2025
Crusader: No Remorse - ★★
Beaten in: October 2025
I have a lot of respect for the proto-imsim flavour this game has and its excellent FMV cutscenes, but it's just too damn long. The act of shooting didn't feel engaging enough to be worth the like 20 hour playtime, and the puzzles felt mostly really arbitrary. Condensing the game into 8 levels instead of 15 would've probably made me like it twice as much.
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat, Ghost Bear's Legacy & Mercenaries - ★★★★★
Beaten in: September-October 2025
Marathoning all 3 games in this series back to back may have been a scheduling mistake but I don't really care, I was having way too much fun playing these games... once they started behaving, that is. The handful of bugs in the hardest missions in GBL and the diceroll of post-mission crashes on Mercs was hard to deal with sometimes, but I've been having too much fun with Battletech to let that get to me.
MechWarrior 1 - ★★★
Beaten in: September 2025
Kind of a fascinating start to the MechWarrior franchise. It's always fun dipping into 80s DOS games, which feel more like an idea of a game rather than a game itself. It's really funny there's only one mandatory combat mission in this entire game (and even that can be glitched and skipped relatively easily).
Kingpin: Life of Crime - ★★★
Beaten in: August 2025
It was really interesting to learn how overly ambitious this game was supposed to be originally, and it's really interesting interacting with the vestigal remains of its imsim systems - hiring guys, tapping Y to go "so what's the commotion?" at a guy until he tells you something about a map secret. And the hirelings! The hirelings...
Capitalism Plus - ★★★★
Played in: August 2025
Love the name, love it as a way to play the role of one of the worst kinds of person you can be. It's really funny to yell about factories and building a monopoly on cigarettes and diapers. I'd love to be more into its successor, Capitalism Plus, but all the AI art is kind of sad to look at...
Super Mario Sunshine - ★★★★★
Beaten in: August 2025
Fantastic game as long as you don't decide to go for blue coin shines. I love when it works and I love when it bugs out in ways that make very little sense. Stuff like pachinko & lillypads make it a really fun stream game. The tropical theme is gorgeously executed. I wanna go to Delfino Plaza...
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2 - ★★★
Beaten in: July 2025
Delightful mid. Completely half-hearted in everything it does after the first 40 minutes, fails to be either a compelling third-person shooter or a compelling "stare at your character's ass" type of game. It's really funny it ends on a sequel hook even though it doesn't even have enough ideas to fill out like a 8 hour game by itself.
Drapline - ★★★★
Beaten in: July 2025
I wanna see where this game ends up in once it's finished! So far it's very very charming.
Qvadriga - ★★★★
Played in: July 2025
Deeply funny game. I kind of wish it was more dense on the management aspects, but all the horrible gore and violence on the circus makes up for it.
Old World - ★★★★★
Played in: June 2025
I bounced off this one pretty hard way back in the past, but nowadays I feel like it's one of my favourite 4X games (certainly my favourite Civ-style one). Unfortunately I don't know if going "hmmmm... where do I build this cottage..." makes for a fun stream to watch, but I enjoyed it.
Birthdays the Beginning - ★★★★
Played in: June 2025
I gotta keep playing this one, honestly. This game is really successful at carrying on SimEarth's "mess with the sliders until something is born" type gameplay, though maybe making it a little too much like a video game. Either way, it was fun celebrating my own while drinking and streaming this.
SimEarth - ★★★★
Beaten in: June 2025
Really endearing game. I love this era of Maxis, hovering somewhere in the middle of pure simulation software and a game you can "beat". And the manuals! More schoolbook than play instruction. I think we really lost something once people stopped ending their game manuals with reading lists.
Cosmology of Kyoto - ★★★★★
Played in: June 2025
Fantastic game! I want to come back to it to explore it more thoroughly (maybe as a lil note-taking puzzle gaming adventure), but I really enjoyed the little taste I had of it. Roger Ebert was right about this one.
