2022 ranked/blog
for fucks sake how is this year halfway done
ok um thoughts below!!! I do like doing these I just forgot .///.
ok um thoughts below!!! I do like doing these I just forgot .///.
78 Games
Saving all my thoughts over the last week since I finished it for a pending review.
But like, it's really special. Idk, 'peak fiction', it's a little ridiculous how much it cuts to me, how fiction like this and everything below it here cuts to me. Above all else though, my biggest sell is simply that you will never find a game that has this much ludonarrative mastery and doesn't drop a single moment of its pacing and storytelling.
But like, it's really special. Idk, 'peak fiction', it's a little ridiculous how much it cuts to me, how fiction like this and everything below it here cuts to me. Above all else though, my biggest sell is simply that you will never find a game that has this much ludonarrative mastery and doesn't drop a single moment of its pacing and storytelling.
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good :)
can no longer talk about this game personally here unfortunately. I feel tempted to lock the review I made for this away because it's demons i want to move on from permanently. I don't because I am an egotistical mound of attention/show off naval gazing wee.
can no longer talk about this game personally here unfortunately. I feel tempted to lock the review I made for this away because it's demons i want to move on from permanently. I don't because I am an egotistical mound of attention/show off naval gazing wee.
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at some point I'm going to stop fucking asking people to play this game. I'm this close to drive-bying with restraints. This stuff RULES i've already replayed it twice.
EDIT: FOUR TIMES HOW DOES THIS STILL RULE
EDIT: FOUR TIMES HOW DOES THIS STILL RULE
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played it before jacob geller said it was cool Throws sunglasses on
INSANE how incredible it is, if nothing else, this game is the best one with this level of production and quality with the least amount of cruft I've seen in a very very very long time.
INSANE how incredible it is, if nothing else, this game is the best one with this level of production and quality with the least amount of cruft I've seen in a very very very long time.
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my mind is a visceral neverending haze, crafted to make it so my attempts at being introspective are gently found through media rather than meditative. Because when I'm left to my own thoughts for too long, when the attention of my mind is not juggling, the ghosts and devils find me. I love to help others, have them confide in me, have me help them, because another day of my attention raptured that potentially makes others happy is another day pushing back the tide to feel good about myself.
If I look for longer than a minute at myself at the mirror the glass around me breaks. Now here's a game that sees exactly where that's all constrained and threaded to the surrounding macro level of social media, including the faces of the people who love it that i've fractured myself into this and call for the system to continue
i'll keep trying to get out of it
If I look for longer than a minute at myself at the mirror the glass around me breaks. Now here's a game that sees exactly where that's all constrained and threaded to the surrounding macro level of social media, including the faces of the people who love it that i've fractured myself into this and call for the system to continue
i'll keep trying to get out of it
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shit like this is why i can kind of understand why people wanted to immortalize yuji naka. They'd still be wrong, the baby this is is very much largely not his, but like, it's Sonic Team. and that's CRAZY. And I know i'm an adventure lover, but it's incredible that they just dropped the most "my vibe" game of all time. This is poetry.
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energy to get through the year, in general. was strong enough to push back the nausea of loneliness to where I'm only having to deal with it from june-onward while the after effects of quarantine still set in.
I've yet to see any of my college friends physically in over a year. yeah.
I've yet to see any of my college friends physically in over a year. yeah.
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3d platformers to end all 3d platformers????????
Ok well no gameplay wise it's just fine but I love how sincerely sound Sephonie is. So sincere that these 3's feelings and thoughts are consistently with me often, hearts and minds deeply longing for connection, Lucky Lucky!~
Ok well no gameplay wise it's just fine but I love how sincerely sound Sephonie is. So sincere that these 3's feelings and thoughts are consistently with me often, hearts and minds deeply longing for connection, Lucky Lucky!~
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both great and awful for my mental health. Death by a thousand cuts, the good kind of suffer fiction.
