I remember Graceful Explosion Machine being shown at PAX East as a Switch exclusive just as the console dropped, so I think they had a good run of being one of the first games on the eShop.

I remember upgrading the K-9 unit first thing in D1.  Still wasn’t pettable but better than nothing.

Wait I can shoot dogs but not pet dogs?!  What?!

I am a banana!

Bad writing. And this is coming from someone who really enjoyed most of the primary characters and a lot of the artistic direction. I’m giving them ten bonus points for Elijah’s blood-red pool alone.

God, and the other edge of that sword - if you do absolutely everything you can and things still don’t go the way you want, obviously you just weren’t strong or determined enough.

Are you also holding out hope for that Scalebound rumor because I know I am.

That is a really good Yennefer.

Hooray the Behemoth is putting things on the Switch!!!

I’m sure her increasingly large bank account is deeply concerned.

Grave of the Fireflies

I know I’m not supposed to take any of this seriously and FPS is not expected to be a genre for serious thought, but it was kind of unnerving to me that with two recent games (Fallout 76, New Dawn), nuclear apocalypse is pretty much handwaved away and things are still, relatively vibrant/pretty/survivable.

Also most of the problems can be solved by shooting without having to think about it too hard.

I don’t think I’ll complete every side quest, and some of the fighting does get samey after a while, but there’s such a diversity of type of little side-quest, and swinging around the map is so much fun and upgrading the swinging makes it even more fun and easy to find all the little side quests... so it’s a really…

“... I mean it doesn’t really matter how long I put off RDR2, 2019 was going to be a quiet year for the kind of games I like and-”

I do like the Divison font.  That is a sexy font.

There are animals, but you can’t pet them.

I’ll rec Stiff by Mary Roach, too. Not sure how much overlap there is with the other book, but Stiff is pretty interesting and Mary Roach is a very clever writer.

Great soundtrack.

Playing Tearaway on the Vita was a revelation. Also, Psychadelica of the Ashen Hawk was a great little late-end visual novel with good music and great art, in a genre that usually subsists on middling quality.