Siren - ★★★★★
Played in: February 2025
Incredible game, but playing it for 3 hour chunks genuinely caused me headaches every stream because I was so scared and tense so I had to drop it. I want to come back to it on my own pace some day...
Devil May Cry 5 - ★★★★★
Beaten in: February 2025
You could probably reasonably argue that DMC5 overtunes the spectacle a little bit, but it's not without merit. All of the characters are really varied (moreso than 4), feel awesome to play as a baseline (though I found V's disjointed style felt a little 'unresponsive' to me, depending on my mood), and have a skill ceiling that is honestly too high for me to ever reach but I like to feel that it's there. 5 Dante might be the most fun I've had controlling a character in an action game ever, at the time of writing this.
Devil May Cry 4 - ★★★
Beaten in: February 2025
I really wanted to like this a lot more than I ended up doing, but the 1/2 map design and making you refight the least interesting bosses in the game Three times was a little much for me. The actual mechanics of it are great, though, and I really appreciate playable Lady & Trish.
The Unlife of Gorlak - ★★★★
Beaten in: February 2025
My friend Landshark made this game! Just on that alone it's very inspiring to me. I love that it's a fairly 'bitesize' Princess Maker-like, since those tend to be pretty long. I just wish I wasn't such a numbers pervert and didn't somehow completely outpace the stat gain curve, which made combat (for the most part) a little easy.
Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend - ★★★★★
Beaten in: January 2025
It's a quite brazen Slay the Spire-like, but it does it extremely well while iterating and expanding on mechanics and it also has Sakuya as a playable character, so it's kind of way better than its predecessor in every imaginable way. I really admire how much effort went into replicating the touhou feel. Making all the attack animations evocative of bullet patterns from the main games is a real "above and beyond" kind of touch.
2024
Caves of Qud - ★★★★★
Played many times!
I have a weird hangup where I can't get into games before their 1.0 even if they are technically feature complete, so I'm glad this finally 'released'. Probably my current favourite 'classic' roguelike? Fantastic vibes.
UFO 50 - ★★★★★
Played many times!
Genuinely unbelievable package, even if you don't vibe with one game or another. I think I'll be chewing on this one on my own time for a while. I appreciate that the metanarrative stuff adds a really interesting additional layer to experiencing the games without really overshadowing their own merits.
Resident Evil 4 - ★★★★★
Beaten in: November 2024
One of those rare instances like Evangelion or Twin Peaks where it's kind of completely played out on one hand but also almost entirely worth its reputation on the other. Excellent game, I can only imagine how hard it hit back in 2005.
Pokémon Conquest - ★★★
Beaten in: November 2024
Genuinely a great idea for a Pokémon spinoff, I just wish, as a mapgamer, that it didn't take beating the entire main story to unlock modes where the province view was more than just a nice looking stage select menu.
Myst III: Exile - ★★
Beaten in: October 2024
Unfortunately just does not even try to be more than "another Myst game", which is kind of disappointing after Riven but also those are some huge shoes to fill. Brad Dourif is fantastic, the puzzles are largely annoying.
Pikmin 1 - ★★★★
Beaten in: October 2024
Collabing this with my fellow blue pikmin Dorothree and yellow pikmin Akiaji Margo was a delight. Very funny game. I wish the puzzle/strategy elements were more fleshed out but having controls-based pratfalls be the real challenge is fine too for a stream game.
Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters - ★★★★★
Beaten in: September 2024
What a fantastic game. In terms of mechanics, there's not really anything standout - the combat is just okay, the spaceflight mechanics are just okay - but the way it all comes together is so unique! Every single quest in the game hinges on exploration and note-taking in such an unrelenting manner, I really ended up being absorbed by it. I really liked the setting as well, with all but two of the alien species being really entertaining to talk to. I really enjoyed the mix of silly and serious in this game.
