Another one you can add to the list is the upcoming Switch game Daemon X Machina. It is basically an Armored Core/Gundam hybrid. Sadly it has far less minutia customization than Armored Core games (though some people consider that a plus) but has more emphasis on continuous stories and characters. It is incredibly anim…

Yeah the animation style of SS was cel shaded style but with some light actually bouncing off the textures so it didn’t seem full on hand-drawn. SS had plenty of issues, but I think the art direction for it was amazing.

Oh god, that really was the era of “BOOM BLOOM!” wasn’t it?

So glad you brought that up. People always seem to just dismiss the NSMB series as “more of the same.”

That’s sadly one of the biggest reasons many have dropped civics classes. “Too boring.” I know it is always a challenge to keep kids engaged, but the civics stuff is just too damn important.
I also know a few districts around where I live that also apparently dropped the civics class because they had basically been…

Almost no one offers civics classes anymore. Social Studies class will briefly touch on it, but they will just broad stroke it, then the kids will have like 5-6 more years of school where it is never brought up.

A lot of people seemed to think Yooka-Laylee was going to be more like Shovel Knight, where it was something that very carefully evoked the spirit of that genre, curating the good elements of a wide variety of games within the genre and using more modern techniques where applicable. YL keeps most of the…

Yeah I was referring to the private server I was on. Outland was a lot more fun when you had to explore it the traditional way. It was a damn IKEA with how many things you had to twist and turn your way around just to get from A to B. I actually wished I hadn’t been able to fly from the get go on that server since…

I genuinely expected this guy to turn in to some sort of optional boss if you bought too much stuff from him. Like the merchant in the second Castelvania 64 game.

I played on a private server for a little while that let you get a flying mount in vanilla content (it was a WotLK expansion server) and wow did it really illustrate how small everything was. Of course it was also a neat way to appreciate how well the Vanilla stuff was set up with zone walls and barriers to get you to…

Oh shit man...I think I had repressed that and now I can’t get it out of my head. I need whiskey now, lots of it, and I don’t even drink.

You know the World 8 stages in all the 2d Mario games tend to have some of the best designs, but so many of us rarely (if ever) got to them as kids. I have a hard time talking to many people about Mario 3's world 8 and how amazing/batshit it was because almost no one seems to remember it. Mario World is usually the…

Ah the “It isn’t bad writing, it is a satire about bad writing!” defense.

Man I can’t wait to traumatize the hell out of my niece and nephew with that.

When Bolton thinks your imperialist agenda is going too far...just damn...

Apparently not. We’re also only allowed to have one opinion about our politicians that is set in stone and devoid of any nuance.

Dear god yes...

Porn finds a way.

I mean they really want to make Kid Icarus happen, so they should just be willing to try ideas like that. Uprising had some cool concepts and a fun cast of characters, but even people who liked the gameplay (like me) have to admit it had a lot of issues. I mean the overall idea of flying segments and then some on foot…