I’m planning on buying “Is This Seat Taken?” For Switch. It’s a cute little puzzle game that my fifth-grader has been asking for. Winter Break from school is a great time for this sort of purchase.

I might also get the Capcom version of Picross.

I wish I could give two upvotes! Filling in the blanks is what I’m missing. Thank you for that description!

I don’t know what I would have wanted from a new game. What I really like is the clever remixes of the old games that show up on my feed from time to time like Mega Man Maker.

Nine and ten were more of the same. But the stages were well-planned and the experience of trying to find the weaknesses without a strategy guide was great.

Maybe what I’d want would be a game that connects the worlds of Mega Man to the world of Mega Man X. But I would only care about the lore, not the game.

I guess what would really excite me would be a clever time travel story line that has you visiting reimagined old stages facing off against all the bots in series history. I’d love new weakness circles that take advantage of these multiple games’ worth of robot masters. I’d like boss chase fights, two bosses at a time fights, multiplayer story mode, a metroidvania-style world…

I realize in my ranting that what I’m looking for isn’t near what they are making. My plan is to be happy for those that are happy.

I almost downvoted the video. I felt like even my nostalgia and love for the series was waning as the announcement dragged on.

If I’d watched it live, I would have noticed the years of original release as the corridor went on and I bet my hype levels would have going in the right direction. But since I knew what it was, all I could do was watch and frown.

I bought nine and ten on day one release for WiiWare, but I’m not sure this is for me anymore (but I am happy for one of my new favorite YouTubers FlamingMercury5; she’s gotta be smiling about this news).

Sorry to be negative today!

DLN-001, that’s Mega Man’s serial number.

DR. Light, robot 1

Protoman is DLN000, and based on the whistle at the end, it’ll be around, too.

Bad news! I don’t remember as much of the game as I thought! But I’m glad we’ve all taken turns enjoying it in these weekly posts.

Good news! The BP is there already! Every character gets BP even if they aren’t in the active party. But I might be thinking of something else. I know XP isn’t for the bench, but I thought everything else was.

It’s role-playing day at the house, but two of the kids can’t make it, so we’ve got board games ready to go:

Things in Rings: I’ve this one mentioned before, I think. It’s like Venn diagram, the board games it’s fun to figure out patterns!

Meeple Circus: stack your little wooden animals and acrobats with time and circus music pressures

Unlock!: these escape room board games are only playable once, but I love to experience them with my wife and then give them away. They come in three adventures per box for a shade under forty bucks. Highly recommended!

On the alone front, I’m still grumpy about Octopath Traveler 0 and the game key situation, but there’s a anniversary event in the mobile game it is based on, so I’m not stressing about it too much.

In a professional note, I am using Kahoot! as the scoring system for an ongoing school game for my civics classes. The students are in their fall season now with six “football” teams playing each other double round robin over the ten weeks of the 2nd quarter of school. Since it’s American football-based, I take the top eleven players from each team to calculate their weekly score and post it for the kids the following day. Since the quarter is winding down, I’m working on the next quarter’s game, based on the March Madness tournaments. Getting 160 kids’ data and scores into 32 teams is a game in itself (on one of my favorite sports: Microsoft Excel).

I thought the guy on the right was the United States president…

I stalled out on Sea of Stars before the last battle. I know I’m strong enough (the game is well designed on that front), but I delayed because I knew the fight would probably be long. Then the summer came. And went. I hope to go back there one day.

I’ve been trying to motivate myself to post but school has been kicking my butt. I managed a little session of Octopath Traveler II today, but with zero of the (at least) eight stories complete, I can’t imagine I’ll have that one done in time for Octopath Traveler 0. I’m not even done with the main story in Champions of the Continent!

I did evangelize a game to someone this weekend: “I Was A Teenage Exocolonist”. I’d be interested to hear thoughts from y’all VN fans to hear how you liked it.

I actually read the article because I’m so excited about Octopath Traveler 0 but I was reminded again that the Switch 2 version is a game-key. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I love the series so much but I also hate the idea that I’m going to have a cartridge that won’t work if I don’t have Internet. But then again I don’t wanna buy the digital version and solve all my problems. Maybe I’ll just go with Switch 1 so that I can play it while I’m laying in bed or in front of the TV or anywhere on one of the consoles I have in the house.

I’m having a great time watching the direct. He’s so much fun; Sakurai feels like that character that’s always breaking the fourth wall.

It feels like a review of the story more than anything new. But I don’t know the anime (as my son tells me it is).

I just bought Picross Lord of the Nazarick. I’m worried there will be a too much story in it for me to just work through my podcast backlog while playing, but after finishing off Picross S9, I’m not quite ready to dive into the Picross e DLCs yet.

I appreciate that having threatening high-level enemies everywhere made the planet never feel quite safe, but I also agree how annoying it was to run all the time on a level ten mission.

I missed posting last week! I mean, I missed writing; this little community is wonderful!

I wrapped up the Clip Picross section of Picross S9, so all that is left there is the Color Picross. Those games are definitely worth the money for me!

I ran Epyllion, a game that my youngest is calling D&D (Dragons and Dragons). It’s a game of young dragons running errands for the Dragon Council and growing up through friendship and hardship. It’s amazing how patient I can be listening to five ten-year-olds crosstalk patiently but when it’s twenty twelve-year-olds in my civics class, I have zero chill. Maybe because of standardized testing panic?

Tomorrow I’m going to play a trick-taking card game called Fishing where you want to win tricks, but you want to lose tricks to get better bait, too. I hope it’s worth it (but since I bought it after finding an Amazon credit that’s been sitting on my fifteen year unused Amazon account, it doesn’t have to be good at its price).

We also plan on playing Vantage. It seems like a 90s, Sierra-style adventure game where you are exploring a planet while on comms with the other players. They don’t get to see what you see, so you role-play to describe what is happening. I tried it once and I like it all except the theme (sci-fi isn’t for me!)

Oh, and too much Balatro.

I had that same small text problem with the Wii U. I’m glad you are having a good time with it. I’m hoping the best parts of that and X3 make it to whatever the next Monolith game is.

As for exploration, XbX definitely feels more like exploring instead of going to the next checkpoint. But I dig a world that has “funny shaped keys” that keep you in certain areas until the game is ready for you to be there.

I feel like full voice acting was implied by the talking flower. Or were they saying full sentences in the original?

This was such a surprise. My family and I kept guessing names: Pokécraft, Pokémon: New Horizons, Pokemon Crossing. Everything about this (except the name) looks great.

Even the name might grow on me.