Haven’t been playing a whole lot of games lately because sick, but been slowly getting through Yars Rising because it happens to fall exactly within my interests, I feel like the exact target for it lol

It’s a Metroidvania from WayForward whose platforming and shooting is like Mega Man, with loads of hacking minigames that are literally Yars’ Revenge (you know, the old Atari game), playing as a cute girl with funny friends in this Japanese-inspired cyberpunk city full of Atari references (the idea is hilarious I love it) as you investigate a tech company’s shady secret

The soundtrack is a 10/10 and the girl you play as is currently one of my top fictional crushes lol, she talks too much and I never want her to shut up ❤️

It’s such a weird combination of stuff though, and it didn’t exactly get much marketing and was probably relatively low budget, so I get why it’s so overlooked currently despite being a WayForward game, especially with the genre getting so many games lately (probably not helped by Ubisoft putting out a huge budget Prince of Persia one a month earlier)

Also, I’m glad the Switch 2 is finally announced, even Nintendo games often run like total ass on the current one, hopefully this one’s size and being more round will make it at least slightly more comfortable, and hoping Switch 1 games will run more stable on it (even if target resolution/framerate stay the same without patches, I’d like games to at least keep a consistent 30)

Glad we’re finally getting a new Mario Kart too for the first time in 11 years lmao