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yeah people were right to gas this one up. related, i hate politics
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a few friends of mine have been trying to get me into this game for years. Rex won. To put how much I'm infected in perspective, some days when I'm bored and listless and don't want to put time into games i'm trying to finish, I'll just load up fightcade, test game, beat the campaign again as denjin ryu or Q. To this day
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i wish i grew up on more kids games like this without a shard of pessimism
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fine if you don't get it, but if you're aggrandizing enough to not meet this halfway please don't talk to me
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said tender later down this list, saying it again. It's tender and good. There's a weird feeling i think people have with being "tender" like I get it there's a bit of ignorant allyship with portraying without real visceral harm but there are significant amounts of people, me included, who can pick up on genuine reaches to the mind and telling you, yes you, you'll be ok and creating is good and yes I will help you find that path with gentleness.
stuff like florence still sucks tho you're not wrong
stuff like florence still sucks tho you're not wrong
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Collectively including sunbreak with this, even though I'm unsure if I'll finish it. Like, it's the game responsible for getting me into Monster Hunter, and once you know, you REALLY know!!! It's awesome!!! Its only issue is simply being too fucking ridiculous action-action wise for otherwise deliberate motions, but what's here is just, some of the best fights evar!!!111
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in these stories, find how one looks into yourself
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omg look what i made i'm sooo smart simulator
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tender vibes that are earned (i think (fuck youuu this brought me out of a rut i'm very thankful))
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in technical terms i didn't replay this this year i WATCHED my SO play it right next to me. Doesn't matter tho, seeing the complete other side spectrum of play and discovery this game has was genuinely eye-opening. important game canon
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it's so empowering when you break into a genre you couldn't realllly get into for the longest time. I can totally get RTS now!!! It's great!
Now if someone could show me a 4X or Grand Strategy worth shit that doesn't wall you off to a dog degree i'll play those too
Now if someone could show me a 4X or Grand Strategy worth shit that doesn't wall you off to a dog degree i'll play those too
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Find a
way
Find a sun
I'm fonder to
Waiting for
A final
wayyy
to
come home
as someone new
innnnnn
time
way
Find a sun
I'm fonder to
Waiting for
A final
wayyy
to
come home
as someone new
innnnnn
time
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almost too painful for me to think about because i project completely different struggles on it to justify dysphoric mind static I feel playing. Heather my role model.
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This is my sin & punishment!!! XBLA vibes are like, a thing, i'll keep wishing there's more games that look at it as something to recapture. Nostalgia bait me y'all, i'm easy. This was so so so so so much fun >~< Best rail shooter!!!
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less memorable over time and not something i can see myself returning to, not that that GENERALLY matters but this is uberniche. Dizzyingly sick, cool, and sleak all over. Everyone is required to play ONE 6dof fps just to see how it can be and this one's (i believe) the best one
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idk if i could ever make something this viscerally powerful. I'm glad for mutuals and friends who can make something great and earnest and capturing that sense of their life in crystal no holds barred reflections, and that's all i'll need i think
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little petals floating around you, dreamily taking you off your feet, falling to rest in the bed of flowers all planted by several different hands. they're asking you if you wanted to make a game one day
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Requires including. Patch content still counts, plus a lot of re-evaluating the work, finishing Endwalker a second time, yknow?
Still amazing for pathos reasons, as well as deeply deeply personal, significantly more flawed. Love it Despite itself vibe. You can't fix them tho
Still amazing for pathos reasons, as well as deeply deeply personal, significantly more flawed. Love it Despite itself vibe. You can't fix them tho
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this is INCREDIBLE and INCREDIBLE for me!!
-t. proceeds to shelve again because lazy
-t. proceeds to shelve again because lazy
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you cannot run from life forever
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flam whenever you get around to reading this (if you do) that i think the dog stuff is really cute and it brings a light to my day just like this game does. this might sound like a weird callout but really i thought of you while playing this at all times
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the bosses here make me so giddy. Like Yes, everything else is cool, i've rewatched the intro 20+ times, but omg, the wolf boss? death?? Holy shit??
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SO FAR AWAYYYYYYYY
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Arcade-core for FPS nerds (Complimentary)
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drakengard players don't know (literally youtubed this (and a lparchive LOL))
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this experience is so incredibly well crafted and i had a good time thinking about all the little hands and thoughts the devs had when making every creature. Like it's just so adorable.
But i'm sorry, how funny would the creationist's version of this game be?
But i'm sorry, how funny would the creationist's version of this game be?
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FRENCH BREAD PLEASE STOP LOOKING AT DAISUKE
Edit: Thank you for looking away, now you're actually pretty fun and tolerable!
Edit: Thank you for looking away, now you're actually pretty fun and tolerable!
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ok you're allowed to go capcom is king again now that this is good too especially when sf6 looks genuinely so much better. one time i'll be insufferable
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i like the embrace commentary of violence without feeling pointlessly tacky on it.
