I got round to watching the Nintendo Direct that came out a week or so. Here are my thoughts:
Mario & Luigi
I loved Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and the other games have been alright but not amazing. I’ll keep an eye on this one and stay hopeful
Nintendo World Championships: New Edition
I don’t think this is for me at all. It does look like it’d be a lot of fun for the people it’s aimed at though!
Fairy Tale 2
Nah.. I mean, it’s the kind of thing I might get when I really fancy playing a JRPG so possibly maybe, one day?
Fantasian
This doesn’t seem like anything special to me? 🤷♀️
Nintendo Switch Sports Basketball
OK, Nintendo Switch Sports always makes for a fun evening with people, but I’m still not gonna buy it
Mio
Didn’t give an awful lot away but it got my attention. I will keep an eye out for more info on this one
Disney Illusion Island
Not for me
Hello Kitty Island Adventure
Very cute. I think Animal Crossing is enough of this business for me, though
Among Us
Enjoyed watching streams of Among Us during lockdown and that’s enough for me
Farmagia
Haha here’s our obligatory farming game! The Switch needs more of these
Donkey Kong Country Returns HD
I think we rented the original Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo back in the day and it was good but too hard for me. I never played the sequel though, so I should maybe grab this one some time and give it a go.
Dragon Quest III (and also I & II)
I really like the Octopath Traveler-style art. I loved the absolute heck out of Dragon Quest IX, and enjoyed what I played of XI. Might have to try these some time. Also, I now want a slime plushie like what that guy has
Funko Fusion
What exactly even is this?
Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD
I’m still Luigis Mansion’d out from playing the third one a year or two ago.
The New Denpa Men
F2P = instant no
Metal Slug Attack Reloaded
Doesn’t appeal to me at all
Darkest Dungeon II
Ohhh, I would be so crap at this! But I’d probably still have fun?
Phantom Brave: the Lost Hero
I’ve never played a Phantom Brave game (nearest I’ve come to it is being baffled by Disgaea, maybe?) It might be interesting to try out
Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection
Nah
Super Mario Party Jamboree
I don’t think I get to play with other people enough to justify this. I know they mentioned online play but this will just be a small part, right?
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Flipping heck. This looks interesting. I love the cute graphics, and I’m really intrigued that they’re taking the weird creativity from Tears of the Kingdom and putting it I here. I am very interested in this.
Just Dance
Not for me
Lego Horizon Adventure
Lego games never manage to hold my attention. I love that they exist though
Stray
I wasn’t interested in this at all when I saw it on Steam, but on Switch… hmm, it might be alright
Tales of the Shire
I want this and I can’t give you a good reason why, I just want it
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
I do want to play an Ace Attorney game again some time soon, but I’d grab one of the older ones first. Maybe one day.
The Hundred Line
This looks quite interesting - a bit Persona? I can’t imagine I would have the attention span to play through it (just like Persona) but hey, maybe one day.
Romancing Saga 2
Naah
Metroid Prime 4
I should definitely give this a shot. Only Metroid Prime I played was the first one, on the GameCube. I liked it but I haven’t played any first person games at the time, and, honestly, I was crap at the shooting and at the exploring. Time to give Metroid Prime another go.
This series is just cosy and nice, just… people getting along and trying to understand themselves and each other. It’s not exciting but it just makes you feel quietly good.
I watched this after listening to the episode about Woodstock ‘99 on The Big Flop podcast. I’m a bit surprised I hadn’t heard about this before as this was kind of my era (then again I was only a teenager and the internet wasn’t as ubiquitous at the time). Dear me, what a shitshow! Very interestin, very infuriating that the people running it seemed completely oblivious to everything going wrong, and even in the interviews they still don’t see to grasp what horrible mistakes they made. I suppose at least they made lots of money though, eh.
I really like the new Apple Watch Pride Strap. The fluorescent colours are very pretty.
(I promise it isn’t as tight as it looks in this photo, it’s nice and comfy 😊)
One of my fidget toys - a big squishy ball with tinsel-ish stuff inside. My sister and I were wondering what it would look like in slow motion. I like it!
Like when I read the first edition years ago, I’ve come away with some ideas about the kind of person I want to be and how I might realistically start moving in that direction. I like the new ‘tools’ in this edition too
I’m looking forward to seeing actual videos of the new Apple Watch pride strap. It looks nice in Apples photos and I’m pretty tempted
📷 Blue sky and green trees today
My little niece had her first sleepover at my house yesterday. I probably got about 2 hours sleep total last night but we had fun and I returned her to her parents in one piece at lunch time today so overall it was a huge success.
We talked about her sleeping over again something and I said yes but I need about a month to recover from this one.
Highlights included temporary tattoos, a massive bumblebee in the house and asking Siri what a llama sounds like (they sound like me when my alarm goes off in the morning)
I should have bought a bike ages ago! I bought this little folding bike from Halfords a few months ago, thinking that it will be a way to get myself outside a bit more. I’m still taking my time here because it’s kind of hilly where I live, and there are some really bike-unfriendly roads. But the little trips out that I’ve made so far have been awesome. I’ve also had a lot of fun buying bits and bobs for the bike and I thought I would share.
After having a really rough time at work over the last several weeks, my boss suggested I move my compressed day off from a Monday, as I was coming in to work every Tuesday morning on the back foot, with everyone else having a day’s worth of demands to chuck at me. I asked if I could have Wednesdays off instead. Today was the first time I got to see the benefit of this and oh yes, it’s been lovely to have a little mid-week rest!
Trying out a new way of keeping a todo list for non-work stuff, inspired by Plaintext Productivity. I’m not using todo.txt as I can’t see a way to have that information available on a widget that I can have on the home screen of my phone. So I’m sticking with using iOS’s Reminders app.
One of the inspirations I’m taking is around what actually gets added to the list. On that site, your todo list should be for anything you are actually realistically going to get done in the next week.
