Same. Me and my college buddies played “competitive FFA with items and crazy stages.” It was fun getting so good with item manipulation and physics and weird stages. That was before I knew actual competitive 1-on-1 Smash existed, which is what I play now.

My only complaint with the game is that the voice acting seems ever-so-slightly off. It’s not bad. It’s just not FANTASTIC. Also, Zelda’s voice just doesn’t sound like what I imagine it should. I guess that’s to be expected after decades of her not having a voice.

“...whose members skew liberal.”

That’s so shitty. I know it’s not the same, but as a gay guy, I was pretty afraid of the competitive gaming scene when I was younger. I knew that people got harassed for being a “fuckin’ queer,” so that just kept me away.

This game does what old Nintendo game design used to do: “teach you without teaching” in the traditional sense.

I’d rather that annoying ass talking owl to show up every five minutes than the rain to screw me over on a tall precipice...

Ugh. Why is the competitive gaming scene so scummy? It must suck to be a girl and try to just PLAY GAMES without worrying about being harassed.

I’ve tried this with interesting results. It definitely is a sweet spot kinda deal. If I have just one mild drink, I usually feel a little less anxious and more loosened up. I have gotten into this weird zen, “I don’t give a shit how I play” mode once or twice when I had a drink and...wrecked shit in Smash. Like,…

I take—and have take Adderall—every day. I’m one of those weirdos who actually has a long and documented history of ADHD, and I never understood why people were fascinated by this drug recreationally. For me, all it does is make me feel...normal, I guess.

Y’all are crazy. Nintendo’s charm is in the character it puts behind its brand. Yes, the Wii U’s menus were god awful slow, but that has nothing to do with the music.

I can’t even read Kotaku article titles without spoilers now... :-\

No Man’s Playing This Game

I’m terrified of consumables, so I don’t like I use arrows unless I have to. (Because I horde things...99 Elixirs at the end boss of every Final Fantasy game and I still won’t use them? Anyone?)

Yeah, I have a MAJOR issue. Zelda is consuming my entire life, and I’m at risk of losing a grip to anything else I lived for before this game. So...can I, like, sue Nintendo for that?

This game’s physics system and player-world interaction model are currently obliterating anything any other game has attempted. The freedom to do just about anything is amazing. I spent 10-15 hours in the intro area alone, climbing things, looking for treasure, cutting grass to find bugs, following little sparkles or…

I’ve been eyeing the Persona series from the sidelines for a few years now. I’m not a fan of the Shin Megami Tensei universe, so I never quite made the plunge. But watching some trailers for P5, I got really excited. With your good first impression, I’m gonna take the plunge and just buy it!

Early on, I figured out that bombs can knock over trees and destroy them for wood. So you never need an axe for cutting them down (if you’re patient enough). Especially if they’re clustered together, a single bomb can knock over 2-3 trees at once!

Ew. This is so...weird. Is there some historical context to this? It seems very unprofessional and very unlike Nintendo...

God, stories like these both break my heart and fill it with hope. So much damn news these days is 100% negative, hateful, and hopeless. It’s great to see the Destiny community do something like this for Mike and his family.

I’m anxious about this thing. I got mine preordered because I’m still a Nintendo fan, but I’m just really, really disappointed by their obsession with shitty hardware specs in lieu of complicated and gimmicky mechanics.