Most of the time it's right in front of me, but my brain is just shortcutting over it.
It's become a running gag in my house that my wife will set something down on the floor so that I can't possibly miss it, like a laundry basket that needs to go downstairs, and I step over it without thinking.
One time, late at night, I went to my son's bedroom to make sure he was asleep. His bed was empty. As I was leaving, I saw him asleep on the floor in the middle of the hall, which means I'd stepped over him.
They changed it to that in season 3, with no explanation. Probably because the writers couldn't be bothered to actually watch the damn show to see what powers he'd had.
In season 1, he could use the powers of anyone he'd been near, but he had to be able to summon up the emotions that person had made him feel.
The first half of the first season was so good. The second half was ok. Every subsequent season gave the impression that it was handed off to a different writer every week, and that those writers hated each other.
They changed the rules constantly, except when they just ignored the rules.
The main character collects new powers as the show goes on, but he never uses them. He just completely forgets that he has them. Kind of like the time he completely forgets he has a girlfriend and never mourns her, mentions her, or even acknowledges that he lost her somewhere in an alternate timeline or something.
That's not much better than the villain. The entire first season is about stopping him from doing a specific thing, because a time traveler has foreseen that it'll result in the world ending. Season two opens with him doing that thing, and everything is fine. He has at least three heel-face turns, which are immediately undone when the next writer is up to bat.
One good character undergoes a terrible transformation and murders a bunch of people, but the next season he's suddenly good and everyone forgot. Again.
Constant retcons. This character is actually that character's secret brother! This one lady who died was actually triplets! It adds nothing to the story and makes no sense, but there it is!
(I'm not joking either. Secret triplets.)
They did a reboot of the show a few years later and did the exact same thing.
I like Bananza more than BotW, but I didn't think BotW was that good. I didn't play TotK for that same reason.
I don't think Bananza's length is a mark against it. It has more than 18 hours of content, so the time to beat it is irrelevant. Cost is also irrelevant to the quality of the game.
Look at it this way: remember when large portions of the internet community were all up in arms about the cost of games and predicted that the Switch 2 was definitely going to fail?
If your perspective on games this year aligns with those communities, then you only need to look at the runaway success of the Switch 2 for proof that you're missing a big part of the picture.
It's a good game. People like it. I don't even like it that much, but I can still see why it's a successful and popular game.
I don't understand why you're mentioning Zelda? There was one Zelda game this year, released a couple weeks ago, but it's actually a Warriors game.
I'm sure Bananza is getting a boost from the Switch 2 hype, just like E33 is getting a boost because of its indie roots. None of this happens in a vacuum. But the hype wouldn't do anything if either of these were bad games.
I don’t even know how donkey kong got in the list though, maybe they are being manipulated to include a nintendo title in some way.
It's one of the best reviewed games this year, it's in a classic but underrepresented genre, and it's the flagship title of the fastest selling console of all time. Maybe you're just a little disconnected on this one?
I had a similar experience. I'd honestly prefer boring turn based combat to the ridiculous QTEs in the game.
The story was extremely well-told. Great voice acting and production value. But the actual plot didn't hook me. It just seemed so arbitrary. I don't know if there's some big reveal or anything that makes it make sense.
I only played it on Game Pass, so luckily I'm not out any money. I would have given it another chance eventually, but the Game Pass price hike made me cancel.
Which is crazy because they just upped the price of Game Pass by 50% and lost a ton of subscribers. We don't know yet if the number of cancelations was financially significant, but it sure looked like it.
So OneDrive actually saved me a ton of time this year at work. We implemented it at the end of last year, and we had a lot of problems with it at first.
So usually something would go wrong, and it was my job to dig deep and figure out what caused it. But for the first half of this year, I could just say, "I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it's OneDrive," and then I could relax and do something else.
I think he was on his way to come tell us something, then he got tired and fell back to sleep. He's three.