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The reason I started streaming was because a friend wanted to see me react to this game. The very first streams weren't archived, but I did get Natsuki and Sayori's routes fully captured. Not to mention voiced the entire game with muscle-man voices to mess with one of my friends.

I like robots and Automata introduced me to Yoko Taro's wild ride(s). Sort of, I actually had watched a british guy Helloween play the first hour or so of nier back in high school but totally spaced out on it. I ended up 100%ing the entire game and really getting into the lore of this game, it's one of my favorite universes!

After playing automata, I wanted to go backwards a step and find out the deeper lore for myself. I ended up liking the game so much we both 100%'d it AND for a short period of time I was one of 5 or so people in the world who had actually done a speed run of it. (6hr 30m clock time, 5:55m 16s in game time) Which puts me in dead last, but hey, I was on the leader board for a while!

A simple free game on steam with nice music. There's actually a mobile only sequel game which is a tapping battle game which attempted to give me carpal tunnel. Fun little world though.

Bioshock is a classic, and I'd only ever played the first few hours on a friends xbox, so once I started streaming I decided to go ahead and do the entire series.

Right after we finished the first game, we jumped right into the 2nd. Which features a lot more little sisters and a lot more big daddy fun.

A very different direction from the previous games, we're ditching the water theme and instead going to the sky! A pretty short game, but a fun one with weird time stuff.

30 missions of flying around with a side of visual novel. The game's a lot of fun if not frustrating on occasion. This does feel like a hidden gem you don't see a lot of people talk about, it's got that ps2 era feel to it and good music and neat looking characters.

Humble bundle is always full of random games you might never find otherwise, and this visual novel + turn based space combat game showed up on my door and became a pretty fun one to do. It's got some difficult missions and it hurts to have to restart a mission an hour in, but overall it's fun and the first couple games are free nowadays!

Played from on original hardware, we've got Calvia and Yoko Taro's game that started the story that led to Nier. A fun musou with a lot of grinding and smacking. But I did a 100% run of it, got every ending, and fell in love with the lore.

I really love the first game, and found the second one interesting. Dark Souls 3 feels fast, fun, and boy do I love the music and fighting huge enemies with my lance of justice.

The black sheep of the drakengard series. DoD2 provides a lot of lore on the dragons, watchers, gods, and the origin of humanity itself. But it wasn't entirely written by Yoko Taro so a lot of people disregard it. It also provides some amazing moments with Caim, and is a massive pain in the butt to 100% and get all 3 endings. But, I did it so you don't have to.

A really short game, but one I remember form when the 360 first launched originally. It's like the winter version of starship troopers.

What better way to spend valentines day then starting a new game about Japanese mobsters? This was my first ever yakuza game and helped me to fall in love with the series! I ultimately played all of them!

It took until November 10, 2023 for me to finally 100% the game and beat the final boss of the last branch, but I really loved Zero and her sisters. They were a ton of fun to get to know, kill, and ultimately dance with. Yoko Taro's wild ride sure is something and I'll never look at flowers the same way ever again.

The game with the best destructable enemies, fantastic one liners, and over the top gameplay that just makes you happier than a sombrero in a sewer. Jack's back baby.

Tales of Symphonia is my favorite tales games, but it was fun to see what one of the newer (ish) tales games had to offer. With a weird combat system I never got a hang of, I made it through to the end after 30 sessions, but I think my favorite thing was Magilou making Velvet coo like a dove.

I never finished it, but this was such a cool game and really really clever. If you like watching people have aha moments as well as scratching their brain heavily, then this is the vod selection for you.

It's honestly like playing a movie some of the time. It's weirdly immersive, erry, and all sorts of fascinating and interesting lore stuff going on. Really short game, less than 5 hours, but a solid experience over all.

A great character creator will take up over an hour of your time, but this is a pretty cool game too in addition to that. I made my character as close to Kiyohime as possible, and then proceeded to have a good flaming magic shooting time for the rest of the game.

Metroidvanias are one of those games I really love to play, and so is dark souls. So, a metroidvania that demands you pattern match against the bosses and be careful about your strikes is right in my strikezone.

Majima's everywhere, and so are the chinese mafia in this yakuza game. Dance offs, intense brawls, shoot outs, and a lot of shogi. Another Yakuza game to enjoy!

