I think they're also trying to be a bit more practical and obey the laws of physics. Giant 3D ball of water that people kick and throw a ball in screams only opening ceremony to me.

There's the obvious pick of Street Fighter, which would see athletes from all over the world coming together to slug it out. Not only would this be entertaining on its own, but we would also see unique abilities from each country, such as the Turkish tradition of covering oneself in oil for better grabbing, Indian…

One of the saddest things is that animation can be so competitive and so brutal that it's hard for any of these people to come forward and not be anonymous. Putting your name out there can tell us how awful what happened was, but it can also mean that you don't get picked up by other studios since you're willing to…

Yeah, I was in a big Terry Brooks phase when I first started making screen names, so it's stuck around.

Probably the Wii U's GamePad being the KopPad in Pikmin 3. Being able to command and overview your troops on the actual tablet itself made me feel like a true commander, and it made sense for how this whole crew was communicating.

So, on the WAYPTW, there was some positive response to the idea of A.V. Club Splatooning, so I'm gonna start putting that together. It won't be tonight, but if people are cool with it being next Friday, that would be perfect (Friday's my only off day). The biggest problem is that Splatoon has limitations on people…

The trickiest secrets in the game are the Rare Stickers. There's one per level, so, unlike the Cubes, you can't narrow it down to just one or two sections of the level; it could be anywhere. They also are often in harder to find spaces, so you might have to really look for some of them. Fortunately, they're just…

I think if its design was truncated, it was to save the 3DS more. Both it and the Wii U were announced at the same E3, so Nintendo I'm pretty sure thought they were gonna have a hit on their hands (although the confusion did start there, and media wasn't too impressed). But the 3DS was in such dire peril at the time,…

Oh yeah, I forgot that we still didn't have all of them in Mirror Mode. As for the ghosts, I think I was on my way to beating them in my alternate profile, which I made so that I could do things solo. And Double Dash…whoof, yeah, that one was insane. We definitely didn't conquer it, but there was a lot of very…

At least if you can find the Spear power-up, you can play with Waddle-Dee's moveset…but it still doesn't match how adorable he is to play as.

We sadly didn't get enough coins for some of the parts, if I recall correctly. It requires so many! I also can't remember if we three-starred every cup. I think we did for all the regular ones, but not the DLC. Really loved that game, but Hyrule Warriors and Smash became the go-tos for my wife and I, so it sadly has…

Not sure if this was the post that you were referring to, but it as mine from a while ago that analyzed Ocarina and Majora's different color palettes. (I…tend to go crazy when analyzing Majora's Mask).

Can't speak too much on the port, since I haven't actually done a DS game on the Wii U yet, but I know that there are tons of options for how to play it (especially in PH, which is touchscreen only). Like, you can play with the whole DS on both screens, you can have the GamePad sideways to show the whole DS, can have…

Kirby's pretty open with its secrets; it's more there for fun, so you can clearly see how much you're progressing. There might be a few Easter Eggs like sight gags hiding around for fun, but they don't really unlock anything.

Congratulations on the marriage! I know that for me, it didn't change my gaming life that much, but then again our living arrangements didn't exactly undergo a dramatic shift.

As an eSports fan, it will be interesting to see what happens with some of it in the future in terms of commercialization. A lot of them can sustain themselves since the eSports side helps maintain a paying playerbase or gets new people to buy the game, but what happens when that goes away? A lot of games have the…

It's a lot of Splatoon and Fire Emblem Fates. I've managed to make it as an A-rank Splatoon player, though I'm currently toeing the line of dropping back to A-. Last time that happened, though, I shot right back out, so…it's a learning process. I'm also dying to find one specific shirt that should easily give me some…

Agree on Raphael's being the best, I always played him for multiplayer, and as such this song was a reward for being the winner…although I very rarely got to hear it, as such. Heh.

This is a tougher one to come up with examples for, since I can't remember all the games that came out in 1996, but looking at a list, here are a few examples…

I like that the stiff nature of the camera actually helped with the N64's hardware limitations in multiple ways. There's the obvious fact that, by limiting the camera, they could make it so that you only see what they want you to see, which meant an easier time creating full environments. Furthermore, that analog…