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Look, we all knew the game was going to be huge but did anyone expect it to be this huge? Monster Hunter: World really did help put the franchise on the map for most people.

Undoubtedly one of Nintendo’s best ever pure handheld devices, the 3DS leaves behind a legacy of excellence and triumph that few other systems could hope to beat, let alone replicate. In the video game Hall of Fame, it deserves a section all to itself for paving the way for Nintendo to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

2020 may have been a terrible year for…well, everyone, but for the games industry it was one of the best trips around the sun ever recorded. With people stuck at home and desperate for entertainment, video games proved to be a perfect respite. Over on Metacritic, the review aggregation website had a look at which game publishers were the most critically successful and went through the entire 2020 library of games to find the biggest winners of the year.

Given how tiny those Pikmin are, one can only hope this results in hundreds of people trundling around the local park on their hands and knees.

If there’s two things to know about me, it’s that I have a deep love for two games in particular: Pokémon and Destiny. Both games offer incredibly different experiences, but what if they were fused into one almighty being that was both cute and deadly? Then you’d have something that looks like this, as envisioned by the adorable fan art from Twitter user and artist Eun.

Monster Hunter: Rise is fantastic from start to finish. It feels like a game that many will come to consider an essential on the Nintendo Switch thanks to it’s stunning graphics, addictive gameplay loop, consistently engaging combat, and bountiful bowls of unlockable content. Oh, and fighting alongside giant cats and dogs is simply too cool.

In today’s episode I dig deep into the well of my current obsession of obtaining retro video games, Brad doesn’t shut up about Loop Hero, and I request a bucket of the gravy used to make KFC mash so delicious.