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Lynels in Breath of the Wild. It's satisfying to beat them after a hard battle. Also, they gave me a hard time in the original NES game. 

I like setting God mode in classic Doom games and playing them on Nightmare difficulty, where they respawn, and setting up a bunch of infighting. The best places to do this in Doom II are Level 17, Level 18, and the Cyberdemon and Spider Mastermind in Level 20, where you can watch the four toughest monsters in the game kill each other over and over again. Usually Cybie kicks everyone else's asses and it takes them a few rounds of respawning to take him down.

The "Mover" enemies in the Northern Cave of Final Fantasy VII, mostly because you can power-level materia with them by loading the materia into your triple-growth weapons. They give out 1000 AP each. 

Cage Match:

Imma go with the Easter Bunny because Cadbury Creme Eggs and Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs. 

It was basically the Aliens arcade game with the serial numbers filed off. Except that I enjoyed that game.

It was an interesting game. The main character's diary included with the game (which also served as a form copy protection) really throws the whole plot into question, namely, is he a hero or a delusional sociopath? The game's ending never really answers that question. 

It did have a pretty great soundtrack for a mid-90s PC game, composed by Matt Seldon, who only composed for a few games before leaving the industry (he actually posted on RPGCodex in response to inquiries as to what happened to him) to pursue other projects. 

Yeah, stuff like that is why I have such a hard time getting into adventure games. Text adventures exhausted all of my patience. My dad and I played a British point-and-click adventure called Dreamweb in the 1990s, it was really easy to miss stuff, and you had to do a lot of pixel-hunting on top of that. It had a great soundtrack, though.

Nintendo shadow-dropped Metroid Prime on the eShop during a Direct, and announced a cartridge version to launch two weeks after. Scalpers snapped it up. It was showing up on eBay for $80 the day it launched. However, Nintendo did promise restocks, and it happens that Walmart got restocks in my area. So holding out for a physical restock worked quite well.

I missed out on all the Xenoblade Chronicles collectors' editions. I did snag both CEs for the Switch Fire Emblem games, however. Trails to Azure is a niche title and so most of the copies that shipped on launch day were pre-ordered. Nintendo products and niche RPGs are a good idea to pre-order. I won't preorder anything else anymore. No point in it. 

Definitely looking forward to Advance Wars. I'm enjoying Fire Emblem Engage immensely.

My most recent acquisitions were Metroid Prime Remastered and Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure. Metroid Prime Remastered wasn't available for about a month due to scalpers. However, my local Walmarts seem to be getting it in stock now, so I picked it up there and am playing it now. Forgot how brutally hard the Phazon Mines are.. It would be nice if people would stop buying from scalpers, but what are you gonna do, I guess.

L.A. is only a four hour drive for me, so it's basically a weekend trip.

Shuttlecock-H. Crazy what you can find on Switch these days. We aren't living in that weird era of Nintendo that came between Hitler's head exploding in Bionic Commando and Nintendo allowing Mortal Kombat II to be uncensored after the first game bombed on SNES. 

The only Amiibo I have is Toon Link, which I got for Breath of the Wild. I kind of wouldn't mind getting a Fire Emblem Amiibo since I'm playing Fire Emblem Engage. I did get one of those Mario Kart Hot Wheels, though, since they're only 5 dollars apiece. I got Luigi.

Definitely want to go to Super Nintendo World.  I may try for March. 

For me, Donkey Kong's bright colors and animation are what attracted my attention. Nobody made better use of color and animation in arcade games than Nintendo did. I was also there for Mario Bros and wished I could have played as Luigi more. 

I had the Atari 8-bit version, which had all four levels and pretty much all the features of the arcade. Its only deficit was a somewhat limited color palette and slightly blockier resolution. Its sound even sounded pretty close to the arcade.  It was partly for that reason that I never warmed up to the NES version, which had the cement factory cut out for memory reasons. Well that, and the fact that when I started playing NES, games like Zelda, Metroid, and Kid Icarus were the big thing.