This weekend I'll be playing Puyo Puyo Tetris and Tumbleseed, while perhaps getting back to Legend of Heroes: Trails In The Sky.

I'm playing a lot of Tumbleseed and Puyo Puyo Tetris while eagerly awaiting the arrival of Disgaea 5 on the Switch. To be fair, I could buy it digitally in the Japanese eShop, but I get it for 20% from Best Buy, so I'd be crazy to do that.

There's so much poetry in seeing how well Sony did after that. I mean, I'm a fan of Nintendo software and hardware, but that's such a mind-bogglingly unprofessional move that I appreciate their cruelty dogging the company for two decades. I also appreciate the fact that it's been pretty good for consumers to have more…

Oh boy, I know you're on the road a lot, and I can't help recommending Hyrule Warriors Legends to you. It's so, so good for "one more round" on the go play, and actually beat out the original Hyrule Warriors for my affections.

Enjoy yourselves on Bomberman - it's one of the most fun local multiplayer games I've played recently! If you do want to play that with your friend, it would be worth popping the game into your Switch and downloading the latest patch ahead of time - it actually improves performance significantly, so the game goes from…

At least we got Undertale out of it, eh?

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It's one of the reasons I'm excited for that studio's Ever Oasis, though you never know if design chops translate from working on remakes to working on original IPs.

I did this too. It genuinely made 0 sense to me when I discovered the Akkala fairy last, at around 90 hours of in-game time, despite regularly being within spitting distance of it. As you said, I guess I just never pointed the camera in that direction.

Oh I'm totally with you on that - both would be ideal. I mean, why not use classic game remasters to fill in gaps in a library, especially given Nintendo's reasonably slow (if overblown) first party release schedule? Heaven knows farming these things out, like they did with the 3DS Zelda remakes, can result in some…

Yeah, the goombas in particular look atrocious in SM64. Glad they settled on improved designs for most of the characters (though I love how chain chomp looks in that game).

I'm actually with you. I enjoyed the voice acting in Breath of the Wild, and Link speaking wouldn't have been a huge deal to me, but I did prefer retaining the silent protagonist trope. To each his/her own, of course, but that's my preference for a character who is effectively intended to be a blank slate.

Is a new Mario game in a similar style, but with all-new content, not reason enough? I'll never understand looking backwards and seeking remasters over new, innovative content, much as I enjoy jazzier-looking versions of past classics.

Toon Link is the best Link, and I'll not hear otherwise.

Gosh, I disagree pretty strongly with the claim that Link doesn't have an impact on the world, and also (to a lesser degree) disagree with the lack of integration between Link's abilities and the puzzle elements.

Can you play War of the Lions on the PS3? I thought it was only on PSP.

At this point my favorite is a tie between Majora's Mask and Breath of the Wild. The former has one of the most perfectly designed thematic/mechanical balances, as Link works to personally help everybody who is coping in different ways with their impending mortality, while the latter is perhaps the most satisfying…

It's weirdly hard to go back to Persona after playing the similar-but-slightly-enhanced battle mechanics in TMS.

That would really disturb me - on the other hand, players who failed to lose a horse would not have the utterly delightful experience of meeting the Horse God, one of the most bizarre characters in the game.

I was so bad at stealth that 90% of the time I'd do this to wrangle a wild horse. It was both easier and more comical to witness.