Plaidophile

What an odd genre fusion. It's definitely more Paper Mario (RPG) than Super Mario (platformer). It also took a little while to hit its stride but the first major boss fight started out with the trademark Paper Mario humor which got me totally into it. (The really sad thing was I understood every single reference that I noticed, though there's always the possibility that I didn't notice all the references.)

The actual gameplay could use more game and less exploration leading to cutscenes, though. Really it just feels like they took The Thousand Year Door and replaced the battle stage with the quasi-battles in exploration mode. Of course I'm also playing Yoshi's Island in parallel (on GBA) and that's the diametric opposite, with a lot of fast-paced dexterity challenges, which Super Paper Mario definitely is not.

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There's something about the Zelda games with how they almost-but-not-quite fit together that leads to a hell of a lot of Internet beardiness in trying to piece it together. There are multiple factions in the fandom who argue for different specific theories, like the "multiple timelines" camp, and different groups who discount the canonicity some of the games for various reasons, and it's almost like a religious war.

Tonight's experiment: salmon sausage pizza.

Pretty simple; I diced half a tomato and spread it on a premade pizza crust, added basil, smoked mozzarella, fontina, salmon sausage, a chifonelle of Italian dry salami, green bell peppers, and sliced mushrooms. The lack of sauce makes it pretty good and the flavors all balance together pretty nicely.