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Mystro-Sama on 16 August 2025

Haven't played that many games. Don't have the time like I use to :(

1. Spiderman PS4 (8/10):

Very solid game overall. Easily the best traversal i've experienced in an open world game. Usually its a chore going from one side of the map to the other but here it was really fun, especially once you unlocked the traversal skills. The Arkham games were great so I knew I would like this.

2. God of War: Ragnarok (9/10):

A steady improvement over previous game in both gameplay and story. I'm a big fan of the character development and writing. Its so cinematic sometimes it feels like i'm watching a movie. Though I was a bit disappointed that the final fight wasn't as impressive as the previous game's final fight.

3. Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth (9/10):

Fantastic. A step up from Remake in every way. Never played the original PS1 game but i'm thoroughly impressed. We finally get the leave Midgar and explore the wider world and its breathtaking. This is really next level world building. Every area feels completely different from the last. Theres nothing like landing in Kalm for the first time and just being in awe at how great this game looks. The combat is flashy and over the top and never gets stale. The cast is amazing too. I find it hard to dislike any character. Though I will say some of the mini games can be tedious and the last part of the game was a bit of a drag.

4. Elden Ring (10/10):

Best From game i've ever played. They really took everything they learned from the previous games and applied it here. The lore is A1 as always. It feels like Dark Souls and Bloodborne had a baby. I was a bit apprehensive at first when I heard From was going open world but they pulled it off pretty damn well. Its one of the few games where I never got tired of exploring, and nothing you find out in the world is useless unlike collectibles in most games. They also added a few quality of life improvements like more rest stops (sites of grace) and being able fast travel between them from jump and being able to reallocate skills points.



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Darashiva on 16 August 2025

A new game to add, the best one I've played all year so far.

Name

PlatformRatingReview
Final Fantasy Type-0 HDPS47.0/10A solid game with plenty of potential that just fails to properly realize it. Too many things in the story go unexplained, too many characters are not properly expanded upon, and as such remain distant all the way to the end. The world the game creates is fascinating, but the disjointed story and lack of character development hampers the experience.
Ys: Memories of CelcetaPS47.5/10A very enjoyable action RPG with a likable cast of characters and a decent story. Doesn't overstay its welcome or stretch anything needlessly. There were some minor annoyances that hurt the experience a bit, but overall this was still a very fun time. Ys games are almost always at least good, and Memories of Celceta was no exception.
The Legend of Heroes:Trails into ReveriePS59.0/10Trails into Reverie is the 10th game I've finished in this series, and marks something of a splitting point in its storyline. It serves as an epilogue to both the Crossbell and Erebonia arcs of the series, and hints at things to come in the Trails through Daybreak games. As such, there's a definite sense of an interlude chapter here, and it certainly feels like there are multiple different main storylines fighting for room in the game. That said, it's still an really well-told story with literally dozens of returning playable characters that have been established over the nine previous games. Not among the series' very best, but great nonetheless.
Ratchet & Clank: Rift ApartPS58.5/10Pretty much exactly what everyone's come to expect from Ratchet & Clank. Smooth, highly entertaining gameplay with plenty of clever weapons, a variety of cool locations, and perhaps the best story in the entire series so far. Rivet and Kit are great additions to the cast, and the visuals are still very impressive nearly four years after release.
Dark ChroniclePS27.0/10A solid enough action RPG from a studio that would go on to make far better games later down the line. The story is quite forgettable with a lot of seemingly significant events just happening without much build-up, the characters don't get nearly enough development to really create an attachment with the player, and the gameplay gets quite repetitive by the end of the game. Nothing about it is actually bad, but it's only just about good enough to warrant a single playthrough.
ShantaePS46.0/10A charming little platformer held back by its origins as a Game Boy Color title. Probably among the best-looking games on the handheld, though I played the updated rerelease. The gameplay is decent, the transformations are a nice mechanic to centre everything on, the story is just an excuse for the main character to go on this adventure, but it's charming and has some nice humour. The main issue was that the game doesn't really guide the player anywhere. You might get the name of the place you need to get to next, but finding it is entirely up to you, which can get quite frustrating if you pick the wrong direction to go and end up in a dead end after 20 to 30 minutes of platforming.
Koudelka
PS18.0/10This was a game I had once played back on the PS1, but never actually finished. I decided to finally see if I could actually get through it, and I'm extremely glad I did, as Koudelka turned out to be something of a hidden gem. A turn-based RPG with a distinct horror style, set in Wales in the late 19th century, Koudelka is also the first game in what would later become the Shadowhearts series. I loved the setting and visual style the game has, and the relatively small cast of characters is really well realized. The soundtrack is also great, though disappointingly short, and the game also has one of the best voice acting of its generation. I also really liked the battle system, except for its sluggish pace that got a bit annoying later on in the game. Still, overall, this was a great game that I wish I had actually managed to finish back in the day, but at least I was able to do it now.
Nier Replicant ver. 1.22PS48.5/10

