It's a brand new year! Which for video games means that stuff I want to play isn't being released yet. So, once again (all I've been doing for the duration of my blog posts) I'm reaching into my backlog. This week though, I've done a lot of comfort food gaming. I've played a LOT of Hearthstone and some Mario Maker, which to me are games I can check up on whenever I want to (or in the case of Hearthstone, every day). Oh, and I also finished Ocarina of Time. Woo!

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

I finally did it! I finished a Legend of Zelda game. This is the first one (my only experiences with Zelda prior to this was a good chunk of Link to the Past and a few hours of Wind Waker), so I still had never faced Ganon or seen the Sheik reveal. It was cool. The dungeons that were left after last week were the Spirit Temple and Ganon's Castle, which didn't really take very long (other than me dying to the final Ganon fight, and the fact that the "corpse run" so to speak was very long) and was a great deal of fun. This has kind of sparked my interest in playing the rest of the Zelda franchise, and I think I might do so. Really happy with my experience.

Super Mario Maker

After hearing the crew discuss this at length on their Game of the Year deliberations, I decided to fire it up again after not having played this for a few weeks (months?), and I was really stoked! There were a lot of new event courses to play (and costumes to unlock), a bunch of new Nintendo-made levels and the Super Mario Maker Bookmark tool to filter through levels. All the levels I've found through there have been really good, and the system itself is really easy to use and very functional.

Besiege

Man, this game is fun! I've only played this for like 2 hours, and still have a lot of things to learn but this game is REALLY fun. It's in early access, so a lot of "features" aren't there yet, but the core of this game is to complete an objective (kill these people, destroy these buildings, etc) by building a vehicle/structure/thing from scratch and by using different materials and objects. I made a functioning spinning flamethrower on wheels, which was pretty fun. The craziest part though has been watching Youtube videos of this game where people are building the craziest shit. Man, what a crazy game.