my favorite video games :
animal crossing / asteroids
baldur's gate 3/ banjo-kazooie / boyfriend dungeon
CastleVania: symphony of the night / cooking mama / cuisineer
disco elysium
final fantasy x
genshin impact
left 4 dead 2
mario kart 8 deluxe / mario kart 64
neon white
old school runescape
paper mario: the thousand-year door
pokémon HeartGold / pokémon sapphire / pokémon yellow
puzzle bobble
resident evil 4 / resident evil 4 vr / rusty hearts
Started the afternoon in Hades, and made it to Heaven tonight in Neon White! Spent most of it finding the gifts and grinding for Ace Badges. Someday if I'm brave enough I'll go for the Dev Badges. :a_thisisfine:
It’s been a few months, but I’ve moved to the third chapter, and went back and collected gifts and ace medals. Gained a couple of achievements along the way, learned a new card trick, etc.
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
This is genuinely the hardest time I've had reviewing a game.
You enter the game as a character that has just died; with no memory of your past, you find yourself in ... heaven?
As a visitor, or a "Neon". You've been put into a competition; while you should be in hell, you've been tasked with earning a spot in heaven by killing the most demons who are trying to invade heaven.
You do this through the power of parkour... and guns. Lots of... cards?
Instead of guns, as you parkour around the place (thus the platforming part), you find cards. Each card represents a different weapon, and discarding the card has a secondary effect.
One card, for instance, is a handgun with thirty bullets. Run towards a demon, shoot it in the face, run past where it was, around the corner, jump and discard the card mid-jump for double-jump to allow you to reach the next platform.
Time it wrong, and you're stuck, and have to restart the level. Restarting is quick, which is good, because you'll be doing it a lot; you need to chain all of these different moves together, because traversing the level is timed, and the faster you complete it, the better the rewards.
The better the rewards, the better the chance that you'll win first place, and the place in heaven.
Neon White is weird and frantic and challenging and...