I had played through the original Nier years ago on the PS3, and while I do love that game as well, it's very obvious that it was working with a very limited budget. The story, characters, and music were all excellent, but the graphics and gameplay lacked polish (Very much the story of Cavia throughout its existence). With this remaster those aspects have been vastly improved, the elements that were already great are still just as good, and they've even added an entire new plot ending to connect the game more clearly to Nier: Automata.

Still, Nier Replicant isn't perfect. While I think the way the game handles its multiple ending by adding new storyline details and plot threads to each subsequent playthrough is clever, having to essentially replay the same sections of the story four times after the first ending does get a bit tedious after a while. Not a massive flaw or anything, but still. Overall, Nier Replicant a great game that has massively benefited from the remaster.

Demon's SoulsPS59.0/10

Despite the fact that Soulsborne games are some of my all-time favourites, I had never actually played Demon's Souls before this, so it was definitely long past due. For the most part, the game lives up to its reputation. Honestly, the main shortcomings are largely due to the improvements that FromSoftware have made in the years since this game was originally released. For example, the bosses are unquestionably on the simpler and easier side compared to later Soulsborne titles, and the gameplay is the archetypal Soulslike experience, but this is the game that largely set the template in the first place so it feels a bit disingenuous to criticize it for that. The one aspect that I did find genuinely irritating are the boss runs. Dying to a boss generally meant several minutes of running back to the boss door just to try again, and it was rarely a challenge and more an annoyance. 

Still, the atmosphere is impeccable, the gameplay is unquestionably satisfying, and all the things that make Soulsborne games great are here. Later games may have improved upon the formula, but that doesn't mean what we have here is anything less than great.

Little NightmaresPS47.0/10

Wonderfully tense horror-platformer that creates an often genuinely harrowing and disturbing world to play in. The platforming is solid, though unremarkable, and the trial-and-error style gameplay can get very irritating at time, but the gorgeous audiovisual presentation does a lot of the heavy lifting in its place. The puzzles are nice too. It is a very short game though, I beat it in less than two hours, but I did not find all secrets or collectables.

Little Nightmares IIPS57.5/10

Much of the same as its predecessor, just improved slightly in all aspects. The audiovisual side is even better than before, the gameplay has more variety, though there's still a lot of trial-and-error, and the way the game reveals its relationship to the first game is quite well done. It's also quite a lot longer than the previous game, so there's more of it to enjoy. Both of them are well worth playing, if only for the wonderful style and audiovisual design of the world and the characters.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33PS59.5/10

An absolutely fantastic game. Breathed new life into the turn-based RPG space, with an excellent story, wonderful characters, gorgeous visual style, and the year's best soundtrack to boot. Easy frontrunner for game of the year, and I have trouble imagining any other game taking the top spot from Clair Obscur.

Currently Playing:

  • Sea of Stars (PS5)

Backlog:

  • The Witcher III
  • Tales of Vesperia
  • Tales of Arise
  • The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak
  • Persona 5
  • Final Fantasy Tactics
  • Ghost of Tsushima
  • Star Ocean: The Second Story R
  • Star Ocean: The Divine Force
  • Atelier Ryza 2
  • Tactics Ogre: Reborn
  • Armored Core VI
  • Lost Judgment
  • Resident Evil 2
  • Chrono Trigger


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CladInShadows on 16 August 2025

Games I've beaten:

1. Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch)

2. Ys IV: Mask of the Sun (SNES/SFC)

3. Ys 3: Wanderers from Ys (SNES)

4. Soul Blazer (SNES)

5. Super Meat Boy (PC)

6. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Series X)

7. Suikoden 1 HD (PC)

8. Dread Delusion (PC)

9. Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Switch)

10. Final Fantasy Legend (Switch)

11. Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders

12. Heretic: Faith Renewed



xl-klaudkil on 16 August 2025

Grandia 2 beaten(ps2)

Second time after i beat it 22 years ago.
Great game!loved the chars and gameplay
The vocal songs are INCREDIBLE. Really felt like a magical game.

