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2019
This is a neat game I played at a REALLY WEIRD time in my life that I'm hopeful to never have to tell anyone about. It was good for then, but now it's tied to that in a way I can't really untangle it from. I do recommend it as a co-op roguelike RPG thing, especially because the way it drip feeds story is a good first attempt at following the example Hades set. Making that a co-operative experience makes it more interesting as well, and honestly I think at this point the only time I ever want to engage with roguelikes again is co-operatively in weird times in my life.
2000
One time I brought this game over to a friend's house and installed it on their computer. Their desk was weirdly damp. They laid the jewel case face down on the desk, and the moisture wiped away the CD key. Within two days my computer died and I had to buy a second copy of the game in order to play it again. I did that. I shouldn't have.
2001
I will always remember the Game Boy Advance as the system where emulation of its games was available within like 24 hours of any game's release. It was easy and everywhere, and it gave me access to such intergalactic bangers as this. Even playing it on the Switch's virtual console thing makes me think of emuparadise and VBA windows.
2007
It's fine, but honestly my main memory of this game is watching people I know rage SO HARD at it despite it coming out the same year as Team Fortress 2, which was at the time was both welcoming and encouraging. It felt like a misery generator and these people would not detach themselves from it. Putting it another way, these are fun big budget games and the treatment of them as a serious competitive format feels more like a sunk cost fallacy than an honest assessment of what these games are capable of.
2023
A spiritual successor to Only Jet Set Radio and Not JSRF that broadcast a lot of times that the game of interest here was Jet Set Radio and not JSRF, so in many ways it's also like a miniature No Man's Sky, where I'm having a great time and looking at the thrashing about what it isn't like "well I don't know what you expected"
2006
I will never be smart enough to play this, but I'm definitely smart enough to be overjoyed this exists and completely supportive of the kind of madness that spawns it. I understand it.
1992
Reminder: 3 means "I don't regret playing this."
Saw the cabinet for it at a local barber shop one visit, and after my haircut I got a chance to play it, to discover that it was in fact exactly as terrible as most of these reviews have said. I, even as a child (albeit one lucky enough to have Street FIghter Experience by the time I played this), was delighted by how clearly Not Good it was. It might be the first time I ever enjoyed a game for being irredeemable, a trend that would continue on with me into the future. I love arrogant failure in art, and boy, did they think this was gonna take over the world or what? Fuck, the box art just says "Arcade Classic" on it. That is a lie! They are lying.
Saw the cabinet for it at a local barber shop one visit, and after my haircut I got a chance to play it, to discover that it was in fact exactly as terrible as most of these reviews have said. I, even as a child (albeit one lucky enough to have Street FIghter Experience by the time I played this), was delighted by how clearly Not Good it was. It might be the first time I ever enjoyed a game for being irredeemable, a trend that would continue on with me into the future. I love arrogant failure in art, and boy, did they think this was gonna take over the world or what? Fuck, the box art just says "Arcade Classic" on it. That is a lie! They are lying.
I definitely finished this, but I couldn't tell you a thing about it other than the bit with the singing.
In the description up there, it says the important part: "Based on Toukon Retsuden." Fun fact: there are no good NJPW games.
1997
One of my first exposures to online multiplayer, and probably one of my fonder memories of it. I loved playing this damn thing even though I was a kid who barely understood what I was doing, thinking I was real cool regardless of my performance. It's also instilled a lot of habits that I occasionally have to remind myself don't exist in other games (splash damage, bunnyhopping, and good grenade launchers come to mind).
It also has singleplayer.
It also has singleplayer.
Might be the game I've most regretted never beating. I love this damn thing but I could never get it done in a rental period and I never saw it for sale. Maybe one day!
1993
probably the best transformers game
2010
Often as fun as trying a restaurant again because there's a big "under new management" sign out front. At least the glitch videos are good. Also fuck EA for making Skate 2 backwards compatible on xbox the same day they turned off the servers. Needlessly cruel.
2008
Basically a Robot Chicken video game but it works unnervingly well, which suggests a Robot Chicken video game could be alright and I REALLY hate thinking about that.
fortnite prequel