Wenesday, I picked up Sekiro - Shadows Die Twice for Xbox One. At 4PM when I got home, I popped it in. On top of the obligatory install, there was a 2.8 gig update. Fast forward to 8:30PM and it's finally finished on my pathetic internet connection. I played for a half-hour but didn't feel well and went to bed. Get up for work Thursday morning at 5:30 AM, feeling like complete crap. As the minutes ticked by, I got worse & worse and by 7:45, I hit the restroom at work with it coming out both ends like a busted fire hose. The doctor shoved a hard ass wooden swab up my nose and 10 minutes later, confirmed I had Flu A. So I go home and start my quarantine in the bedroom to protect my family - especially my 19 month old son from it. During my fever, aches, sweating, vomiting, hershey squirts and pounding head there was only two things that kept me sane.
The first was screwing with my iPhone loving friends on Facebook by making memes about how great my Galaxy S10 Plus is. But the real savior was my Switch. Diablo, Yoshi's Crafted World, Nintendo Online and a few other games kept me going.
I was in no condition to be crawling around unplugging cables, etc to relocate my Xbox and the Switch's portable nature and USB-C cable was all I needed. And it just highlights why I have fallen in love with the Switch as my primary gaming platform. It's not the most powerful. It doesn't get all the "big AAA" games, whatever that even means anymore. But it's the most fun for me. I can play it on my tv or on the go. I can pop a cartridge in and start playing, even if the games have an update. No waiting hours on end for a beta product on a disc to get patched up. It's just fun. Thank you Nintendo.
