The flexible difficulty level sounds so appealing. Sometimes I want a challenge, sometimes I want to find hidden items, sometimes I just want the equivalent of a game giving me a hug.

WE GOTTA A GRADUAL INFILTRATION OVER HERE !!!

Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure? (Not a good musical, mind you, but a musical all the same.)

2009: Modern Family
2015: Family Show
2021: Show Show
2027: Unedited footage of production meetings
2033: A person describing themselves watching production meeting footage
2039: A person staring blankly into the camera for 30 minutes
2045: Darkness
2051: Darkness
2057: The birth of the universe
2058: Modern Family reboot

Good point about the static backdrops. Basically any classic third-person adventure game would work on those same grounds. They're already framed like stages, so most of the action could work within the confines of the theater without turning into Turn Off the Dark.

PaRappa the Rapper. Not for the music necessarily, but for what they would do with the scenery. The backgrounds in PaRappa all look like cardboard and are constantly in motion, collapsing and rebuilding into new shapes, and that would be amazing to watch.

Nancy Drew has already reinvented itself recently as an adventure game series, with about two coming out every year. It's a perfect genre fit. I haven't played any, but they seem to be faithful to the spirit of the books and are secret hits despite not being on iOS or Android.

He blinds everybody with his super high beams
He put pills in Tracy's jelly beans!

Is Super Metroid cheating?

I was gonna make a joke about secret amnesia, but they actually did that for real in Furious 7.

Keeping with the spirit of everything named FF8, I hope there's all sorts of time-travel shenanigans, trips to the moon, and seemingly unrelated side-stories that take up a decent portion of the running time.

"Bus" often pops in my head when I see a bird walking around. Not sure why. It's probably the bass line.

I haven't been able to grab the game yet (wonderful credit card issues prevent me from buying it), but glancing at the massive unsortable wall of songs in the Xbox One store… I'm gonna hope there's a better option in-game.

I'm a lapsed Rock Band addict, and the freestyle vocals are reason enough for me to jump back in. Especially for songs where you've fallen in love with live or alternate takes, being able to sing outside the line is a fantastic idea.

There's an American Apparel in my neighborhood with a giant sign that's supposed to read "MADE IN THE USA, SWEATSHOP FREE."

"Trevor Noah knits" is also good and weird.

Sonic Adventure 2 is too singularly bizarre to forget.

A+ is The AV Club's six stars.

Relevant to the discussion here, Alan Sepinwall just posted an interview with Andy Daly that offers some analysis and behind-the-scenes stuff: http://www.hitfix.com/whats…

Having never been interested in Animal Crossing because of its Farmville-seeming chores and having loved this part of The Sims, this is extremely appealing to me.