...right. As someone without a Sony or Microsoft console, Nintendo’s main-line properties only have two or three major game series left to release on Switch - Metroid, Donkey Kong, and Smash, only two of which I really care about. They’ve blown a pretty big wad this year with Mario Kart, Zelda, and Super Mario, so I…

Thanks! For the record, I’ve been thinking about you - I’m going to a GameStop on my way home and try getting you a code for Marshadow...stay in touch and I can send it to you!

I love that Cuphead is doing so well in terms of sales. It’s the right game at the right price, and with that price it doesn’t need to go on sale! If it started at $40, it probably would have dropped to $20 soon anyway, but this establishes a good faith that it’s worth every penny no matter when you buy it.

Hear, hear on game of the year! Based on the solid glimpses of Mario Odyssey we’ve had, I still don’t think that game will be able to eclipse the fundamental way Breath of the Wild reverted “lapsed” game players (those like me that stopped sitting for hours solid and days straight, investing everything into a title)…

Please tell me when this hypothetical upcoming drought may occur so I can use it as an opportunity to buy and play a bunch of games I’m currently not able to buy or play...

Good to know about recovering forgotten moves, but does that also apply to ones I never “learn”?

First, my body has been trying to get sick, and I’ve been somewhat attempting to prevent it from finishing the job for the last week. I went through two packages of tissues on the flights home, and my eyes have been bloodshot unlike I’ve ever had on a consistent basis.

I’ll have to check with @Snazzlenuts to see if I’m allowed to play Jackbox games with him and his wife anymore. I might have ruined it for them, because knowledge of trivialities is my bag, baby.

I need to desperately distract myself from wanting a Super NES Classic. I’ve told myself I’m not getting one until Christmas, and sticking to that is becoming difficult! I’m definitely playing the long game in finding one, as it’s only going to go in the closet until December, but that doesn’t make not having one in…

Been a weird week for me: I’ve been trying to get sick (which started literally the moment the plane took off from vacation); I’ve been dealing with the aftermath of people in the real world being uncooperative, and I’ve banged my head against other roadblocks this week. My frustrations and reminders of the whelming…

I think of all arcade machines, Star Wars is pretty much the top of my list (next to a Pac-Man or Ms. Pac-Man cocktail table). 

Actually, I was drawn to the Global Link and Game Sync features fairly quickly within Moon - I was shocked it would do this, and started my feeling of it being an Operating System - the mechanics and characters are the data within an ecosystem of disparate but tangentially compatible applicatons and environments with…

Thanks for the advice, especially about not being spoiler-averse. I did that with Animal Crossing, and missed out on some features years into it. (Mind you, it extended the game for me, so it wasn’t a big deal, but Pokemon isn’t an “evergreen” game in the way Animal Crossing is.)

You nailed exactly my thought: that these games don’t give you power per se, but they don’t begin with failure, practice, and patience. If I want to be a great farmer, I need to be a bad farmer first and be diligent enough to learn from mistakes. I think this idea that the lower classes are incapable of achievement…

Cool! I worry about my Pokedex and how I should handle it...I can only keep around 6 team members at once, but I feel that any one I leave behind means more grinding later to catch it up if I ever want to use it later. I’m trying to diversify my group now that I’m on Route 5. Only my starter has evolved, too, so I…

Hey! Good to see you, and congratulations on getting a Switch! Next week, you’ll see DrFlimFlam has a MK8DX tournament going on, which is a great excuse to get playing again. I’m still using this year as a swan song for Wii U and 3DS before I get a Switch next Spring, but loved BOTW on Wii U. It never feels like…

I do like the furry gauntlets on 3, despite not befitting a sleek style. I want those and the accompanying armored haidate put on 1 as a heavy kit...

That is really cool, and I can think of several tracks, like Neo Bowser City, that can use that tactic well. Execution is going to be an entirely different animal, though...

Those Developers’ Notes had some serious fourth-wall breaking stuff, too! I want those in the new one about Egypt, because they can’t rightly do a “Historical Tour” Mode that puts 2,500 years of Kingdom in a single moment...

Good luck on that active backlog - you’re close enough on Dishonored to push! Let us never speak of the inactive backlog...