Man.


6th gen truly whas the golden age of gaming



GoOnKid on 16 August 2025
xl-klaudkil said:

Grandia 2 beaten(ps2)

Second time after i beat it 22 years ago.
Great game!loved the chars and gameplay
The vocal songs are INCREDIBLE. Really felt like a magical game.

Man.


6th gen truly whas the golden age of gaming

It was, man, it was. :)



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The Fury on 21 August 2025
The Fury said:

GoW Ragnorak. Jak 1. Kurushi, Jumping Flash!. GoW. Uncharted 2, Sly 1. Death Stranding. Toy Story 2, Clair Obscure: Expedition 33. BG3, Astro Bot, Mass Effect trilogy, Diablo 4. FF12.

My friend and I got into a discussion about weird patents game companies have and the Nemesis system for Shadow of Mordor came up which he said he loved.

So went out, got it for £4 at CEX and played it.

Wow, I thought it was a generic action adventure with some weird thing about orks going on, yet it has some of the most fun stealth I've ever played in a video game.

I'm not 100% on if i got the nemesis stuff or why people rave about it. Sure it was interesting to see how enemies progressed but I've seen people say it gets better on harder difficulties as you are more likely to die and so different orks pop up as they kill you. I did have one funny bit where a low level one got the final kill, tried to take their place and just got killed in the head to head. Was funny.

But the details of going around, finding intel to find an captains weakness, planning to kill them so you can make sure the fight on a warchief is easier? That's all great stuff.

Anyway, finished the main story so just getting a few trophies, not going to plat as looking at some of them can't be arse there but I will say the final mission was very dissappointing, did they run out of time?

Spoiler!
You go in with you peeps, kill some orks then have a final battle, which is just like 3 quick time events after climbing some tower. Very poor ending to a fantastic game, I thought I was going to use all my abilities and stuff.


Hmm, pie.

Farsala on 21 August 2025

I have played a few games since my last post, so here is an update.

Path of Exile 2 Early Access
Persona 3 Reload
Dynasty Warriors Origin (Sun, Liu, Cao)
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii (Platinum)
Monster Hunter Wilds
The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce
Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army

I had to play the turn based game that everyone was so hyped about, so I completed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I waited a long time for this update, to process my thoughts on the game to make sure I am not the crazy one. First thing I liked was the price when I bought it brand new and not on sale, $50. As you get into the game, you realize that the music is quality. Music can sink or swim a game, so it is nice to have. Early on I fell in love with Lune, so this post might be a bit biased in that respect. I played the game on standard difficulty as I often do and my strategy was to dodge, because I dislike parries in most games. Unfortunately, in my opinion going for dodge is objectively worse, but the more you learn. The gameplay relying on those certain aspects made me wish for a bit more strategy. The story was pretty good overall but some points made the game ruined for me, at least for the perfect score. Another point is it is an overall shorter RPG, and I prefer my RPGs long. For $50 you do get value for your money, but again it knocks it further away from the perfect score. I know a lot of people prefer 40 hours of high quality game vs 100 hours of quality game, but not for me. Overall a good game, but because of the previous points said, it doesn't make it top RPG material in my book.

Next I beat Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce. I had a big vacation planned, so I needed an easy and simple game to play before and after summer vacation. This game was on sale so I bought and started playing it due to my good memories of Dynasty Tactics and Dynasty Tactics 2. I originally didn't buy it out of protest, due to them not just making Dynasty Tactics 3. It is similar but Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce basically follows Zhao Yun and you get a limited amount of officers so they have to do like a ton of damage so like 4v100 units basically while dynasty tactics felt like 2 armies clashing 10v10 units. In general I prefer more strategy like the 10v10 than the 4v100 mash keys and one shot everyone. I do give the devs a bit of credit for allowing other factions officers to join Zhao Yun in many battles. Because the same old Shu dudes would have been incredibly boring. I had fun maxing out my Wu dudes bonds and stats and having them destroy the enemies instead of the Shu guys. Overall a decent game, served its purpose well, but Dynasty Tactics 3 would have been better.

