Category Archives: Switch

In Which, I Explain My Absence And Rant About A JRPG.

So, my daily viewer counts have dipped consistently into the double digits of late, which is normal when I don’t post for nearly a month.  For the handful of people who do read this blog on the regular, I’d like … Continue reading

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Five other things I played in March

I haven’t been going as whole-hog on my backlog this year, because honestly I feel like last year ended with me in control again after quite a while of feeling buried under the shame of a mountain of games I’d … Continue reading

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Press Y for Yuri: Nights of Azure 2

I didn’t exactly plan things this way, but for some reason the last year has seen me playing quite a few Koei Tecmo games.  Nioh, Blue Reflection, Nights of Azure, Fatal Frame III, even Metroid: Other M by a technicality.  … Continue reading

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Switching on the Cheap

I realized a few days back that several of the games on my 2018 wishlist are Nintendo Switch games. This is a problem, because I rather like not paying full price for any game and Nintendo first party stuff has … Continue reading

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2017 was great, and I wanted to gush a bit.

I don’t usually do a “Favorite Games of the Year” post, because there really haven’t been a lot of years where I’ve played games that actually came out that year. Usually I get around to titles after they’ve been priced … Continue reading

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New Year’s Gaming Plans

So, I had a “my favorite games of 2017” post all written, and then I just had to go and start playing Nioh, which is basically Ninja Gaiden meets Dark Souls and is probably going to mean that I need … Continue reading

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Elf Abuse

So, I’ve spent the last nine days murdering Link in a variety of ways.   Freezing, drowning, falling into lava, falling off cliffs, electrocution in lightning storms, standing too close to bombs… occasionally even being killed by monsters, because Breath of … Continue reading

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Quick Zelda Thoughts

As I mentioned a few days back, I’ve never been able to get into any of Nintendo’s “The Legend of Zelda” games, despite numerous attempts. Still, the hype around the most recent has been pretty nuts, and this has been … Continue reading

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Insanity, Defined

There’s a popular quote, frequently attributed to Very Smart People (Albert Einstein is a favorite), that goes something like this: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” Now. I have … Continue reading

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Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero.

This is turning out to be quite a year for me and Nintendo’s flagship mascot – I’ve finished more Mario titles in the last few months than I did in the previous four decades of gaming. Granted, that’s still only … Continue reading

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