Since the human digestive tract is basically a klein bottle, anything you swallow is still outside your body. Bleeding all over someone else's hand, though, is a great way to transmit diseases. Which of those sounds like a more meaningful link to you?

I think I usually agree: QTEs can make sense when they're used sparingly and fit with the established controls.

Plinko was difficult, but really short, and the punishment for failure was relatively minor.

Disclaimer: my hands are unusually pain-tolerant. Stick them under the tap and turn the hot water on full blast and my hands will get uncomfortably warm after a couple of seconds. Stick my feet in the same hot water and it will HURT. I've often cut myself on something or other and not noticed until I started bleeding…

For a while, sure. But (in my completely uninformed medical opinion) it's not the most painful place you could be cut, and a cut across the palm is unlikely to actually kill you, since you're not going to be cutting through any major arteries or internal organs. You probably wouldn't do permanent damage, either, other…

I have a funny feeling that's tied up with Sony's Music "Unlimited" service, and somehow what should have been a limitation imposed by the service is instead being imposed on ALL music files on the Vita. That would still make it a programming oversight, but a more understandable one compared to someone randomly…

Symbolically speaking, blood oaths are powerful: blood has always been tied up in the mystical, and a blood oath is, or should be, unbreakable.

Like other Mario levels before it, Jolly Roger Bay was a pretty good introduction to a new control mechanic. Swimming through a 3D environment using an analog stick and a few buttons has always presented unique difficulties, and it takes a long time to get used to it the first time. So here's our first underwater…

You have to remember that the N64 just didn't have the horsepower to account for specularity or enormous eyes...

Alas! With the transition to full 3D long behind us and Nintendo sitting around tossing out "NEW" Mario games one or two times a year, I'm beginning to wonder just how long it will be before we see another game do so many groundbreaking things right. Sandbox games like modern GTA have larger worlds, but they're so…

Beautiful, incomparable art AND music? That hardly seems fair, does it?

That eel is ADORABLE.

Like I said, they should either patch their mistake (which would be the better or option) or offer a refund if they can't be bothered.

I'm thinking of that ridiculous moment where there's a shine at the end of a level in a pipe way out on an island and the only way to get to it is hopping Yoshi out over the water riding boats from island to island, battling the awful camera the entire way—and if you fell in YOSHI MELTED.

I know Mario's already represented with Delfino Island, but seeing as how dropping in the water meant instant death, I'd sooner nominate the water levels in Mario 64. Particularly Jolly Roger Bay, since it's the first and easiest. The music counts for a lot, too.

This is a review of WindWaker for the Wii. I don't know how much it costs or how hard it is or what it's about but you can probably still buy it somewhere. It's a Zelda thing, I guess? It would be appropriate for anyone who likes boats but not for people who don't like boats. If you don't like clowns maybe it is too…

Well in that case it sounds like Sony's programming division and marketing division need to maybe talk to each other from time to time. In the meantime I think this is a pretty clear case of false advertising.

Black Flag? Is that the assassin thing? I guess maybe it had pirates in it? I never had a Jaguar. It was the one console I never had.

Who created that "9,136 songs" estimate? Was it copied off the packaging, or did Amazon do the math and make a faulty assumption? If it's Sony's claim that the card can hold 9,136 songs, then that's either a major programming glitch or a major misunderstanding with their marketing department, and they should either…

"Up to" means that in ideal circumstances it must be possible to get 9,136 songs on there.