Beat a game I’ve beaten many times but was in the mood so what the hell. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Steam) + Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest (NES via PS4) 2024 total games beaten = 2 (1 new) 2023 total games beaten = 23 (19 new) 2022 total games beaten = 35 (26 new) 2021 total game...

There are two Metrovania classics left in this top 16, and Symphony of the Night isn't even the best one. SotN is a good early action-exploring-RPG and a fun world to moonwalk around in, but Dark Souls feels like such a leap forward in action RPG combat and mechanics that it truly is one of the gre...

Hmmmm not sure if I’ll vote or not here…

Celeste is a more powerful (and cooler) game in my imho.

Hmmmm I may abstain or pick one…I’ll have to think about it…

Abstaining

Abstaining

To be clear, I don’t think they did much to the game other than add trophies and maybe some tiny tweaks. But it worked well in the first place so that’s probably a good thing.

I just got my hands on [two copies of] Dust Bolt's latest album, "Sound and Fury." Awesome title and awesome tracks. They are an egregiously underappreciated band I was blessed to stumble across once as they opened at a concert I attended years ago. They are the proving grounds of the mad ...

I fired Sinking City (too disturbing and too clunky) though I will still read the story it is based on soon. I also fired SteelRising as I wasn't any good at it. Playing Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Arise (though it's admittedly confusing to play two of those games since the controls vary) and oc...