It's Critter Time!

I hope you got to meet the cat.

I played and completed Donkey Kong Bananza and I got to say this is already a very strong contender for my GOTY this year. Loving both the general gameplay and freedom along with the sheer amount of nods to both the Rare and Retro titles. Also those last few stages had me squealing like a kid.

this is the point of any discussion about the n64 where i reveal i'm a genetic freak who exclusively held the controller with the left and right prongs only and had no problem using it like that


Meanwhile when I was a kid I held the controller in a way where I held the right prong while my left ...

Oh wow this whips, this is on the same level as Bomberman Hero:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8pFREWx4o0


Jun's compositions were legendary and I'm somewhat upset that she left after Tournament. Granted the composers they had since then have all done amazing jobs in their own right. But ...

Funny enough a family member surprised me with a Switch 2 as a late birthday present recently so right now I'm looking up videos on how some of my old Switch 1 games run on it, besides the ones that got dedicated upgrade patches like Pokemon Scarlet. One of the first things I'm noticicing about the ...

I'm not as invested in superheroes comics and movies nowadays, but I've been told that the new Ultimate series is actually pretty rad and kind of a good starting point for new readers.


That's definitely the case. I haven't read all the series in it. Mostly its introductory event and the Spider ...

My journey is short, and a lot of why it ended up sticking was more retroactive than anything. I've always liked chinchillas a lot ever since my one childhood friend had one as a pet. Cute, soft, and excitable little stinkers who even have a unique way of cleaning themselves.

So I kinda lurked in ...

I recorded the gameplay on original hardware and co-commentated on TheStrawHatNO!'s Let's Play for Bomberman 64: The Second Attack back in the days when the Skype-to-Discord transition was barely beginning to happen. Hopefully my opinions within it still hold up today.


I remember watching that ...

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One of the "Big 2" of western comic companies. Often credited with paving the way for the modern superhero genre between some truly wild and imaginative art and ideas from industry legends like Jack Kirby, or a much bigger focus on making their super beings more ...

I think between Mario Kart World's release, it's controversies, the fake rumors about a remaster of Nitro Fueled, and the recent news about Nitro Fueled's sales breaking 10 million have renewed interest in the game. Plus some people who are trying to see how much better it runs on Switch 2.

Bomberman 64 (N64) - An interesting experiment in translating the series to 3D. The game's single player seemingly embraces the weird jank of early 3D gaming and focuses its puzzles around exploiting said jank.
Describing it embracing and exploiting jank good way to put it. This is a clip I ...

Lots of love for CTR, the remake really elevated it, just a shame it had a short shelf life on multiplayer, but on a lazy weekend I still enjoy blasting through the story mode again ^^



I still manage to consistently find multiplayer matches in CTR online though maybe with a bit of a wait ...

Im mostly excited to try out the free upgrades for Pokemon Scarlet and Mario Odyssey. But the big thing for me without getting into brand new games like Donkey Kong or Kirby Air Ride 2 is the Kirby Forgotten Land expansion in a few months.

N64 emulation still stinks. I don't know how good the MiSTer does but the N64 is rife with funny edge cases and I'll assume it's also buggy until proven otherwise.


I can confirm that the MiSTer actually runs nearly identically to original hardware with most N64 games. Even with games which ...

Following what was probably their most disastrous home console release to date, Nintendo turned that luck around completely with their next console codenamed NX. Later revealed as the Nintendo Switch, a hybrid platform combining their handheld and home console efforts into one single versatile ...

And there's rumor that Tournament was gonna be a new Neutopia game at first; I don't know if that ever got fully substantiated though.


Would make sense since it borrows a lot of enemies from Neutopia, but also Hudson might have started off making a sequel to Bomberman Quest and used Neutopia as ...

There are few things that bring more pain and aggravation than seeing "... But you missed 1 box" at the end of the level.

When Crash 4 was about to release, I streamed my 100% run of Crash 1-3 in preparation for it.

Let me tell you, 100% Crash 4 was one of the most ridiculous platformer experiences I've ever had and I have never had a game be such a tremendous asshole over getting 100%. I tried to get the extra ...

and learning much later that there was an extraordinary amount of unused nsfw voice lines hiding away in the game files


Hearing Billy West and Charlie Addler screaming things like "I'll bust your head in with a f***ing ratchet!" when voicing Bomberman of all characters will never fail to amuse ...

Funny enough I just finished playing the first 2 GBA games and was starting to replay Crash 2 (PSX) a few days ago. The games are such a solid series of platformers. It's a huge shame that its very likely about to go dormant again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFtq3ooV4ag

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A series that's been around since 1983. It was reasonably popular in the 80's for its simple yet addictive maze games, but would explode (pun not intended) in the early 90s when the iconic multiplayer modes would make ...

I feel like this series doesn't really need an introduction. It's the series that essentially kicked off the mascot racer subgenre of racing games and is still considered one of the best in that group with very few other series having the praise and continued success that it has earned. In terms of ...

If you're interested in strategy games, once again I cannot recommend Dragon Force enough. It's a great game especially once you get the hang of all of its mechanics.

I wanted to get into 6, but sadly the game is incompatible with the Steam Deck.

I got into the Mystery Dungeon games with Chocobo's Dungeon 2 on PSX and since then I've been a casual fan of them. Though oddly enough I could never fully get into the Pokemon ones.