Thanks for commenting! The checkpoints in Lollipop Chainsaw were ultimately the reason I stopped playing that game. I got to one of the early bosses and died and the game set me back about 20 minutes. The game is hysterical but I definitely don’t have time in my life to slog through the same segments of the game over and over.

As for Rayman: I’m a huge fan of that game and I know Matt, our reviews guru, is as well. Aside from being beautiful and a blast to play, it does so many unique things that separate from the traditional Nintendo-style platformer. That new Rayman game for the Wii U is the only thing in the launch window that even looks remotely appealing to me.

First, the night before listening to your podcast I was playing Lolllipop Chainsaw on Ranking Mode. Then near the end of the first stage, right before the first boss, I miss one of the QTE and ahve to restart the whole 30min stage. That was it for my run in ranking mode. The game has enought checkpoints, but ranking mode really is for those who have time.

Second, Rayman Origins has none of that bs of lives and continues that Mario still has, apparently just for the sake of it, because it serves no prupose. If a player at some pont early in the game have 50 lives, that means no game overs. Except if there is a Donkey Kong Country Returns dificulty like stage. That one had some extra levels in which was easy to burn through 20 or 30 lives.

That’s all.
Keep up the good work,