Thanks TUMF!

Look forward to your 15th.

Yeah, same to be honest. I don't know if I'll finish everything I bought. I did just finish Ace Attorney 6 at least! Now just the DLC left.

Oh wow, you've seen it so many times! I guess we will agree to disagree on Princess Peach because I liked how they gave her more spunk but kept her traditionally feminine in terms of clothing and look. Same reason I love Aerith from FFVII. Although I guess you could say that was always more of Daisy's personality. She was very feminine but had lots of spunk. My sense is that they didn't know how to write a more feminine yet soft character tbh! So I agree that the production team behind the movie probably took the easy way out here. They definitely could have made Peach interesting but kept her original character. But I don't see very many movies/shows that can do such a character without them coming across as a trope or bland, you know? But I still like movie Peach cause I prefer heroines with more spunky personally.

Any guesses on if we will get Mario 2 movie or something else like say a Zelda movie? I'm thinking we're gonna get a Donkey Kong focused movie next given the DK expansion in Universal Studios in both Japan and USA.

Hey TUMF, long time!

Yes. I think I got everything I wanted. There could be a niche game I didn't realize existed at the time, but barring that possibility I did manage to pick up all the games that I was interested in. I didn't get all the DLC though. Ah well~ Did you grab everything you wanted?

I did see it with my hubby. We both really enjoyed it. Jack Black as Bowser STOLE the show IMO! But I definitely appreciated a cool Peach too. If they make another one, I want more Luigi! We also thought it was interesting that they went back to the old USA-only canon for the Bros. Curious if Nintendo is going to pull a Zelda and have two timelines. The Yoshi Island timeline and the SMB USA canon timeline. LMAO. . Toad also gave me Captain Toad vibes! Animation was well done too. How did you find it?

Hey, Happy Backloggiversary / Ring Day!!

Teehee, I'll take Shion as an answer for best girl too.

I like your theme, nice to meet you TUMF!

Yes! That’s one of the best things about the Series X, you can play a lot of games all the way back from the original Xbox on it. It’s only select games, but you can put the old disk in there and it will download a version of the game to your console, often with 4K support, and will sometimes even have improvements like FPS boost. They still sell a bunch of the old games on the store too, and are often on sale, even the OG Xbox and 360 stuff! Also Xbox version prices tend to be cheaper used online and at retro stores. As much as I like and prefer Nintendo and PlayStation, Xbox is taking backwards compatibility MUCH more seriously and making it better for game preservation.

If you like Japanese games, I would take a second look at the 360 library. While PS3 and Wii had much more for obvious reasons, there are some surprising exclusives on there. Xbone and Series X has also had good support from Square Enix, Capcom, and Sega, while others like Namco Bandai have been becoming more consistent with their support and RPG releases on there.

Wow that's impressive! How many complete collections do you have now? Are you aiming to finish all of those games or have you been aiming at primarily collecting?

I'm hoping to get a PS5 myself later this year, but I share the same opinion, not much of a reason at the moment, aside from 4k and better performance on some current games. I lucked into a Series X, which has been cool since I didn't have the Xbone, so it gives me a chance to catch up on some of the things I missed over there.

Yes! I took a break on playing through many SMT and Persona games years ago. But late last year I finally beat the SMT 4 games on 3DS. So this year I'm hoping to dig into Persona Q and Q2, along with the Persona 2 duology. I'm currently playing SMT 5, and it has been really fun. I took a slight break on it to attend to some gifts I received over the holidays (I try to prioritize playing gifts when received), and then I got sidetracked with some Tales and Pokemon games. But SMT V is my current priority! I'm 8 hours in and it is fantastic so far.

TUMF! How could you.

Your collection is really impressive! Looks like it’s grown well since I lasted visited your page!

Thank you~

Yessss. I am loving Xenogears and Picross is always great, but especially with Mario. I was in a bit of a gaming funk, but I feel like playing again now.