I completely forgot the one game I've been playing to death recently... Yu-Gi-Oh Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution . I haven't played YGO since I was in college, but MAN is this game a good time. A single-player TCG that ALSO has online support? Imagine! Take the friggin hint, Magic and Pokemon!...

I've been playing through the Uncharted collection because I wanted to blow through something quickly for fun, and I've realised just exactly how much I loathe Uncharted 2 compared to the first game. So I'm not the only one! I've been saying this for years, and was summarily dismissed as some kind ...

We don't generally select games by the critical consensus and besides, we think a game that features Grasshopper Manufacture and Akira Yamaoka among its dev talent is well worthy of discussion. There are plenty of great and popular shmup focused YouTube channels such as ShmupJunkie and Electric Und...

Genuinely sad that Sine Mora has been chosen for the podcast ahead of the hundreds of better shmups. Weird one. Game is dogshit. There's a ton of great SHMUPs out there, but there's not a ton to talk about. "Yeah this one has a cool upgrade system. This one has good music." Sine Mora has ...

Not sure if I'm going through a bout of depression or what - though, I suspect I am - but I've been having trouble sticking to any one game. Horizon: Forbidden West was so incredibly disappointing to me that I just sold it. And very strange for a new game, it generated zero interest on the second-ha...

Another one you might want to check out is Phoenix Point. It's a little jank - it's made by a small Bulgarian studio - but it's also lead by one of the X-Com devs formerly of Firaxis. But it's very cheap - I paid $20 brand new for the "Behemoth Edition" on PS4 - and it's surprisingly polis...

I've put probably 40+ hours into Horizon: Forbidden West on PS4 Pro - not beaten the story. I think I really hate this game. Not since Kingdom Hearts have I seen a game's story veer so far off course from the spirit and intent of the original. Like I'm genuinely offended by how downright stupid this...

I'm surprised no one has done an HD remaster of Silent Hill 2.

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As someone who's been a Pokemon fan pretty consistently since like the very beginning, I think Arceus seems really interesting. I have difficulty dropping $80 on this game - Nintendo is just so aggressively greedy with their pricing lately that I can't justify supporting them. But I do intend on ren...

#3 - Pokemon Omega Ruby (2014 - 3DS) I've been working on a "Living Dex" for a few years now, where I have 1 on every Pokemon stored in boxes on Pokemon Home. I'm now at 852 of 905(?) Pokemon, although that includes Hisui Pokemon that aren't presently available to import to Home. Anyway. ...

Contra means "against" in Spanish.

#2 - Alan Wake (2010, 360) Right, so I picked this up right after playing Control, and I'm gonna come at it from that lens. I actually bought a copy of Quantum Break for $6, and it came with a code for Alan Wake that - luckily enough - still worked! I had actually already started on PC, but I dropp...

Kingdom Hearts is a series stained by its own legacy, that much is true... And as a result, I think a lot of people forget just how interesting and, frankly, great the original game is. Kingdom Hearts may be the first game I purchased new with my own money - a $30 Greatest Hits game. Amusingly, I re...

Super Metroid is a game I've tried many, many times to sit down and beat... But I never quite make it. There's nothing bad about Super Metroid - and especially for its era, the design is really something special. But after picking it up once again for the podcast - this time emulated on a 2DS - I re...

#1 - Control (2019, PS4) So bit of a story with this one - I actually rented this about a year after it came out, died repeatedly to the Tomassi fight early in the game, and then bounced on it, thinking, "Why was everyone raving about this game?" I remember thinking it was just another th...

Yeah, Remember Me was a highlight of the start of the year. I was in the process of wrapping up games from the PS3 backlog that i always wanted to check out, as i knew id never play them once i got a PS5. I must of got Remember Me off of PS+ subscription as i don't think i ever bought it. It was a ...

Remember Me! I loved that game. The gameplay itself wasn't anything revolutionary, but the setting and the soundtrack really stuck with me. As for games I completed this year - the biggest ones I can remember are Hollow Knight and the Resident Evil 2 remake. Both were pretty outstanding. Okay you k...

#20 - The Alliance Alive HD (2019, PS4) Wow. What a game this wound up being. Not counting replays, this is the best game I played in 2021, no doubt about it. Alliance Alive is what Octopath Traveller and I Am Setsuna tried to be - a throwback, turn-based JRPG that actually stands in the same leagu...

I'm still hammering away at The Alliance Alive. Roughly 50 hours in, around 75% through the main campaign. I may actually attempt the platinum on this one, because apparently it's very easy to do with NG+. Tried MDK on PS1 and man... That game is surprisingly good. I sincerely miss the era when game...

Witcher season two had me feeling guilty for not committing to the Witcher games, so I started Witcher 2 yesterday. I spent a lot of time just figuring out the combat/menus/mechanics, but I think I'm in a good spot now. At one time, I considered The Witcher 3 to be in my top 10 games of all time. B...