Imagine the level of complaining about the New Super Mario Bros. series if we got one every year on every Nintendo platform!

Is it really a standard save-the-princess narrative when the role of the "hero" is to show up 100 years late to an epic battle she's been waging while he slept in magical repose and then give the extra little nudge she needs to turn the tides of the battle?

I'll be playing ARMS!!! Just hours upon hours of ARMS. When I'm not playing ARMS, I'll be listening to "I'll Be Your 1-UP Girl!" again and again and again. Fingers crossed I still have a live-in girlfriend at the end of the weekend!

For a second when I read this, I was at a loss to remember a 3rd Rock episode where they deliberately lose Harry in the woods.

Riveting when you're not competing against it! haha, in those cases it's just an ominous series of sound effects and blurred colours that make you feel like Batman probably feels around the Flash.

You're going to feel so smart when you figure out the Crown of Bone!

I remember last week you said something about how garbage in a Tetris game can be easily weaponized, but that you weren't aware of a similar possibility in Puyo Puyo.

Probably a light gaming weekend for me. Puyo Puyo Tetris will be the most of it.

I've already gone through the entire cycle of finding Ninjara players challenging, becoming wildly frustrated at the ones who loop the "jump-warp forward-grab" combo and leave me helpless to defend myself, spending a week away from the game thinking about what I might do to counter that, and then getting a glorious…

I think I have… eight games for my Switch already? That's without buying Mario Kart.

ARMS is, of course, a hundred thousand times better than Wii Sports boxing.

Me and milady have found that this is exactly the case: our first game, we played a few battles and then stopped because it had been an hour and a half with me flipping through the rulebook.

Had a glorious Swap game last night, with a much higher ranked player than I.

I'll second this: I've only even played the demo, but that demo has fully sold me on getting the game when I have a chance.

Congratulations on joining the ranks of the elect!

Dark Souls: The Board Game, Dark Souls III: The Ringed City, and ARMS: Global Testpunch for me! Plus probably some Puyo Puyo Tetris.

Sadly, when I went home it turned out I still don't live in a giant penthouse.

This weekend, it'll be Arms: Global Testpunch, Dark Souls III: The Ringed City, and Dark Souls: The Board Game.

The first time I ever beat the Fume Knight involved a glorious finish where, bereft of Estus and magic and on my last legs, I rolled away from his long thrusting attack too early but came to a stop just outside the reach of the attack (it's a very long attack: this was not the likely outcome!), leaving him vulnerable…

Nothing new, digitally speaking, on my end: I'll be playing Puyo Puyo Tetris and Super Bomberman R online! Debating whether to pick up Ultra Street Fighter II Turbo when it drops.