I never owned the right systems or had a good enough computer to play half life when it came out. So I finally got to play the classic game in 2020 when the world went to garbage. But hey, at least we've always got good games to enjoy.

I knew someone who happened to work on this game and they told me about it. I ended up really liking it and getting a lot of fun out of both the singleplayer and the multiplayer with friends. The 3 player co-op felt restrictive at first, but I actually really loved how it balances things out when it comes to sticking together and the like. The lore is interesting too, though the VR game that started the series is still one I haven't played. Yet.

I took the day off from to play it right away and streamed 13.5 hours in the first session. I ended up being one of the first people in my region to beat the game and had no one to do the multiplayer when I beat the final boss. In the remaster they added hard mode versions which were pretty interesting to figure out how to play solo. Hint: a lot of haste. This game was a huge part of my childhood and it's so great to play it with friends again across the internet.

Ship building, splace exploration, long lived rogue-like. Or something. It's a really neat mix of starship troopers and space ship building/exploration. There's all sorts of interesting ways to play and it was cool to get to the end and find out there's lots of endings depending on how you breed your explorers and splice their DNA a la bioshock style.

Hollow Knight is one of those amazing games that's universally acclaimed for very very good reason. From the music, the characters, the atmosphere, the boss battles. It's all fantastic and really great. As far as metroidvania's go it's one of the top tier ones that you gotta play. I got a lot out of it and cleared out a lot of the achievements in the game. No super hard DLC for me though, I'm quite content knowing that I beat the path of pain and the white palace without ever giving up.

The first game, Amnesia the dark descenet, came out when I was in college and all my friends and I played it, screamed, and had a ton of fun. The "paint the man, cut the lines" chant has stuck with me ever since, so I was really excited to play a new amnesia game (I never got machine for pigs or the bunker). This was an interesting one, with some interesting twists and some good chunks of lore. Though, not nearly as scary as the other games.

A solid platformer/metroidvania type game. Maybe as well known as hollow knight, it's got some really fun movement in it without any emphasis on fighting or those types of things. Beautiful music and visuals too.

A love letter to metroid made by one guy in order to support the medical bills of his daughter. A beautiful success story that I had no idea about until I watched the noclip documentary on it. All I knew when I played it was that I had a very fun time with the game even if it was only 15 or so hours long when I played through.

A short game, only 8 hours, but an interesting one. The atmosphere and space of the world reminds me heavily of Blame! the manga with the super mega structures. The AI is one of the most interesting mechanic of this game and the lore and tidbits of information is really neat from what we get. Definitely an art game or sorts, but an art game with actual good gameplay and even challenge in some places.

I really like this game, the only reason I didn't finish it yet is because my playthrough got interupted by some other games that took my attention, and that combined with the wrist pain I get from mouse and keyboard type games led to me stopping the playthrough for a while. One day I'll get back to it and hopefully I remember to update this description!

I played Momodora off stream a while ago, and this is a game made by the same folks. It's always the art style of this game that captures me, but it's a pretty short game overall. Fun though!

Also know as Earthbound beginnings iirc. This is the first in the mother series and was a ton of fun. It's got amazing music, wacky visuals, tricky combat and things to figure out in the world. And best of all, no game map so inside the various dungeon-type enemies, I ended up drawing my own map as I went and it was so fun. If you ever play this yourself, I highly recommend not doing any level scaling type hacks. Play it as intended and enjoy the grind, it's worth it.

The second game in the mother series but the first one we got in the US, with a translation that did a good job of bringing various japanese jokes to life. There's a really good book from legends of localization about it that I'd recommend checking out. It got hit by the weirdness of the 90's where gross humor was the flavor of the day. Either way, Ness continues the journey against Geigas that Ninten started for us and that eventually, Lucas will lay to rest.

The game that still hasn't been released to the US but has one of the best fan translations ever in my opinion. A really touching story, a wrap up to the other plot threads in the two mother games that came before. Was really good and just great. The only downside to this game is that its community is VERY active in trying to "help" people which can lead to a lot of backseating and spoilering. If you play this on your own, avoid asking the internet!

Fantastic pixel art, fantastic music, fun gameplay. For a touhou fan who enjoys more than just bullet hell games and craves metroidvanis, this is the game for you. It's really good, pretty cheap when I got it, and made with the love and dedication that only touhou fangames are.

