So... Today my vacation begins. As I previously wrote, I'm going to visit Japan and go to the Nintendo Museum and eat an awful lot of good food. There is a lot planned. It's the second time I've visited the country, the first of which was via Gamereactor for a WWE event at Yuke's.

Now there is more time to actually look around. So with that said, expect less Jonas Mäki at Gamereactor for a few weeks (luckily I have phenomenal colleagues so there won't be any shortage of things to read), but I'll try to blog a little about everything I come up with, with a focus on games. When I get home, I thought I'd deliver some articles with impressions from, among other things, the Nintendo Museum.

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Have a really wonderful holiday everyone.

We all probably have a game series we watch and absolutely do not understand the greatness of, despite the fact that they are huge brands with multimillion-headed fans. It could be Halo, Persona, The Last of Us, Zelda or something else entirely.

I often still understand the greatness of series like these and always propose rather than trap, well aware that my possible negativity often stems from playing too little. But... there are of course exceptions and one such is Kingdom Hearts.

Many of my colleagues here at Gamereactor cheered wildly when Kingdom Hearts 4 was shown off on Tuesday, and of course I know how hugely popular it is. But I've played several parts of the series before, and I think I've even reviewed something. it's always felt like a super stiff, unnecessarily complex and very strange soup that completely manages to suck out the fun from Disney's finest characters combined with that overpretentious feeling that I think Tetsuya Nomura so often gets dragged with.

Of course, this is not a criticism of the game series itself, but I just state that it is really not for me and a series where I actually do not understand the hype.

But that said... Do you have a pretty universally loved game series you find hard to see the greatness of?

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No thanks.

It wasn't much news and in line with what fans expected, but on Wednesday I thought it was lovely to report on the fact that both Halo: Campaign Evolved and Gears of War: E-Day offer local co-op. One of my best gaming memories was when the first Xbox was released and me and friends visiting played through the campaign together countless times.

But... it's not really about Halo at all - or about Gears of War: E-Day, but about the fact that far too few games today offer local multiplayer. There is so much focus on the online part that this is skipped completely, possibly even deliberately because you want people to play online and sit ready with accounts to buy things.

Anyone who has fun in front of the TV in the living room will not spend in the same way. As recently as January, I visited the old Gamereactor member Aldin in Malmö together with the new editorial board member Oliver Thulin and my ninja-looting cousin. It was a phenomenal weekend with good food, good hanging out and lots of local multiplayer - not least Halo: Combat Evolved via The Master Chief Collection.

And... It really stands. If anything, it's even more fun now thanks to everyone getting such a big picture than when we were together on 28-inchers. Seeing what the others are doing is part of the allure.

Now, I don't think that Halo and Gears alone will be a solution to this, but I still hope that it will become popular with local multiplayer and that both developers and publishers take note of this. 

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Significantly more games should be possible to play with your partner, friends, children and acquaintances who visit.

I sat and watched Nintendo Direct on Tuesday and was not as disappointed as , for example, Marcus. Sure, it was far too scarce with Nintendo's own brands (and what on earth is happening even with Mario Kart World, Sonic Racing: Crossworld runs circles around it) and the games that were shown were so incredibly strange.

But... that's exactly what Nintendo is - the oddities. We know as well as I do that if there's any company that starts its event during the Summer Game Fest week with a primitive Flash-designed creature that artificially hiccups out lines and then offers thumb wrestling, it's Nintendo. No other company does this.

This, of course, made it extremely difficult to sift. Nintendo shows what they want and a lot really can't be predicted. However, I love your guesses and just like with Microsoft, I think you should have the honor of running the program next year with proposals such as a new Ice Climber, Mysterious Castle Murasame and a Unirally sequel.

But... when all was said and done, it was still Adam93 who rowed home the victory for the second time (what's the secret...  blood doping, high altitude training?) and ticked off both Ocarina of Time Remake - but above all Nintendo Switch 2 Sports. Congratulations, this thing with seeing is obviously your thing. It's almost strange that you didn't get three right, because surely Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 should have been shown for Switch 2.

Thank you to all of you who have competed (including my colleague Joakim Sjögren who scored the thumb wrestling - after it was shown), really nice

Yes, Nintendo also wanted to be part of the not-E3 larp, but true to their habit, they wanted to surprise. Therefore, just 24 hours before kick-off, they let it be announced that there will be a Nintendo Direct on Tuesday at 16:00.

With that, we now tear off a final round of guesses about what we will see. Just as before, we crown the best guesser with a public tribute (where we have so far seen Svamphammar, Wirrexx and Adam93 shine), and what I'm looking for is the hardest guess that hits the right spot.

In short, the DLC for Mario Kart World is likely, but probably not the one that will give the victory when someone else pulls in with Punch-Out featuring Jake Paul - and gets it right. With that said, now we'll take and bet a little again, now it's your turn to get nice bragging rights by winning, we have one more lap to go before we say goodbye to note-E3 2026.

Write a maximum of three games you think we will see - and as I said, go out of your way a bit if you want to win. 

Here are three games I'm hoping for:

• Dreamcast to Switch Online

• Kid Icarus 2.5D

• Final Fantasy XVII

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Now let's do one last turn guys, forward with your guesses.