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin - ★★★★
Beaten in: September 2024
It was fun to revisit a game I abandoned as a teen because I got too intimidated by it. I think when I was like 15 or something I tapped out after Greyfield's mission because I thought it was way too hard. This time around I beat the entire thing! It's actually quite manageable (well, at least if you're not going for all S ranks) aside from a couple missions. Greyfield's was pretty hard, sure, but I think Waylon's big mission was the hardest one in the game for me - I think it even took more time than the final mission by the end!
Riven: The Sequel To Myst - ★★★★★
Beaten in: August 2024
Somehow takes the magic of Myst and intensivies it fivefold. There are some 'puzzles' that are a little too much "notice a button in your peripheral vision", but I forgive them for how cool it felt to solve the big, overarching mysteries of the game world - and learn about its history in the process.
Myst - ★★★★
Beaten in: August 2024
Very, very cool game. It's easy to see, especially after watching some making-of documentaries and retrospective videos, how this blew everyone's minds back in the day. The impact is kind of lessened a tiny bit by the fact that it's so influential that traces of it are felt in so many games that came after, but it's still very magical.
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon - ★★★★★
Beaten in: August 2024
Extremely good game. I had a ton of fun playing it with dual pistols only on my first playthrough. A lot of people have ideas for better builds which makes sense since the game kind of directs you into "you should tune your builds", but I feel like a lot of goofy stuff is completely viable in PVE, so you can just have fun and hang out. The PVP is fantastic as well, I want to put more time into it! The only actual complaint I have is I wish the in-game OST was better, aside from the final credits theme it was quite forgettable.
INFRA - ★★★★★
Beaten in: July 2024
The pacing kind of goes up and down in quality but also there's so little #gaming out there that's truly like this so I'll forgive it for being like 40 hours long. The sheer amount of map design and like twenty different layers of secrets and ARGs and borderline datamining you can do in this game is kind of staggering. I would've been fine with just the basic premise of "walking around documenting infrastructure faults", but I really appreciate where it ended up going.
The Adventure of Little Ralph - ★★★★
Beaten in: June 2024
Another one in my series of "familiarising myself with platformers", based on a whim recommendation from Clauvio. I wish I knew straight from the start that you had to change the difficulty setting to get the true ending! The platforming was very fun, the fighting game parts were a cool idea but I wish there was a cleaner curve between Destarozza and literally any other fight in the game.
Diablo I - ★★★★
Beaten in: June 2024, single sitting!
As much as I like/grew up on Diablo II, with a couple balance passes (mostly just making the stats matter) this might be the best game in the series. Ending the marathon with a photo-finish where I kill Diablo with residue damage a half-second after he killed me was really hype.
Way of the Samurai 4 - ★★★★★
Beaten in: June 2024 with the aid of Kongou Kokuretsu
Truly genius game structure. Tiny open world with short story routes that you have to do in a specific order to set up the game state for the true route is such a cool idea. It helps that the game itself is a lot of fun to play. The combat and customization options are both way more complex than what they need to be - there's something like 8 different combat styles just for the sword alone. I was able to mold my middle-aged ronin main character into a pretty good likeness of myself made out of straw kasa.
Dark Souls II - ★★★★★
Beaten in: May 2024
I had an incredibly good time with this game! I'm honestly kind of surprised (& very grateful) I beat this game completely unspoiled every step of the way. Considering I did the entirety of Shulva before like Iron Keep I think this is a remarkable amount of restraint from the chat. Also I beat it a second time (on Scholar edition this time around) like 3 days after beating the original game, which I don't usually do with games that are more than like 2 hours long. I don't know if I disagree more with people who act like this game is some kind of disaster, or with people who act like Scholar edition is a direct upgrade. Writing this up makes me want to roll a new character. Dark Souls II forever.
Dink Smallwood - ★
Played: May 2024
Supposedly a comedy game that was so unrelentingly unfunny and bad to play it made me have the only "what the hell am I doing with my life" moment I've ever had in my entire time vtubing.
