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20.
Snake Pass (NS)
Decided to start this one after finishing West of Loathing. Started up and beat the first couple of levels collecting everything, and then levels started putting stuff out where I kept dying, so I said fuck it and I'm already deciding that I'm just gonna play to beat this game and nothing more. The controls for this game are wildly frustrating. Maybe I just don't get it, maybe it's sorta Octodad terrible, I don't know, but I don't have a great grasp on the controls for this game. Also, while trying to do stuff, the camera will automatically move around, generally where you don't want it. The button placements don't make for a pleasant experience in that you need to be able to press face buttons, move the right stick, and press the shoulder buttons all at the same time. Also, that same thing makes it wildly uncomfortable to use the joycons while playing. Overall, early impressions, this is a pretty terrible game. My hands hurt like crazy after 1 level. It wasn't until about 12-13 levels in that I decided to read up on the game and found out that the little bird that follows you around can pick up your tail and help you so you don't fall. This would've been great to know from the beginning but the game never let me know that.
Rating: Pass.
21.
Resident Evil HD (PS4)
Started this game shortly after completing 0. First thing I noticed with this game is that it takes like 15 bullets to down a zombie, compared to 0's 3-4 bullets. And I learned very slowly that you are supposed to burn any zombies that don't despawn so that they don't become quick strong zombies, but they don't give you enough kerosene to keep that going because the zombies are unlimited, but kerosene is not. And the strong fast zombies take like 3-4 shotgun shots to kill... I tried to kill one with a pistol and used 15+ bullets and that didn't even faze it before it killed me. I've gotten more used to the game in general, but I am constantly having to manage inventory because I need to carry around 3 big damage dealing weapons because everything can't be killed with a pistol, not that I have pistol ammo at this point. I'm pretty sure I'm pretty close to the end of the game. I'm not really enjoying this game so much as I'm not a huge fan of survival horror in general, and this one is super spoopy and dangerous. I think about playing again, to play through as Chris, but I just don't know if I can be bothered because of how much I'm just not enjoying this game. I may think about it, but play it on super easy or something. As it is, it's frustrating that you can't change difficulty on this game after starting, I'm not enjoying the difficulty I chose, but I don't want to start over. In retrospect, I enjoyed my experience and I constantly looked forward to hopping back into the game... but was it stressful and difficult.
Rating: Soft Recommendation, I have a lot of complaints, but Resident Evil is a solid franchise for the most part and lore/story.
22.
Resident Evil 2 (PS4)
Current Progress: Leon B
Been looking forward to this as Resident Evil 2 was one of my favorite Resident Evil games. Game plays so well with the over the shoulder controls, inventory expansion is a freaking godsend, but I still had to do an annoying amount of inventory management. Game doesn't let you drop items, so if you discard something, it's gone forever. A lot of folks I've read are bothered by the fact that Leon and Claire look nothing like their OG counterparts. I'll agree that it's jarring, but it didn't take long for me to get used to it. Leon's face is a little too psychopath for me. Claire only bothered me the entire game because the character model constantly looked like an actress (I know it's not who I'm thinking of) but I couldn't figure out who she reminded me of. Closest I could come up with was Trish from Nick and Norah's infinite playlist, but I'm still pretty sure that's not who I was thinking of. I enjoyed the game until Mr. X/Tyrant showed up. Once he left I got back to enjoying the game. I understand it's a survival horror game and it adds more to that survival OMG I'm gonna die feel, but I just don't enjoy being constantly hunted by an unstoppable killing machine when I have so limited ammunition. Mr. X is probably the reason I won't complete Leon B, just because I don't want to deal with that shit on top of the game giving LESS ammo.
Rating: Recommended.
23.