The game you get when you mix Diablo, Dark souls, and pseudo historical Japan all in one. Really fun and great combat mechanics and gameplay. Nioh is really fun, difficult, but fun all the same. The first time I played it I didn't even notice how much time had past before I ended the stream.

"Brother Nier"s game that originally was only available in Japanese was remastered with a similar combat system as Automata plus the magic from the original Nier. Additional side stories and even an extra ending adapted from light novels made an appearance and just made streaming this a joy. For any fan of Yoko Taro, and especially for me considering all the Drakengard I've played, this was such a treat and great thing to stream and talk to people about.

The sequel to the really really good game Subnautica. I played this in early access, so ended up playing it 3 times and put about 70+ hours into it overall. It was ok. It satisfied some of the "I want more subnautica" feelings, but sadly the plot and land segments really destroyed what could have been a good game and left a sour taste in my mouth by the end of it. That said, I had fun and a lot of good moments while streaming it, so I don't regret playing and buying it. I just wouldn't recommend you do that.

A really beautiful game. Deedlit is one of those elves that if you've seen Record of Lodoss War, you know she's wonderful. And a game that captures some of that charm? That happens to be a fun metroidvania? Heck yeah. While the game is short, it's a worthwhile expierience and had interesting mechanics with the various abilities and weapons you could use. Even if you haven't seen the source material, you can still appreciate an elf struggling with the mortality of a human lover.

Brood war and the original starcraft were a huge part of how I got into the looking under the hood of video games. I used to spend hours creating, studying, and making use-map-settings maps in the map editor software. It was so awesome how they shipped that with the game and what people made. Starcraft 2 was one of those games I never really got to play when it came out because I was busy with school at the time, but the wings of liberty campaign being free got me back in for a little bit. This was also the the streams that got my channel affiliated!

A unique metrodvania to me when I played it. Rather than weapons, you have companions that you use as attacks. While at the first this leaves combat and gameplay a bit lacking, as you collect more spirits to use and mix into your quickslots, the more you begin to see some really cool mechanics appear. The skips and other things you can do are really fun to figure out, boss fights become almost like a puzzle. It's a lot of fun.

While I'm not normally into rogue-like games because I dislike losing progress, Hades changed my mind a little bit on that. The story, music, and atmosphere of Hades really nails something unique and special. The game's crafted and tuned with love into a super enjoyable experience and I spent a lot of time battling my way through, figuring out which weapons and abilities jived with me, and ultimately beating the main game. Super fun game, and a good one to just yap to a bit while getting into the zone.

I heard the soundtrack of this game before I ever played it. It made for some perfect programming music, or even for reading music for the nonvocal tracks. Eventually I say down and playd it, the art style's unique, the OST phenomenal, and the gameplay straightforward. Really, just some of the challenge areas were a bit of a pain. Besides that, the story was good and things felt fair and balanced. A great little game.

As a kid I had this on gamecube but glitched my game and locked myself out of beating the spirit temple. So, decades later, I finally managed to sit down and beat the entire extra hard ocarina of time version. It was a lot of fun, the way they tweak the puzzles while keeping the same dungeon layout is cool. Weirdly enough, the water temple is easier in this version that others, but hey, it's all good either way.

You ever pick up a game and then spend every second of every moment for an entire week thinking about it? That's what nimbatus did for me. Really awesome game where you construct a drone, attach sensors, logic circuits mining equipment and weapons to it and then do your best to get to the end of the galaxy. It really stimulates your brain in the same way that getting redstone to work in minecraft for you does. It's applied programming inside of a game and it's so so deeply fun.

What if blackholes were sentient? Weird concept, but hey, I don't question good metroidvanias plot points if you don't. Grime is similar to Blasphemous in that it's a metroidvania with a focus on pattern matching bosses to win. It also had unique characters and abilities due to the fact that the main character is a blackhole. The story gets a bit weird near the end, and there were a couple areas with lagging and performance issues, but overall, a really solid game that was equal parts of frustration and fun. I ended up getting both endings in my playthrough, so check it out!

