Main ListPrevious Listbold games are games that have been beaten, previously beaten, or are unbeatable.
italicized games are in progress.
standard games are games I am not currently trying to beat.
strikethrough games are games that have been abandoned.
18.
Nier Automata (X1)
I thought about not adding this one, because I was hoping it'd be quicker, but I did wind up sinking over 5 hours into the game and I have previously platinumed this game on PS4. A cool dude on twitter did a video about a hidden cheat in the game that basically unlocks chapter select at the beginning of the game. I leveraged that to get the full 1000g for the game because of the current gamerscore challenge going on. I'm considering creating another Xbox Live account and streaming the 1000g because it's actually quite simple... but I probably won't.
Rating: Soft recommendation.
19.
Halo: Reach (XSX)
Decided to finally start my franchise run of Halo. My thought was "hey, there's 7 games here and I need about 2,000g left for the gamerscore challenge, this will work out well", well at this point I've played through 2 Halo games and I have about 300g to show for it, so with 5 games left, I might get another 700g, maybe. That'll leave me with 1,000g to still earn and no time left, so I'm looking at other stuff and maybe I'll finish the franchise run closer to the 10,000g mark or once I'm done and don't need to worry. I remember the story for this game being more... idk, meaningful when I played it 10 or so years ago, this time, I was very meh the entire game and I like Halo more than I did 10 years ago, not that it really says much because I still don't care for it.
Rating: Soft pass.
20.
Super Smash Bros. (N64)
I hadn't intended on counting this one, but I did technically beat the game and get the credits to pop and I did spend about an hour playing the game. I was streaming my playing of the game. I hooked the system up to a Retrotink and the retrotink up to an elgato and I was using the Hyperkin Admiral wireless n64 controller. Honestly, the whole setup worked really well. I'm really happy with how it worked out. Will be trying to make an effort to play some retro games sometime soon. Probably Shadow the Hedgehog though.
Rating: Soft recommendation, obviously.
21.
Sonic Battle (GBA)
I don't know why I hadn't written anything up on this yet. I've been playing it for a week or so and beat it a few days ago at this point too. Game is a pretty simple arena brawler beat em up fighting game. 1v1, 1v2,1v1v1,2v2, etc type of ordeal. Took some getting used to how the game plays and controls, but overall, it was a pretty enjoyable game. I wish the story hadn't been as long as it was, but it wasn't a slog or anything like some other games. Just longer than I would've liked. If it provided any value to the Sonic canon I'd recommend it, but as a handheld party-esque fighting game, I'm gonna say soft pass, but it's still not bad.
Rating: Soft pass.
22.
Halo: CE Anniversary (XSX)
Started this up shortly after finishing Reach, I've played this one before, but I don't think I ever beat it. I played it on PC way back in the XP days, but Halo 2 was Vista minimum so I just kind of gave up because I was like whatever, never playing it. I remembered quite a bit of the game as I was playing through it, but also felt like the gameplay was pretty dated. I was hoping in the anniversary release they would've gave it some QoL improvements over just graphical stuff. A bit of the game is pretty terribly cliche and meme-y and some of the fights are pretty cheap. I definitely will be taking a break before starting Halo 2, but that might be partly because I need to get like 1,000g to get closer to the goal for the month.
Rating: Soft pass
23.
Donut County (X1)
Game got added to Game pass and I knew it was a quick 1,000g, so I went for it because of the gamerscore challenge. Took about 2 hours... almost exactly, my stream was 121 minutes and I took a couple of breaks to help my wife with stuff. Fun game.
Rating: Soft recommendation.
24.
Lococycle (X1)
It was getting down to the wire with the gamerscore challenge, and I still needed about 800 points, so I decided to give this game a go again. It looked like an easy 1,000g, so I decided to go for it. I beat this game a few years back on Steam through Steamlink which worked pretty well. But this time I streamed playing it and gosh I just didn't really remember how terrible this game is story wise. Like Roundabout or Lollipop Chainsaw bad. Very entertaining. Can't really recommend the game, but it is an absolutely entertaining piece of entertainment.
Rating: Soft pass.
25.
Shadow the Hedgehog (GCN)
This is my continuation of my Sonic franchise run and it's my first real stream using my elgato setup. I went into this game expecting it to be both terrible, and for some god awful reason I was expecting a 3rd person shooter... what I wound up with was Sonic Adventure but with guns. On the one hand, it does play mildly better than Adventure, on the other hand the gun combat is just the worst because there is no lock on, just lock on alone would make this game massively better. Camera work in 3D Sonic games are just the worst. Story was pretty bad, but since I went for the normal ending I didn't get any really wild stuff. I need to go watch the pure evil ending because apparently it's just something to behold.
Rating: Hard pass.
