Gilbert Cruz

You know, as a child who's into video games and is always looking for something that I can play with my child, this was just candy.

We spent so many hours side by side on the sofa playing this until we beat it together.

You do.

You learn so much playing video games.

Another indie game that I super love this year is a game called Blueprints.

This is a puzzle game.

Essentially, you play someone who's inherited a house that your great uncle has passed on to you.

The house is 45 rooms, and your job is to discover the hidden 46th room.

Every day, you have a certain number of steps by which you can discover new rooms and put them together in different configurations to try to get to this 46th room.

And then key point...

Every day, the layout of the house resets, and it's completely different.

All right.

There actually are, despite this being such a great year for indies, a couple of big studio titles in the mix here.

And I'd love to sort of get to them very quickly.

One of them is called Death Stranding 2.

I don't know how to describe this game, but it is from one of the great minds of video game creation.

I promise you, the next game we're going to talk about is not about death.

This is one of the big Switch 2 games.

This is Donkey Kong Bonanza.

This is exclusive to the Switch 2 because it is about one of Nintendo's big characters.