'Ludonarrative dissonance, ludonarrative dissonance,' Yeah shut the fuck up, this game's got a barbershop quartet, a spooky ghost, and a lighthouse in it

You take an engine you've polished to a mirror shine over like a decade or so, and then you just add more and more stuff to it until everyone agrees it's a masterpiece. It worked for the Shanghai Maglev Train and it works for Elden Ring

Yeah doing a wheelie makes you go faster but it's dull to just travel in a straight line; this isn't TRON

L1, L2, R1, R2, UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, L1, L2, R1, R2, UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT pshooooooooooooo

I mained Ike in this one! But then it turned out Sami, who I didn't know as well at the time, turned out to also main Ike and I was weird about it!

I'm very weird in fighting games, or in games with distinct classes. I'm extremely rigid about who plays who, like, not just me but everyone needs to have a main they're associated with. Otherwise we're not unique people; it'd be like two characters in a shonen anime having the exact same attacks. Rubbish.

I don't like being like this and I'm deeply ashamed that I still haven't gotten over it. Subspace Emissary is fun

Never actually got to play this with other people. Maybe it's a different game if you have friends

Five stars alone for the High Lord Wolnir fight. I mean yeah it's one of the less challenging ones, but that first time you pick up the chalice and you see the big skeleton crawling up the pitch black hill towards you? That's called atmosphere, baby

This game was a special interest of mine before it came out. Something about the design and the concept and just everything just hit the big 'autism moment' button behind the glass panel on the back of my head. I didn't even know I was autistic at the time!

I religiously followed the beta (never got an invite). I speculated about what the story might be (not knowing there wasn't going to be one). I drew fanart (now deleted)! I never draw fanart! The only other thing I've drawn fanart for in the past was Busou Renkin, a manga by a guy who turned out to be an actual nonce. Maybe there's a curse or something.

I also made a 'Top Ten Sexiest Overwatch Heroes' video out of preview footage, which featured Roadhog four times and described him as an 'erotic colossus'. It made men on Youtube extremely mad! It was funny! I deleted it!

Nowadays, with what the game eventually became, and what Blizzard Activision turned out to have always been, it just makes me sad.

Gotta applaud the accessibility in this one, because I wasn't quite good enough to finish it otherwise! It's such creative platforming and I'm really glad I got to see it all.

Poor imitation of Super Mario 64: DS

What an atmosphere. What depth! What precision! Wish bugs were real