I play every pokémon generation. As I replay more and more of the same games, I want to do things differently every time : what and how many species I want to train, in what order of level, with nicknames or not, which balls I want to collect with, things like that. It's changing over time. That's what I like with the series, it's open to many playstyles and desires. The more the series progresses, the more choices we get. Sword and Shield are very great games for that because of how strong and dense in species the bestiary is. There is plenty to capture, at the rhythm we choose to do so. I have a great time in any of the pokémon games, and I have multiple cartridges of the same ones too. This one, the gen 8 of pokémon, titled as Sword and Shield, makes me feel like in a cold rainy northern country. Its wild open areas, home of a large variety of species, I tend to take a very long time into, just capturing and releasing pokémons, like a zoologist taking care of the wild habitat and taking notes of what I imagine the various species to be like, like roleplaying a researcher writing its encyclopedia, the pokédex. Pokémon is great for imagination. Also, Sword and Shield are by far the easiest to get something done in, because of how quick and generous in useful functionalities they are. The feeling to achieve something may be more tedious to get in previous titles

My love for the core concept of Animal Crossing came from the GameCube one. Then, I purchased all the games as they launched. I play randomly any of them in no particular order because I find value in each and every of the activities I can have in my various towns and island, watering flowers, decorating, offering presents, I even write letters just for the sake of writing personal things to a random virtual frog I like, for exemple. That's how casual I can be in those cozy games. It is therapeutic, in a way. Villager dialogues in this particular Wii entry are very funny and well written to me, helping them is fun as I encounter them in my walks, and the town is massive in size, cool for gardening. The easy to access, without hack, fan server Wiimmfi to play online, is its strongest feature, as it is for Mario Kart Wii. City Folk was and still is the most multi-player focused entry in the series by far, to me

I constantly return to the series, in fact, not just the latest entry. I like the core idea of painting and swimming, the solo 3D obstacle courses and the multiple combat situations there is to live from the splatoon games. Each and every kit of weapons can provide a unique experience. I got so much variety in there I just want to keep practicing for the sake of seeing every little nuance. Splatoon 3 is very polished, fast, and chaotic in nature, nothing like the calm 1 or the tactical-minded 2. Splatoon 3 is by far the most stressful. You have to work very hard not to be taken by surprise by a random hyper-aggressive special weapon or explosion that came from nowhere. The game is very movement and position based, not unlike a certain Super Smash Bros. Ultimate I get along with in a similar manner