Me and my friends have a headcanon where Yellow Toad, played by our least cooperative team member, is the jerk of the Mushroom Kingdom, and the rest of them try to head off on the adventure without him, but he always shows up at the last minute and they're all like "ugh… Hi, Yellow Toad…"

Duly noted!

Whereas, if everyone has a sense of humour about it, there's great joy to be found in the constant pratfalls and helpless deaths as you try to complete precision platforming sections together, even with the widened platforms.

What does PSPlus add to NieR: Automata? I plan on picking that up at some point, and we've recently let our membership lapse…

PS4 is a nice complement to Nintendo consoles, I've found. Not nearly as many games I want to play, but the ones I do want to play (which, thus far, are Bloodborne, Dark Souls II and III, and NieR: Automata) are all unique experiences that give a ton of gameplay for the buck.

I took a screenshot of the purple-haired fairy saying "A slim little lad like you will do just fine. Yes." and shared it to Facebook with the caption "A recreation of me and [milady's] first date, courtesy of Nintendo Switch."

NSMB co-op is pure party game: it's slapstick nonsense, and you can have a lot of fun with it, but it's notable for being a co-op mode where it's really unhelpful to have those extra players!

When I first got my dear kitty cats some… eight or nine years ago (?!), I was playing a lot of classic arcade games on emulator. Whenever I fired up Robotron: 2084 and that startup noise played, little Abra would come running from anywhere in the apartment, jump up into my lap, front paws on the computer desk, and…

Oh, that soundtrack… I think the main overworld tracks would make nice background music for a Delfino Plaza-type level. That much I will give them.

I'm certainly not completely, 100% hinged these days!

I doubt it will capture the crazy, singular feel of Attack on Titan (can't think of any other show that combines fist-pumping military action with abject, soul-crushing horror while ceaselessly making the rules of its fantasy world more and more bonkers even as it reveals itself to be a fascinating political…

Oh, me and my deltoids will be putting this "can't play for long stretches" theory to the test this weekend!

Just a glorious sonic achievement. It sounds like a natural outgrowth of what Mario music has been moving towards, yet it still works as a standalone jaunty show tune/pop song. The lyrics would, I think, mostly still work as pop song lyrics divorced from Mario, yet they're also incredibly on-the-nose descriptions of…

I don't know how helpful this will be, but my favourite build is Rosalina-Sport Bike-Cyber Slick Tires. With big turns, I start the drift early and gently, then turn hard into it as I draw nearer to the curve!

I can only give you the obvious recommendations that you've heard a million times: Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 are transcendent experiences.

Draped in monster hides, eyes shining with intelligence…

I'd put it ahead, if only because there is already an "X" at the start of the name and they just released a console called the "XBox One S." It's like if the Switch was called "UWiiU."

Oh dear lord, that's horrible! When does it happen?! Don't feel obliged to respond: obviously I should be more than capable of looking this up myself.

I think you've got the right idea: you shouldn't let the prima facie absurdity of your opinions get you down!

Oh, your theory is definitely correct: complaining about Nintendo and how they don't understand real gamers is an affinity signalling thing. You show that you're a serious, mature gamer who only plays on big boy systems by constantly reiterating that a company that has been massively profitable and creatively fertile…