Next time on Alan Wake: Escaped SCPs, a suicide mystery to solve, and ragdoll physics. That pretty much sums up what you can expect in control. Plus lots of blacked out redacted lines across lore documents everywhere. The game has some performance issues when being streamed, and I had some trouble getting things stable, but it was fun when it worked. The story was mostly comprehensible, and the rag doll physics were really fun. Though it did leave me wanting to play second sight on the gamecube.

A fantastic addition to the side scrolling metroid games. I played through Super Metroid a few years before this, and was a big fan of the metroid prime series when it came out. I used to play it a ton and sometimes just stay on the menu to listen to the music, look at the behind the scenes art, or go into the game to listen to the magma caverns or ice music. Dread managed to nail the atmosphere, felt fluid, and was damn fun to play. I 100%'d the game and did my own speed run to unlock the extra art. It's almost tragic that metroid games are meant to be finished quickly.

Ever wanted to see Kiryu punch a lion in the face? I didn't know I did until the opportunity presented itself. Yakuza Kiwami 2 is wild, the story is so over the top and the characters flushed out in such good ways that it's hard to put the game down. Well, I did for a few months in the middle due to some other games coming out, but I got back to it a few months later! Luckily for you, the full playlist is ready to be watched in its entirety, with no delays!

A short and sweet metroidvania with an additional story told through a boss rush mode after you beat the main game. The pixel art style is somewhat reminescent of momodora or minoria in a way, but maybe without quite as much polish. The game was fun even if it was short, but it's got some interestin mechanics and types of builds you can do to crank out damage. It was fun to figure out, even if the story itself was predictable.

The Vania in metroidvania is from Castlevania, and this game is a love letter to those. While I initially enjoyed the game, the ending of and strugglesome midgame was really rough and ruined a lot of my enjoyment of it. I still managed to beat the game and acquire an ending that was satisfying enough to me to put the game down, but it was one of those games that make you wish you had a middle thumb recommendation on steam.

The first game in the quadrology of the .hack games. These are some of my favorite dungeon crawlers ever and I adore the procedural generated dungeons, the world (and The World), characters, and especially all the music in these games. Infection sets the stage and is a lot of fun. The .hack IMOQ series was unique in the way you could transfer your save data between each game. It was so cool. Enjoy experiencing one of my favorite games!

The second game in the quadrology of the .hack games. The game introduces more interactions with the administrators, builds up our parties more with interesting side characters, and gives us Wiseman so that we have even more wavemasters to compliment our party since Elk keeps running off to hang out with that dang purple cat and smell grass. That boy ain't right.

The "Dad simulator" title of the series as it was referred to me as. Yakuza 3 is an important plot arc in the overall series, but it's also a bit of a slog to get through. I don't regret playing through it, and I enjoyed a lot of the game. But man, it did make me want to take a break for a bit. It's got some great characters, even if there's some weird plot twists and turns in it.

One of the harder games for me in the series. Mainly because my favorite wavemaster gets forcibly removed from the game for a period of time while she deals with IRL things. The world continues to corrupt further, and our infection rates climb dangerously high as the very real threat of instant-gameover mechanics start to become a reality when challenging areas force us to data drain more and more. Straining not only ourselves, but the World at large.

Most people hate this game. I grew up with it as one of my favorites that I'd play for hours. Luckily for me, I was setting up my WiiU again for a little bit and discovered I had Zelda 2 on the virtual console. It made for a great game to play after doing ringfit when I just wanted to enjoy some simple nostalgia. The music's great. And hey, the town names in this game became the sages later on in later games!

The last game in the .hack quadrology, my favorite party member returns finally, and we're able to take on and solve a lot of the mysteries surrounding The World. The ending sequence of the game can be a bit hard to follow, though the various liminality episodes, combined with the .hack//sign tie ins really help flush out what's going on with every thing. It's a lot of fun, and the final dungeon is as tricky as any other challenge dungeon can be. I really love this seris, so I hope you enjoyed experiencing it with me!

A surprisingly long metroidvania that I ended up 100%ing. It's got some really great mechanics, the movement, once you get used to it, is pretty fluid and lends itself well to the tricky platforming it throws at you. The story makes sense most of the time, although the endings leave a few things open in some places for you to think about. While I never played the additional rogue like modes the developers added, the devs really love and support the game quite a bit!

