Blue Prince for the Nintendo Switch 2
A game I’ve played for hours, but which keeps opening new rooms in my mind
Did I already sink more than 60 hours into this environmental puzzle mansion-builder last year? Yes. Could I take my existing purchase and perhaps find a way to make it playable on-the-go from a mobile device by using a cloud service? Yeah. But do I regret having a fresh digital copy of the game on my $450 glorified tablet? No. It is still great fun.
Did I already sink more than 60 hours into this environmental puzzle mansion-builder last year? Yes. Could I take my existing purchase and perhaps find a way to make it playable on-the-go from a mobile device by using a cloud service? Yeah. But do I regret having a fresh digital copy of the game on my $450 glorified tablet? No. It is still great fun.
Donkey Kong Bananza
Sometimes the most direct path to what you want is to destroy everything
I would say it’s the best Nintendo platformer since Kirby and the Forgotten Land? There’s a balance here between mindless button mashing to punch away all the destructible terrain and some thinking in trying to solve environmental puzzles.
My one major complaint is that the boss battles into the third main level have been ludicrously short and straightforward, although my latest encounter battling a monster on a mine cart was a step above the rest.
Survivor 50
Television’s greatest experiment tests whether I feel as old as Colby
In that strange space of having one remote job and one child at daycare, I was able to catch up on dozens of seasons of this reality show. This truly would be the season to test whether that time investment was worth it, as it brought contestants back from the first season back in 2000 through the latest season. So far, it has been great and now I feel a great kinship with my reality TV sisters and brothers who are currently leveraging their encyclopedic knowledge of Bachelor & Bachelorette scandals.
