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@-wc- I've written a lot about Earthbound lately and I'm trying not to repeat too many of my points 😅 But you're right, the music is awesome. And catchy. I will have it in my head forever.

@shaneoh Super Mario Bros is a roguelike

I have been summoned

@shaneoh ha, no! But the procedural runs, that's pretty Roguey, right?

@NerdyBoutKirby y'know, I had an inkling it might be old (and that someone would call me out for it!) But sometimes it's the end of a work week, and it's Friday, and you want to just write something quick and fun ☺️

@Olmectron heh, yes. I like my shaders too much. Playing it on Switch is good too! It's just not as pretty!!!

@SuperCharr I'm playing DQB2 as well! It's a lot more piecemeal than Minecraft — so far I've played probably at least 20 hours and I'm still in the same farming village because they have SO MANY REQUESTS. Also, they keep destroying my hard work to build a bigger tree, which now takes up the entire village

@CharlieGirl I had COVID and then I had a two week break, so I've been gone for ages 😅

@ViewtifulJohtun oh goodness, Blood and Wine is maybe the MOST gorgeous part of The Witcher 3. Maybe I should replay, since I never finished Hearts of Stone...

@Solomon_Rambling I actually didn't mention it in the article, but we would occasionally all pick the alternative ANGRY EGG voice pack for extra-chaotic multiplayer

@JasmineDragon it's pretty good! Honestly the way some people talk about it, I thought it was going to be a movie all about punching, but it's much more nuanced and clever than that.

@Milton_Burle any tips for someone who hasn't tried ascension at all yet?

@TotalHenshin yes!! I still haven't Slayed The Spire (i.e. the end boss) but I've made it all the way with all three keys once!

Sorry that I mistakenly said 999 and VLR were on Switch, I was sick when I wrote this (but didn't know it yet) 😅

@JasmineDragon I've been sick this weekend so I blew through the first two stages as the Silent - I love her! As Teksetter put it, it's a really fun "death by a thousand cuts" approach that I like because it feels oddly stealthy? Get in a few poison jabs here and there and then just wait ☺️

@RR529 I used to have to trawl through old Xbox mags from the 2000s as part of my job, so believe me when I say that calling a pixellated Zelda "sexy" is extreeeemely tame compared to the stuff they got away with later on. I mean, the back few pages of OXM used to be adverts for phone sex lines 😬

@Flint nah, people were wearing shoulder pads in the 90s (I was there). We don't just automatically change fashions because it's a new decade!

@Rosalinho British game mag dialect is its own weird thing, too. Calling Nintendo "Ninty" and Shigeru Miyamoto "Shigsy" like he's a footballer are still ingrained in my memory, plus random magazines words like "brill" - and I was only in British game mag writing in like, 2015. I did not talk like that in real life!

@Bucket @BabyYoda71 oh no oops

Edit: I fixed it

I bought DQ7 second hand for about £7 around 10 years ago, I think. No idea what I did with it after that 😬

@Caolan114 The Game Boy Advance is over?

@Kiwi_Unlimited it varies! Sometimes they come to me perfectly formed in a flash of inspiration, and sometimes I have to mull it over for HOURS (and ask for help from all the other writers). This one isn't one of my best, but it's alright!

Thanks for the recs, everyone (I don't want to tag you all so I hope you see this!)

I've already played most of the games that were recommended — Tunic's brilliant; Gorogoa, Paper Mario, Captain Toad, and LEGO Star Wars are all very good, but not quite the meaty-life-sim thing I'm looking for; and I finished Short Hike and Littlewood already!

However, I gave up on DQ11 not that far in, so maybe that's what I go back to. I've also been told that Dragon Quest Builders is good... Oh, and I need to play Superliminal. I've owned it for AGES at this point 😅

@Snatcher there was even a THIRD Among Us story (Horse Mode) that I didn't cover 😅

@RadioHedgeFund I just reversed a couple of the images for composition reasons, that's all

@Cinderace good job, this also confused me (because I forgot)

@nessisonett I don't get to write about Bloodborne enough and this seemed like the closest it'll ever come to being a Nintendo topic 😥

@CANOEberry I am pretty good at Bloodborne, actually! I beat Rom first time and everything 😎

@sdfkj213 Thanks for the heads up! I couldn't find this info myself

@CANOEberry I've been in Canada for FIVE YEARS and I've only ever seen one raccoon, in downtown Halifax! I love the little round beasties

@Galdius Congrats on completing your collection either way, but I hope it's good

@Galdius Welcome! Have you played the Barbie game yet?

@GameManAdvance Ooooh hello!!

@FishyS everyone told me that programming was a lot like Latin, which I did at university — it's a very logical, mathematical language that's all about slotting things into the right places, and making sure all the endings agree with one another. I don't think programming is anything like it, though!!

@Yorumi we ended up settling on "hacker" because this title was REALLY hard to keep short AND make it interesting 😅

@Fizza who would win: fifteen pages of perfectly written code or { one squiggly boi

@StardusterEX Failbetter has Mask of the Rose coming later this year!!

@mwatcher hmm, you may have a point there, I didn't consider that it could be read like "it's getting this, THEN a Switch remake"!

It's meant to read as "I can't believe it's getting this before it gets a Switch remake". I may tweak it to clear things up!

@MostHandsieBoy "young lady"
I'm 30 😭

@Chrysologus @ChromaticDracula I did mean A Link To The Past, not in the colours, just in the feel of it!

@ModdedInkling I gasped OUT LOUD when I wrote it.

It would appear Mr Too Many Otamatones has issued us a challenge:

https://twitter.com/TheRealSullyG/status/1502050089900122112

@nessisonett I appreciate you.

@AJWolfTill aw heck, you're right. Maybe I'll add it when I've recovered from writing all 36 entries

@Thomystic if this were an actual interrogation I would be sweatin like mad

@MH4 thank you! That's very kind

@imagazelle Thank you! The press release did not mention The Mandalorian himself, which is odd!

Werner Herzog voice "I would like to see the baby"
okay bro that'll be $10

WADDLE DEE WITH HIS LITTLE TUM <3 <3 <3

I understand that it's sad to see Smash Bros and Mario Odyssey get binned, but this would have been an incredibly boring list if we'd all picked the first party Nintendo games 😅

I'm glad we chose a mixture of blockbusters and weird indies, since that's what the Switch is all about!