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Finally beat it, several months after release.  Need to go back for a few Shrines and caves, but otherwise I feel done with it.

 

Overall it addresses BoTW's biggest faults, but maybe not quite in as decisive of a way as I hoped.  Like a lot of the collectables tucked in the game (yay, no amiibo exclusives!), it feels kind of like a mash up of what the series has done before.  Just on a larger scale, with more interesting powers to play with than any Zelda before it.

 

The Shrines and dungeons are much better than BoTW's.  They don't hit the series' 3d puzzle highs, but are good enough to get to get on Wind Waker's level at least, while surpassing it in creativity.  I really have to give them props for finding ways to not let Ascend break everything.  It must have been a difficult design challenge all in itself, not even factoring in all the build-able vehicles.

 

Then there's the enviornmental puzzles, there's multitudes more world-challenge based Shrines than BoTW, and Tears is a better game for it.  Getting to the dungeons is also a more interesting affair generally.  I felt the sky itself is a callback to Wind Waker's islands, and has all the same positives and negatives.

 

People have criticized the other element of the game I won't spoil.  I land somewhere in the middle on it.  It's not bad per say, but I don't feel inclined to be a completionist with it.

 

The reason it's a 9.5/10 game and not a perfect 10 for me is the balance and redundant cloathing.  So many of those previous game callback costumes do the exact same thing, there's no reason to use one over another beyond which set you have most complete.  So seeking them out is pointless.  On balance, the best part of the game is the opening, where everything is a threat.  But at some point the combat challenge completely dies beyond one or two super-monsters.  And sadly, that includes the ending of the game, where a single Silver Lynell on the way is a significantly bigger threat than the final boss in any of its forms.  That script needs to flip Nintendo, because what you did otherwise is awesome.

 

9.5/10

 

2023 Games

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - 8/10

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity - 7.5/10

Xenoblade 3: Future Redeemed - 9/10

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 9.5/10

 

 

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On 10/12/2023 at 1:14 PM, crispy4000 said:

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Finally beat it, several months after release.  Need to go back for a few Shrines and caves, but otherwise I feel done with it.

 

Overall it addresses BoTW's biggest faults, but maybe not quite in as decisive of a way as I hoped.  Like a lot of the collectables tucked in the game (yay, no amiibo exclusives!), it feels kind of like a mash up of what the series has done before.  Just on a larger scale, with more interesting powers to play with than any Zelda before it.

 

The Shrines and dungeons are much better than BoTW's.  They don't hit the series' 3d puzzle highs, but are good enough to get to get on Wind Waker's level at least, while surpassing it in creativity.  I really have to give them props for finding ways to not let Ascend break everything.  It must have been a difficult design challenge all in itself, not even factoring in all the build-able vehicles.

 

Then there's the enviornmental puzzles, there's multitudes more world-challenge based Shrines than BoTW, and Tears is a better game for it.  Getting to the dungeons is also a more interesting affair generally.  I felt the sky itself is a callback to Wind Waker's islands, and has all the same positives and negatives.

 

People have criticized the other element of the game I won't spoil.  I land somewhere in the middle on it.  It's not bad per say, but I don't feel inclined to be a completionist with it.

 

The reason it's a 9.5/10 game and not a perfect 10 for me is the balance and redundant cloathing.  So many of those previous game callback costumes do the exact same thing, there's no reason to use over another beyond which set you have most complete.  So seeking them out is pointless.  On balance, the best part of the game is the opening, where everything is a threat.  But at some point the combat challenge completely dies beyond one or two super-monsters.  And sadly, that includes the ending of the game, where a single Silver Lynell on the way is a significantly bigger threat than the final boss in any of its forms.  That script needs to flip Nintendo, because what you did otherwise is awesome.

 

9.5/10

 

2023 Games

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - 8/10

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity - 7.5/10

Xenoblade 3: Future Redeemed - 9/10

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 9.5/10

 

 

Both of those games and the Mario games are why I'm disappointed I'll never have the Switch.

