• Luigi’s Mansion, as I’ve commented before, is a lot more fun than it looks to be. I actually really dig it at this point.
• I’ve not played with Wave Race at all since getting back here
• Mars Matrix isn’t the best overhead shooter ever (that’s Fire Shark for me; Radiant Silvergun for the people who’ve actually played it), but it’s solid, it has a heck of a lot of replay value, and it’s actually a two-player co-op game! One red ship; one blue! Amazing!
• Capcom vs SNK is… okay. It’s got nice new sprites for the SNK characters. Okay music. Nice interface. A lot of extra features. But it’s hard as hell, the SNK characters have been (as reported) stripped down appallingly (leaving Terry as one of the few who can actually still be used properly — he’s okay!), there aren’t enough stages, and I’ve serious issue with the groove point system. In theory it’s nice, but it makes it hard to get anywhere, especially when combined with the ridiculous difficulty of the game. When Ryu is the character in the first round of the first fight, I can consistently be defeated by him when I choose any SNK character other than Terry, for the most part (though I’ve now gotten more used to how cheap the AI is). This is a big problem.

Out of everything, I’ll probably be going back to Mars Matrix the most.