Yesterday, I realized that the release date for Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury is Feb 12th, which happens to be tomorrow (Friday!). This is great, because it’s releasing going into a weekend and I’ll have time to play it uninterrupted. But then.. something amazing occurred to me.

This weekend is a long weekend. A holiday weekend. I will have not 2 uninterrupted days to play it. Oh ho ho, nay, I will have three glorious, uninterrupted days to play it. Which means that I should have it beat by the time I go to work on Tuesday morning.

This is well-timed, because I’ve been sitting in a weird gaming funk after having basically all of my Switch games beat and feeling like I have nothing to play. Honestly, this is so exciting because I never got to play Super Mario 3D World when it was originally released, because I didn’t own a Wii. I’m feeling pretty good about the numerous re-releases they’ve been doing recently on the Switch and I will absolutely keep buying them and enjoying the crap out of them because nothing really beats the feeling of Mario games.

My body is ready and my family has been warned.