“Kirby and the Forgotten Land on the Switch is perfect. We can play it together. It's co-op. It's great for me, it's great for her. It's awesome.”
A co-op Switch platformer that's great for him and his daughter to play together.
“I bought the Steam Deck and it's great... What Valve has done with the Steam deck... is incredible. They have abstracted a PC gaming machine into a console experience... It's awesome. You don't have to worry about any of the drivers or specs. It's really, really impressive.”
Valve's handheld that turns PC gaming into plug-and-play console simplicity — buy it, turn it on, play, with no drivers or specs to wrangle.
“I downloaded Smash Brothers Ultimate to her Switch, so we've been playing that. She really likes to be a princess, of course, and to 'fight the bunny.' She calls Pikachu the bunny.”
The Switch brawler he loaded onto his daughter's console so they could play together — she picks the princesses and 'fights the bunny' (Pikachu).
“I am so excited for the Switch 2... Basically everything on our Nintendo episodes that we've hoped Nintendo would do with the successor system to the Switch they're doing. Full backwards compatibility, maintaining the online accounts. System looks incredible.”
Nintendo's successor console: full backwards compatibility, online accounts intact, and a new Mario Kart at launch — everything he hoped the next Switch would be.
“Highly recommend to anyone with little kids and a Nintendo Switch go get Princess Peach Showtime, especially if you have a young daughter... My daughter loves this thing, and it's been so fun to watch her become an expert at this game.”
A Nintendo Switch game with Peach as the heroine — his daughter's gateway into video games, and a joy to watch her master.
“I've been playing this really cool, indie, old school–style RPG called Sea of Stars. It's like a Chrono Trigger–style, Super Nintendo–style RPG... unintentionally the Steam Deck was the gateway drug for my soon-to-be 4-year-old daughter.”
An indie, Chrono Trigger-style RPG that unexpectedly became his young daughter's first video game — and a shared nightly ritual.
“Mario Kart 8 — I've played a lot of Mario Karts over the last 25 years — I think is the best. It's just amazing. Perfect. I got an OLED Switch for her. We'll be able to play together in tabletop mode.”
After 25 years of Mario Karts he calls this the best — perfect for tabletop co-op with his four-year-old, who races to fall off Rainbow Road on purpose.