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this topic is generally That important to me, the option so ingrained that with my country now ripping it to shreds most of my 5-10 year thoughts involve saying fuck you to my country i'm never coming back
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need there to be more stuff trying to imitate this. like yeah emulating titles can be kind of viscerally off for the trends/niche industry but if you even Tried to emulate this it would mean more of this genre, because twin sticks are really just something special :(
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Portal for FREAKS (derogatory and complimentary)
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i remember when moby games was such a Thing. had so many of them on my phone and crap computer. this one's great entirely because the central schtick and aesthetic is its own crystalized vibe
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Probably one of the most annoying game experiences. I think games with extremely cool ideas are like, awesome, and we definitely need to always have them around, but this is kind of like the anti-cool of its cool. It's so uncaring about its passion, which is the most frustrating thing to swallow. Constantly flips the needle between lovingly calculated shots and deeply up its own ass apathy. Somehow good overall, still.
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lightgun purchase... goodddd. revisiting the greats of my childhood arcade
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oooo childdd things are going to get easier ooo childd things are going to get harderrr
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holy fuck what a vibe
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what a dunce, look it's the 7 year old playing pokemon hahahaha sob
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once again i am asking for people who aren't me and don't want to put in the time to make something just as visceral, same theme, more to hurt you.
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wish i could stomach smash genre anymore. It's like a college dream now for me, i played melee and PM so much now but I haven't touched it in months. This was a fun emulatable game to poke around even though I knew and know that it's not my type of vertical slice.
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FPS for Game Design DMC nerds (Complimentary, with a hint of worried tension)
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I re-bought (granted, cheap) a wii u just to play this and potentially star fox zero. I dropped the idea of star fox zero l o l and I should've emulated this. This was fun i'm sorry but i can't stop thinking about how i wasted money when i found out two months later that cemu had switch-pro gyroscope support i'm a dunce
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respect
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housemarque ROCKS,, kinda. I suck at these,,, but it was neato nice and I would probably never play it again unfortuantely
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Edited: Bares a second look to be honest. I wasn't feeling what i was playing for the first three hours, but I think I need to go about it way differently. This is still at least worth recommending though!
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Fun while it lasted!!! Or uh, lasted in the sense before we got too intolerant of the parents' intolerance for one another. They should grow up!!!
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too much combat!!! needed this one to be an anime
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gosh this was fun <3
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Pretty cute!!!!
Too mobile-gameish for me. I get that that's not necessarily a bad thing but it clips the wings of what's otherwise a closely alice-ish vibe. Although also not a fan mechanically either, it's just ok.
Too mobile-gameish for me. I get that that's not necessarily a bad thing but it clips the wings of what's otherwise a closely alice-ish vibe. Although also not a fan mechanically either, it's just ok.
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cool
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time ends yeah. soo
whatcha thinkin doin about it
whatcha thinkin doin about it
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not knocking the incredible sensuality of it all but i'm more sexually attracted to el shaddai sorry
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i'm sorry but i really fucking wish this wasn't an rpg
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someone unlock my heart kingdom hearts style to vibes like this so i can not drop them like a hat because they bore me
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jarvis play ost
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tempted to backlog it again or watch the whole thing on youtube and just cheat my way to the story But unironically this game is a foregone consequence of people losing their shit at how "too simple jrpg combat is" . fuck off now i have to do stupid easy theatrics for over half your runtime because your attention span sucks.
Story probably gets sweet and good tho ;-; god i hate my tolerance
Story probably gets sweet and good tho ;-; god i hate my tolerance
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fun for 6 year olds (complimentary) but i hate this version of japanamerica so much lol no thanks
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cannot believe i'm saying fuck you 343 like the rest of them
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can we please just play mario party.... ok i'll think about dokapon kingdom but please...
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why did the one they translate first be this carbon copy of what should be getting, like wtf. Fuck shin-chan ig?
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irony sucks and wincing at genuine heart bad yes but please do not fucking stuff your murder investigation with ace attorney jokes I will show up at your house
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i wish this game was finished so i could yarr-harr with genuine excitement instead of what's kind of just a Voice Chat game, and not even that good of one
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perhaps, consider, i slept with your mom AND dad. can you get out of the dystopia honey
75
good way to learn that FOMO is still not for me
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bazinga
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/v/
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