A mideval mystery game in a way. The choices matter, you've got to make sure to keep the villagers happy, your kingdom defended, and figure out how marry your family off in a way that benefits the kingdom in the future when you'll have to go to war. It's got some great music in it, the voice acting is pretty good, and the stakes get high in various places that really means your choices matter.

While I wasn't happy at first with this game forcing me use characters other than the ones from the previous games, this game became a pretty important one as far as the yakuza timeline goes. It's also the only time I fought Amon in the game and tried out the super boss. Thank goodness the twitch chat gave me some advice on various items to equip. It was still a massive pain in the butt to do that last fight, but the rest of the game was a lot of fun!

What do you get when you combine Moe Chibis and Dark souls? You get Nobeta. I played this in early access in 2020, and then played the fully released game in 2022. The game heavily emphasizes parry mechanics as the way to win, and if you forget how to do that over the course of 2 years it's a bit tricky to get back into it. Nobeta is a great game, and the animated/acted manga volumes you can unlock while playing do a great job of giving backstory to the lore of the game that the items refer to. It's very dark souls, but also, very cute.

Ever wondered what possessed Mavis Beacon to make a typing game? Well, what if she WAS possessed? That's this game. You fight demons by typing our latin catholic prayers and chants to exorcise them. It's actually pretty awesome because in addition to typing, you also have to do a bullet hell dodge of them attacking you the whole time. All controlled with a keyboard. It's a pretty unique and great game.

Tired of sitting on your butt playing video games and feeling bad about yourself for not getting more exercise? Easy solution: Play video games that force you to exercise instead! Best solution, play one with a funny story, decent humor, and gamify things so you end up getting a bunch of exercise for an entire year like I did. If you can't afford the price point (it's a 70 or so dollar game since it has specialized stuff), then go ahead and follow along with me in my playthrough until you can budget as well as you can buttlift!

Like Metal Gear Solid? Like Comedy? This game is the perfect blend of it and breaks the 4th wall in a way that doesn't grate on you like modern shows and games do that are designed by committee. It's a game made by people who actually love the source material and know what makes people laugh. It's a short game, but a good one. Enjoy checking it out with me!

One of the best platformers I've ever played. I spent a lot of time on this game even though the main story is pretty short. But collecting the berries and trying to 100% it is a challenge that takes a ton of time and while I never got every single golden berry, I got more than a few which is saying something. This became a comfort game to me, one where I could lose myself in auto-playing mode while talking about anything and everything. It's great, the mod tools available for fan games let me make some of my own too and it's just wonderful. Highly suggest you play it yourself, but if you want to climb the mountain with me, check it out.

If you wished Dark Souls was faster and had a flavor of Nioh mixed in, then this is your game. The combat mechanics are focused on aggressive gameplay, taking advantage of pressuring, parrying, and shredding your enemies apart before they have the chance to knock you flying across the map. It's a great game and one that's highly worth playing. But, if you're not the type who likes the pattern-match type boss games, and would prefer to watch someone get through it instead. Check my sessions of it. I got through the whole thing!

Suit up, refresh your lack of knowledge on Japanese and Kangaroo Court law, and get to clicking. We're going to go through the objectionable practices of the worlds weirdest court as we play through the entirety of the ace attorney's original trilogy. Remastered onto the PC, I never got a chance to play the DS games because of my lack of any handheld past the gameboy advance, but these games are charming and full of terrible terrible dad jokes. Enjoy.

Despite a lot of my friends liking the series growing up, I never had the chance to play any of the fire emblem games. When this one game out and had a character designed by my favorite artist Mika Pikazo, I had to play it. It's a really fun game, and once you figure out some of the more broken mechanics, it's definitely worth laughing yourself to the bank as Louis tanks every single thing thrown at him and you reign above with flying units that lance squishy targets and dodge tank their way through the rest. Super fun and very forgiving for a game that has a permadeath option.

I'm not a huge horror game fan, I like being happier over being scared. But there's something about this fatal frame game that drew me in. It's a bit campy in just the right way where the various jump scares make me laugh more than shiver and the story of the creepy place we're in plays out really nicely. A great game to relax to weirdly enough. If you don't like horror games but enjoy seeing people handle their unique challenges, grab a blanket and curl up to enjoy my Let's play!

