Twilight Princess (and maybe other more recent Zelda games I haven't played) also did this and it rubbed me wrong then. Long conversations where people talk at Link and he just stands there and grins. It's just creepy and weird.

If someone is making a terrible pun, even better

That said, I hope the game will get a more nuanced label than “new Jon Blow game”. While the creative vision is his, he didn’t make any of the original games and there are a lot of talented people at Thekla who also deserve credit.

I'm probably misremembering a lot, but that opening section stuck in my head like the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The Water Babies, about some (live action) Dickensian orphans who are so mistreated they jump off a bridge to die in fast moving currents, but instead wind up in a magical animated land under the sea.

Alas, it fell overnight and I missed it

I don't mind that stuff came out after me (and my god am I glad I missed Polar Express and Elf on a Shelf), but nobody there even knew Gremlins was a Christmas movie in the first place. The whole inciting element is Gizmo is a last minute gift!

Congrats! Chicago got the email right as they went on sale and I managed to snag two. Other friends not so lucky.

Maybe some people actually did need Chris Hardwick to immediately explain each episode of the show they just saw

Letting Double Fine and Obsidian continue to exist is the main and possibly only thing in their "Win" column for me.

I have a sick sense of humor and am voting for 2001 just because I think that, like The Coup's even more poorly-timed Party Music, it's funny now that a September 2001 album had twin skyscrapers on the cover.