Star Wars: Yoda Stories - ★
Beaten in: March 2024
"Lunchbreak-sized roguelite" sounds like an incredibly forward-thinking game concept for a 1997 release but I think the reason it didn't blow up the world and usher in the roguelite era 15 years early is it is truly dogwater as a game. There is like not a single good or even barely-mediocre thing about this release.
Castle Explorer - ★★★★★
Beaten in: March 2024
This little DK Eyewitness joint is solely responsible for like 60% of the way I am now, I think. I didn't even try playing the game part as a kid, I'd just spend hours gawking at the incredibly detailed illustrations, reading every single blurb about medieval life twenty times over. Try and spot my spymaster's certificate in the Western Style Live set!
Intergalactic Fishing - ★★★★
Played in: March 2024
Quite possibly the only fishing game I've played (granted, I haven't played many dedicated fishing games that is not about a timing/rhythm game, but rather about figuring out fish locations/habits through exploration and experimentation. The procedural nature of the game world kind of makes sure you can't fall into a predictable routine too easily, every lake having its own quirks. The "humanity has instant interstellar teleportation technology and uses it primarily for recreational fishing" plot reminds me in a good way of stuff like Anthony Appleyard's (RIP) Sea Patrol, a setting where the most important political question of the day is scuba diving regulations. It's charming!
Yggdra Union - ★★★★★
Beaten in: March 2024
Really fun game! I love how complex the mechanics get out of a relatively simple set of mechanics. The art's wonderful, and the EN voice acting is a lot of fun. Mistel is probably one of my favourite strategy game characters out there. I had a person in my chat who was maybe a little bit too eager to make sure I was enjoying the game the right way which always backfires but what are you gonna do about that, yknow?
Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye - ★★★
Played: February 2024
Intensely gorgeous game, but making any progress in it feels much more dependent on RNG than on smart play. Still, "Irish mythology Nobunaga's Ambition" is a really solid premise that endears me to the game despite feeling really powerless whenever I try poking at it.
System Shock 2 - ★★★★★
Played: February 2024
Co-op with Fang Guu
Co-op with Fang Guu
Every resource online says you shouldn't play this co-op because it ruins the atmosphere but the real thing co-op ruins is your savegame, in increasingly bizarre ways, which I did not know about because nobody talks about co-op. By the end of our run, which we had to bin really late into the game because it got so bad I was trying to open the campaign in a map editor to fix it, items I'd drop for Fang were turning into map decoration pipes on her end, among other bizarre things. Really good game aside from that.
Europa Universalis IV - ★★★★
Played: February? 2024
I recognize what makes this game great, and when I'm in the right mood for it, it really hits, but generally speaking I find I need some kind of "roleplay" motivation to get the most out of a Paradox game, and I get a lot more of that in CK3.
Crusader Kings III - ★★★★★
Played many times!
Great little drama/politics simulator that keeps getting better. I always think of my friend Henemimi who has an intensely different way of getting fun out of this game. I'm glad this game exists for both of us.
Devil May Cry 3 - ★★★★★
Beaten in: January 2024
Awesome game, deeply stupid and very fun to play. I don't think I'm the kind of person the game wants, but I appreciate all the levels of mastery it invites you to attain after just beating the game. Vergil owns.
Devil May Cry 2 - ★★
Beaten in: January 2024
I don't think it's as bad as people say it is - certainly it's at least worth playing through since it's a pretty good counterpoint to the once-in-a-blue-moon person who says DMC is bad because the guns are weak. Lucia, especially her Devil Trigger form, are very cool designs. On the other hand, the first time I said something nice about the game, it kicked me with no hesitation.
Devil May Cry 1 - ★★★★
Beaten in: January 2024
Hey did you guys know this game was originally meant to be Resident Evil 4? It's the RE4 parts of this game that compel me the most, the weird push-pull between the two different things this game is trying to be. It's cool!