Golf Story (NS)
I've heard so many good things about this game that I decided to finally pop it in and give it a go. I think I was expecting more of a Harvest Moon type of game for some reason, but it's not. It's honestly what you should've expected from the game, a golf based RPG game. It's an interesting and funny game, but if you can't get past the fact that you're essentially playing an old school golf game, you're gonna hate the game. I won't say I love this game, but it's good. The game adds in interesting enough mechanics to keep the game from being too bland, you gain xp and increase your skills (I think specifically your driving range), and get paid so you can buy equipment. The dialogue is interesting and funny at times. As I reached the final course of the game, I found myself feeling like the game had overstayed its welcome, but the next day I was perfectly fine playing again, so that might have just been me being in a mood... this was the same night that I felt that RE2 had overstayed its welcome as well... so it's possible.
Rating: Soft Recommendation, if you are okay with the fact that you're essentially playing an old school golf game.
24.
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition (PS4)
I wanted a short game to play just to fill an evening before Sekiro comes out. My wife suggested this one, and I have had it suggested to me before. Can honestly say I didn't enjoy this game very much. It didn't quite outstay its welcome at 40 minutes to beat the game. I didn't really follow the story, part apathy and part my infant crawling/cruising and just kinda yelling at everything. Slightly better than Ether One and Everyone's gone to the rapture, because it's short... but good god did this game really not deserve a physical release. Might sell my copy.
Rating: Hard Pass.
25.
Scooby Doo Mystery (SNES)
I really don't know why, but I was super in the mood to play a Scooby Doo game, so I popped in Scooby Doo for the SNES. Basically a platformer escape game. Game is 4 mysteries and each mystery probably takes 30 minutes to an hour. Quick simple game with mildly frustrating mechanics, but it holds up well enough.
Rating: Soft Pass.
26.
Fire Emblem Warriors (NS)
I went through hassle to get the CE of this game on launch day given BB screwing things up for me. Was sitting in my car for an hour or so over the weekend, so I played this for an hour or so and got through a few chapters. I think I'm at Chapter 4, not entirely sure. Has that generic Musou gameplay. Feels bland compared to Hyrule Warriors so far. Sounds like the game is almost exclusively Awakening/Fates characters with a few of the really popular heroes from other games added in. There is a tad of that Fire Emblem style to it. There are some "tactic" type things you can do, like telling specific characters to go and do certain things, and you can swap between playable characters mid battle, all things that weren't available in Hyrule Warriors, but it still just feels like the same game. I'm not a giant Musou fan, so this may be a long play for me, doing a Chapter every now and then. I'm having trouble with this game in terms of its mechanics. The characters have pretty strong weapons by default, so I see no reason to "upgrade" the characters so they can use higher class weapons because their default weapons are pretty strong, only seems to make sense if you're going to add skills/attributes to weapons. Also, I get messages that characters are unlocked, but I see no way to swap what characters I use in story mode, I seem to be stuck with Lianna, Lissa, Cordelia, and Camilla. I'd be pretty happy to swap out Lissa for someone better and Camilla is fairly strong, but I feel like she's too slow of an attacker, plus having 2 characters who instant die against archers isn't great.
Rating: Soft Pass.
27.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (PS4)
I'm enjoying this game too damned much. Played the majority of the weekend it came out and 3 days later I've put in nearly 20 hours so far. This game is closer to Bloodborne than any of the Souls games. The prosthesis feels similar to the alt modes on the weapons in bloodborne and the deflect system is similar to the gun mechanic in Bloodborne. This game is currently my #1 game for 2019, but still behind Spider-man and West of Loathing for games played. Spider-man because the characters, character models, and voice acting were just out of this world. West of Loathing because it just blew me away, didn't expect it to be that good. This game is so damned good and I feel pretty damned great playing it. I shouldn't feel so proud when I use poorly implemented AI against itself and cheese some of the bosses, but it works. I'm fairly certain I'm close to the end of the game, I've got 8 or 9 of the prayer necklaces now and there are 10 total. I'm just short of entering one of the late game areas, but I decided to go do some clean up and beat some stuff I skipped. Right now, what I have left before continuing is the Headless enemies (which I dread doing because divine confetti is not an easy resource to come by) and the Headless Ape fight, also dreading because the first fight was pretty damned hard. This game might possibly push itself past West of Loathing. Finished the game the other day and started up NG+ hoping to aim for the platinum... I need roughly 2 million XP to get all skills, so I might wind up with all trophies except this and the platinum when I give up. I think by the time I get to where I need to start grinding, I'll probably be a little less than 2 million xp, but earning like 2-3k xp per minute will still take forever.
