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I'm Going to Go Bananas! (Thoughts on the Donkey Kong Country expansion of Super Nintendo World)

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 Hey friends! Have you seen the video that Nintendo put out the other day? Shigeru Miyamoto showed around the new expansion for Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan, after several years in development, which followed quite a few years of rumors and hopes for what a new expansion would look like. The new area is based on Donkey Kong Country , which is having a really nice period of nostalgia for it, after the most recent game came out back in 2014 with Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze for Wii U, and unless you count the Switch Port, the DKC series has been dormant since then. We are getting a port of Donkey Kong Country Returns, which was a Wii game, but that hardly counts for a new game either. At the very least, we're getting what looks to be a really cool amusement park land out of the property. Today I'd like to talk just a little bit about this area, and how excited I am for it, even though I still haven't been able to go to either of the versions of Supe
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What does it mean to show yourself?

     Hey friends. It feels like these personal posts are coming up much more often now, especially since I am working on a few different courses related to potential vocational calling and betterment, and I hope you won't mind another writing about the things that I'm wrestling with right now. The upside for some of you is that this post will most likely not be quite as long as some that I've written in the past. The classes that I'm taking are making me explore just what it means to be searching. What am I called to, what am I called away from, etc. Many questions have related with me through different songs, weirdly from Disney movies. If you know me, then you actually know that it's not that weird for me to be relating things to Disney (I have my red Disney shirt on even as I type this). The first week, as we were first talking about "doing the next right thing," of course, I thought of the song "Do the next right thing" from Frozen 2, the nex
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It's always a great time for Mario Party! (Super Mario Party Jamboree in review)

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The first Mario Party came out for the Nintendo 64 back in 1998, and since then without fail there has been a new one every few years. Sure there was a period of time in the late 2000's and 2010's that the series wasn't doing all that well, Mario Party 10  for Wii U as well as some for the 3DS were not held in as high regard as those that came before. The Switch has been much more fortunate in that realm though, recieving Super Mario Party , then Mario Party Superstars , and now a third game on this one console, Super Mario Party Jamboree ! I would like to talk just a bit about this game today, because it's genuinely a really good time, with a lot of reviewers calling it one of the best Mario Party games ever. I can't speak definitively, of course, as no one truly can, but I'll speak to my experience a little bit today. Let's hop on the hot air balloon and see where it takes us today, shall we? Grab Some Buddies, Time to Jamboree!     Mario Party as a series
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Who are the voices in your head? (Thoughts on Up Here)

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      Hey friends, I have a bit of a question for you all. Do you have voices in your heads? The little things that dictate what should and shouldn't be done, based on how different events in your life have played out? It's an interesting way to personify different impulses that we as people continue to have as we go through our lives, and it's what a little show that I just watched recently is based on. "Up Here" is a musical comedy show that's streaming on Hulu now. There are only 8 episodes, but it's rare that something speaks to me in a way that this short show does. It's a weird show about trying to find your place and learn how to get somewhere, as well as how to navigate a relationship. If you know me, you already know that I have a tendency to overthink to the point of not going anywhere until I've thoroughly driven a point into the ground, and by then, any sort of opportunity has typically passed. If you're a fellow over-thinker like m
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This Is No Cause For Alarmo! (Thoughts on Nintendo Alarmo)

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     You've heard the story before a million times. Nintendo, one of the top video game companies in terms of creativity and quality, is going to announce a new piece of hardware soon. Naturally, people are foaming at the mouth to get even the slightest bit of information about the release date, price, games, or even just the name of the newest console. The CEO of the company stated months ago that the successor to the Switch would be announced at some point this fiscal year, meaning that it will be sometime before the end of March 2025. September was full of buzz that it would finally happen, we would be getting information any day now... October begins, and then Nintendo pulls one of the most "Nintendo" moves that it has ever pulled. They put out a trailer for new hardware... but it's not a system, it's a high-tech alarm clock. "Nintendo Sound Clock Alarmo" was announced out of nowhere last week, and I really just wanted to take some time to talk about
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Zelda finally gets her time to shine! (Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom in review)

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     Hey friends! It's not every day that you get to talk about a new top-down Zelda game! As a matter of fact, this is the first game in this style to come out since I started my blog, with the last one being the Link's Awakening remake back in 2019 before the last original game of this style, 2013's A Link Between Worlds for the 3DS. Needless to say, it has been a really long time since we had a game like this, and I'm very happy that this smaller, less life-consuming version of Zelda is here for us to enjoy. This alone is more than enough reason to celebrate, but it's also the first time that a full mainline Zelda title has allowed us to play as Princess Zelda, the titular character of the franchise. How does this game do to hold up against the legend? Let's talk a bit about this today while we delve into a Hyrule that shares a lot of similarities as well as differences to what we know. Princess Zelda's first playable adventure!     The story of this ga
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Pizza Time! (Pizza Tower in review!)

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     Back in the 90's and early 2000's, Wario was a huge character. He started as the final boss of Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins for the Game Boy Color before getting his own series of platformers, starting with Wario Land and later getting five more entries in the series, including one for the ill-fated Virtual Boy. While Wario is still a big character now, and has gotten two Warioware games on the Nintendo Switch, the Wario Land series has been dormant since Wario Land: Shake It!  came out for the Wii 16 years ago. This series of 2D platformers was incredibly clever and creative, so it's such a shame that it doesn't get the love and respect of some of Nintendo's other titles. I'm happy to say that the spirit of Wario Land is still alive and well in the indie space, and leading that charge is a game called Pizza Tower . It's not a very long game, and seems to heavily encourage speed running, so I'll try my best to get my thoughts out in a si
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