oh no, you can’t turn sound effects down til you get past the crying baby? Cuz Psychonauts is one of the all-time greats.

Just finished summer vacation in Persona 5, and things are really flowing after the lull around the time of the third palace. I think that not only featured a lull in the overall plot (and kinda a dull dungeon), but also coincided with lull points in the various social links before their plots started playing out. Now…

Much hay is made about this game’s difficulty, but after playing it I think there are some incredibly important subtleties to the game’s design that only make it seem difficult.

Difficulty, to me, is some aspect of the game that causes frustration.. overcoming the frustration produces joy, so that with a proper balance…

Did someone say VR?!?!?

Typically in my experience cards don’t change that drastically.. but I guess since it’s public beta they’re experimenting a little more openly.

I don’t think they even had 6-star weapons either, so that’s another thing :-D

Huge (modern) Rayman fan myself. I never ‘got’ Sonic, but playing some of those Rayman levels gives a sense of flow that seems to be what Sonic fans adore about those games. Feels so good to just effortlessly (sorta) run, jump, flip, and float around those elaborately designed courses.

Your analysis of Gwent seems to be the ultimate experience of any card-battling game I’ve played.. with full deck control, there’s always a fairly limited ‘meta’ with some fun-but-not-as-viable outliers.. and that’s the game until the next update where people scramble to find the new ‘meta’. The only things that…

How’s Picross S compared to most of Nintendo’s Picross offerings (3D, et al)? I love me some Picross, but this seems to be a third-party game.. is it any better than what I can play on my phone? What are the bells and whistles?

Wow, it really drives home how long its been since I played FFRK when I see that none of the people in your party even existed when I played (except the main character, of course). And I think it took months to get to level 55!

Well, I got slightly into the 4th dungeon in Persona 5, and things are picking up. Everything seems much more interesting than the 3rd dungeon — setting, backstory, even the mechanics since I’ve unlocked a couple new tactical abilities from a social link. I’m getting re-energized to push forward!

However, I also…

Really now? That’s an interesting subtlety that I never knew about.