Having Cara about creates situations to play games I never really put much time into. She wants to play games, but it’s not like we can play Call of Duty or whatever, nor does she want to. I’ve had to think of other multiplayer things we could play. This has caused me to return to two Kingdoms I barely put much time into: The Mushroom Kingdom, and Dokapon Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Frankly, I never put much time into the MarioWii. I mean, it’s good. Don’t get me wrong. It’s great old-school platforming, but for whatever reason, I just couldn’t find time to pound away at it myself. Cara knew how Mario worked, though, so I thought we’d give it a try.<\/p>\n
New Super Mario Brothers Wii is hard.<\/p>\n
I mean, we were playing it, and we got somewhere. We beat World 3 playing together. But it was tough. There were a lot of deaths, and I was having to carry us, even though I’m not all that good with platformers. It also didn’t help that the world we were on was an Ice world, so we were slip-sliding about the whole time. Still, fun was had. Apparently I got really serious sometimes, but that’s just because I felt like I needed to keep making progress for Cara not to be discouraged, so I was putting on my game face and really trying to succeed at the game, more than maybe I would if I was, say, playing with Jonathan.<\/p>\n
It’s a good game, but it was too hardcore, honestly. Playing with another gamer would be fun, but I just wasn’t skilled enough to carry both of us, seeing as I could barely carry myself. Next time I went looking on my self for something to play, I was looking for something a bit more casual.<\/p>\n
So we played Dokapon Kingdom.
\nWhich honestly isn’t that casual.<\/p>\n
It plays like a board game, so it’s slow-paced, but so much of the game is based on RPG tropes that I don’t feel like Cara really understood. Still, I felt like she had a fun time with it. I mean, she beat me in the short game we played. I was honestly being too confident and getting my ass kicked too much. I also was playing a thief, and I probably should have been a warrior. In any case, if she did like it, maybe we’ll start up a story mode game and keep pounding away at that for awhile. I think that would be fun times. I suppose I should probably ask her if she agrees.<\/p>\n
In any case, those are two games I went back to and experienced, partially through casual eyes. It was interesting, and certainly fun. Hopefully Cara is enjoying herself… I always worry. I’m so weird and geeky, but also a girl, and I feel like sometimes she doesn’t know what to do with that intersection. Not that it’s a problem.<\/p>\n
Ramble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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