I'm pretty poor at more high end Kart know-how (for instance, I don't really even know how you can tell the difference in drifting like Velocity's example), but regarding 3 I prefer to accentuate a couple stats instead of going for a purely balanced approach. I generally play Black Shy Guy, so I'll often use the…

3DS. Easy, portable, and can play games for the DS, the system I'd really choose were backwards compatibility not a factor.

I…think I may have a problem. One or two weeks ago I obliquely mentioned a financial windfall that put me in the market for a new console. Well…it turned out to be two. I purchased a refurbished PS4 and one of those Gamestop Switch bundles with ARMS. I’m not able use these quite right now - especially not the Switch,…

Hell, Charles Manson's still alive. No law against a penal inmate being president.

Wouldn't "competent people" have inevitably meant the kind of Republican hacks who would have more efficiently crippled healthcare, further privatized the prison industry, deregulated environmental protections (albeit while possibly not leaving Paris), further cut rights for women and LGBTQ folk, and found ways to…

It's like a sociopolitical version of Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

I actually was one of the people more excited for Odyssey than Breath of the Wild, at least until the latter's reviews started coming in. And while I'm not sure whether it'll be dethroned, every single thing I've seen of Odyssey has been less "positive" than "sublime."

For whatever it's worth, I was mostly joking. I don't find anything offensive about the dudes.

I think a lot of it is more that "sleepiness" or "slovenliness" are just stock stereotypes not really tied to any one specific population. Like, marginalized group ___ gets portrayed in that way to justify discrimination. It was given in some fashion to a lot of ethnic groups that came into the U.S.

I believe the game in which you saw that gimmick may have been Driver: San Francisco.

I mean, it's a desert with some Dios de la Muerte-style skeletons in sombreros. It is not necessarily "great," but it's nowhere near what you'd find in, for instance, most contemporary sandbox games.

Something interesting about the 3D Mario games is that innovation always comes most strongly through the environment or level design. And because the stated interest of this game is in going back to Super Mario 64, expanding its worlds as mini-sandboxes and the game's story as a globe-trotting adventure makes a ton of…

(I've actually been loving a lot of their output over the past few years. The Wii U had a boatload of problems, but I'm not even going to type out the list of games I love from that system because I've done that too many times on this site already. But I'm glad they're being rewarded for doing good work.)

Yeah, but compared to Other M…oy.

It's so good. Of course the Mario depiction of New York City is an idyllic, pre-Giuliani retro funland full of show tunes and taxis you can possess, where "gentrification" just means an evil robot climbing up and down a skyscraper.

Oh, it's absolutely the black sheep now. But it also came out about twenty years after Metroid II, so the image had set in for a while.

As much as Joel Robinson's MST3K adage has always applied, it is fun to think about, surely. After all, is Peach not a decadent monarch as never seen since the time of Louis the XIV, with all her building of giant antigravity racetracks around reproductions of her castle? Bowser's almost more of a sleazy political…

It was only the "black sheep" in the sense that people liked and remembered it less than the other games. Which I think says a lot about the sheer extent of the esteem in which people hold Metroid.

Old-Timey Show Tunes New York City World! Dinosaur World! Pseudo-Film Noir World! Mexican Caricature Desert That's Inexplicably Frozen World! Metallic Food World! Forest World!

This feels like exactly what a remake should do and be. The original has really good ideas and mixed execution, and it's one of a number of early Game Boy games that show their age a little poorly, so it's the kind of game that could use a remake. But it's also a remake that has entirely unique mechanics and features,…