2023
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - ★★★★★
Beaten in: December 2023, single sitting
Probably the funniest Elder Scrolls game, especially if you do what I did and decide to marathon the main storyline with all level scaling completely off. I think Bruma took me like 2 hours just trying to dodge instakill attacks from daedra. Thank The Nine you don't actually have to fight that many people for the main quest because every single fight almost immediately turned into a really elaborate puzzle or extremely mind-numbing rhythm game.
Super Mario RPG - ★★★★
Beaten in: December 2023
Played in Japanese with the help of My Monkey Mikey
Played in Japanese with the help of My Monkey Mikey
With how my stream looks you'd think this was my favourite childhood game but I actually played it for the first time at the ripe age of 3X. Mario (and the rest of the crew, really) has an unbelievable amount of personality in this game. I wish they had kept the franchise loose and fun instead of increasingly sanding it down.
Darwinia - ★★★★
Beaten in: December 2023
Cool little piece of indie gaming history and one I have a lot of nostalgia for. It is maybe unfortunately not a great "strategy game", since you can very easily overwhelm the enemy with your own APM, and the last level is actually almost entirely skippable, but the vibes are fantastic.
Volcano Princess - ★★★★
Beaten in: December 2023
The amount of art in this game is wild. I've never played a Princess Maker-like before and this one was very good! There's some really fun juice to the characters. I just wish the translation was a little better - maybe they've changed it since my playthrough, but there was a lot of machine translation kind of biting into the vibe.
Far Cry 2 - ★★★★
Beaten in: November 2023
The last interesting Far Cry game. It's interesting in that it's kind-of going against the grain of the emerging (and later dominant) AAA trends, but also kind of just doing them itself (the diamond collection and proto-towerclimbs are quite funny in the context of the premise).
A-Train: All Aboard! Tourism - ★★★★
Played: November 2023
Fantastic game. I really wish I had the brain and free time to just put in 5000 hours into this. It's so charming!!! The character art by Himukai Yuji, of course, but also you get to customize your trains and buses down to the air conditioning vents! In a game that's mostly an isometric business management game! And you can sit in the train and watch the scenery go by as it does its rounds!!! Come on! Fantastic music, as well.
Parasite Eve 1 - ★★★★★
Beaten in: October 2023
Incredibly strong atmosphere, whole game through. I'm kind of a sucker in general for "present day RPG" but I think they did extremely well with the premise. Weapon crafting is a cool idea but I kind of felt restricted/limited by it on my playthrough - maybe it's just meant to be more of a postgame thing?
The Wheel of Time - ★★★
Beaten in: October 2023
I had never heard of the book series before this - I think I picked up the game because GOG said it's "similar to" Battlespire, which like, IDK? It's way harder than I was expecting for a videogame based on a fantasy series, which I understand is maybe a weird expectation for me to have.
An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire - ★★
Beaten in: September 2023
A hugely broken mess with really inconsistent map design. It made for some really fun streams, but I don't think this would be fun to play by yourself. I love the bug that turns the age-old Elder Scrolls "jump anywhere" practice into infinite skillpoints.
Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence - ★★★★
Played: September 2023
Almost certainly the prettiest map game I've ever played. I have some things I'd like done differently, but it's really fun as both a sandbox Sengoku map painter and as a sort of really strict history lesson if you're trying to unlock all the story events.
Vagrant Story - ★★★★★
Beaten in: September 2023
With the company of Monday Morningstar and Angelguts Eliminator
With the company of Monday Morningstar and Angelguts Eliminator
An interesting example of what you get when every single member of the development team is a total pervert in their own field. Why/how does this game look and play the way it does while being like 77mb. Why is the crafting system like that.
I live in constant fear of modern Square-Enix announcing a Vagrant Story remake.
