CHOOSE YOUR CHRISTMAS PLAYTHROUGH (Patreon)

For many years, we've had this tradition of playing Katamari games on christmas week. And this was a good tradition.

Then we ran out of good Katamari games. So now we need a new tradition.

My original thought was "I've got it! Mario games." It's a solid new tradition candidate: it's peppy, it's nostalgic, it's full of opportunities for amusing failure, it's not super long... plus it would take a rather long time to run out of decent Mario games. We'd start out with Super Mario World this year, maybe Yoshi's Island next year... it'd be perfect.

But then I also realized "wait, there are still three Shovel Knight campaigns we haven't done. Shoot. That would also work." And it would! They're peppy, they evoke nostalgia in spades, they're full of opportunities for amusing failure, none of them are long AND they've even got little narrative continuity hooks between the bunch. Granted, we'd run out of these a lot sooner, but that's 2025 Dan's problem.

I went back and forth about this for hours before remembering: "Wait. I have patrons I can outsource this indecision to."

So I now task you with choosing your 2022 christmas gift and our new holiday playthrough tradition: shall we embark on a new era of Little Plumber Boy or The Knight Before Christmas?