Just to throw in a wildcard to the discussion, I really being really, really on edge trying to play illbleed, mainly because I had no. Idea what I was doing and random events seemed to be triggered without warning. The whole game was very tongue in cheek, but that feeling that something could get you at any time was…

I think, in its essence, random encounters has always been a bi-monthly, curated box of snacks masquerading as a weekly JRPG column.

As a general rule of thumb regarding scottish food: anything naturally occurring is great, anything we make is probably borderline toxic.

I can't wait to see it recreated in minecraft.

That should have been "With only 10 'shopping days to go until Christmas".

Fair enough. I didn't know you'd bought two more and we're armed with that info. Otherwise, choosing wii fit trainer over mario, link et al would raise a few... questions.

I'm guessing tiny statues of women? What do you do with them? No, wait, don't answer that!

Why was the wii fit trainer one of the first three you picked up? Explain yourself.

Considering the time of year, that might not amount to much for a lot of us!

It used to be 3ds for me, but the wii u pad has made it really hard to go back. I do most of my gaming in bed while my wife is asleep, so mario kart and smash bros cause a little too much clickity clacking. Rpgs like earthbound are ideal as they play silently... Also, a phantasy star online on wii u would be the death…

I heard someonesay this before... It's already there though! When you're playing there's panels on the right of the touch screen, one is map ones is off screen play etc.

This reminds me of calling master Chen from shenmue in real life. Sure, he answered in an English accent and changed his answerphone message to say his company had nothing to do with the game and eventually changed his number, but you could tell it was him.

There's a sketch from a show called burnistoun that sums this up very well. As I can't seem to paste links on my phone, a YouTube search for "burnistoun elevator" will take you there. I hate kinja on mobile...

Haha. She'd be brilliant at the old pretending to be caught on a fish hook routine.

"The narrative is sow compelling... There are multiple twists in this tail. You'll find yourself squealing with delight as you hogg the controls. Swine out of ten" The Sun

I'd love an oddities-style show about a place like this with lots of info about the games and why they're rare/valuable.

I bet they're going to make loads of vita announcements. They must at least a year's backlog to get through...

"The fake back of the box quotes were my favourite part of this article" - Pyjak

... Were you in any way involved in the design process of the wii u?

Good grief!