Yeah, I’ve played enough of Melee to know that there’s a different game design philosophy at play in Smash and the imitators that have cropped up since, but my problem with getting good are the same for Smash as they are for Street Fighter: I just go out with fists swinging and don’t adjust my strategy based on what…

There were only 4 proper levels, plus a separate area devoted to a big final boss encounter. And with how soon after unlocking the last pikmin color they threw the final boss at you, it really did feel like the entire game before the boss was an extended tutorial.

I’ve been watching a lot of Super Mario 3D World speedruns over the past couple years, probably would still have to dig around every level for stars like I’d never seen any of it before, so I’d probably get a lot of mileage out of it. I don’t totally have a grasp on the Bowser’s fury gameplay loop yet, but it’s 3D…

Wendy’s needs to find a new marketing gimmick. At this point it just feels like they’re trying desperately to style on fast food places with superior food because they landed one good snarky tweet a decade ago and they think it’s their “thing” now. The breakfast menu was OK, but none of their food (especially the…

Wait... all the buzz I heard about the direct last night after work, and not one person decided to mention that Legend of Mana is getting some love?

So anyway, what’s everyone having for lunch today?

I suppose getting Akira Yamaoko on sound design is probably too much to hope for.

The request to switch to finger puppets also did not go well.

I am going to spend Valentine’s Day at home, playing a video game about trying to bone magical beings and mythological creatures at a summer camp by trying to play it cool and not accidentally summoning sentient butt monsters when the time comes to impress my monster crush. And I’m going to do this while dipping a…

Also, if you wanna go way back for games prominently featuring rejection, Ghoul School for the NES made the absolutely brilliant decision to end our punk hero’s quest to rescue The Girl from The Bad Guys by having him try to put his arm around her, and...

One game I’m looking forward to playing this weekend is Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp, which is 100% a dating sim where the goal is to impress, ask out, and bone various anthropomorphic cryptids and magical beings. And rejection is almost certain.

One game I’m looking forward to playing this weekend is Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp, which is 100% a dating sim where the goal is to impress, ask out, and bone various anthropomorphic cryptids and magical beings. And rejection is almost certain.

The animations are so fun and expressive, too.

I love Quick Change. He’s done so many great roles in movies, it’s hard for all of them to get their fair share of attention, but Quick Change just doesn’t come up often enough.

I submit that Pac-Man and Mrs. Pac-Man have spent plenty of time together, not just through the 80s cartoon, but also in the oft-forgotten Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures. In fact, what I’ve played of the game largely centers around Pac-Man performing mundane errands for his wife and child. She seems to be out of the…

You’re making me miss Extreme Pizza over here. They had a taco pizza where I think they just replaced the tomato sauce with smooshed black beans. Jalapenos, cilantro, grilled chicken, just perfect for adding fast food hot sauce to. I could probably make my own, but now I want theirs, and the nearest branch is 234…

Glad someone else jumped in with this. That lady was such a punchline in the months that followed, even getting mentioned years later in a country song as a symbol for frivolous lawsuits, but Jesus, you look at pictures of the injuries or watch an interview with her, the last thing she deserves is ongoing public…

On a related note, I would like to sue the makers of Miss Renfrew’s Ghost Pepper Salsa for not specifying on the jar that it’s not meant for eyes.

I was actually pretty OK with the Mass Effect 1 exploration on the Mako, and when they replaced it with menu-based resource mining in ME2... I mean... sure, you could say the menu controls were tighter than the Mako’s, and any complaints I had about the vehicle-based combat were addressed by taking out vehicle-based…

I hope he gets some kind of severance package. I’d hate to think he had to eat into his savings over this.