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Tails of Iron 10/10 (Platinum)

Far Cry 6 8/10 (Platinum)

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls 10/10 (Platinum)

Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer (all trophies)

Burly Men At Sea 9/10 (Platinum)

Final Fantasy VII Remastered 10/10 (Platinum)

Final Fantasy VII Remake: Episode INTERmission 9/10 (all trophies)

Back to the Future: The Game

8/10 (Platinum)

Undead Horde (Platinum)

7/10

Prototype 8/10 (Platinum)

Prototype 2 9/10 (Platinum)

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age 10/10 (Platinum)

Donut County 7/10 (Platinum)

Batman: The Telltale series 9/10 (Platinum)

Batman: The Enemy Within 10/10 (Platinum)

Abzû (all trophies) 10/10

Darksiders Warmastered Edition (Platinum) 8/10

Spyro the Dragon (Platinum) 9/10

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (Platinum) 9/10

Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon (Platinum)  9/10

Jak and Dexter: The Precursor Legacy (Platinum) 8/10

Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition (Platinum) 9/10

Yooka-Laylee (Platinum) 6.5/10

Maneater Truth Quest DLC (all trophies) 8/10

Death's Door (Platinum)10/10

Spiritfarer (Platinum) 10/10

Toem (Platinum) 8/10

Toem- Basto (all trophies) 8/10

 

Gotham Knights (Platinum) 8/10

Gotham Knights Heroic Assault (All trophies)

Gotham Knights The Kelvin Incident (All trophies)

 

I enjoyed this, but it wasn't as good as the Arkham series. The assaults were really fun, even with random players.

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As a South Park fan, Stick of Truth/Fractured But Whole were heavenly.

 

As a gamer... they were really fun!

 

2023 Games

 

Starcraft (using SCII Mass Recall campaign)

Starcraft: Brood War (using SCII Mass Recall campaign)

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm

Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (arcade version from Cowabunga Collection)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade version from Cowabunga Collection. Tried the NES version but the pacing is worse due to extended levels)

Resident Evil 4 Remake

Sonic the Hedgehog 1 (Sonic Origins Plus)

Sonic CD (Sonic Origins Plus)

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sonic Origins Plus)

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles (Sonic Origins Plus)

Sonic Mania

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal

Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time

Ratchet & Clank

Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando

Marvel's Spider-Man

South Park: The Stick of Truth

South Park: The Fractured But Whole

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Tails of Iron 10/10 (Platinum)

Far Cry 6 8/10 (Platinum)

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls 10/10 (Platinum)

Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer (all trophies)

Burly Men At Sea 9/10 (Platinum)

Final Fantasy VII Remastered 10/10 (Platinum)

Final Fantasy VII Remake: Episode INTERmission 9/10 (all trophies)

Back to the Future: The Game

8/10 (Platinum)

Undead Horde (Platinum)

7/10

Prototype 8/10 (Platinum)

Prototype 2 9/10 (Platinum)

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age 10/10 (Platinum)

Donut County 7/10 (Platinum)

Batman: The Telltale series 9/10 (Platinum)

Batman: The Enemy Within 10/10 (Platinum)

Abzû (all trophies) 10/10

Darksiders Warmastered Edition (Platinum) 8/10

Spyro the Dragon (Platinum) 9/10

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (Platinum) 9/10

Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon (Platinum)  9/10

Jak and Dexter: The Precursor Legacy (Platinum) 8/10

Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition (Platinum) 9/10

Yooka-Laylee (Platinum) 6.5/10

Maneater Truth Quest DLC (all trophies) 8/10

Death's Door (Platinum)10/10

Spiritfarer (Platinum) 10/10

Toem (Platinum) 8/10

Toem- Basto (all trophies) 8/10

Gotham Knights (Platinum) 8/10

Gotham Knights Heroic Assault (All trophies)

Gotham Knights The Kelvin Incident (All trophies)

 

Grim Fandango Remastered (Platinum) 7/10

 

Ok gameplay with a decent story.

