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I had heard that Pilotwings Resort was easy, breezy, and fun, but that it was really short and not worth money. That seemed like a perfect rental, don’t you think? So I grabbed it! And then it was a thing.

I don’t know. I mean, I played the shit out of Pilotwings 64, although maybe that was a “this is the one game I have” sort of situation, and I’m so fucking casual now that surely, I thought, the game would appeal to my lazy, fucking about sensibilities. Doing little tests, flying about, and so on while listening to podcasts sounded like it would be up my alley at this point.

But the game is just so boring. The tasks I was doing were simple: precision gets you a higher score, but I couldn’t give a fuck about that, and I was bringing all the skills I’d need to complete these missions to the table as I played them with no practice. There are just long stretches where you just watch your plane or whatever fly forward, and you aren’t really doing anything to do better or worse. I mean, yeah, that’s flying, but I don’t know. Wuhu Island is not a location I care about. I don’t want to see all of its pretty sights, because I saw them all fucking around in Wii Sports Resort and it was never particularly visually interesting anyway.

Yeah, I just don’t know. I guess someone who picked up one of these because they liked the Wii would probably enjoy it? But it just wasn’t doing anything for me. Like, I couldn’t even turn on the 3D because it made me feel PRETTY ILL the moment I did it. It just seemed… okay. Bland. And certainly not anything I wanted to play anymore.

So I stopped playing it!