Rating: Highly recommended.
28.
Fairune (NS)
Started this up after finishing Fire Emblem Warriors. Pretty simple little Zelda game with next to no combat, but with a ton of back tracking and you definitely have to pay attention. Took about 2 hours to beat the game, and was a pleasant little experience.
Rating: Soft Recommendation.
29.
Sekiro (PS4)
This is a new thing for me, as I've never really done this before in previous years, but since I beat Sekiro twice, I'm gonna count it twice. This wasn't some save scum thing, I start to finish beat this game again, right after beating it in general. I want to not count it because I already beat it, but I put in the time and the effort and beat the game a second time. If I decide to go for NG++ I'll probably count it a third time.
Rating: Highly recommended.
30.
Fairune 2 (NS)
I don't really know how to track the progress in this game, so I won't. More of the same from the last game, slightly better artwork, new world, new story. I think this game was compared to Hydlide to me, so having enjoyed this game, I may go play that after I finish the Collection.
Rating: Soft recommendation
31.
Fairune Origin (NS)
This is a short little ten minute 8-bit mini version of Fairune. This was actually a pleasant experience and I would almost suggest starting with this one as it works out as a nice little tutorial and tests the waters before jumping into the longer games.
Rating: Soft recommendation
32.
Fairune Blast (NS)
This is just a shmup, you can play through little shmup levels similar to how the final boss fights of the games work out. I'm not a huge shmup fan and there is no story mode or anything, you have 1 level to play and you can play as 3 different characters. That's it.
Rating: Hard pass
33.
Reverie (NS)
Bought this because of FOMO. Don't really regret it because I knew I'd prefer it on NS over PS4. Enjoying it so far. Looks like Earthbound, plays like Link to the Past. Not much dialogue, game isn't particularly silly and dialogue isn't very memorable so far. Feels like you're essentially playing the story of a Kiwi children's bedtime story. Game is relatively fun, fairly short, and not too difficult... but it just doesn't stand out as a good game.
Rating: Soft Pass.
34.
WWE 2K16 (X1)
I was having trouble deciding what to play next and this was already installed so I started playing this, partly because I was just yesterday watching some old WWF PPVs, so I was kinda in the mood for this. Might only do the Showcase and call it quits. At some point the devs completely changed up how these games play and I've just not really been a fan since. I especially don't care for the submission and pin system, because I'm not good at those mini games. I bot could knock me down and pin me right at the start of the match and they'd probably win right away. I certainly had bots knock me down and immediately do a submission move and I tapped immediately. I considered doing more in the game, but all of the online features are disabled and there are some online only content that you just can't unlock anymore and their recurring trend of story mode consisting of 2k showcase and a create a wrestler story mode just kind of irks me. I think in previous years they had multiple story modes for various wrestlers, this game only having a story mode for Stone Cold seemed repetitive as they've done Stone Cold multiple times before, but this one includes his time in WCW and ECW which was enlightening and interesting. I did find it interesting that they left out Stone Cold's Wrestlemania X8 fight with Scott Hall, which was allegedly one of the reasons Stone Cold left the company for a year, could be that they knew the fight sucked or the fact that Scott Hall was reserved as a DLC character.
Rating: Soft Pass
35.
