I DID! It looks so damn good! It's the kind of thing that really gets at part of why I love Mario so much; those games can just do entirely deranged things and feel entirely natural all the while. Because everything feels right.

I think Proto Man is referring more to stuff like pulling the Nunchuck for the grapple, which I do think could've been handled a lot better. But absolutely, the Trilogy controls were excellent.

Oh, and Nintendo is literally in the process of announcing another, 2D Metroid game for the 3DS which looks pretty lovely - EDIT and looks to be a remake of the forgotten entry in the series Metroid II. so that's nice.

This news almost makes me forget the second greatest thing in the Direct: that wonderful, pseudo-big band song in the Mario Odyssey trailer. And, hell, every other part of the Mario Odyssey trailer.

Yes, Retro is absolutely a thing and, while not confirmed I think, I suspect they're the team making this. They've been utterly silent since releasing Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze in 2014, though they have also made some small hints about things like having the company cook a "prime" rib.

But then they'd essentially be a third party publisher, and they'd most likely have to adopt the kinds of "no fewer than five million sales for two years of development" philosophy that everyone despises EA for.

Works for me. And it'll be fun having a new, exciting character who isn't a chauvinist dolt who gets his entire crew murdered.

Let's do this, people! Time to grab those missile expansions and fill up the logbook!

I'm pretty sad it got leaked so early and especially so frequently. It's the kind of game that really should have come out of the blue, especially since it looks vastly better than anything with those Rabbids deserves to be.

I'd like to note here regardless of context that to only further the oddness of this project, it's going to be scored by Banjo-Kazooie and Yooka-Laylee composer Grant Kirkhope. Which is delightful.

The problem isn't that they would rather have Pence; hell, most of them hate his guts, I'd imagine. But he is the face and spirit of the party, so they're all desperate to ride his poorly proportioned coattails, terrified of being hit in the primaries by Republicans who want to replace the swamp with other kinds of…

Oy, but we surely need the tsuris like a hole in the head…

Assuming it doesn't, it's also horrifying realizing that the GOP will never, ever accept any of their (substantial) responsibility in all this. They'll just ignore it and say he wasn't a "real" Republican before pushing the next lunatic, and their followers will distance him from the Party the way they did with…

Oh, I was referring to The Magnificent Three, dir. Harold Zoid.

Maybe you just die? I suppose Laura's encounter with Anubis discounts this, but maybe that box of darkness is your fate without belief? There's no hell or punishment, just your own assumptions about what death is. You believe in it, so it is real.

Hell, Rob Schneider was seventeen, once.

Odin wasn't even in his, outside of effigy. And I guess you could argue that Essie's story took up so much time, but it's thematically relevant, which is a lot more important for a show as chimerical as this one than being narratively relevant. The plot and themes she goes through relate to Sweeney and Laura, of…

I have a feeling their better and worse luck was a lot more mutual than either would realize. Maybe he punished her for not keeping the faith, as one does. Maybe he simply cannot grant those boons without fait, as one cannot. Honestly, it's probably both. We pull our gods down and up with us.

And as the show has taken pains to explain, gods do not and cannot exist without the people to create and empower them. Her story is his as well, and you can see why the gods might have so much reverence for their worshippers.

I wonder if part of the problem is that they need so many different sets, costumes, props, and other ephemera from all those different time periods. Or maybe Starz doesn't want to spend too much money, and Fuller and Green want to take their time.