Expi Feliton's Corner

That was… a year alright. Last year, I didn’t just do a year in review for 2019 - in fact, I did an entire decade in review as I looked back on each year of the 2010’s and determined my best and worst years of the decade. I mentioned that 2019 itself was a bad year for me, one of the worst in my life just on the basis of my father passing away at the start. There were some good things that happened during that year - mostly me graduating and getting a Switch, but that one thing that happened just had an incredibly negative effect on the rest of the year. But as we turned into the next decade, the 2020’s, I did have high hopes for this year. Despite what happened at the beginning of the year, I was hoping that 2020 would at least be an improvement and that maybe my life would start looking up. I pretty much experienced the worst thing that could happen to me, so… maybe the only way was up. And I mean… I guess that wasn’t entirely untrue but this year wasn’t exactly what I hoped for eith...

 Earlier this year (oddly enough, around the time I was writing my review of the original DS, Nintendo announced that the 3DS would be discontinued - meaning no more production of any 3DS model. This didn’t exactly come as a huge surprise - after the Switch released many were wondering how long it would be before the 3DS got the axe. But… in a way, it’s kind of sad to me. I grew up with Nintendo’s handhelds - starting with my brother’s hand me down Game Boy Advance and later getting a DS Lite - and the 3DS wasn’t an exception - I got the system for Christmas in 2014 and it pretty much served as my main handheld and non-PC platform during my teenage years. In a way, it still feels kind of new to me - despite being 9 years old, I still remember seeing advertisements and stuff when the 3DS released. I think it’s safe to say too that it’s very likely the 3DS will be Nintendo’s last traditional handheld. With the Switch and it’s concept of a hybrid console doing extremely well it’s safe...

 2015 was, quite frankly, one of the best and most interesting years of my life. This was the year where I got really into reviewing games, cartoons and well, episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - something that started in 2014 but was really in full swing by the following year. It was also the year where I took a road trip with my dad, went to Arizona and got to see family, the year where I first grew interest in Linux, and also a really good year for many of the fandoms I was in. But 2015 was also the year where I’d say I got into PC gaming. I had made a Steam account the year prior, and after being unsure whether PC gaming was for me, by 2015 I was buying a ton of Steam games and putting a lot of hours into playing them, having new experiences that I had never really had before, especially with games like Freedom Planet, Terraria, Blockland, Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures, Team Fortress 2 and Portal 1 and 2. In December, me and my brother began building my own PC, ...