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I'm Callum. I'll be better in the sequel.
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GOTY '23

Participated in the 2023 Game of the Year Event

GOTY '22

Participated in the 2022 Game of the Year Event

3 Years of Service

Being part of the Backloggd community for 3 years

GOTY '21

Participated in the 2021 Game of the Year Event

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Gained 10+ total review likes

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Played 100+ games

GOTY '20

Participated in the 2020 Game of the Year Event

Favorite Games

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Full Metal Daemon Muramasa
Full Metal Daemon Muramasa
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2
Jak II
Jak II
Far Cry 2
Far Cry 2

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Played in 2024

280

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No Man's Sky
No Man's Sky

Mar 04

Sayonara Wild Hearts
Sayonara Wild Hearts

Feb 11

Jak II
Jak II

Feb 08

Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land

Feb 05

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

Jan 29

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The checkpoint system in this game cured my childhood anger management problems.

The jankiest official Mario game.

You walk off a cliff, Mario zips right down at maximum velocity, different from jumping fall speed.

Enemies and power ups are tiny. Collision detection is inconsistent. Whether you get a power up or not seemingly depends on which frame you land jump over it.

It’s only 12 levels long and already begins to overstay its welcome towards the end. Some bopping music however.

Dropped after 26 hours because I don't want to keep paying for Apple Arcade. While the physical dioramas are a neat idea, they're no more beautiful or interesting than pre-rendered PS1 backgrounds. And introduce some weird ghosting as characters move behind certain objects and angles change.

I enjoy the FFX style turn system, but abilities that make the combat truly interesting (fast and slow, barrier, AOE) take too long to regularly come into play. The dimengeon device that stores random battles is ingenious. But the dimengeon battles themselves are either really tedious, or complete slogs depending on how leveled you are.

Story is.. present, I thought the writing was generic and very much uninteresting for the game's first half, but got more interesting and punchier as the game went on. Town NPC dialogue was particularly dry and not worth trying to tap my character into place to talk to them.