What Games Have You Completed? (2021 Edition)
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Game|Platform|
- Megaman X2|SNES
- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
- No One Lives Forever|PC
- DuckTales Remastered|PC
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon|PC
- Asterix|Master System
- McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure|Megadrive
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel|PC
Fuga: Melodies of Steel
It's such a shame the mainstream press have ignored this game and it's flying under the radar because it's fantastic. Cyberconnect2 made the game on a low budget and self published it and I'm hoping the risk pays of, this is a real passion project for them. They release a game in the Little Tail Bronx series every ten years it seems and despite being highly acclaimed they never sell well.
Fuga takes place in a fantasy world where you play as a group of children piloting a massive battle tank trying to rescue their parents. The game is a lot darker than other Little Tail Bronx games. The game never really hits you with an overwhelming amount of lore but I found the setting very interesting, especially towards the end when the stakes got very high
Anyway Fuga is a RPG were you control a Tank piloted by a number of children. The Tank pretty much goes in a straight line and you fight enemy tanks along the way. This might seem stupidly restrictive but there's a huge amount of choices to be made in the game with some very real consequences. Juggling what choices to make is what makes the game so interesting.
The battle system is excellent, there's a rock paper scissors mechanic between your machineguns, grenades and cannons. You can delay enemies Grandia/Persona style if you hit them with the right weapons. It's made more complicated with status effects that are very effective and some enemies needing to have their armour damaged before you can do any real damage. It's very complex but easy to understand. Tougher battles can get very intense as you can sometimes be only one round away from death. You really have to manage HP and SP (for special moves) as these can be very difficult to restore.
While the progress of the tank is linear you will reach points where you have a choice of path to take. You can take the easy path with only a few enemies and ample HP and SP stops but you will be missing out on important rare upgrade items in the harder routes.
Every so often you can access ruins which are little randomly generated puzzles with tonnes of loot. You can use a gun to take out enemies are obstacles. There's only ever enough ammo to get through each ruin so using your ammo wisely is the only way to exit the ruins with the maximum amount of loot.
Every so often you get a moment of respite and can explore the tank. This is were the Persona influence comes into the game. You only have a certain number of actions during these intermissions and have to balance raising the affinity of your crew with tasks like upgrading the tank, farming, loot gathering and making meals to give temporary stat boosts.
Fuga is probably the best game I've played from 2021, although it's not GOTY material, I haven't played that many 2021 games. The low budget is obvious in places with some reused bosses and some chapters being lighter on story than others. However the game has a fantastic gameplay loop, if you like Persona you are going to love Fuga. It's also a pretty brisk RPG, clocking in at less than 20 hours. It's got a pretty great soundtrack as well.
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Game|Platform|
- Megaman X2|SNES
- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
- No One Lives Forever|PC
- DuckTales Remastered|PC
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon|PC
- Asterix|Master System
- McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure|Megadrive
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel|PC
- Quake|PC
Quake
Not a whole lot to be said about Quake that hasn't already been said but the new remaster has given me a new found appreciation for the game. When I played it back in the day I really didn't realise what the 3rd dimension brought to the FPS genre. In modern times when FPS level design is so god awful it really highlights just how many possibilities going fully polygonal opened up for level designers. They really take advantage of the third dimension. While Quake's weapon load out isn't very exciting, the setting not as interesting as Doom's, the level design really shines with some crafted wonders of playfulness and ingenuity. There's such a great flow to the levels and it's an art that's been lost outside of throw back shooters like Dusk, and even at that I don't feel they even come close to what Quake's designers achieved. Maybe only Arkane can hold a candle to the masters at Id.
The remaster by nightdive is unsurprisingly excellent. It's very faithful to the original. In fact I feel it's closer to the original vision than even GL Quake was. The new visual flourishes like motion blur, dynamic lighting and ambient occlusion look excellent.
Quake is still a blast and I feel I appreciate it even more now than I did back in 1996.
It still however has one of the worst endings ever.
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Crackdown 3 was a product of the whole we are going to use the azure cloud to make the Xbox one look better than the PS4 bullshit train that people have forgotten about.
All the physics destruction was supposed to be carried out on the cloud but of course that was stupid considering latency issues and the game got passed around until it was.... A game and sent out to die while Microsoft hoped nobody noticed.
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Game|Platform|
- Megaman X2|SNES
- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
- No One Lives Forever|PC
- DuckTales Remastered|PC
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon|PC
- Asterix|Master System
- McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure|Megadrive
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel|PC
- Quake|PC
- Return of the Obra Dinn|PC
Return of the Obra Dinn
Lucas Pope yet again makes a game about what should be a boring occupation and make it thoroughly compelling. This time it's an insurance investigator.
Obra Dinn has become one of my all time favourites. Naming people and assessing their fates seems very intimidating at first put once you get the hang of it and the pieces all fall into place it's hugely satisfying. I really can't wait to see what Lucas Pope does next, I believe he has a PlayDate game on the way.
