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My favourite Dragon Quest.

I'd get the slowpoke if I was rich enough.

Fancy a Nando's now, thanks.

I'll try and remember these when I play the game in a year's time. Explore, items, allies, got it.

Maybe Dragon Quest Wars and Pyoro.

I happen to have a Japanese 2DS, but sadly it's in Japan where I can't access it. The race is on!

I'm going to get some of these, but I'm a bit worried about how long they'll even last on my Wii U. After living abroad for a couple of years I booted it up when I got back and the downloads wouldn't open for whatever reason. Re-downloading them fixed it, but won't be able to do that forever. Guess I'll keep it plugged in and try and actually play them.

DK Mountain is the greatest Mario Kart track ever made.

I'm not a huge fan of the robot's voice.

With respect to any fans; an aesthetically terrible Pokémon.

More time to cram down that vocab.

Never heard of this. Tempted to whip the 3DS out and download it.

@Indielink Thanks, I think they'd be my preferred method.

Thanks. Does it not have motion controls?

@Zarudepie You walked 9 million steps yesterday? Respect.

Why is Apollo Justice in the centre? I suppose because he doesn't have a Meiji Japan equivalent to balance it out aesthetically.

I'm brushing up my Japanese just in case.

One of my biggest gaming wishes. My head would be gone.

I'll probs get it.

I was looking forward to this but decided to get the original GameCube game instead.

I think the art style, including box art, is much worse, but I'm looking forward to purchasing it anyway.

Looking forward to the second look.

My only experience with Digimon since following the show as a kid is occasionally watching the classic film, "Digimon: The Movie", and then thinking about how cool WarGreymon is in the subsequent weeks. But seeing that image of Agumon and whoever, in what looks like an abandoned school, has grabbed me. Maybe I'll make a purchase based entirely on that.

Ethan Bellénd? Is he from the Channel Islands?

Yakuza Kiwami and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations. I hope everyone enjoys their weekend.

Could be a pleasant way to practice reading. Had no idea this series existed, thanks for the article. Looks a wee bit expensive, though, how long does it last?

I was going to go back to the Wii version for the motion controls but if these are actually better I suppose I'll get this one.

I hate the term, "monstie", but I also quite like it.

Horrible art style, but very excited to see Advance Wars back.

Slogging through Contact on the DS, a big disappointment, and skipping joyfully through Astro's Playroom on the PS5.

I don't think there is enough time in a human lifespan to play through a long game like the Witcher 3 more than once or twice, unless you're happy missing out on other experiences.

I'm making the most of physical while it's still around.

They don't need to last forever, just until I kick the bucket. I won't bother including my backlog in my will.

Can't believe it's been a year already. Still haven't actually bought anything from it. Maybe I should.

Well, that was a bit rubbish. Best thing about it was a half minute clip of Paper Mario...

Finished this the other day, a top class game. Easily my favourite of the Ambassadors. Even if it is a bit cheesy.

I hope this is as good as I'm imagining it to be.

Nice one.

Ace review. I'd better whap this on my christmas list.

I suppose it's similar to when authors deliberately choose to set their book in an ambiguous time period. That way nothing can get out of date or seem clichéd thanks to the ravages of time. In the same way, as you described, Mario isn't really anything, nothing about him can wither with age. If you look at any other mascot; Sonic, for example, when he went through his "cool" phase it soon went out of fashion as people's pre-determined expectation of what was "hip" and "funky" advanced beyond him. In fact, I'd argue it's Mario's irrelevance that has kept him at the top. You can't look at his games through the lens of current society and apply its' values to it, thus he can't be perceived to be out of date. Or something like that.

Huh. This is a unexpected blast from the relatively recent past.

This looks mildly disturbing.

Also, formees? Really?

I don't think I've ever even seen a Makro...

£90 is a terrific deal though, just a casual £110 saving on the launch price, makes me wonder why I paid so much for it when it came out.

Blimey. Link cut that parachute jump a bit fine. He couldn't have been more than two metres above the ground when he opened it.

This is terrifically bad.

The packaging doesn't heighten its' aesthetic beauty much, and the fact that it takes batteries is such a palaver.

I hope it's localised to "Go Holiday". Not that I'll be getting it either way.

I love kippers. Definitely good for breakfast.

I vote option D. What doesn't make sense about making ambassadors feel temporarily more special?

Nice quote box you've got there.

Also, I thought the GB-Micro was great, I love mine.