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days - ★★★★
Beaten in: September 2023
Co-op with my friend Akiaji Margo
Co-op with my friend Akiaji Margo
This game has a "found footage 480p youtube video" type of vibe going on - the faked video artifacting is both very impressive and also very funny to see after playing the first game over Parsec with home-grown genuine video artifacting. The fact that headshots put a mosaic filter over your opponent's head somehow make it feel more insanely violent than anything else I've ever seen in a videogame.
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men - ★★
Beaten in: September 2023
Co-op with my friend Akiaji Margo
Co-op with my friend Akiaji Margo
Deeply fucking stupid game. Playing it on Parsec both didn't help and kind of gave it impeccable vibes. The fact that they kind of get bored with their own story and the last third of the game turns into a pseudo-military shooter in Cuba is sooo funny. The ending choice is so funny!!!
The Evil Within 2 - ★★★★
Beaten in: August? September? 2023
Whenever the game hinted at an open world after a really strong linear/directed sequence I became extremely wary but against all odds they not only don't overdo the open world, it actually serves as a really good (IMO) pacing tool for the scary stuff. Everyone knows about that one easter egg line but going all the way back to get it (it might as well be backtracking the entire game) was really funny.
The Evil Within 1 - ★★★
Beaten in: July 2023
Very schlocky, but I had fun. The fight against The Keeper was completely miserable for me, but for some reason whenever I think about it I get a fond feeling in my chest. It's a shame the gameplay gets annoying towards the end right as the level visuals get increasingly interesting.
Knight's Try - ★★★★
Beaten in: July 2023
I really enjoyed this, as someone who doesn't really do challenge platformers much. My experience was greatly improved by already having a collection of like 200 MIDIs to slot into the in-game MIDI player.
F.E.A.R. - ★★★★
Beaten in: June 2023
Convincingly robust AI and a cool office-horror aesthetic that gets evaporated instantly with the like 5 different instakill kicks you get in this game. I don't mind it at all, but it's funny how at-odds with itself the game can feel. Genuinely really good gunplay whenever they don't just let you get away with kicking everyone!
Far Cry 1 - ★★★
Beaten in: June 2023
The common refrain about this game is it gets a lot worse once you are introduced to the Trigens and man, it really could not be more true. It's only partially because Trigens are really not fun to fight - it's just that at that point the game does away with its large/open map design and makes you go in stupid little bunker corridor mazes. The story is really funny. I love that the game tells you you're easier to see without body armour because you're wearing a bright red shirt.
Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts - ★★★★
Played: June 2023
Platformers are probably the biggest genre oversight I have, so I figured I'd remedy it a little bit by doing a one-off stream of this game. If it was planned as a whole series and not a one-off, I definitely could see myself beating the game eventually - I started "getting it" pretty quickly (in fact, the game is really good at making you have to "get it" early on) and was having a lot of fun. I think I got as far as the stomach level when I stopped.
Dungeon Keeper 1 - ★★★★
Played: June 2023
Fantastic premise, excellent aesthetic, gets kind of brutally hard (and somewhat grindy, in my perception) towards the end, so I ended up abandoning the game right around Mistle. The only thing I'm genuinely not a fan of is the "take a higher level creature with you into the next map" spell, which is usually a hidden reward in most levels and makes me wonder if the harder levels aren't balanced around it.
Dead Rising 1 - ★★★★
Beaten in: June 2023, in a single sitting!
Very nostalgic for this game since it was the first game I had for my 360. Still very fun. The persistent-leveling system still feels a little wacky, but it's a cool way to soften the difficulty curve.
Deus Ex - ★★★★★
Beaten in: April 2023
Whenever I replay this game I erroneously remember them taking the Dragon Tooth sword away from you after Hong Kong. Turns out they don't and it kind of makes the rest of the game incredibly easy. During my on-stream playthrough I had a lot of fun messing around with the AI in non-combat areas - you can get a lot of doors unlocked if you spook the right NPC.