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GAME: Zone of the Enders: HD Edition
PLATFORM: Xbox 360
Free on Games with Gold for September (along with its sequel as part of the Z.O.E HD Collection)
This game was.... odd.
I love hack & slash games in general so on paper it really appealed to me. But in execution it was a bit of a flop.
It wasn't terrible but you can tell this was a year-1 PS2 game. I often fought with the camera more than anything, the missions were very repetitive, not to mention a lot of backtracking between areas. One of the positive reviews even said "The game's fighting system was praised for its use of 3D camerawork and Jehuty's fast movements" so they were high on the fact you could do all of this in a 3D space, ignoring the awkwardness of said gameplay, and that game plays very badly at times. Manually aiming is an absolute nightmare.
Thankfully the game is super short, like really, really short. In total I think I beat it in 4 or 5 hours.
I tried to follow the plot and I think I got the general gist of it.
If you're looking to play these games, the Xbox 360 version of the original game ran well enough - easily the best way to play it (and if you get it on GWG you keep it forever, since it's a 360 title (if they're still allowing that)). I won't be playing the sequel via the same platform, though - I heard bad things about that port. I have the PS4 version of the sequel in my library so I'm gonna dive into that one instead.
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Don't let Zone of the Enders put you off the sequel which is a massive improvement and one of the all time best action games on the PS2. It really is that good. Slow start and then it's set piece after set piece that are mindblowing and somehow keep out doing themselves.
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Game|Platform|
- Megaman X2|SNES
- Streets of Rage 4|PC
- Sekiro|PC
- Megaman 7|SNES
- Megaman 8|PS1
- Megaman X3|SNES
- Megaman & Bass|SNES
- 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4
- Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC
- Mischief Makers|N64
- Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC
- Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4
- Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy
- Virtua Racing|Switch
- Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC
- Crysis Remaster|PC
- God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3
- Resident Evil Village|PC
- Live a Live|SNES
- Clockwork Knight|Saturn
- DuckTales|NES
- Drakengard 3|PS3
- Double Dragon|NES
- Secret of Mana|SNES
- Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions|Android
- Halo 5: Guardians|XBox One
- Air Combat|PS1
- Kamui|PC
- DuckTales 2|NES
- Turok Dinosaur Hunter|PC
- Professor Layton and Pandora's Box|Android
- Ape Escape|PS1
- No One Lives Forever|PC
- DuckTales Remastered|PC
- Yakuza: Like a Dragon|PC
- Asterix|Master System
- McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure|Megadrive
- Fuga: Melodies of Steel|PC
- Quake|PC
- Return of the Obra Dinn|PC
- Tail Concerto|PS1
Tail Concerto
This game is a little gem. I was so impressed with Fuga: Melodies of Steel I decided to play the first game in the Little Tail Bronx series.
Tail Concerto is a gorgeous action platformer that reminds me a lot of Megaman Legends. The game is set in a world made up of floating islands. You play as Waffle, a dog boy police officer who patrols the islands in his plane and robot mech suit. The islands are being terrorised by the Black Cat gang and it's up to you to stop them.
The game is very Ghibli-esque with loads of influence from the likes of Castle in the Sky, Porco Rosso and Nausicaa. Again, another game that does Ghibli better from the god awful Ni No Kuni. The Black Cat gang are very reminiscent of the pirate gang from Castle in the Sky. The little kitten henchmen you have to trap in bubbles really remind me of the servobots from Megaman Legends. They're super cute but also cheeky little shites lobbing bombs everywhere and annoying the island's residents. The game is a technical marvel as well. It controls really well and despite being one of the best looking PS1 games I've played with an insane sense of scale in some areas, the load times are fast and it runs at a rock solid 30 FPS.
While the game plays very like Megaman Legends it doesn't quite reach the heights of that minor masterpiece. There's a few annoying platforming sections later on. The game is quite short as well, 6 hours, which isn't a bad thing but you can tell the developers had plans for a much bigger game. It never reaches the same level of satisfaction as Megaman Legends as it's missing that games exploration and discovery.
It's still however one of the best PS1 games I've played. Solid controls, gorgeous, fun story with a highly amusing antagonist and some great boss battles.
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Some one lese played 13 Sentinels!
I really can't recommend it enough either. It had me absolutely glued right to the end and I really enjoyed the plot, it's very well paced as well and never a dull moment.
I was initially on the fence as I heard it was a visual novel and I just can't get into them but this feel totally different. The interactivity sets it apart. The over use of cliches really had me worried at the start of the game but it really takes some wild turns and becomes its own thing from the end and those cliches feed into the overall themes of media consumption.
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GAME: Call of Duty: WWII
PLATFORM: Xbox One
I was in the mood to shoot up some Nazis. I already had half the campaign beaten about 2 years ago, so I said I'd finish it since it was still installed on my Xbox doing nothing.
What can I say? It's more Call of Duty. Whoop-de-do
Have to say I much prefer the older settings compared to any other ones. I always have time for WW2 stuff. The story is your typical COD plot but it wasn't that bad. I actually cared about a couple of characters, would you believe.....
Well, I can uninstall the game now.
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