WWE 2K17 (X1)
I haven't actually started this yet. I installed it last night after I finished 2K16 because I knew I wasn't going to put more time into 2K16. I'm not interested in the WWE Universe mode as it's essentially one of those write your own story mode things, which is just too involved for me not knowing half of these wrestlers because I stopped paying attention to wrestling back in like 2004. And I don't think I can put in the effort of creating a custom wrestler in each of these games. I'll probably just do 2K Showcase again. Well apparently this game has no 2K Showcase, the only form of a story mode this game has is Universe which is essentially Create A PPV type of thing and the CAW story mode. I planned to do the CAW story mode with a female wrestler just to kinda get through it, but after spending like an hour building a character I found out that story mode doesn't support female wrestlers. I'm just marking this as beat because as far as I can tell this game is a endless/unbeatable/no story game.
Rating: Hard Pass.
36.
Lili: Child of Geos (PS4)
I wanted something to play while my kids was awake so I decided to play this. Game didn't clearly explain the battling, so I just scraped by in most battles, until I started losing constantly, so I tried to figure it out on my own, eventually pieced it together and started getting 3 stars constantly. Camera work is janky and laggy. Dialogue is interesting and sometimes amusing. Game wouldn't be terribly difficult to get the platinum if you planned for it from the start as there are some glitches that can be taken advantage of to make things less grindy, I missed out on the glitches. Overall the game just isn't worth your time.
Rating: Soft Pass.
37.
Far Cry: New Dawn (X1)
Been sort of wanting to play a kind of mindless shooter game and I picked this up cheap, so I decided to pop this in. I'm enjoying it well enough so far. Like all Far Cry games, it has its annoyances. Like during one fight, a group of friendly NPCs pushed me off of a bridge as a car was driving, car ran me over and killed me, car stopped on top of me so I couldn't be revived. Finished the game, overall the game wasn't terrible, but the final fights of the game were completely different than every other fight in the game. The fight's were more raid boss than shooter boss, I felt like the game didn't properly prepare you for such a fight.
Rating: Soft recommendation if you enjoyed Far Cry 5.
38.
Mortal Kombat XL (X1)
Decided to play this because I'm going to get MK11 at some point to play. I've beaten MKX before, so popping this in, there really wasn't much for me to do. I re-watched some cinematics to kind of catch back up on the story. I played through the tower a couple of times unlocking endings for some characters and popping the credits.
Rating: Soft recommendation
39.
Injustice: Gods Among Us (PS4)
I've been interested in this game for a long time, if only because I've heard really good things about the story. Playing through the story, I'm realizing that I'm already aware of the story and I guess that's because they did an injustice comic line at some point and I'm aware of the story line. Game's still enjoyable. Combat is mildly frustrating in that O doesn't do low kicks like in MK, but does character specific things (i.e. wonder woman switches weapons, batman spawns little bat drones, etc.) Story mode is short enough that in the 3 hours I played yesterday, I am almost done. I'll probably finish within an hour. Major disappoint was that the advertised Harley never really appears in the game.
Rating: Soft Pass.
40.
Injustice 2 (PS4)
Immediately after starting up the game, I notice that the entire game is literally unplayable. Every menu option gives an "Estimated time until available:" with an unchanging time. I let the game install yesterday so I wouldn't have to deal with Xbox-esque usability where I can't play for hours because it's "installing". Load up the game, and I guess it needs to install, but it does it through the game instead of the OS... but it doesn't tell you that or show you any form of a status. I just get to sit there and wait until it magically starts working. About an hour later I was able to play.
Rating: Other than the annoying install, this is an improvement over the previous entry.
41.
Mortal Kombat 11 (X1)
Went through a whole hassle getting this game preowned because Gamestop was being retarded at best. Took 3 days for me to be able to pick it up because they never told me they were holding it for me and when I called they said they didn't have it, hold finally expired and I was able to go pick it up, because it popped back into the system. Story is interesting, but the last few MK games, since the reboot really, have been tough to follow. This one seems to set up another reboot. Series has really been downhill since the reboot, shit even Armageddon was kinda shit. AI fighter is a really helpful bit and had me "playing" longer than I probably would've. The krypt was interesting, but honestly it seemed pointless to me so after I while I gave up on it as well.
Rating: Soft Pass.
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