Dec 2025 – JG Judgementally Comments…

What’s The Game? The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (that’s the original, not the HD remaster with quality of life improvements)

What’s It All About, JG? Being the cutest darned game in the whole of toon town! But aside from that, while Link is having his coming of age ceremony, Tetra the pirate is dropped on Outset Island, his home, and Link rescues her. In the meantime, his sister is abducted, which means our feisty little fella needs to set out on the high seas to rescue her! Tetra’s along for the ride too, agreeing to help get his sister back. That means finding a special talking boat, the King of Red Lions, to safely ferry him across the open waters (and explaining any relevant plot details – Link very much sails the good ship Exposition in this game). Tetra and Link are eventually able to rescue Link’s sister, where a confrontation with Ganondorf reveals that Tetra has a Triforce necklace and is the descendant of Zelda herself. After visiting a sunken Hyrule under the waves, where Tetra is revealed to be Actual Zelda, not just a descendant, Link assembles the shards of the Triforce, using them to defeat Ganondorf in the final battle. But, in a twist, the King of Hyrule – Link’s boat, obviously – decides that the old order should be washed away and Ganondorf is turned to stone. Link and a restored Tetra escape while the King, Ganondorf, and old Hyrule are swept away forever.

What’s The Game? Hades II

What’s It All About, JG? Well, it’s the sequel to Hades, isn’t it? You play as Melinoië, a princess of the Underworld and sister to the original game’s Zagreus. Chronos, the Titan of Time, has taken over the House of Hades and imprisoned Melinoë’s family, so she’s on a mission to kill Chronos and restore her family. She’s been mentored by Hecate, who’s kept her hidden at a secret location called the Crossroads, while Melinoë has spent her life training to defeat Chronos. The game is, as with the first Hades, a roguelike, so with each run, Melinoë gains knowledge, skills, and resources which help take her closer to her goal. Unlike the first game, however, there are two paths for Melinoë to follow – there’s the initial one back to the House of Hades, which takes her through three different biomes, but this time there’s also an “upstairs” run which takes her to the very peak of Mount Olympus itself to defeat Typhon, the worst of all monsters. Can Melinoë manage to defeat the Titan of Time and free her family from his imprisonment?

Death to Chronos!