Posts with tagged with "streetpass"

My gal Jessica and I were on our way to Osaka to get a delicious American-style burrito at the only burrito joint I've ever been willing to make the thirty minute train ride for, and through a circuitous twist of fate we found ourselves surrounded on either side of the bench by a couple friends that we met along the way. The recent release of the 3DS XL made some new owners out of us—I passed down my original 3DS to Jessy and replaced it with a blue XL, while my friend bought his first 3DS due to the increased battery and bigger screens of the XL (the other friend already had a red original 3DS, purchased specifically for Mario Kart 7, still the only game she owns).

Maybe the most surprising thing about New Super Mario Bros. 2's coin rush mode, in which you can compete with StreetPassed strangers by trying to maximize your coin total through a single-life gauntlet of three randomly selected levels, is that it's actually, in some sort of disgusting, twisted way, beneficial to tag people who have a score that is massively, impossibly unbeatable. Why would that be? Well, it's because the first time that you challenge a coin rush tag and finish it, you automatically receive coins equivalent to your rival's record.

Living in Japan has its drawbacks. In the age of total region-lock, I'm forced to turn to costly American 3DS cartridge imports, overpay on shipping, and wait forever for my games to arrive. I'm stuck paying exorbitant Japanese prices for PS3 games, the oh-so-beautiful Ghibli Blu-rays, and pizza (also the pizza has mayonnaise on it). And I also live in a little box the size of a deck of playing cards.