 

 

 

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New Super Luigi U Deluxe

F.I.S.T

Huntdown

Forspoken

Grim Guardians 

Hogwarts Legacy

Dead Space

Uncharted 4

Moss

Super Mario Land 2

Kirby Return to Dreamland Deluxe

Gal Guardians

Hi Fi Rush

Resident Evil 4 Remake

Rocky Rodent

Last of Us PT1 w/ Left Behind

Dead Island 2

Super Mario Sunshine 

Megaman 11

We < 3 Katamari 

Sonic Origins (sonic 1/CD/2/3/K)

SOP: Final Fantasy Origins 

Mr Run and Jump

Koa & the Five Pirates of Mara

Immortals

Jedi Survivor

Switchback

Alan Wake: American Nightmare/Remastered Episodes

Control: AWE

Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty

Sonic Superstars

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Tails of Iron 10/10 (Platinum)

Far Cry 6 8/10 (Platinum)

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls 10/10 (Platinum)

Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer (all trophies)

Burly Men At Sea 9/10 (Platinum)

Final Fantasy VII Remastered 10/10 (Platinum)

Final Fantasy VII Remake: Episode INTERmission 9/10 (all trophies)

Back to the Future: The Game

8/10 (Platinum)

Undead Horde (Platinum)

7/10

Prototype 8/10 (Platinum)

Prototype 2 9/10 (Platinum)

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age 10/10 (Platinum)

Donut County 7/10 (Platinum)

Batman: The Telltale series 9/10 (Platinum)

Batman: The Enemy Within 10/10 (Platinum)

Abzû (all trophies) 10/10

Darksiders Warmastered Edition (Platinum) 8/10

Spyro the Dragon (Platinum) 9/10

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (Platinum) 9/10

Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon (Platinum)  9/10

Jak and Dexter: The Precursor Legacy (Platinum) 8/10

Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition (Platinum) 9/10

Yooka-Laylee (Platinum) 6.5/10

Maneater Truth Quest DLC (all trophies) 8/10

Death's Door (Platinum)10/10

Spiritfarer (Platinum) 10/10

Toem (Platinum) 8/10

Toem- Basto (all trophies) 8/10

Gotham Knights (Platinum) 8/10

Gotham Knights Heroic Assault (All trophies)

Gotham Knights The Kelvin Incident (All trophies)

Grim Fandango Remastered (Platinum) 7/10

 

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Platinum) 11/10 GOTY

AMAZING game that I just couldn't put down! 

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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!

Bayonetta 3
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GBC)
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
Link’s Awakening (Switch)
No More Heroes 3
Nier Replicant some decimal or another
Stray
Immortality

Fear & Hunger
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

 

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Resident Evil 4 (2023)

 

This is a weird one because I really loved it and thought it was excellent throughout, but I also can’t think of a single thing it does better than the original outside of graphics.  It’s a fun reimagining of the original, it makes enough changes to not be a rote retread and balances things to be more in line with modern games, but it doesn’t quite come off the same.  Years from now when I have a hankering to play RE4, I’ll probably reach for the OG before this one.

 

That said, it’s a hell of a game.  Great action, great fun, great atmosphere, literally if it wasn’t being compared to one of the best games ever made I’d say it was perfect.  

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Time for another rare update:

 

Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Metroid Prime Remastered

Resident Evil 4 RemakE

Spiderman: Miles Morales

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

 

I've completed all the regional phenomena in TotK, so I’m not ages away from finishing that but I’m deciding what to start next on the PS5:

 

God of War: Ragnarok 

Cyberpunk 2077

Elden Ring

Literally everything on PS+

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Just beat Kirby’s Dreamland 2 on Gameboy. Never played it when I was a kid. This one seemed a bit harder than the first game and Adventure on NES, but maybe it’s because I was playing this on an actual Gameboy Color and it was a bit cramped in my hands. 
 

