Golf Story will never be challenging outside of a few sidequest missions*. You can literally win the big tournament by finishing one under par. That in no way detracts from the fun.

It does! I discovered that myself after making that post, whoops. I forgot that the “bonuses” menu option only appears when you have an existing save file.

Yeah if the Switch has a glaring flaw, it’s ergonomics. Especially if you have 3DSXL-sized hands.

Most of my weekend will be dedicated to puzzling through Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires’ Conspiracy. This series hasn’t let me down yet, and I doubt the mobile/episodic origins of this specific entry can do too much harm on that front.

Yeah I had a delay in picking up Kat’s adventure so I just got started with it last night and cleared the first case. Gotta say, I had a visceral reaction to the concept of paid DLC in a Layton game, where past titles have literally given us a year’s worth of puzzles for free.

To be fair, said Zelda game was supposed to be (and was, technically) a Wii U title. I wonder if the Wii U would have been as much of a failure had it arrived when originally intended.

First reaction: WHY?!

Great, now I need to re-read A Tribe of One.

Probably an “eccentric tech billionaire” thing.

I don’t remember getting a lot of streetpasses the last time I attended SotG, but that was a while ago. We’ll see what happens in November.

My father and I (and I think my brother as well, to a lesser extent) got really competitive in F-Zero the first time around. Like... “we kept high-score records” competitive. Sure, the game already does this but only attributes times to cars, not players; we kept actual paper records. I dominated early with the Wild…

Finished up Golf Story earlier this week, winning the “big pro tournament” with a mighty... one under par. Yeah, this game isn’t exactly difficult, although some of the sidequests sure can be. It is, however, hilarious and well put-together save for the occasional freeze-up (it autosaves almost constantly; I don’t…

Those are his eyes.

Wolf Children will make you want to call your mother by the time it’s done. Holy crap.

It isn’t the only Ghibli with an adult lead, but they are super rare. Only Yesterday and The Wind Rises are among them, and even Only Yesterday splits its time between adulthood and childhood. A couple others are borderline; I’m not sure what the age of Sophie is in Howl’s Moving Castle, for example. 

Depends on the definition being used. Within Japan, “anime” just means “animation,” with no regard to country of origin. They don’t have a special, separate term for non-Japanese cartoons.

“Cabin Down Below” and “House in the Woods” keep conflating in my head as “Cabin in the Woods” and making me think that Petty beat Whedon to it.

Yeah that’s more of a factor of it being a Nickelodeon product than anything else, I think.

Anime as you care to narrowly define it was originally inspired by the work of Walt Disney. A show written by Americans and animated in South Korea is as much anime as one fully created within Japan.

“X isn’t really anime” is the kind of statement that doesn’t help anyone. It’s needless hair-splitting at best and gatekeeping at worst.