You Are All Heroes of the Highest Order, and Other Musings
Milestones, Hopes and Dreams, etc.
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Hello there, upstanding Society members!
A couple weekends ago, the Sonoran Videogame Society hit over 100 subscribers, and I couldn’t be more thrilled and humbled.
It’s been close to a decade since I’ve seen this much engagement in my work. Thank you everyone for reading!
To those who are paying for my work, I’m beyond grateful for your generosity and encouragement. From the depths of my heart, thank you so, so much!
Posting Schedule and Future Plans
I’m not sure how many people pay attention to Substack posting schedules, but for the first few months of this Substack, I posted twice a week, every Monday and Thursday.
For the last couple of weeks, however, I’ve only posted once a week, and unless something shifts, I see a one post a week schedule continuing into the foreseeable future.
Two reasons for this:
1)     I started a new Substack called Nintendo is Great, so I’m now dividing my time between two Substacks. If you love Nintendo and absurd, ambitious gaming quests, I highly recommend it.
2)     The Sonoran Videogame Society is not yet what I want it to be. I find myself feeling a bit lost with this Substack at the moment, at least in terms of the type of writing I desire to produce for it. I more-or-less know where I want it to head, but getting there requires elements to shift in my personal life. I’m working on something right now that, once it’s revealed, will absolutely change the course of this Substack for the better. Until then, please forgive me if it feels a bit aimless.
The latter point leads me to…
Topics for Consideration
I have some ideas in the pipeline for the Sonoran Videogame Society, articles that are gonna kill, baby, kill!
But if you have any gaming-related topics you’d like me to cover, please let me know in the comments or shoot me a DM. Can’t promise I’ll write about them, of course, but I’ll definitely consider any and all suggestions!
What I’m Playing
I’ve seen other gaming Substack authors share what they’re currently playing, so I thought I’d join in!
Recently, I’ve been getting back into Hyrule Warriors, specifically the Definitive Edition on Switch. If you don’t know what Hyrule Warriors is, imagine every Legend of Zelda character set loose on a battlefield with little restraint.
It’s Link teaming up with Zelda to stop Ganondorf, but it’s also Agatha from Twilight Princess aligning with Marin from Link’s Awakening to stop Toon Link’s reign of terror; real Zelda fans know.
Between the super satisfying combat and the strategic and tactical elements, Hyrule Warriors has one of the most addictive gameplay loops I’ve ever encountered in my 30+ years of gaming. The Switch edition in particular has 9 Adventure Maps, each one with at least 70 missions or more, sooooo yeah, there’s a lot of content here. My wife and I have already sunk a couple hundred hours into this bad boy over the last decade, and I imagine, over the course of our lifetime, we’ll sink at least a couple hundred more.
Hyrule Warriors is also one of the few games I can revisit, pick up, and start playing, like no time has passed… or so I thought.
Yesterday, I played a mission where I had to destroy Ganon in his dark beast form, along with two other massive bosses, within a ten minute time span. Unfortunately, I forgot how to damage Ganon, so I died rather quickly.
If you want a game you can get lost in and you love the Legend of Zelda franchise, I absolutely recommend Hyrule Warriors. It’s my favorite entry in the series, because it feels like a celebration of every Zelda game pre-Breath of the Wild. A bombastic party where every Zelda character is as powerful and epic as you’d expect them to be. Except for Tingle, of course.
Shameless Plug
Right now, getting a monthly or yearly paid subscription to Sonoran Videogame Society will get you a free monthly/yearly paid subscription to Nintendo is Great, and vice versa, as long as you’re free subscribed to both.
Two paid subscriptions for the price of one, which adds up to $3.50/month for both Substacks!
Thanks Again
Again, I can’t thank everyone enough for continuing to read my work, week after week.
There’s too much content out in the world right now, and everybody wants a piece of your time. So the fact that you take 5-7 minutes of your day to read my video game articles is truly wonderful.
I’ll see you next week.
Blessings,
DC
As far as suggestions, I'd like to see a piece on some of the early fighting game releases and in particular the "beat-em ups". I think that's the right term for games like Double Dragon?