Thank you so much, Matt, for keeping this column running. I haven’t been able to post much recently, but this section was always something I looked forward to. Just being able to talk with such a basic prompt that often led to great discussions, it has always been a highlight. Good luck in where you’re going, and see…

It’s actually been a while since I’ve posted here, just having bad timing every Friday. But here I am to say that I’m still playing Celeste. Slowly but surely (helped by the fact that it can be taken on the go), I’m getting closer to 100%ing it. I’ve also just been playing the game as I want to, not letting myself…

I feel like the indie scene definitely would have blown up in a similar way without Braid, just because of the push that Microsoft made at that time. If it wasn’t Braid, it would have been something else. Smaller games had been around for a while. It’s just that Braid was one of the most eloquent ones to truly start…

For me, pride is something that I try to avoid because it goes hand-in-hand with satisfaction. That is to say, that if I feel proud of something, there may be no desire to improve it. And it’s very rare that something can’t be improved.

Yeah, the too-smart Kirby allies do sully what seems to be a still-solid Kirby game. Makes me wish we had two more people to play with...or that Nintendo would start adding online co-op. Still, Kirby and ARMS are on the forecast for my weekend.

My copy of Kirby Star Allies should arrive for the weekend, so my wife and I will eagerly play through that. I really like that we’re getting a Switch game that should work really well to play on the go together. I’m also working on my Bayonetta 2 replay. The nicest thing about the port is that I can unlock a lot of…

It’s gonna be Ryan Reynolds as Detective Pikachu. He won’t be notable in any way, so even the novelty of having...ya know, Ryan Reynolds voice Pikachu will just be a sort of “...eh”.

I’ve got some nostalgia for Gooey, just because that was the first way I actually played Kirby (second player with my roommate who was going through 3). My biggest hope is that they just keep going with free characters...right now we’ve got the animals repping Dream Land 2, Gooey for 3, and Marx for Super Star...give…

Okay, I posted mine (on-disc DLC that costs money), but then you reminded me of the score-based layoffs/payment. And, yeah, since that mainly affects the essential labor class of game development, yeah. I’ll go with that. On-disc DLC does wrong by the consumer. The unfair Metacritic-based wrongs, though, affect the…

Whoof, there’s a lot to say for bad practices, but I’ll go with paid on-disc DLC as a pretty big one. That is to say, expansions or characters or whatever that is already on the game disc (or in the file...darn digital age), but it is released later behind a paywall. The problem here is that the studio has already…

My wife and I finished Night in the Woods...then we spent the next couple hours trying to go to bed but more lying awake and talking/thinking about the existential horrors of our actual world and fictional ones.

There’s a Party Crash in ARMS thus week, pitting Mechanica against Byte and Barq. I’ll be on the mech-suit girl’s side for sure.

It does mess up Dancing Mad, just like the GBA one did (forces the music to transition between phases, rather than letting it naturally reach the end of the loop). I only know this because I went to look it up on YouTube, because I just knew that would be the GBA screw-up that they would keep. But, I guess it’s at…

Shame that a game that is truly a work of art has to be treated this way. The big question is...why not just give us the original version? Like, that has to be possible, right? I played the original SNES version on a PC...I mean, I definitely played it legit.

I’m very interested in how Kirby: Star Allies is going to turn out. Coming off of the way-more-epic-than-this-should-be Planet Robobot, the reveal trailers have left me ready to be underwhelmed. But, at the same time, I’ve taken my usual stance on trailers and games and avoided looking too deep into them pre-release.…

For me, my favorite times playing a Warriors game (Hyrule Warriors) was when I would get back from work, exhausted and dead but unwilling to go to sleep. Sleeping after a long, painful shift usually just ended in me returning to the line in my dreams. But, chill out with some Warriors and a can of beer...those are the…

Nothing will date this device better than this commercial, full of 90's film angles, fashion, and alternate lyrics for the Candid Camera theme song (which was currently back on the air).

I’ve never really played with mods myself, between barely PC gaming and preferring most games in their original vision. But, when the community is encouraged to mod, like in Skyrim, we get gems like the oddly-horrifying Thomas the Tank Dragon.

Yeah, that one was...I mean, I scoured the level. And then how I ended up getting it...kind of mind-blowing. It’s just so stupid obvious in the end. Took me forever to find in the first place, and then figuring out how to actually get it took me too long.

Yeah, it was a bit of a debate, but those games are two of my wife’s favorites. We kind of justified it as a joint Valentine’s present. Plus, having Tag Climax mode actually be local play is exciting. It will hurt to start from the base, though. None of my health or magic upgrades and just Love is Blue...