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Am I curious about Lost Sphear?  Well....let's see.  I played the first 30-45 minutes of it at PAX West, downloaded the demo on the Switch, and have the PS4 physical copy pre-ordered at the Square-Enix store (only place you can get it).  It should be in my mailbox any day now.  So yeah, I guess you could say I'm "mildly' curious about it. :)

When I post my Game of the Year blog, you'll see that I am Setsuna got high marks in my RPG category, so Lost Sphear was definitely on my radar.

And yeah, you're right.  There are too many games!

Funspot Mega Arcade sounds, well, fun.

Well there's PAX South in San Antonio, PAX West in Seattle, and PAX East in Boston.  Where are you closest to?  I will say that unless you live in Texas, PAX South may not be worth the trip.  The Seattle one is worth it, because it's like a mini-E3 more than anything.  But I've never been to the Boston one.  Little bit too far for me.

Oh, and I guess the star shaped oat bits in the Mario cereal are supposed to be the stars you collect in the games, I guess.  Thanks for reading!

When you do a dive move and then hit the ground and can't move, it gets annoying.

I do agree with you on the slippery controls in Yooka-Laylee, though.  That and having to wrestle with the camera angles is why I stopped right before the last boss.

Bailing on Okami?  Oh no!  Not my Game of the Year from 2006!  I'd help you, but I haven't played Okami since, well, 2006. :)

I only read past the fourth Harry Potter book and then got tired of it.  So I've only played the first LEGO Harry Potter game, too.  I guess I'm not really a big Harry Potter fan.  When I was a kid, I loved the Chronicles of Narnia books, though.  There may be something wrong with me, but Harry Potter reminds me of Scooby Doo for some reason.

My main problem with A Hat in Time, aside from the stealth missions, was the controls.  For example, you can do a dive move in the game, but when you land on the ground, you'll still be in the dive move pose and you can't move at all.  You have to press the jump button to get back up on your feet.  Why you couldn't just move by pressing the joystick is beyond me. That little quirk really caused some gameplay quibbles with me.  

I enjoyed Yooka-Laylee at the beginning more than at the end.  By the end of the game, I was getting a little impatient with it.  I don't know if that's the game's fault or mine, as I may be getting more impatient with games as I get older.  I dunno.

Yeah Mario Odyssey is the best of the recent crop of 3-D platformers.  I'd like to play Super Lucky's Tale, but I don't have an Xbox One.

Be sure to read my SaGa 2 review so you know what you're getting into if you get the actual game.

That's one of the main problems I had with Romanacing SaGa 2 Remastered is that it's a digital game from a non-digital world.  They don't provide you with good instructions because when this game was made, they didn't need to.  You just read the instruction booklet to find out things like, how to add more members to your party and other basic gameplay details.  It's very obtuse.