Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (remake)

• Good game. Love the visual style. Really fun battle system.
• Plenty of funny moments and dialogue. Too much of said dialogue though - very long winded
• Most backtracking I've done in a game (I'm constantly backtracking in real life - often confused as to why I entered a room) in recent memory. This sort of thing ain't my bag, baby
  
  
  

Completed: Contra Operation GALUUUUUGA!!!

• Cool title because it sounds like the AWOOOOGA!!! noise from Looney Tunes
  
• A lot better than I expected. Not because WayForward doesn't make good games but more of a budget thing (despite the credits showing about 50 billion people who worked on this game)
• Should not be 40 dollars. Bought it on sale for 23.99 which seems more like a correct price
  
• Playing Contra with a health bar feels like cheating sometimes but I don't have the time or patience to play the one-hit death style anymore
• The weapon upgrade system is really cool and I found myself actually using more weapons than just the homing and spread gun
• Perk system was cool too
  
• Classic Contra shit but made in 2024, what more do you really want?
  
   
  

  
  
   
  

Completed: Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012)

• Rented this back in 2012 but didn't care for the open world aspect. Much more forgiving of that now and really enjoyed my time with it
  
• Nearly every race is exciting. Loved the most wanted list idea
• Tons of cars to unlock so I found myself switching them up quite a bit
• Loved the intro movies for the races and the most wanted cars. Some of the pre-race ones are pretty hilarious

                            

 

Completed: Astro Bot

• In the words of Mark Cerny describing Astro Bot: Now this is a video game
• One of the best platformers I've ever played therefore it's one of my favorite games I've ever played
• Best looking platformer of all time
  
   
  

Completed: Metal Gear Solid V

• Fire ass game. I was dumb for not getting into it when it came out
• Astounding amount of depth, an unending breadth of options. Loaves, even
• DDog is my best friend

Completed: Spider-Man 2 (PS5)

• Pure video game goodness
  
• Loved traversing the open world. One of the few games I've played where it's a total joy to get around a giant city
• First game I've ever deliberately platinum'd. I liked it that much

 

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Completed: Bioshock Infinite

• Fun game and most importantly great loading screen music (which I just learned was a Scott Joplin song so that makes sense why it's so good)
  
• Skyhook is dope
• Incredible setting. We need more floating cities. In real life but also in games too, I guess
• Combat wasn't a high point so I wish there was some variation in how you could handle it
• Good story, good ending
  

Completed: TES: Skyrim

• Tempted to put Completed in quotes because does anyone really complete Skyrim? I beat the main quest which was good enough for me since I never thought I would actually do that
  
• I'm a kitty cat with Nightingale armor who kills ANYONE and steals from EVERYONE
• The scope of the game and the amount of content really is staggering 
• Time to return to do more side quests, chop some people's fucking heads off and steal every item I'm allowed to steal

 

 

 

Completed: The Legend of Zelda - Oracle of Seasons

• Finally beat a game I first got when it came out in Summer 2001 (thank you, Grandma!)
• Needed a copy of Expert Gamer to help me finish this one off (wherever Nicole Kirk and Frank Provo are, thank you)
• Really awesome game, fully deserves the Link's Awakening remaster treatment
• Loved the animal friends (Moosh!) and a lot of really fun boss fights
  

 

Completed: NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona

• Can you beat a racing game that can technically go on forever?
• Won championships in all 4 levels of racing in the game so I'm counting it
• Really fun career mode and the driving physics are great