I apparently still enjoy video games.

So, 2015? Pretty good year. It was a pretty damn formative one for me personally. By the end of it, I was at a point where I felt confident in the general direction of my life for the next decent chunk. I got comfortable. That came to an incredibly abrupt halt with the end of a very serious live-in relationship with my girlfriend in December. It's been a rough transition for me. The good news is I am finally through with relocating all of my stuff, everybody is (mostly) getting along, and I've had a great support network around me through the whole thing. It did, however, slow down my progress on playing and beating video games. Something to do with large swaths of the last two months and change sleeping on floors and couches of friends' houses.

Still, I managed to cross off a couple games. Quick thoughts:

Undertale: As soon as this was finished, my ex-girlfriend began her own feverish relationship with it. I'll always have this and the whole damn Zelda franchise tied up with memories of her. Undertale never stopped surprising me, and found several different ways to make me laugh during my single playthrough. Those laughs ranged in scale from polite chuckles to straight up busting. Certainly a title that will continue to reverberate around in the Tumblr-verse for a long, long time.

LIMBO: A Humble Bundle pickup, one that seemed to have gone over well with some of the Giant Bomb staff in its time. I enjoyed my (brief) time with this one quite a bit, owing largely to its brooding, Scandinavian-ass aesthetics. Ranks favorably among the HIB recurring titles.

Mutant Mudds Deluxe: Picked up on sale, largely due to the recommendations of Jonathan Holmes made some time ago. Played on my 3DS and got 25 or so Water Sprites. Sampled some of the "Deluxe" content. The platforming is stiff in a very European way, like some Amiga platformer. Enjoyable graphics (little details like the protag's hair fluttering are great) and the tunes were alright. I played with checkpoints, which are optional; I could see this game being a real son of a bitch without them.

Retro Game Challenge: As mentioned above, I spent some time living with close friends in the last month or so. One of these folks was my old college roommate, and I noticed they had a copy of Retro Game Challenge sitting in a pile of DS cartridges. I have a huge soft spot for that game, so I popped it into my 3DS looking to get into Robot Ninja Haggle Man. Turns out, it was my old copy with my last save from 2010! Also, I was already on the final challenge of finishing all of the included games! After fiddling with Guadia Quest and RNHM3 on my morning commutes for a few days, I was finally able to put this one to bed after nearly six years. Absolute classic, a standout release on one of the finest consoles ever made. Ought to be on every DS essentials list.

Mario Golf: World Tour: On that very same day, looking to tool around with a game on my commute home, I beat the Mountain Course tournament. Expecting the "rest" of the game to unlock at this point, imagine my surprise when I hit a credit sequence. Now, Nintendo games in particular have a tendency of holding back large swaths of game content for post-credit play, but I have been and will continue to count a credit sequence as a completion for the purposes of getting through my backlog. I've heard MGS5 does some wicked shit with the concept of credits, and it scares me something fierce. Regardless, MGWT is no MG64 but as a game I wound up getting for free at the end of the Club Nintendo it was fine. Seems like the real legs for this thing are in one-off challenges (which are great for commuting) and online play (not so great). Will continue to peck away at this one over time, if only to unlock Star Waluigi...oh, I already did. DONE.

Presently I'm occupying myself with Majora's Mask 3D (totally sidetracked by RGC but no longer) and Gish, yet another Humble Bundle title that's been kicking around for years. Spoilers: It's no LIMBO.