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I funny thing happened on the way to my Switch. A friend I hadn't talked to in years texted me and started a conversation about Animal Crossing. Turns out he'd been playing it during the pandemic. We friended up, I visited his island, and he mine. The whole experience was really cool.

I just finished the last issue of this Witcher comic book story arc. I wasn't all that thrilled with it at first, but its ending changed my mind. 

I saw this the weekend it came out on IMAX. I enjoyed it quite a bit from story to cast to music. 

Oh, the strange stuff I find on Game Pass every week that turn out to be another obsession. This time it was indie game Loop Hero. Check it out. 

I played this on Game Pass a while ago and beat the main story, but I didn't do any major work on the collectibles and other tasks thinking they were too tedious. A challenge for Microsoft Rewards points brought me back to the game, and I found most of the side missions and collectibles not as difficult as I thought and nearly cleared everything in the game. 

I'm a big fan of the Pikmin series. My eyes are always on the lookout for games that use its minon-controlling mechanic like the Overlord games or Hotel Transylvania 3: Monsters Overboard. I even try and shoehorn that mechanic into games like Diablo II. The Necromancer character lets me command groups of skeletons and golems. So when TinyKin appeared on Game Pass one week, I had to play it. 

Quite a few actually in the last month or so. I had some rewards money from Microsoft, and I'm working on a new game plan and needed some games to make it work. 

I'm a big fan of developer People Can Fly, so when I saw that this game was theirs, I jumped on board. I bounced off it a few times initially. I liked it but the feeling of the controls felt slightly off to me. I tried adjusting the speed of the analog sticks, but it didn't quite work. When I decided to really dig into this game, I figured it out.

Random is one of my favorite words thanks to DnD, and so I was immediately intreged by this addition to Game Pass a few months ago. At first, I was frustrated with it, thinking there would be more random elements, or dice throwing, or something like that instead of lots of dialog and story, like there is in the beginning of the game, so I stopped; but, I tried it again a few weeks ago and got way deep into it. It's a pretty fantastic game. 

I've seen several of these "Comic Book Story of" books lately. I've read one on the history of pinball and now this one on video games. It's surprisingly good and enormously fun to read and see.