2023 games:

 

Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster - PC

Fire Emblem Engage - Switch

Resident Evil 4 Remake - PC

Resident Evil VIIlage: Shadows of Rose - PC

Pentiment - PC

The Last of Us Part I + Left Behind - PC

Metroid Prime Remastered - Switch

The Last of Us Part II - PS4(on PS5)

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch

Dead Space 2023 - PC

Separate Ways: Resident Evil 4 Remake - PC

Kirby’s Dreamland 2 - Gameboy

 

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Beat Super Mario Land(DX). Save states made this one bearable since I’m bad at old platformers and wouldn’t have had the patience to do it all in one sitting with limited continues. That was fun, as I’d never really played that one before. 
 

2023 games:

 

Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster - PC

Fire Emblem Engage - Switch

Resident Evil 4 Remake - PC

Resident Evil VIIlage: Shadows of Rose - PC

Pentiment - PC

The Last of Us Part I + Left Behind - PC

Metroid Prime Remastered - Switch

The Last of Us Part II - PS4(on PS5)

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch

Dead Space 2023 - PC

Separate Ways: Resident Evil 4 Remake - PC

Kirby’s Dreamland 2 - Gameboy

Super Mario Land(DX) - Gameboy

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I finished Deliver Us Mars, it was a really good third person sci-fi adventure, platform, puzzle game.

 

2023 games

BloodRayne ReVamped

Fran Bow

Little Misfortune

Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories

King’s Bounty II

A Juggler’s Tale

Shady Part of Me

The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince

The Cruel King and the Great Hero

Deliver Us Mars

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Marsupilami is the Kirby of DKC clones.  Its easy and chill.  The controls are so good, perhaps even better than its inspirations.  The level design doesn't quite reach those heights, but still is entertaining the whole of its short runtime.  There's only 4 worlds, including the last patched in one, which is a notable step up visually from the rest of the game.

 

It's just a great time overall.  These type of platformers are rarely relaxing, but at its best, you can hop and dart through it at a speed closer to a good 2d Sonic game, with less memorization.  Not shovelware in the slightest.  It'd also be a great game for kids.

 

8/10

 

2023 Games

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - 8/10

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity - 7.5/10

Xenoblade 3: Future Redeemed - 9/10

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 9.5/10

Marsupilami Hoobaventure - 8/10

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Alan Wake 2 - 4/5

Uneven, but overall I really enjoyed it.

 

Now to go back and play Phantom Liberty and Mario Wonder.

 

 2023 Games

Alan Wake Remastered - 3/5

Spider-Man 2 - 5/5

Assassin's Creed: Mirage - 3/5

Starfield - 4/5

Final Fantasy XVI - 4/5

Diablo IV - 4/5

Tears of the Kingdom - 5/5

Jedi Survivor - 4/5

Shadows of Doubt - 3/5

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores - 5/5

Cyberpunk 2077 - 4/5

Atomic Heart - 3/5

Hogwarts Legacy - 4/5

The Last of Us: Part 1 - 5/5

Doom Eternal - 4/5

Hardspace Shipbreaker - 3/5

Jedi: Fallen Order - 3/5

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2023:

Psychonauts 2 - 10/10

Fire Emblem Engage - 7/10
Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe - 8/10
Hogwarts Legacy - 7/10
Cult of the Lamb - 8/10
Case of the Golden Idol - 7.5/10
Dead Island 2 - 8.5/10
Star Wars Jedi Survivor - 8/10
Ravenlok - 6/10
Pikmin 4 - 8.5/10
Super Mario 3D World - 8/10
Bowser’s Fury -9/10
Sea of Stars - 8/10
Super Mario Bros Wonder - 9/10

 

The online implementation is one of the best ever for a platformer.  The bosses on other hand pretty weak. For such a creative game, the boss battles were really uninspiring.  Glad I finished it before Mario RPG. let’s gooooo

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2023 Games

 

Starcraft (using SCII Mass Recall campaign)

Starcraft: Brood War (using SCII Mass Recall campaign)

Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm

Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (arcade version from Cowabunga Collection)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (arcade version from Cowabunga Collection. Tried the NES version but the pacing is worse due to extended levels)

Resident Evil 4 Remake

Sonic the Hedgehog 1 (Sonic Origins Plus)

Sonic CD (Sonic Origins Plus)

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sonic Origins Plus)

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles (Sonic Origins Plus)

Sonic Mania

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal

Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time

Ratchet & Clank

Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando

Marvel's Spider-Man

South Park: The Stick of Truth

South Park: The Fractured But Whole

Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Starcraft 1 (just a fun game to keep coming back to and playing Use Map Settings maps)

Super Mario Bros. Wonder

 

 

Wonder is a gradual weekly co-op game, so I may not actually finish it until December or January. But it's been getting played and is a very fun Mario game.

