I actually read the article because I’m so excited about Octopath Traveler 0 but I was reminded again that the Switch 2 version is a game-key. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I love the series so much but I also hate the idea that I’m going to have a cartridge that won’t work if I don’t have Internet. But then again I don’t wanna buy the digital version and solve all my problems. Maybe I’ll just go with Switch 1 so that I can play it while I’m laying in bed or in front of the TV or anywhere on one of the consoles I have in the house.

I’m having a great time watching the direct. He’s so much fun; Sakurai feels like that character that’s always breaking the fourth wall.

I’m happy to see his Direct. He’s fun for me to listen to. Even though I probably won’t buy the game, I love to hear him talk about it.

This game was my wife and my relaxation when we could get the baby to sleep. It was an amazing game (with an amazing post-game that came out a week at a time through DLC if I remember correctly).

I just watched a tool-assisted speed run of someone playing through the game with just the hero. What a nostalgic blast!

Oh my, I did not realize Wario Ware was on Switch with the extension pack. That game is easily one of my top three best gaming values of all time and would be my number one GBA title if it wasn’t for Rhythm Heaven.

I have probably played the jump rope game hundreds of times. It is a genius game that has never been followed up with a 100% better game. Thanks for the memories!

Have you ever heard of the FFVI randomized Beyond Chaos? A lot of my YouTube time is devoted to watching 2-Tone Tony play with randomized sprites, battle abilities, and items. He makes up stories to go with the randomness, too. For example, when a character rolled up with the “Engulf” command, the story became about how that person was secretly a ZoneEater trying to stop herself from eating everything in the world.

For a shortened feel of it, here’s a link to a bingo seed (where he only plays until the Narshe snowfields fight): Final Fantasy VI Beyond Chaos BINGO

Yes? I only want it on a game card. I also want it for Switch 2. But if the upgrade is free like I heard, it should work fine.

But if I get busy in early December, it could just as easily be forgotten until Summer of next year. I still haven’t bought Ghost Trick of Switch, and it was one of my favorite game experiences of all time (up there with Katamari and Super Mario Galaxy for wow-factor).

Based on recommendations from here, I picked up the Trails in the Sky Chapter 1 demo. My wife finds the dialogue dated and cliché. Me too, but in a good way. It’s refreshingly old-fashioned. The game is kinda okay, too. With Octopath Traveler Zero around the corner, I probably won’t pick it up after the demo ends.

I was so excited to upvote you yesterday and today it’s confirmed! Yippie!

Murder by Numbers! That’s the one. I almost rage quit when I finished a case and realized I had missed an optional clue (and optional puzzle) with no way to get to it except replaying the case. I hadn’t let go of my obsession with 100%ing games yet, so I angrily replayed the case. In my more calm middle adulthood, I think I would have just moved on.

That said, I do recommend it. The story was pretty good.

My biggest complaint about the pictures is that sometimes my family will walk in on the last minute of a puzzle and play the guessing game of what it is. I miss that family connection with the game (but will probably buy another Picross game like this on the future).

I am eagerly making my way through the last bit of story in Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent before Octopath Traveler 0 comes out. I worry that the things that bother me about the console games will return in this new entry, but at least I know I like the story and source material to this one!

I am continuing with Picross Lord of the Nazarick (I think that is the spelling). It has so many boring puzzles! I don’t think I’ve ever been so bored on the picture reveal screens. Every time, it’s reveal music, then some random character from the light novel or anime. I think this shows my Picross addiction. If this were my first Picross game, I would have given it up ages ago. It kind of reminds me about a Phoenix Wright-style Picross game from early Switch times where you were investigating cases and every puzzle was a clue you found. But I liked that game because it was a part of the story rather than a review of previous story.

That’s enough negativity! I got to play Ethnos, Jungo, and Coloretto at work. Ethnos I crushed it, but I’m still pretty lukewarm on it. Sometimes I just can’t plan in those games and that makes me disinterested. The others were pretty great little card games. I can’t wait to play Coloretto again!

I’m not surprised we haven’t seen a game like that, but what you’re talking about would be incredible! (This was a response to meatbridge’s awesome Metroid/Mega Man mash-up)

It feels like a review of the story more than anything new. But I don’t know the anime (as my son tells me it is).

I just bought Picross Lord of the Nazarick. I’m worried there will be a too much story in it for me to just work through my podcast backlog while playing, but after finishing off Picross S9, I’m not quite ready to dive into the Picross e DLCs yet.

I appreciate that having threatening high-level enemies everywhere made the planet never feel quite safe, but I also agree how annoying it was to run all the time on a level ten mission.

I missed posting last week! I mean, I missed writing; this little community is wonderful!

I wrapped up the Clip Picross section of Picross S9, so all that is left there is the Color Picross. Those games are definitely worth the money for me!

I ran Epyllion, a game that my youngest is calling D&D (Dragons and Dragons). It’s a game of young dragons running errands for the Dragon Council and growing up through friendship and hardship. It’s amazing how patient I can be listening to five ten-year-olds crosstalk patiently but when it’s twenty twelve-year-olds in my civics class, I have zero chill. Maybe because of standardized testing panic?

Tomorrow I’m going to play a trick-taking card game called Fishing where you want to win tricks, but you want to lose tricks to get better bait, too. I hope it’s worth it (but since I bought it after finding an Amazon credit that’s been sitting on my fifteen year unused Amazon account, it doesn’t have to be good at its price).

We also plan on playing Vantage. It seems like a 90s, Sierra-style adventure game where you are exploring a planet while on comms with the other players. They don’t get to see what you see, so you role-play to describe what is happening. I tried it once and I like it all except the theme (sci-fi isn’t for me!)

Oh, and too much Balatro.

I had that same small text problem with the Wii U. I’m glad you are having a good time with it. I’m hoping the best parts of that and X3 make it to whatever the next Monolith game is.

As for exploration, XbX definitely feels more like exploring instead of going to the next checkpoint. But I dig a world that has “funny shaped keys” that keep you in certain areas until the game is ready for you to be there.

I feel like full voice acting was implied by the talking flower. Or were they saying full sentences in the original?

This was such a surprise. My family and I kept guessing names: Pokécraft, Pokémon: New Horizons, Pokemon Crossing. Everything about this (except the name) looks great.

Even the name might grow on me.

I was so excited to see this! My wife commented that she’d never seen me play Fire Emblem before. And I probably never will, but my best friend loves this series, especially after 3 Houses. I hope there is a similar experience in this one so he can have that joy again.