The Misadventures of Tron Bonne (PS Vita TV) ★★★½☆ (9.5 hours).Mega Man Legends (PS Vita TV) ★★★☆☆ (9 hours).Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind (NSW) ★★☆☆☆ (6 hours).Life is Strange: Before the Storm (PS5) ★★☆☆☆ (11 hours).Life is Strange: Wavelengths (PS5) ★½☆☆☆ (3 hours).Life is Strange: True Colors (PS5) ★★½☆☆ (12 hours).Disgaea 5 Complete (NSW) ★★½☆☆ (23 hours).Tetris Effect: Connected (NSW) ★★★★½ (1.5 hours).LittleBigPlanet (PS Vita TV) ★½☆☆☆ (3.5 hours).moon: Remix RPG Adventure (NSW) ★★½☆☆ (15 hours).Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros.
Valkyria Chronicles II (PS Vita TV) ★★★½☆ (31 hours).that said, i've still got a pretty big backlog: I've played my share of metroidvanias, but this is one of those where I struggle to believe any fan of the genre wouldn't love. Honestly the only nitpick is some of the writing and voice acting are a bit stiff, probably because it's from a Shangai studio I believe, but it's such a small thing in a otherwise near perfect game, it really doesn't matter. As perfect a metroidvania you can imagine, it does pretty much everything you want from one of these games, with fantastic gameplay, great mobility, great combat, multiple weapons to collect each with their own skill trees and doubling as traversal tools, a giant campaign with a ton of zone variety, a near perfect map (hey map maps are more important to the genre than we give them credit), great graphics, I could go on and on gushing about the game. Forged in Shadow Torchīack to back bangers to start off the year, this indie metroidvania stands right alongside the giants of the genre in my opinion and is destined to become a cult classic. Also, first game to play on my Steam Deck, worked great with touch controls. VA-11 Hall-A (PC) | 3rd April - 7 hours | 4/5 : I haven't really tried that many visual novels, so I don't really know whether this is good by comparison, but I thought this was great. I think I was kinda of hoping combat in general would be a bigger departure from Souls games, but that's on me.ġ6. Too many dungeons look the same, the world is big, but just like Horizon, it's over bloated, especially with gear and resources you might not care about for your build. Elden Ring (PC) | 27th March - 62 hours | 4.5/5 : Really good game, early contender for GOTY, but.I don't think it's a masterpiece. I didn't like having to constantly stop and check the sea floor for resourcesġ5.
FAR: Changing Tides (PC) | 13th March - 5 hours | 3/5 : Not as good as the first one in my opinion. The actual combat gameplay wasn't so funġ4. Kena: Bridge of Spirits (PS5) | 6th March - 10 hours | 3/5 : Really nice to look at, and some puzzles were fun to figure out. But the first one did some things better, and I got burnt out on this by the end. On one hand, I thought parts of the gameplay and parts of the story were better. Horizon Forbidden West (PS5) | 28th Feb - 50 hours | 4/5 : I'm conflicted on this. Kinda boring gameplay, but it's not really the point of itġ2. Here Comes Niko! (PC) | 6th Feb - 3.7 hours | 2.5/5 : Started out pretty interesting, then.I dunno, did nothing. The Magnificent Trufflepigs (PC) | 5th Feb - 2.5 hours | 2.5/5 : I was hoping for something more akin to Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Good use of story telling through the environment, since that is the whole game.ĩ. Unpacking (PC) | 4th Feb - 3 hours | 3/5 : It's.fine. Surprised me how a short concise story made me like the character so much more.Ĩ. Life is Strange: Wavelengths (PS5) | 30th Jan - 2 hours | 3.5/5 : The DLC for True Colors following Steph. Framerate was a disappointment though, especially on PS5ħ. I'm not sure if I'd say it's better than the first, but it was pretty good. Life is Strange: True Colors (PS5) | 30th Jan - 13 hours | 4/5 : I actually really enjoyed it. I thought it'd be longer, but it was enjoyable all the same. Toem (PC) | 17th Jan - 3 hours | 3.5/5 : Fun little game. I'll play it more on and off, but the rougelike itch didn't get to me as much as BOI or Hadesĥ. Slay the Spire (PC) | 16th Jan - 26 hours | 3.5/5 : Yeah I'm counting it, beat the heart with two characters, saw credits. Absolutely great, it might dethrone FFX as my favoriteĤ.
Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age (PC) | 9th Jan - 50 hours | 4/5 : Never fully beat it on the PS2, but thanks to the boosts in the PC version, I was able to now. God I sucked at completing just one character's campaignģ. SSX Tricky (GC) | 6th Jan - 15 hours | 3/5 : I remember liking this game alot more as a kid, though I think I was much better at it then. See something in the distance, go there and check it outĢ. The open world vibe reminded me of BOTW when it comes to freedom. Sable (PC) | 1st Jan - 14hrs | 4/5 : Despite some buggy performance, I got lost in this game.