Cab driver Kiryu makes his debut. After Haruka's big career changes in the last game, Kiryu does what he can to try to make sure his daughter is in the right position to live her life without interference from people who want to get to him through her. It's a great tail where, like yakuza 4, the perspective is split between multiple people throughout the story. This time though we get dance battles when we get to play as Haruka. Not quite the same type of dance battle as playing with Majima, but still awesome.

I put about 230 hours into breath of the wild and had a ton of fun. While I didn't stream the entirety of my time with the sequel here, I streamed a lot of it. Such a fun game, an amazing sandbox that lets people get really creative with how to approach problems and enemies. I really enjoyed making flying machines and rockets, as well as fireworks on the fourth of july when it happened. This is a great game, honestly best experienced by yourself as far as the story elements go, but super fun to see what people do and get up to themselves.

Phoenix Wright is great, but man, Ryunosuke Naruhode is even better. Between Herlock Sholmes, Iris Watson, and all the other fun fish and chip eating folks we meet, this is definitely my favorite in the overall series. I'm partial to the anime cutscenes, but man, I'd love to watch an entire anime show of this game! This playthrough I also experimented with some fun vtubing software to literally bring a model of Phoenix Wright alive for a fun gag for a bit. Really good times, and highly recommend you check out the soundtrack even if you don't play the game yourself!

Expanding the lore even further with more 3 player fun. Remnant 2 brought in a lot of new abilities, skill trees, and interesting passives to the gameplay that the original had. It definitely had a bit of a difficulty curve balancing issue, and the graphics are inferior to the first game due to overeliance on the studio using the AI upscaling tech that makes everything feel blurry and fuzzy due to upscaling things from 480 to 1080p, but the game at its core is still fun. The final boss in particular had great music and locking in to beat it felt amazing.

What do dentists think about while drilling your teeth? Well, at least for one of them, he thinks about creating a spooky game that shows his love of chiptunes and choose your own adventure type stories. World of Horror is a really good game that nails a lot of urban fiction in Japan and mixes it in with a bit of cosmic horror to make some pretty awesome games. If you want to fall asleep to someone reading you a bed time story that would make Lovecraft happy, go ahead and check out my runs to get to the top of the lighthouse!

Fate is a great universe for stories. I play FGO every day (my login streak is over 1700 days long at this point) and so I'm always game to see it expanded into other areas. The holy grail war territory battles of FSR were awesome. The characters were great, and man, I could spend hours with Aria watching her spin in circles being adorable. It took quite a bit of work to get 100% on this game since the unlock conditions for various endings and side stories are a bit stringent, but it was really fun and I loved every minute of it. Hope you like slashing through enemies and watching nonsensical OP moments involving sword beams because that's what FSR has a lot of!

The somewhat unwilling apprentice to Phoenix Wright, Apollo Justice adds more whacky characters to the mix and revives some older ones too. As it is with all ace attorney games, they've got a story interconnected through a lot of the games that ties everything together into one big package. I'm still working my way through the trilogy, but even finishing the first game in the series shows that the AA team has still got it!

I'm still working my way through this one, and took a break in the middle to give my voice a rest. But the fun of defusing bombs while blasting objection at the top of our lungs in the courtroom is still very much present in the 2nd game in the apollo trilogy. Come catch this one live the next time I play or catch up on the vods by clicking below!

I adore the music in the river city girls games. I actually found out about them through the character artist on twitter! I really loved their work, and then one day they advertised a bit about drawing Kyoko or someone similar and I got intrigued. A fun beat 'em up, with improved combat over the original, RCG2 was a lot of fun even if the loading screens were WAY too long and cut into the fun of the experience a bit. I never streamed the entire first game live, just the first part of it when I was a bit tired and wanted to revisit it. But I'd recommend playing the first game first!

The finale of the sunrider games stops pulling punches and starts throwing some really hard enemies at you. The last game in the series definitely tests your ability to save scum (or your patience if you don't do that), but you're rewarded with the consequences of your actions in the other games having impact on what resources and characters you have available to you during the final fights. It's pretty neat! The story got a bit convoluted, but if you smile and nod your way through the parts that require suspending disbelief, you'll be sniping ancient robotic drone people and working space magic before you know it!