I think about the Morpheus conversation like once a week.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - ★★★★
Beaten in: June? 2023
When I was younger my dad would play through this every year and every single year he'd ask me for help with the same level - the one where you have to call in artiller on a Panzer IV with some binoculars. Emboldened by my experience with that one mission, I decided to stream this game on the highest difficulty, which, lemme tell you, I don't know if they balanced it the entire way through. As hitscan-y as the hardest parts of Max Payne 1 without the cushion of adaptive difficulty to save you. Still a great game - it's funny to look back on the whole WW2 FPS thing and remember what people used to think was boring and repetitive.
Pentiment - ★★★★★
Beaten in: April 2023
Those crazy folks at Obsidian Entertainment decided to make a game laser targeted at me for some reason. Thank you for making the fonts publicly available.
Wario Land 4 - ★★★★
Beaten in: March 2023
Okay so I may have lost my patience and used rewind at the last boss. So what. Sue me. Wario would have done the same.
Half-Life: Opposing Force & Blue Shift - ★★
Beaten in: March 2023
I like the idea of Blue Shift focusing on a more mundane part of the Black Mesa incident, but it just feels underbaked. At least Opposing Force has an extremely goofy grappling hook in the last 30 minutes.
Half-Life 1 - ★★★★
Beaten in: March 2023
It felt very nostalgic being in GoldSrc again. One of the highlights of the game was a mandatory jump with practically unavoidable fall damage. Instead of reloading a much older save or noclipping down I think I spent like 15 minutes trying to build a line to slide off of geometry in a way to cushion the fall, which somehow ended up working. Beating on the IFVs with a crowbar was also pretty good.
Chantelise - ★★★★
Beaten in: February 2023
This game really kicked my ass - I was not expecting the difficulty spikes around the volcano crab and the final boss. I really love the 2.5D look applied to a Ys-like structure.
Bullet Witch - ★★★ (positive)
Beaten in: February 2023
Truly delightful mid. Alicia is great. Havok physics forever (I don't actually remember if it's actually Havok but it might as well be).
killer7 - ★★★★★
Beaten in: February 2023
It's quite hard to say something about killer7 that has not been said already so what I will say instead is that I didn't understand the unlocking characters mechanic until like a third through the game so I beat the Sunset boss without KAEDE, which I don't really think the fight is designed for that. I think I also severely overthought the drawing puzzle in the school, which has since become a staple of me doing puzzles on stream.
Max Payne 3 - ★
Beaten in: January 2023?
The gameplay is kind of okay but then the writing is just the most dogshit Rockstar edge I've ever witnessed. Also serves as a really stupid "Man on Fire" pastiche.
Ace of Seafood - ★★★★
Beaten in: January 2023
Very wacky-funny on purpose but not in a way that grates on me. I remember the music being all bangers.
Dark Messiah of Might & Magic - ★★★★★
Beaten in: January 2023
Still probably one of the funniest games of all time. I love how much work they put into physics being the strongest weapon in the entire game. Guys will literally fall over themselves to make sure they die in the most comical way possible in any situation. I did not enjoy the catacombs level because it was an incredibly samey maze that also involved mostly not kicking dudes off of ledges so it was very boring.
2022
Max Payne 2 - ★★★★
Beaten in: December 2022?
When I was a teen I would frequently use console commands to turn the bullet-time scale down to 0 so enemies would get frozen in place. Then I would run into a room and park like 8000 shotgun shots in front of each mobster, unfreeze time, and watch them get ragdolled into walls at mach speed.
Doesn't quite hold up to my teenage years on a replay, but it's still very good.
Max Payne 1 - ★★★★★
Beaten in: November 2022
As hitscan-heavy as BLOOD, but with a different toolset for getting around it. Maybe a little bit too hard at times, but it's fine. RIP James McCaffrey, couldn't have matched the tone of the writing better.