

Getting to finally sit down with the final product, with little expectations and I am still enjoying my time with Below. I had forgotten that Below was still being worked on, multiple times over its six year development period. Luckily the joy of a ‘greatest hits’ style WarioWare game lets me forget about playing on the clunky low-res hardware, and be blissfully smiling. I thought I was done with my 3DS and after WarioWare Gold forced me to remember the pain that is holding the 3DSXL for extended periods of time.

Where it really shines is through the clever writing, and creativity in some massive gameplay and visual changes after a pivotal point in its story. The MessengerĪt its surface, The Messenger plays homage to the NES era, difficult platformers and makes no attempt to hide it’s clear inspiration to the Ninja Gaiden series. When Pokemon Let’s Go was first announced it looked as if it was going to be another Pokemon Go style cash grab, and despite some of the GO catching mechanics, this is first time in a long time that I have been excited to play a Pokemon game, with its impressive visual redesign and capitalizing on the Red, Blue & Green nostalgia, it is a great addition to the Switch’s library and a good first attempt at a core Pokemon game on a home console. As the newly appointed editor-in-chief I still made time to play some of those video games all the kids have been twittering about. I moved to Denver, Colorado, where I started distilling full-time for an established distillery as I build my own with a close friend from high school.

I went back to Australia twice to help solidify GenerOZity as a not-for-profit. I spent 3 months exploring Canada during winter.
