I’ll check it out!

You’re right about the buying. I imagine that being bought by Nintendo is the ultimate validation for everybody working at Next Level and they’ve put out some great games to deserve it.

I’ll kill a man for new Strikers. My high school graduating class got extremely competitive about the Gamecube game and people would play it every day at lunch. It was awesome. Bring it back!

Some news about BOTW 2. I loved dreaming about prerelease BOTW just as much as I loved playing it. (And it lived up to the hype, too, as games so rarely do in an industry with impossible expectations. What a masterpiece.) So I’d love to hear some more about BOTW 2 and start dreaming. Locations, story hints, whatever.

Heck yeah! I always miss these, glad I’m in the know this year. Wish more outlets would give it some coverage as it moves along.

Ugh I hate that Arc of Alchemist intrigues me. Look at all that JRPG crap in the trailer! I’m a sucker.

Definitely. I played it because I bought it on Wii a long time ago. So stupid that it’s gotten less easy to pay Nintendo for their old games since then.

Other thoughts - didn’t realize Super Princess Peach had a whole feelings thing. Rough.

to the central concept of playing as a human man with a 20-foot vertical leap and a blood feud with an army of turtles

This is why I wanted a Series S so bad and unfortunately I did not have your luck.

To each their own, my little brother who played it really likes it. I like seeing what the best games were in their own eras, even if they don’t hold up so well anymore. I’m playing FFVII at the moment, I can deal with some annoying mechanics.

This sounds like some of my favorite NPC parts of Xenoblade. Adding it to my list the next time I need a fat RPG.

Kotaku covered all those and I was surprised there were no links to that.

Why would I make a game that Sony owns? That’s what it comes down to for me. It’s great that the tools are so intuitive that people can make amazing stuff on a controller. But they should let you license the software and actually own the stuff you make. Until that happens there’s always going to be a whiff of…

Always excited when you have a weekend :)

I understand how you feel. Sometimes when I restart I think “I’m not getting the full experience” especially if I don’t remember who people are or why I’m working for them. But, as you say, restarting is too time consuming.

You can breeze through Odyssey if you’re not concerned about getting everything. And it works well in small chunks, too. I didn’t 100% it but have gone back a bunch of times to grab stuff because the game is good enough to sell itself.

Haha, I was like “isn’t that a PS5 game?” Nope, Godfall. Fire everybody who names videogames.

I am very anti-restarting, but I agree that it’s hard. Sometimes I’ll just use a guide until I’m back on track.

I had a really good backlog year, beat a bunch of stuff that’s been sitting around forever.