This is the best Pokemon game in terms of pure vibes. There's so much charm and so much to do outside of playing the main campaign. You can walk around with your Pokemon, play minigames at the Pokeathelon, compete in bug catching contests, explore an entire second region after completing the game, the Battle Frontier, the best Safari Zone the series ever had and a really cool final boss, just so many things to mess around with.
The main campaign is honestly the weakest part. It's pretty fun for a big, but a massive middle chunk of the game has every Pokemon around the same levels for hours and hours. Leveling up is a massive pain because there's nothing high enough level to get EXP from, and the game gets extremely dull fighting the same easy enemies for most of the main game.
Thankfully, all of the side stuff is super memorable and charming, and that's the stuff that really stuck with me. This game's at its best when you're just vibing and exploring Johto and Kanto with your team. Awful leveling, but enough atmosphere and detours to keep me coming back.

Smash 3DS is in a weird spot. It doesn't have the vast single player content of the previous game, it doesn't have a roster as massive as the next game, and there's another version of the same game on Wii U. It was incredibly cool to have a completely portable Smash game, but even that's something the next game does. So you'd think, well why even bother, what's there to go back to?
I actually greatly prefer this version to its Wii U counterpart though. The classic mode here is my favorite in the series, choosing different routes based on difficulty is a nice shake up and maybe my favorite classic in the series? Smash Run is so much fun, I still come back to it all the time and wonder why Wii U and Ultimate didn't bother with it. Same could be said for some of the stages here that didn't return in Ultimate, Rainbow Road and Pac-Maze. For some reason, this is also the only Smash game to save the last skin you used so you don't have to swap through them to get to your favorite.
Sure it loses some of the impact of being a portable smash these days, but for a handful of years this was the coolest thing ever. And at the end of the day, Smash is Smash, and it's so much fun, even if it's not the best in the series at anything in particular.

It's amazing how each game feels so good to control and each one manages to feel better than the last. Just moving around feels so satisfying, hitting enemies has this bounce to it, and this one has special stages designed specifically around the movement. The addition of the pencil adds so much, and it's several levels longer than the previous game. I think World 2 is still my favorite with more satisfying collectables and a lot more nostalgia, but in terms of actually playing the game, I think World 3 might be the best in the series.

This was my first Mario game and I was a little bummed when I found out this was a weird outlier and not what the games were actually like. I really love this style and hope we get another one like it someday.
The original game is pretty weird with tons of personality and this remake takes it even further. I love all of the added voice lines, the new sprite art, Mario Bros. as a bonus, and there's even some added postgame stuff. Good job Mario for making this awesome game, but please bring back Mouzer.

Pretty fun racer. Track design is mostly pretty good with a couple standouts. Some weird bugs, sometimes I end up going so fast that the game just respawns me out of nowhere. Not a huge fan of the main transforming gimmick. It's a cool idea until realizing that neither of the transformations are nearly as fun as just driving. A lot of my favorite characters from the first game are gone (RIP Chuchu, but there are some good new characters too. There's a lot of single player content which is really nice to have.