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2023:

Psychonauts 2 - 10/10

Fire Emblem Engage - 7/10
Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe - 8/10
Hogwarts Legacy - 7/10
Cult of the Lamb - 8/10
Case of the Golden Idol - 7.5/10
Dead Island 2 - 8.5/10
Star Wars Jedi Survivor - 8/10
Ravenlok - 6/10
Pikmin 4 - 8.5/10
Super Mario 3D World - 8/10
Bowser’s Fury -9/10
Sea of Stars - 8/10
Super Mario Bros Wonder - 9/10
Final Fantasy 16 - 7/10

 

I don’t have much to say. I checked out half way through.  Besides the music and Torgal, everything about it is average. I keep hoping this franchise gets turned around for me but I’m losing hope. 

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2023:

Psychonauts 2 - 10/10

Fire Emblem Engage - 7/10
Kirby’s Return to Dreamland Deluxe - 8/10
Hogwarts Legacy - 7/10
Cult of the Lamb - 8/10
Case of the Golden Idol - 7.5/10
Dead Island 2 - 8.5/10
Star Wars Jedi Survivor - 8/10
Ravenlok - 6/10
Pikmin 4 - 8.5/10
Super Mario 3D World - 8/10
Bowser’s Fury -9/10
Sea of Stars - 8/10
Super Mario Bros Wonder - 9/10
Final Fantasy 16 - 7/10

 

I don’t have much to say. I checked out half way through.  Besides the music and Torgal, everything about it is average. I keep hoping this franchise gets turned around for me but I’m losing hope. 

 

You didn’t like Remake either?

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Tails of Iron 10/10 (Platinum)

Far Cry 6 8/10 (Platinum)

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls 10/10 (Platinum)

Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer (all trophies)

Burly Men At Sea 9/10 (Platinum)

Final Fantasy VII Remastered 10/10 (Platinum)

Final Fantasy VII Remake: Episode INTERmission 9/10 (all trophies)

Back to the Future: The Game

8/10 (Platinum)

Undead Horde (Platinum)

7/10

Prototype 8/10 (Platinum)

Prototype 2 9/10 (Platinum)

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age 10/10 (Platinum)

Donut County 7/10 (Platinum)

Batman: The Telltale series 9/10 (Platinum)

Batman: The Enemy Within 10/10 (Platinum)

Abzû (all trophies) 10/10

Darksiders Warmastered Edition (Platinum) 8/10

Spyro the Dragon (Platinum) 9/10

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (Platinum) 9/10

Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon (Platinum)  9/10

Jak and Dexter: The Precursor Legacy (Platinum) 8/10

Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition (Platinum) 9/10

Yooka-Laylee (Platinum) 6.5/10

Maneater Truth Quest DLC (all trophies) 8/10

Death's Door (Platinum)10/10

Spiritfarer (Platinum) 10/10

Toem (Platinum) 8/10

Toem- Basto (all trophies) 8/10

Gotham Knights (Platinum) 8/10

Gotham Knights Heroic Assault (All trophies)

Gotham Knights The Kelvin Incident (All trophies)

Grim Fandango Remastered (Platinum) 7/10

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Platinum) 11/10 GOTY

 

God of War Ragnarök (Platinum) 10/10

 

Amazing story and world, and it has some of the best characters! I beat the game on Give Me God of War but finished some of the post-boss battles in the story difficulty. I'll probably try to finish those again some other time on my harder save.