And then I beat Raidou very recently. A solid remaster of a PS2 game, much like Persona 3 Reload, but from a much less popular series by Atlus. This was their take on a more action oriented game. I was a bit disappointed by the summon limit, the enemies can mass 10+ enemies, why can't I? Or at least 3. But I guess things get a bit messy with the limited movement arena. I had a lot of fun with this game as I often do with Atlus games just capturing and upgrading demons. The weapon upgrade system was clunky and slow, so I didn't really enjoy that very much, but I did enjoy using the axe throughout most of the game. The story was fine. My major complaint was the boss rush , I don't like redoing bosses. The final boss was fun though. The music was only solid, which is disappointing for an Atlus game, but I assume it is just the old tracks. The game length was rather short at 25 hours. I tried NG+ to see the differences, and there were too few for me to commit to finishing NG+. Overall another decent game.

I have completed quite a few games at this point in the year, but that is due to the disappointing length from at least 5 of the games I have played, while only one (Witcher 3) was far longer than expected.



farlaff on 21 August 2025

My finished games this year:

Mario Kart World (finished pretty much everything offline has).

Dead Cells (got to 6 endings, iirc, to 5BC - Boss Cells)

Cyberpunk (already did 3 different endings on the main game on Switch2. Started a new playthrough on PC to mod it (heavily) and also started the DLC on Switch at the same time.

Played Final Fantasy 3 on my ZFold 6, but it started crashing a bit and lost interest. Might get back to it.



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Signalstar on 21 August 2025

Just Finished: A Way Out (PS4)

I bought this game a while ago in a bundle with It Takes Two. This is my first time playing one of Hazelight's co-op games. I played as Leo, the streetwise career criminal. Surprisingly only a small part of the game is spent breaking out of the prison. For the majority of the game the characters are on the run trying to hunt down the mob boss that crossed them. This is a very linear and cinematic experience. The existence of some choice based moments make it seem like the game is more dynamic than it actually is. The splitscreen gameplay works pretty well and aside from one wacky glitch the online experience was seamless. The game becomes an average third person shooter in its latter missions. The emphasis is really on the story and the relationship between the two characters who have to learn to trust each other. A lot of random interactions are built into the environments of different chapters. The game moves at a brisk clip and took us about 6 hours to complete. The twist ending creates a lot of plotholes. The two different endings strike similar emotional chords. We actually were able to platinum this game with only a little bit of extra time. Not much replayability once you have seen everything interesting that the game has to offer. That hospital level is legendary and well executed. I look forward to playing the rest of Hazelight's co-op titles in the future. 

Score: 7/10

Full Completed 2025 List:

  • Pokemon Trading Card Game (GB - NSO)
  • Super Mario Land (GB - NSO)
  • Resistance: Burning Skies (Vita)
  • Remnant: From the Ashes (PS4)
  • Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando HD (PS+ Premium)
  • Batman: Arkham Origins (PS+ Premium)
  • Balatro (PS5) 
  • inFamous First Light (PS4)
  • Jeanne D'Arc (PS5)
  • A Way Out (PS4)


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farlaff on 21 August 2025
xl-klaudkil said:

In order of games beaten.
Ff7 og (again for like the 20th time) and still the greatest game of all time.
Shining force 1
Ys the oath in felghana
Shining force neo
Phantasy star universe
Phantasy star universe ep2
Fighting force 1
Spyro the dragon 1
Suikoden 1
Atelier iris 2
Lunar 1
Samurai warriors 5
Resident evil 4
Thunder force VI
Star ocean till the end of time
Methamoric force
Dw gundam 1
Xenosaga 1
Xenosaga 2
Xenosaga 3
Onimusha 2 (ps2)

Now playing finnaly skyrim(ps4)

Man, how I'd like to be able to play Skyrim for the first time again. Good thing Cyberpunk exists and is filling this hole somewhat. My suggestion, if you have access to a reasonable PC, is play the whole vanilla with a character (usually people go archer) and then start a new file over PC with mods. Man, it is pretty much as fun to build your modded version as it is to play it. I can also recommend using this guide if you want to mod the LE version: Skyrim LE Ultimate Modding Guide - Graphics. I know Sinitar is a controversial figure, but it has worked for me quite well.



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