You could be the Super Mario Maker

Late last year, I persuasively argued thatjigsaw puzzles are extremely cool. My rhetoric was so sound thatI was even cited in some generic local news blog thing with quotes that I definitely didn’t say. I’m probably the foremost authority now.

That’s why you should believe me when I tell you that thisSuper Mariojigsaw puzzle seems lame as hell. Look at this fuckin’ thing. Conservatively, it’s probably 60 percent red. What a pain in the ass.

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Now, maybe you, ever the glass-half-fuller, look at this and see a challenge. “600 red pieces! That’ll be fun and not even a little bit obnoxious,” you convince yourself, dumbly. Good for you.It’s currently $7 at GameStopand this seems like a tremendous value in terms of United States dollars paid compared to hours frustratingly wasted because there’s too much goddamn red. (Experts call this ratio USD:HFWBTTMGR.)

It’s too bad that the first intersection of video games and jigsaw puzzles I’ve chosen to examine is so weak on the video game front. My fault, probably. To make up for it,here are a bunch of actually-good jigsaw puzzlesthat I found by doing a Google image search for “hella kickass jigsaw puzzles.”

Wuyang OW2 ultimate

Football Manager 26 promo art

Cover for Max Payne

Black Ops 7 key art work

PEAK mesa biome text

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CoD BO7 The Guild robot

Drag x Drive passing

A ruined police station in Raccoon City in Resident Evil Requiem.