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Tails of Iron 10/10 (Platinum)

Far Cry 6 8/10 (Platinum)

Diablo III: Reaper of Souls 10/10 (Platinum)

Diablo III: Rise of the Necromancer (all trophies)

Burly Men At Sea 9/10 (Platinum)

Final Fantasy VII Remastered 10/10 (Platinum)

Final Fantasy VII Remake: Episode INTERmission 9/10 (all trophies)

Back to the Future: The Game

8/10 (Platinum)

Undead Horde (Platinum)

7/10

Prototype 8/10 (Platinum)

Prototype 2 9/10 (Platinum)

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age 10/10 (Platinum)

Donut County 7/10 (Platinum)

Batman: The Telltale series 9/10 (Platinum)

Batman: The Enemy Within 10/10 (Platinum)

Abzû (all trophies) 10/10

Darksiders Warmastered Edition (Platinum) 8/10

Spyro the Dragon (Platinum) 9/10

Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! (Platinum) 9/10

Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon (Platinum)  9/10

Jak and Dexter: The Precursor Legacy (Platinum) 8/10

Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition (Platinum) 9/10

Yooka-Laylee (Platinum) 6.5/10

Maneater Truth Quest DLC (all trophies) 8/10

Death's Door (Platinum)10/10

Spiritfarer (Platinum) 10/10

Toem (Platinum) 8/10

Toem- Basto (all trophies) 8/10

Gotham Knights (Platinum) 8/10

Gotham Knights Heroic Assault (All trophies)

Gotham Knights The Kelvin Incident (All trophies)

Grim Fandango Remastered (Platinum) 7/10

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Platinum) 11/10 GOTY

God of War Ragnarök (Platinum) 10/10

 

Halloween Puzzle (Platinum) 4/10 Finished it to clear out more space.

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New Super Luigi U Deluxe

Pizza Tower

F.I.S.T

Huntdown

Forspoken

Grim Guardians 

Hogwarts Legacy

Dead Space

Uncharted 4

Moss

Super Mario Land 2

Kirby Return to Dreamland Deluxe

Gal Guardians

Hi Fi Rush

Resident Evil 4 Remake

Rocky Rodent

Last of Us PT1 w/ Left Behind

Dead Island 2

Super Mario Sunshine 

Megaman 11

We < 3 Katamari 

Sonic Origins (sonic 1/CD/2/3/K)

SOP: Final Fantasy Origins 

Mr Run and Jump

Koa & the Five Pirates of Mara

Immortals

Jedi Survivor

Switchback

Alan Wake: American Nightmare/Remastered Episodes

Control: AWE

Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty

Sonic Superstars

Spider-man 2

Super Mario Wonder (goty)


And just now: Devil May Cry 5

 

Ive been on and off on this one for a few years. It has great graphics and performance. I liked the story and the ending. It has easily some of the best third person action combat of all time. It’s just an absolute joy to play. I think the three character thing worked out. It’s sometimes funny. 

 

And then it has the most fucking boring environmental design of all time and a lot of the game is spent in this ugly muted color tone. Just the absolute worst. I swear if I spent like 6 months learning Unreal Engine I could do better. It might as well be randomly generated.

 

7/10

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I haven't been keeping up in this thread but popped in to say I beat

 

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Jusant

A nice game, not that long actually.

 

I beat it yesterday but actually returned to it to get the rest of the achievements. I didn't mind too much because it turns out the game pass / windows version at launch had no DLSSS, so I played it with FSR the first time, right up until the end then saw on steam they added DLSS, so when I went back the second time I played it with DLSS and it looked a lot nicer and ran a lot smoother. I know this has nothing to do with me talking about the quality of the game but I pretty much said all I needed to say in the Jusant thread. :p

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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!

Bayonetta 3
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GBC)
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
Link’s Awakening (Switch)
No More Heroes 3
Nier Replicant some decimal or another
Stray
Immortality

Fear & Hunger
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Resident Evil 4 (2023)

 

 

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Dead Space (2023)

 

Unlike RE4 remake, I feel like the new Dead Space is an improvement from the original in more or less every way.  Honestly the only part of the remake that I’d say is worse is they try to redo the twist ending by changing it, and it’s somehow even less plausible than the original twist.  That said, the original reveal was equally stupid so it’s just swapping one bad twist for a different one.

