When the new year started, I decided to treat myself to 2 new games I wanted for the Switch. The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures, Part 1 and 2 Deluxe, and Celeste. I started w AVGN and really enjoyed it. Felt like a Mega Man style jump and shoot game with a ton of platforming gimmicks and some crass humor fitting of the show. But beating both games and then 100 percenting them and the unlockable shorter game at the end, it was kind of short.

By this time I was done, the NFL playoffs were underway, my New York Football Giants were in the playoffs and I always look forward to this even when they aren't. I watch every game, DVR them, considered doing YouTube videos about them. The first weekend is 6 games and I was all over them. The Giants won a tough game on the road. I was hyped. My mind was all about what teams were left, what the matchups were, who would be left standing.

Then I got started on Celeste. I figured hey it's something to do during the week while I'm waiting for the weekend games. The story, the message, the music and the overall vibe pulled me in quick and then the platforming puzzles really locked me in. Before I knew it, every day I was coming home to play this game and do only that after work.

I was still looking forward to the 2nd round of the playoffs though, Giants going against their hated rival the Eagles, Chiefs playing the Jaguars, Bengals vs the Bills, the 49ers vs the Cowboys, I was still excited for that too. But the Giants got knocked out easily that weekend. Well that sucks but back to Celeste. I was getting closer and closer to the end, battled through a mirror temple, an epic boss fight with dark Madeline, and then was closing in on the last few screens of the summit when I got a message.

My virtual appointment with my therapist was about to start. I had to stop the game just a few screens from the Summit, it was killing me, but I did and we did our session. I had completely forgot I had a session, I was just so into finishing the game. Right after, I did beat the game, saw the epilogue, I was happy. Then it unlocks the Core, which I can't get to cause I only had 1 of the 4 hearts I needed. Time to play some B-sides and search through old levels.

Before I knew it, it was time for Championship Sunday, the NFC and AFC Championship Games played back to back. I was into it I guess, but what I really wanted to do was play more Celeste. Im not even sure where I was at at this point, maybe I was playing the Core A side, maybe I had even unlocked Farewell by that point but I was just itching to play more of it to the point where these 2 hugely important football games just represented a block of time where I couldn't be playing the game.

But then I thought, what if I sneak in a little bit at halftime of the first game? I def beat a level during that play session which ran a bit long. When I finally stopped, I had missed most of the 3rd quarter. No biggie, game became a blowout. After the game ended, there was a few mins before the next game started. Back to Ceste. Beat another level, missed the first part of the first quarter but watched the rest. I enjoyed that game, it was pretty good and now we had our Super Bowl teams ready to go in 2 weeks. Ok great, back to Celeste.

The past 2 weeks it feels like this is all I've done and thought about. Now here we are for the Super Bowl and for the first time in ages, me a Sports Fanatic is not that excited for it. I might enjoy it, I know whose house I'm going over to watch it, but what I'm really excited about is going back in and finishing Farewell sometime next week. After beating the wild C-sides this weekend, I was on a high like I couldn't believe. Nothing else could give me that kind of excitement right now. It's almost a little scary and prob good for me that I am so close to being done what I feel I need to do before I move on from the game. Lately I don't want to do anything else.

Again, am I gonna enjoy the Super Bowl? Sure, but this is the first time I can remember where I feel like something else going on is kind of overshadowing the Super Bowl and really the whole NFL Playoffs. And that says everything about just how incredible this game really is. You guys all know it too just like I do. Just thought I'd give my two cents.