Hello, I’m Katherine Kane… finally.

So, this is gonna go around the bend a little bit, at the start. Just hold on, and it’ll all make sense in a little while.

I bought Pikmin 3 on the Nintendo Switch about eight months ago, at least a year after I’d decided I wanted to play it. I was holding out for a cheap copy on eBay, because it is not a cheap game. And I really enjoyed it — P3 is a solid adventure game — but I’ve yet to see how it ends.

That’s because the ending has a section that is, to put it as best I can, highly stressful. It involves getting through a section very…