Pocket Mortys is, no joke, one of the best mobile games I've ever played. I was never a huge Rick and Morty fan (I though it was... ok!), but this game really took some of the best writing you could get from the show, slammed that into a wry Pokémon knock-off, and added the supremely satisfying game mechanic of fusing doubles of the same "type" of Morty together for a really polished experience.

I love collecting a thousand versions of the same guy, and this game understands that about me. It rules.

I love this game. I get it. I think the setting is so rich and really captures the odd sensation of being in a public place that shouldn't be empty, and I love the way Harry's straight-laced goofy dad personality comes out through his slightly weird line reads. It's interesting to compare this game to Resident Evil, because they're such contemporaries, but Silent Hill feels so much gunkier and grungier, bigger, darker.

There's a sense that you're stumbling through something that cannot be fully illuminated in Silent Hill. What happened to create these creatures? Why is there a big moth trying to kill me? Where is my child? These are the eternal questions.

At first, I was scared to play games like this, but after getting acquainted with this murky, segmented nightmare town, I hate to leave.

I can't believe it. I finally played through this legendary game, and it is more than deserving of its status as a touching, gorgeous exploration of guilt, trauma, and wrongdoing.

I loved how the dialogue performances, while much better acted than the first game in the series, seem subtly self-aware of tropey and strange voice acting in games enough to lean into the oddness of the medium to emphasise erratic, nonsensical behaviour in all of its characters - but very, very effectively in James in particular.

Maria is also, while a sort of surface level, cringe female character, also a pretty interesting note on gender and how men see women. A hollow ghost of male visions of womanhood made alive, pathetic, desperate, and ultimately, discarded and disgusting to her own creator.

The Historical Society sequence is my favourite part of the game. It's unbelievably well-designed. A gorgeous, disorientating, hellish environment. The holes are iconic. And I would, most certainly, dive in.

Bro I love beating up a massive muscly dragon by shaking my hips from side to side more than anything.

Nothing feels better than waking up, turning on the TV, and running towards 3 ghosts that turn out to be angry anthropomorphised dumbbells and squeezing your ring a few times to piss them off.

The gym is over, it's Ringfit time now. I just reached 2000 squats. I am the squat master. I will never stop.

I have recently been playing this again in 2024, and despite the sad lack of possibility that I'll come upon an organic, glorious green streetpass light in my daily travels through the streets to pick up a Coke Zero, etc (I blame the people - get your 3DSes back out NOW!), the special little delight of seeing all those Miis and making them do small tasks in one thousand mini games has never yet been topped.

Like a million people, I crave some interaction and customisability and silly fun built-in stuff like this on newer consoles. Give me the funny little people!

Streetpass is forever, and I will get those last puzzle pieces if it kills me. I will not stop.