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Yeah, instead of the horse whistle they should have made down on the dpad bring up a wheel that lets you activate those powers (and the horse could be on that wheel too).

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom I am one of those people who believed, still believes, and will probably always believe that Breath of the Wild was an overhyped tech demo. This, however, feels like the fully realized game that I wanted the previous one to be. Almost all of my major complaints about BotW have been addressed in some form, although sometimes I must admit some of the improvements feel more like a band-aid than a proper fix for my gripes. Weapon durability, my biggest annoyance, isn't as annoying now thanks to weapon fusing. I still think weapons break too fast unless you fuse them with certain materials, but they at least last long enough that I don't feel the need to avoid fights entirely. The dungeons are better, the bosses are better, the story is better, the characters are better, the voice acting is better, and the powers you get are way more interesting, not to mention more useful. Don't even get me started on how fun it is to build stuff. I'm never very good at building games so I was afraid it would be overwhelming but it's very user-friendly and easy to use. I was making all kinds of crazy contraptions. I only have two major complaints, really. First, rain still sucks. I know there are elixirs and armor to help mitigate slipping on wet surfaces while climbing, but it really shouldn't be a thing to begin with. Rain and especially thunderstorms just bring the whole game to a halt until the weather clears up and as far as I know rainy weather has no benefit to you whatsoever. You can't cook, you can't start fires, you can barely climb, you can't equip any metal weapons or armor. Rain is bullshit. My second issue is with the new powers you get from the dungeons. I actually like them a lot and I love how they're implemented on the field, but the problem is they're activated in a way that's really clunky and no matter how careful you are you're pretty much guaranteed to constantly activate powers you didn't intend to use. There is pretty much no way around it and all you can do is learn to live with it. Oh well. Still, huge improvement over BotW in my eyes. I love this game and it's probably going to be my GOTY.

Got inspired by Across the Spider-Verse to go back to the Insomniac Spider-Men, so I bought both of them on Steam.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Holy shit this movie is so good. Here's how much I liked it: It is as close to perfect a movie as I have ever seen. Not one single frame is wasted. The only thing is I wish I'd known part 2 was coming out next March before I went and saw this, because I wasn't expecting it to end on a cliffhanger. I haven't seen a cliffhanger this egregious since Halo 2's launch. Even with that though, and being completely blindsided by it, it's still the best movie I've seen in years. Years. And that includes Everything Everywhere All At Once, which is the only thing that even comes close Grade: S+