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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2025!!!

« on: January 09, 2025, 03:33:05 pm »

3. Chrono Trigger DS - Float Away

For the last month or so, I've been doing a New Game Plus run on Chrono Trigger; a game I've played close to a hundred times. I decided to finish the game for a first time with the adorable Float Away ending where you use your Epoch to battering ram into Lavos and skip part of the fight. I still ship Lucca x Crono instead of Marle x Crono, but there's no denying that this is a cute and heartwarming ending. It's not my favorite, though. That will come when I reboot the game and head through the Black Omen to take down Queen Zeal.

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General / Re: A Year in Review - 2024

« on: January 05, 2025, 01:25:25 pm »

Favorite 2024 Release: Unicorn Overlord, but it was real tough to decide on that.

Least Favorite 2024 Release: Slave Zero X

Favorite Game Played in 2024: Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven

Least Favorite Game Played in 2024: Cosmic Fantasy

Sleeper Hit of 2024: Reynatis

Favorite Gaming Moment in 2024: Seeing everything come together so beautifully in Metaphor.

Proudest Collection Accomplishment of 2024: Finding the deluxe edition of Shin Megami Tensei V for Switch. Now I have a cool slingbag!

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General / Re: What are the worst games you ever tried?

« on: January 03, 2025, 08:23:44 pm »

I've played some STINKERS.

Spectral Force 3: This was before Idea Factory struck gold with Neptunia. Way before. The game is ugly as piss, the balance is off, it's slow even as a strategy game, and the story is stupid as hell. Oh, and the token healer CAN'T HEAL HIMSELF.

Forever Kingdom: From Software wasn't always the pinnacle of quality. This game on the PS2 is a perfect example of it. A shared life bar? And enemies that always hit like trucks? Sounds GREAT! -.-

I'll think of more later.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2025!!!

« on: January 02, 2025, 06:25:34 pm »

2. Reynatis

First platinum of the year! I'll write a review for this one at some point with a lot more information. Unsurprisingly, I actually liked it. But, that's on brand for me. I liked Lost Dimension. I liked Crymachina. I even liked Monark. So, me liking this isn't too surprising. I had two major issues. The first was when you were in Liberated Mode outside Another. It was a nuisance with the way you'd trend so quickly. It meant having to exit/re-enter the place I was exploring. The other issue was with the story. I still can't tell you half the stuff they were talking about. Marin wants to be the strongest. Sari wants to eradicate rubrum. Everything else that happened with the enemies, Legacies, etc? I have no clue. Oh well. Fun game. Fun characters. Eager to get a thorough review up for it.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2025!!!

« on: January 02, 2025, 01:16:27 pm »

1. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Game one. Let's go!! I got as far as I could in this before dropping it but I'm marking it as completed because I got through about (by my estimate) 85% of it or so. I can always YouTube the rest of the stuff if I feel like it. This is the successor to Jet Set that folks have been asking for. Sadly, for me at least, that means that I'm HORRIBLE at it. I recognized when it got too frustrating for me; I didn't want to force myself to finish it and not have a good outlook on it. If you liked the series on Dreamcast and Xbox, then you'll like this successor. And yes, the soundtrack absolutely slaps, hits, and whatever-else the kids say these days.

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General / Re: Finding a CD/DVD copy that works.

« on: December 30, 2024, 08:14:02 am »

It happened to me with Dirge of Cerberus, also on PS2. Took me like three or four copies to finish the game.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2024!!!!!

« on: December 28, 2024, 06:17:35 pm »

I was trying to post a list of all the things I've finished and dropped but it wouldn't let me. Oh well. Great year for gaming!

Heck yeah it was! And next year will be even better, at least for me. I had a ton of stuff (mostly good) going on in 2024 and it really got in the way of me engaging more with video gaming and beating more games than I did. I'm actually going to go for triple digit games beat next year, which would be a personal record for me. I'd have to go back and look, but a few years ago I think I got up into the 80s, so 100 isn't too much of a stretch.

Triple digits...dang. That would be awesome.

I have a few days left in the year. Maybe I can knock out some smaller titles. We'll see!

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2024!!!!!

« on: December 28, 2024, 03:11:06 pm »

I was trying to post a list of all the things I've finished and dropped but it wouldn't let me. Oh well. Great year for gaming!

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2025!!!

« on: December 26, 2024, 07:02:01 pm »

Yay! I can already tell it'll be a slower year. My brother lent me Elden Ring and I'm really excited to dive in. That's a huge game, I've heard.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2024!!!!!

« on: December 25, 2024, 09:34:25 am »

92. Rockman X 4 - X

The Mega Man X Legacy Collection allows you to switch between the English and Japanese versions. For fun, I switched to Japanese. It helped remind me how much I've been slacking with my studies. Ugh. Otherwise, super fun as always. I like how all of the Maverick bosses have little quips they say before the fights begin. I tried a new boss order, too. Frost Walrus ended up being the final one I went after despite him being one of the easiest.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2024!!!!!

« on: December 21, 2024, 07:58:28 pm »

90. Mega Man X

91. Mega Man X4 - Zero

Two plane rides. Two games done during both of them. Not much to say about these classics. I played them both on the Switch. I may go through X4 again with X, but we'll see.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2024!!!!!

« on: December 16, 2024, 07:39:26 am »

89. Metaphor: ReFantazio - Platinum

After nearly 90 hours of dialogue, combat, and menus, Metaphor is fully finished. What a game. Longtime RPG fan or not, I think most folks will find something to enjoy here.

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Modern Video Games / Re: The Game Awards 2024

« on: December 14, 2024, 10:37:01 pm »

Excited for another Onimusha. The rest of the stuff is fine; nothing I can't live without but I know they have their fans.

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General / Re: Playstation 30th Anniversary

« on: December 11, 2024, 03:45:42 pm »

The only reason why I wanted a PlayStation was for FFVII. Everything else I played prior to that point weren't my vibe or very fun: some sports game, Jump Flash (?), Twisted Metal...

And then, it gets announced that FFVII is going to the PlayStation and that was all the convincing I needed that I had to get one. It took a while, and in that time, A LOT of other RPGs headed to the console. Four of my top ten games of all time are on the PlayStation. I guess the rest is history because I've been a fan ever since. I'd rank the consoles like this:

1. PlayStation 2
2. PlayStation
3. PlayStation 5
4. PlayStation 4
5. PlayStation 3
6. PS Vita
7. PSP

Note that I really enjoyed my PSP. It just hasn't aged well and stood zero chance against Nintendo's handheld market.

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General / Re: 52 Games Challenge 2024!!!!!

« on: December 09, 2024, 05:13:02 pm »

88. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

I'm horrible at this game. At least, that's what I thought until I played a TON of it over the weekend and had a blast. Will I purchase it? No. But, I won't be using the qualifier "Yeah, I'll play but you'll kick my ass because I'm horrible at it." It was a lot of fun. More fun than I remember, which I think was during the 3DS era. I never played it on Wii or Wii U. So, it's nice to see that this classic series is still going strong.