 

I haven’t replayed Dead Space as many times as I have RE4, so outside of some really obvious differences it’s harder to tell what was totally changed and what was left more or less intact.  It’s a very faithful remake and I would go back to play this one over the original before I would go back and play the remake of RE4 over the original.  Hopefully they’ll give Dead Space 2 this treatment as well.

 

That said, playing this made me look up the bigger picture lore on the markers and yeesh.

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Just beat Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins DX for Gameboy(color). Improved greatly on an already good prior game. Seems like this is a little hidden gem from the past because I really enjoyed it and never heard anything about it, really.

 

2023 games:

 

Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster - PC

Fire Emblem Engage - Switch

Resident Evil 4 Remake - PC

Resident Evil VIIlage: Shadows of Rose - PC

Pentiment - PC

The Last of Us Part I + Left Behind - PC

Metroid Prime Remastered - Switch

The Last of Us Part II - PS4(on PS5)

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch

Dead Space 2023 - PC

Separate Ways: Resident Evil 4 Remake - PC

Kirby’s Dreamland 2 - Gameboy

Super Mario Land(DX) - Gameboy

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins(DX) - Gameboy

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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!

Bayonetta 3
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (GBC)
Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
Link’s Awakening (Switch)
No More Heroes 3
Nier Replicant some decimal or another
Stray
Immortality

Fear & Hunger
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Resident Evil 4 (2023)
Dead Space (2023)

 

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The Callisto Protocol

 

I really set this one up to fail, didn’t I?

 

Even if I hadn’t just played two of the best over the shoulder action horror games of all time back to back immediately before starting Callisto, I don’t think it would have made much of a difference.  
 

Callisto feels like someone took the basic framework of Dead Space and managed to tweak everything in just the wrong way.  Oh, you want a clever combat system instead of just bullet sponge enemies?  Yeah, we can do that!  How does just waggling the joystick left and right endlessly sound?  The idea of having melee be a significant part of the combat and having a way to dodge incoming attacks is good and makes sense.  The solution being “just hold left then right endlessly until victory” does not.  The boss enemies are bullet sponges, so you will spend minutes of time ducking and weaving without any danger at all because you will ALWAYS dodge as long as you alternate between left and right.  
 

There are long stretches of the game dedicated to slowly crawling through vents or shimmying through cracks which feel half like they’re to hide loads and half like they’re padding a short game.  The world is littered with walls of spikes for you to throw enemies into which would be more satisfying if the tool you used to do it didn’t suck and if it didn’t feel like an apology for the combat.  “Look, we know you’re getting tired of dodging, just toss this guy into spikes and we can both move on.”

 

It’s not a terrible game or even a bad one, just a thoroughly mediocre one.  It was free through PS+ and for that it was fine but if I had paid $70 for it I’d have been be very unhappy.

 

As a side note, this game was originally going to be in the PUBG universe which is wild, and I don’t know if it’s a bad coincidence or not, but the ending of the game can be sort of loosely connected tied to PUBG still.  I don’t know if they kept the original idea but scrapped the direct reference or if it was just a fairly standard trope that echos.

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Another game down, Kirby's Dreamland Deluxe for Switch. I started this earlier this year when it released, but didn't get far before I shlved it for other stuff. Been in a big platforming mood lately, so I picked it back up the other day. As someone who never played the original game on Wii, this was solid, fun Kirby. 8/10.

 

2023 games:

 

Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster - PC

Fire Emblem Engage - Switch

Resident Evil 4 Remake - PC

Resident Evil VIIlage: Shadows of Rose - PC

Pentiment - PC

The Last of Us Part I + Left Behind - PC

Metroid Prime Remastered - Switch

The Last of Us Part II - PS4(on PS5)

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Switch

Dead Space 2023 - PC

Separate Ways: Resident Evil 4 Remake - PC

Kirby’s Dreamland 2 - Gameboy

Super Mario Land(DX) - Gameboy

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins(DX) - Gameboy

Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe - Switch

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