games

Finally dipped my toe into the Metroid series. Decided to go by timeline chronology rather than releases. Also chose remakes over originals. Which means I finished Metroid: Zero Mission on my, ahem, liberated 3DS^@. Minus the stealth part, a pretty good game overall and a great introduction to the series.

Curious if Nintendo will release remasters of two other Prime games before Prime 4. Plausible.

Been playing the Picross S series on Switch. Finished all E’s and S1 on 3DS a while ago, and now S2, S3, and S4 on Switch. Perfect podcast games. BTW, as a colorblind person, I can attest that their Color Picross variant is quite good.

A Plague Tale: Requiem is in the “was a sequel necessary?” category, but is pretty good, so OK.

There are three last levels in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker that broke me, and soured the overall impression a bit. But otherwise a great game.

You play as Toadette for half the game. And the traditional kidnapping is presented as not really a kidnapping: Wingo wants a star, it’s just that Toad and Toadette can’t let go of their capitalistic nature and that star. Does that give Nintendo a pass? Not really, but I think it is a good example of Nintendo being less evil and more traditional to a fault. They would stick to a structure, but be willing to work on the periphery or in new areas.

Well, started this blog for no apparent reason.