52 Games Challenge 2025!!!

[dhaabi]

Game 9 - Clock Tower Rewind (PS4)

Nice! So does that mean you played the game in its original version without the Rewind features? Do you think you'll ever play through the later entries?

[marvelvscapcom2]

36. Mario Tennis [GBC] - finished May 25th, 2025




Ranking a game like Mario Tennis for gameboy color is complex.  It cant be directly ranked against say the last of us. It isn't a Louis Armstrong trumpet on a dark rainy sea scape near a new orleans villa.  But the way I believe a game should be ranked is against its contemporaries.  Against other sports game with rpg elements.  And in that arena? It is pretty damn untouchable.

WHAT A GOOD GAME

Mario Tennis is an rpg. It plays like a top down pokemon game. Except more linear and instead of leveling up your pokemon. You level up your tennis player.  You can opt to run solo or do duos with a partner.  As you complete matches you advance up the ranks like real life.

Junior
Senior
Varsity
Traveling Team
Island Open

The games actually really long as well.  Each match is best of 5 sets. With 6 game wins to win a set. So you gotta win upwards of 20 games to even finish an individual match. However the game never feels repetitive. It has an addictive like candy quality.


The first time I ever played this game I knew I had to own it physical. Its such an excellent gameboy color game.

The visuals and sprites pop.  The soundtrack is enormous and varied.  And for a pocket sized game from the 90s. The game is really really perfect. Movements are pinpoint even on digital.  Resemble a ninja with each raquet swing.  The game is a staple that is highly good to try. It has a good difficulty curve.  And lots of power ups to play with.

Mario Tennis is the best tennis game ive ever played so far


Rating - 97.5/100

[telly]

Game 9 - Clock Tower Rewind (PS4)

Nice! So does that mean you played the game in its original version without the Rewind features? Do you think you'll ever play through the later entries?

Yes I played the original version I don't really know the differences between the two. xD I would love to try out the other games if they weren't so expensive

[kashell]

37. Lunar: Silver Star Story

The first game in the Lunar Remastered collection has been completed. I'm still bitter about a random, silly, highly missable change that the developers implemented AT THE VERY START of the game that caused me to miss two -TWO!!!- bromides, but since I was playing on Switch/a non-trophy console, I'll let it slide. I guess that's what I get for following the old Working Designs guide from back in the day. Speaking of, a good chunk of that translation was kept in this version. The jokes rarely landed (one of the enemies was called Nipple Yanker) but the serious moments still held up. Really, it was the characters and their interactions that made me fall in love with them all over again. Even Alex, one of the more dull MCs, seemed to have more to say this go-around. Mia, Jessica, Kyle, Nash and Nall all kept the dialogue flowing naturally. Two very important changes that really made this a smooth playthrough were better item management and the ability to speed up battles. Thanks to that second feature, training for the final battles was much more streamlined. And as a result, a lot more fun. So yeah - good times with this one. It'll be a while before I do the new version of Lunar 2 since I finished it a few years ago on the PlayStation.

[bikingjahuty]

I'm still marching forward towards 100 games beat by the end of the year. With summer around the corner, I have several games in mind that I really want to try and play before the fall. Some of these games are more summery in nature (I guess), but overall I just want to make sure I play and beat the following games before the beginning of September. Here is my current list of summer time games I plan on beating.


- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Donkey Kong 64
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Halo 2


I definitely plan on playing more than just those four games, but those are the ones that if nothing else, I definitely want to make sure I've beat them before summer's end.

[kashell]

38. Guilty Gear Strive - Ky Kiske

I might have been spoiled by Slayer's absolute brutality. Ky is fun, and has a good projectile game, but his attacks don't have that oomph of the vampire dandy. On the other hand, I keep seeing chatter about Slayer being "broken" so maybe that's something to consider. Anyways! Another playthrough down. It was fun. I've always liked Ky and his arsenal of lightning abilities.

[bizzgeburt]

I'm still marching forward towards 100 games beat by the end of the year. With summer around the corner, I have several games in mind that I really want to try and play before the fall. Some of these games are more summery in nature (I guess), but overall I just want to make sure I play and beat the following games before the beginning of September. Here is my current list of summer time games I plan on beating.


- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Donkey Kong 64
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Halo 2


I definitely plan on playing more than just those four games, but those are the ones that if nothing else, I definitely want to make sure I've beat them before summer's end.

Enjoy the 2 N64-titles, they're absolutely awesome, Zelda in particular. 

[marvelvscapcom2]

37. Until Dawn [PS4] - Finished May 28th, 2025




Until dawn is a 2014 Psychological horror sorta interactive (choices define your story) game by supermassive games.  And it's iconic. Iconic enough for bad movie spinoffs. Thats when you know you're big league kid lol. 

I enjoyed my time with Until Dawn heavily. 

MANY WAYS TO PLAY

My favorite part about Until Dawn is that the game 100 percent hits a home run in the choices actually effecting the plot.   In most games of this format. It only gives the illusion of choices mattering.  Like no matter what you do the same endings happen.  Well not until dawn.  If you mess up. And offend someone. Kill something. Hit the wrong button. Heck even if you move your ps4 controller the wrong way.  Ya get humbled lol.  And its not always etched out when and how plot will bend or alter.  You just done goofed which led to consequences and the game forces you into tight situations.  At first I disliked this games relying so heavily on QTE (quick time events) but I now love it. Because as you play. The QTEs begin to make you feel panicked.  Overwhelmed. Annoyed. Not knowing where to go. Or what to do.  As a timer ticks down. And it wasnt until I got half way or so.  I realized. That is making me feel very immersed and helpless.  It all makes you feel in control and out of control at the same time.


My favorite characters are Emily and Mike.  In fairness the 4 girls are all for whatever reason brave and epic in this game. While the guys suffer outside of Mike who is our lone badass amongst the guys lol. But boy he makes up for it. The characters are believable. One of my favorite trophy titles come from this game. Called "the 4 daughters of darkness" super sick. The atmosphere is rad. We also got some heavy hitters in our plot casting.

Rami Malek who is the star of bohemian rhapsody plays Josh. In VA and looks.  Hayden Panitierre who is known from a lot but mostly Scream movies is in this.  Shes an exceptional actress who plays Sam. And the VAs as far as I can tell just crush it.  Its an oscar worthy line up. 


The game feels soaked in dread and claustophobia.  And the story is full of twists and turns.




My only gripes of the game are sometimes it feels like the fate of characters or plot is out of the players hands. Like if you move left something major happens. Imagine if you open a jar of mayo in your fridge and a neighbor dies 2 weeks later becase you did. How were you supposed to know? Lol.  I also find the games darkness to be awesome for the scares. But not so well for exploring or finding your way. I got lost a few times and thats in a fairly linear game.


SCARED ME


While Resident Evil 2 is the scariest game ive played off sheer fear of being watched and pursued.  This game is close.  Because its a master at its shock and horror. It got me a few times. Spooked me. Made me unsettled. Its definitely caught me and made me let out an audible "oh my god [explitive]*  a few times at night. 2am with the lights off. Its calm and unassuming until it isnt. 


Overall I loved Until Dawn.  Its mechanics arent as clean ss life is strange. But it has like 100 possible endings. The dualshock 4 is used motion wise sometimes. QTE is golden and its graphics are ridiculously aging well. It looks like a 2023 game.  It's so varied that its engaging.


Rating - 90/100

[bikingjahuty]

I'm still marching forward towards 100 games beat by the end of the year. With summer around the corner, I have several games in mind that I really want to try and play before the fall. Some of these games are more summery in nature (I guess), but overall I just want to make sure I play and beat the following games before the beginning of September. Here is my current list of summer time games I plan on beating.


- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- Donkey Kong 64
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Halo 2


I definitely plan on playing more than just those four games, but those are the ones that if nothing else, I definitely want to make sure I've beat them before summer's end.

Enjoy the 2 N64-titles, they're absolutely awesome, Zelda in particular. 

Thanks, but I've actually beat OoT from start to finish probably a dozen times already, and I've played through most of DK64, albeit that was nearly 25 years ago. OoT is one of my favorite games of all time, but sadly I haven't beat it since 2018. I decided this summer was a good time to do something about that and beat it again. I'm really looking forward to replying DK64 as well.