RantI didn't test audio well enough and my headset I was using is apparently garbage, so I need to figure something out before I continue because the commentary on this stream is just absolutely atrocious. I don't know that I want to use my wired headset with how far away the computer is, but bluetooth seems to be absolutely terrible quality. I've got to give on something because I want to stream, record commentary, and still hear the game through my sound system. What this means is, playing on the TV, streaming from the computer, not being near the computer, and recording my audio but not the sound coming from the sound system. This is all together probably unreasonable, so either I need to give up on playing on TV, giving up on using the sound system, or giving up on the commentary. I may tool with the audio some and see if I can figure out getting decent sound out of my bluetooth headset/buy a new bluetooth headset, but it sounds like bluetooth audio just isn't feasible for streaming.
26.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (360)
Been sort of dreading/looking forward to this game. This game is so infamous for being bad. Moved my streaming setup around and swapped some equipment so now I should be able to stream pretty good. The stream for this seemed to go pretty well except that my voice was just a little echoey, something to work on. Honestly, I'm getting some good entertainment out of this game, it's bad, real bad, but entertaining. I'm really hating that I can't modify the control stick directions, I really hate that left is right and right is left. As always, I hate that 3D Sonic games don't have a lock on targeting system. This game has some stupid difficulty curves due to camera shite and glitches. Game frequently doesn't save because shenanigans, so you have to make sure you manually save frequently. I played for an hour last night, game overed, and had to redo the entire hour of gameplay because it hadn't saved once. I was having stupid fun with this game doing commentary until I hit that point. I was pretty livid with myself for not saving frequently enough that I almost abandoned it. I managed to push through and finish Sonic's episode. Definitely not touching this game ever again.
Rating: Hard pass
27.
Sonic and the Secret Rings (Wii)
Beat this game days ago at this point, but am just now writing about it... and even now I can't be bothered. The game is an auto runner with like 2 buttons and a remote shake. The buttons work well enough, but the remote shake is so wonky that you wind up throwing out your shoulder just trying to get it to register too late. Game was mildly enjoyable, but got flustering with the controls. Also, enough of the game I didn't really understand control wise, so it was just kinda there. One of the earliest levels, I played the level on a loop because I didn't understand that I wasn't supposed to lock attack at a spring and just fall to the ground. Overall, best 3D Sonic I've played to date, but that really doesn't say much.
Rating: Hard pass.
28.
Sonic and the Black Knight (Wii)
Gosh, it's been a solid week at least since I beat this game. The final boss fight was kind of infuriating, I think I almost quit playing at it because I just didn't get what was supposed to be done, other than that though, this game was pretty pleasant to play. Not an auto runner like the previous game, mostly mindless waggling from the wiimote to slash and hack at enemies. Boss fights are completely different from regular combat, at least in that you can't just randomly slash, you have to time things and such. Overall not a terrible game, but still don't recommend it.
Rating: Hard pass.
29.
Tomoyo After -It's a Wonderful Life- CS Edition (NS)
Had been working on this game for quite some time, but only putting in a little bit of time at a time. Finally decided to dump time into it. Not many decisions in the game that matter, let alone many decisions at all. The endings in general actually kind of suck, but I guess that's Clannad for you in the being super sad and shit. Like the bad endings are actually kinda good endings and the true ending is sorta fucked... It's not a bad game, but it definitely is super inferior to Clannad, both in story, content, and branching paths. That said, I'm invested in these characters so I know it's a game I can get into even if the plot itself is subpar for me.
Rating: Soft recommendation
30.
Kotodama: The 7 Mysteries of Fujisawa (NS)
This game sure was something. I'm not invested in the characters so I was skimming a lot of the text because I was having trouble caring. Puzzle mechanics weren't the worst, but it just made me want to play puzzle league. Game is basically strip puzzle combat, which was weird. Eventually hit the time loop stuff and even following a guide kept looping and looping because I kept getting it wrong somehow. I eventually shut the game off and turned it back on because it was glitching which was probably the reason the loops kept happening. Finally got the good and true endings. True ending was seemingly open ended like maybe a sequel, not really sure, but I don't think this game did very good, so I don't expect anything, which is fine by me. Story got a little interesting towards the middle and end, but between the two and even before I'm just like uh, is this over yet? Especially with the bugs and glitches.
Rating: Hard pass
31.
Panel de Pon (NSO)
Out of nowhere my wife was wanting to play pokemon puzzle league, so I was gonna set up the N64 and play that and she's like don't they have puzzle league for Switch yet? and I'm like nope... oh wait, they have tetris attack on NSO. I load up Panel de Pon and she's like this isn't tetris attack and I have to explain the SMB2/USA shenanigans they did to Tetris Attack, and we proceed to play for like 3 hours, and then the next day play for a few more hours, so this will likely be a recurring thing for a while.
Rating: Soft recommendation or whatever I said last year.
32.
Pokemon Puzzle League (N64)
I love Tetris Attack/Panel de Pon, but I was really wanting to play Pokemon Puzzle League, both because of content/characters and in that the game does actually play differently than Tetris Attack. So now we're playing this pretty much daily. If I play on level 9 and my wife plays on level 5, I win pretty much every time, if I play on 10 and she plays on 5, it's hit or miss, I'd say she probably wins more than I do.