A slightly poorly translated love letter to metroidvanias. Afterimage is a huge world with some pretty fun movement and combat in it once you get enough abilities to really start feeling it. The game offered a good variety of weapons to use which kept things fresh, and chose to do more of the show and less tell when it came to some of the worldbuilding in the game. Almost so much that I wish it told a bit more since some of the stuff was confusing. The thing that stuck with me, more than the gameplay, was that nearly the entire thing was voiced. With native english speakers using broken english read straight from the poorly translated scripts. It almost felt deliberate or on purspose, but either way, I enjoyed myself all the same.

The "final" game in Kiryu's story. This one explores the aftereffects of Haruka's choices in the previous game, combined with the roles of fathers, families, and the kind of pain and consequences of running away from your destiny can do to everyone around you. Some people aren't a fan of how this ended Kiryu's saga, but I liked it and really enjoyed it. That said, this game, similar to Yakuza 3, was one where I felt the side quests detracted from the overall story in a bad way, as such I really didn't spend a lot of time doing side quests. Opting to enjoy the main story as much as I can, maybe to the point of raging at the NPCs who dared interupt my quest a bit too hard sometimes.

I started a free-to-play account for FGO in order to capture and play the story with parties based around the themes of each singularity. This is a slow burn, and I probably won't ever finish it in its entirety because juggling more than one account on a gacha game is hellish. But purposefully keeping my servant levels low in order to match the story elements makes for a really fun and interesting challenge. Hope you enjoy some of the unique gameplay this brings!

A simple and sweet story wrapped up into a short game. Giraffe and Anika was a pretty cute game, somewhat predictable in a couple places, but a wholesome experience all the same. Definitely geared towards kids for sure, but it caught my eye when it was shown in a nintendo partner showcase and it was so cheap I couldn't really say no to it when I saw it on sale.

I played a lot of Chronicles X on the WiiU back in the day, but never had the opportunity to play the series proper. This marks the long long journey of beating all three games eventually. The music is phenomenal, the combat system interesting and unique, and the characters loveable. Also include is the future connected story which I assume connects to one of the other games, so I'll look forward to when I've played those other ones and things make sense there too! It's a long game, so settle in!

I play a lot of games, not all of them take up more than one session so I don't always make a playlist for a game. My "Streaming" playlist is sort of the dumping ground for those. So I apologize that it's a bit hard to navigate considering it's a bunch of different games and clips and that sort of thing. Maybe one day if there's interest I'll organize things a bit more.

This game is so cute! Also, tremendously broken in the way that you can grind out stat boosting items and make yourself ridiculously powerful. In the same way that Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica is adorable to look at but has themes you wouldn't show to who you might assume the target audience is, so does this game. There's a lot of war, death, sadness, and families broken apart in the story and the game doesn't shy away from showing the repercussions.

The third game in the Famicom Detective Agency series, the agency is called in to help out the cops with a child who's been strangled and a mysterious connection a case of serial killings 18 years. It's a fun adventure game, and features a full animation at the end that goes into detail on the killer's past which was neat. While I had a few gripes with the ending and how things could have played out better to be similar to the other games in pacing, it was still a good story!

Some friends were interested in playing and we put in a few hours over the course of two days. It was a pretty fun game but not one that I'm very good at. We did come up with our own silly phrase of "beefstewing" though.

I met a funny british man one night in VRChat and we ended up becoming decent friends for a few months or so. We'd swap around with different games, but sometimes we'd play pubG since it was a good chatting game.

I used to haul my desktop to folks places for lan parties and play for hours when this game came out back in the day. But nowadays people mostly just play online and make things easy. This was one of those times. Specifically, that one time I played minecraft for 13 hours straight. I made houses, aqueducts, baths, and began a cave and just had a good time all around being thoroughly locked in.

I played the entire single player campaign by myself over a christmas break, then for quite a bit after every Friday we'd have "friend code fridays" where I'd host some multiplayer sessions to have some fun with the community of gamers for the funny squid game. If you ever want to play, swing by the stream on a friday and maybe we can get something going!

One of my friends wanted to get into streaming, so I helped him a little bit by playing co-op games with him on sundays. We played fun one offs like Blind Trust and Human Fall Flat. But we really got into the We were here series, where we ended up playing all 4 of them as they came out. There's a lot of head scratching sometimes, but if you want to see two chums laugh their way through puzzles together. Check out the videos here!