This game made me very emotional. It's probably one of the most touching stories I've ever played in a video game, and I urge you to give it a try, especially if you grew up primarily on the internet as a child. Meredith Gran's artstyle is as adorable and charming as ever, and the way she writes her characters is nothing short of amazing.

However, I've never been too fond of old point-and-click adventure games, and Perfect Tides attempts to emulate too much of what I don't like about them. Repetitive MIDI music, no sound effects, confusing controls, and a general feeling of "what am I supposed to do next?" did hamper the experience somewhat.

I can imagine that if you grew up playing these kinds of games, this kind of thing won't bother you, and might even be charming in some way. However, I did not, and I admit it kind of wore on me sometimes as I played.

All in all though, I'm glad I played it through. I still think about this game months after I've played it, and I think that's a clear sign that it's a Very Good Game™.

I grew up playing World of Warcraft. I will always have the sound effects stuck in my head, I can recall cutscenes word-for-word, the plot of entire questlines and raid boss monologues. I remember the names of the friends I met on it, the names of high school friends I played with. The names of the people I met from my guild, from trade chat. I remember the mounts I farmed, the achievements I farmed, the legendaries I obtained. So many memories.

Blizzard is no longer the company they once were. Yes, the game is awful nowadays. It's not even a shadow of its former glory - it's an entirely different game, made and kept propped up by entirely different people than those who started it. A Ship of Theseus if there ever was one.

This is not a rating for the game as it is now. This is a rating for the game as it was back then - or, to be more melancholic about it, the way life was like back then. I will always consider WoW to be one of the best games of all time.

Replayed this game on emulator with enhancements, along with a hard mode cheat that doubled enemy health. It was a pretty fun challenge. I think the last time I played this game all the way through was almost 10 years ago.

Still an amazing game and so much fun. Battles are great, music is great, the story is great, the writing is great, the localization is great, the characters are great, the mechanics are great, the Gonzales is great, the list just goes on!

The only real complaint I'd forfeit is the backtracking is genuinely a pretty significant issue. But it's not something that kills the game for me. This is still my favorite game of all time.

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood feels like a more polished version of 2. They didn't fix everything - the parkour controls can still be very infuriating every once in a while - but I'd say they had a good idea about what to change and what to keep, and it made ACB a better game because of it. I enjoyed my time with it a lot.

As an aside, something I really enjoyed were the two modern day segments. Exploring the villa and the colosseum after already having explored them in the past felt really neat. I loved the little touches like city lights out in the distance, power lines on the buildings and generators/automobiles sitting around, just things like that showing the progress of time. I wish there was more of that.

It was quite fun and engaging for a bit, but the levels slowly got kind of boring and rather frustrating to navigate. Eventually, they all kind of felt the same - rainy hills with thunder, a maze in a temple, moonlit village town, etc... and the low enemy variety didn't really help much.

The story confused me, and I didn't quite follow it much, but that's probably because I don't know much about this period of history. It did make me want to get educated, though!

I eventually got stuck on a boss in the fourth world and didn't have the strength to grind at it, since I had already stopped having fun at that point. I don't think I'll come back to Nioh 1, but I'd gladly try the sequel.

Replay of this gem of a game from my childhood, on my original childhood cart too! I'm not sure if it's just the nostalgia talking, but I had a lot of fun revisiting it.

My final team consisted of:
Gyrados/Dugtrio/Pikachu/Moltres/Zapdos/Articuno
(Hey, I took the time to catch those dang birds, I should be able to use 'em!)

Finished Pokémon Yellow, and I decided to try playing Crystal. I played Gold as a kid, but never had this one. It was pretty fun, it's always interesting to see where the series started to evolve into what it is today.

A lot of people say that Team Rocket is really underwhelming in Gen 2, and I think that was mostly done on purpose. They're a shadow of their former self, trying to regain their status they lost in Gen 1. In that way, Crystal feels more like a sequel than it does an entirely new generation, unlike what new Pokémon generations feel like today. (They could have added some named Rockets though, instead of all of the Rocket admins being unnamed grunts!)

Stopped playing after beating the Elite 4, because from what I can remember, Kanto was mostly underwhelming, and I wanted to get onto other things. Still really cool it was included though, and I did love exploring it as a kid. I remember I managed to beat Red in Gold.

Played on my GPD XD+ via emulation. Had to pay for an emulator on the app store, can you believe that? Literally 1984. Didn't even have any fancy filters!