Rating: Soft recommendation or whatever I said last time I played this.
33.
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (360)
Discord game club decided to play Banjo-Kazooie 64, but I've 100%'d that and Tooie multiple times and didn't particularly feel like playing it again... so I decided to finally give Nuts & Bolts another try. This game is very odd. It's not really a platformer, if anything, it's like a vehicular platformer. Getting out of the car is very beneficial for more precise actions, but the entire game is expected to be played inside a vehicle. The vehicle controls are wonky af and feels like the driving mechanics from a platforming game, but it's the key mechanic of this game... it just doesn't work very well. That said, the game can be pretty fun if you can get past its many pratfalls. I didn't even touch the last world, I thought about it, but the name sounds like a water level, and that's never good. I might go back to this game one day for shiggles, but I doubt it. There's plenty more for me to do in the game, but I did beat the game. Not that I've kept up with my rating score stuff, but I'd say this game is 6/10, maybe 5.5/10. It's not good, but it's not the worst, and it can actually be fun, so it deserves at least over a 5.
Rating: Soft pass
34.
Senran Kagura: Reflexions (NS)
Just got this game in the mail after waiting the better part of a year for it. I was expecting more VN out of this game. You get like 10 unique lines of text per playthrough, and by that, I mean the game has 10 unique lines of text per character, regardless of decisions. The gameplay is basically minigames, very quickly the mini-games become optional so you can skip them entirely. Which means you can completely beat a character's true ending in about an hour... and even then, none of it has substance. This game serves purely as fan service, and I'd argue it's not even good fan service. I enjoyed my time with Estival Versus enough that I'll keep this game, but I won't come back to it unless I decide I care enough about a specific character to give their route a chance. I played with Yumi for no real reason, and the only character I recall to care for is Hikage who is mysteriously missing from this game.
Rating: Hard pass.
35.
Goldeneye Remastered (360)
I don't know how I skipped adding this one. I played through the whole story mode and I even streamed some of my playthrough. Really weird that it got missed. It was a wonderful experience to go back to playing this game, especially with a modern controller. Absolutely recommend giving this a go as it is a massive improvement over trying to play with an N64 controller.
Rating: Highly Recommended.
36.
Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu (NS)
Was trying to pick a game to play after finishing Reflexions, my wife was being... well herself, so I needed to be wherever she was, and I think I was in a mood that I wanted something that I wouldn't have to think too much about, so this game popped in my mind. AFAIK something prompted me to want to replay Yellow basically. I have complaints, lots of them actually, but I've been enjoying my time with this game because it's basically an excuse to replay yellow, its gameplay is super chill and relaxing compared to even regular pokemon games because everything is dumbed down so much. That said, leveling in this game is an ordeal because you basically have to blindly catch pokemon which is weird, and you have to do good with the motion controls to get good xp... and even then you're still at the mercy of stupid rng of succeeding. I got a combo up to like 10 and then the stupid rattata just would not be caught. Ultra ball, candy, perfectly executed excellent tiny circle throw and he still kicks out at 2 and then runs away, combo murdered. Early on, game was super easy and I was overleveled and it was all great. I'm at Silph Co/Sabrina/Yoga and I'm drowning fighting a single pokemon having trainer because I can't level up fast enough. I have one major peeve with RPGs, if you make me grind... at all... I have negative opinions for your game. If I grind by happenstance of doing something else, that's fine, but making me repetitively do the same thing over and over and over just to get xp so I can go do another fight that as soon as I finish I'll have to grind again, nope, hate it. That's where I'm at. I wound up not having to do a ton of grinding, so the game wasn't that bad. Overall enjoyable experience, but I couldn't be bothered to keep playing after the credits rolled to even bother getting Mewtwo. I got to Cerulean cave, but turned off the game two steps in.
Rating: Soft recommendation.
37.
Kona (X1)
Saw this game was getting delisted from Game Pass, so like always, I prioritized playing through the game. I probably have some old notes on this game from way back when I saw it at PAX years and years ago. I went in expecting a walking simulator, that's basically what the game is plus a little detectiving. The sole combat in the game is when you run into wolves and the end of the game, which is largely more wolves. Some of the game is interesting. Sadly, the most interesting this was the 4 pages of what should've been at least 5 pages of a novel about a guy planning on murdering a lady, but winding up marrying her and having kids and still planning on murdering her. The story might fall together well if you do 100% of everything there is to do in this frozen Canadian wilderness, I did not do everything, I only found 94% of the cabins and houses or something. So that said, I thought I understood the story, heard something in game and thought it was something else, went online to read more and found something else and thought I had it, and then read something else and realized I really had no idea what happened in this game. Between this and falling asleep during my first stream of this game... plus my second stream my wife and kid being difficult... I really don't have fond memories of this game. If it weren't getting delisted, maybe I'd have put in more time, but then I wouldn't have played it yet anyway, so damned if you do.
Rating: Hard pass.
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