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I’m guessing it’s a secure ward for mental health.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses Metroid Prime Remastered Resident Evil 4 Remake Spiderman: Miles Morales Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart Super Mario Wonder Wonder is fucking great, just really, really great. There’s a person out there who has this as their first side scrolling Mario game and they’re a lucky person.

You aren’t wrong.

I’m always surprised by the complete and utter nintendofication of Japan. I know on the grand scheme, it’s not as important as a region as it was 20 years ago but still…

I can neither confirm or deny this. However, if you put us side by side you could make a very easy guess.

When I was 16 I was in a music video for a local band where my opposite co-star has since been in Les Mis for a 3 year run and plays Elsa in London.

It helped having a lot with us, but seemingly each adult did a similar thing so even with presents, toys, food, the odd fast track it wasn’t horrific. Though in reflection, most sites say to bring £1500 for a 3 day trip…which I think we all ended up doing.

I mean, firstly what a wonderful trip. I went with my wife, daughter (3), sister, brother-in-law and niece (5) and everyone had a mega fun time. There’s always the feeling that you’d like more time, but apart from two rides, we did everything we wanted to do. My favourite, subtle win however has been budgeting a stupid amount of money, just in case, and returning with maybe half of it? It did help that a lot of our trip was prepaid (food, hotel, transfers, flights, entry), but still - not a bad way to enter 2024. We think we might look to go to California in 5 years time so that’ll be fun! Also probably just enough time to save up to go at either Christmas, Easter, or over the Summer.

Control can indeed fuck off. Even on Agent I’ve had to restart 5 times due to varying degrees of mid-90s gaming bullshit. (Natalya running into a crate that was blowing up, being swamped by grenades, going back through a door and essentially soft locking myself from the game, dying by being knocked from one bullet to another). I’ve played some Super Mario Wonder as a palette cleanser and it’s just great - but I’m vaguely determined to finish GoldenEye and then start on either Minish Cap or Metroid Fusion.

But that was mainly as games were less than an hour in length to complete- the longevity came from having to repeat a cycle multiple times until you’d mastered a stage/level/game

Right, someone make a thread/poll asking for ages.

Does this mean I’ve won?

I know it’s a ridiculous service, but the Expansion Pack on Switch is just great. GBA and N64 alone make the entry point worth it and even if the controls occasionally suck, it’s just great. Also, Jungle on GoldenEye can fuck off, worse as the next level is Control.

Now, you don’t have to outright tell us - but which state is he most closely aligned to?

I won’t lie, when you’re on top of things, the 13 weeks of holiday is spectacular. When you’re not, it’s still a welcome respite and time to catch up.

It’s like our equivalent of crunch. Normal teaching work load that needs sorting (as per). Organising trips to go ahead at the start of next year. Planning out events for next half term. Risk Assessments, parent letters and actual logistics for the above. Re-writing staffing timetables, interventions, individual education plans, SEND reviews, attendance conversations for children between 90-95%… Theatre trip with 2 bespoke risk assessments. Christmas Concert rehearsals and performance (also needing a risk assessment). Special after school children’s event. Ensuring that all the curriculum is covered, despite losing about a week of the year due to all the extra bits going on. It’s about as busy as doing the job twice for the past 3 weeks. Still the best job ever mind.

The British empire did more good than harm

I’ve mulled over what I’d like to see for the next game and have two strands: Idea One Traditional Zelda approach (iterative items, metroidvania) but use the concept from Link Between Worlds and have items available to rent on completion of side quests and main line quests to earn money. I’d even be OK with it using the style of Links Awakening (remake) which I loved. This would be a quick turn around for Zelda and could well be farmed out to Capcom/Namco etc Idea Two In a similar vibe to modern Zelda, have a few key powers that can be employed: sword, shield, and bow (no degradation please) and focus on a more story-heavy, full VO experience. Puzzles (Dungeons, Temples, Caves) that use the more limited powers and weapons to solve but have a large ‘scope’. Both would work for me and I would be happy for both to be released with the matter being what I want from the next main game - marrying of the old and the new.

Looks like we’ll finally be getting that FPS Zelda Miyamoto wanted back in ‘95.

Disney’s Hercules

More Mario, more *sigh* Goldeneye, and that’s been it. Edit: I played some more God of War Ragnarok this morning. It’s a good game - like a lot of things I own - but since starting it a few weeks ago I’ve managed to play about 4 hours. Finding the time to actually get through a console game is just a bit tricky.

As a teacher of 8-9 year olds in a system that, despite its massive flaws, is working well in a global sense - is interesting.

Do I want any of this? Either they need to be cheap or on a ‘service’.

Once we get bbm jobs, then we’re talking

As it stands right now, something on the Switch. By the time I’m home, sorted things out, had dinner and sat down…I may be all tuckered out and may just watch telly.