Beaten in 2022

[Niku-Sama]

i 100%ed Hot Wheels Unleashed on PS4 today.

i've been very sick and very bored...

[Aussie2B]

1. Shantae (GBC) 1/1
2. Donkey Kong Country (GBA) 1/4
3. StarHawk (GB) 3/1
4. Crimson Room Reverse (PSP) 3/21
5. Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PlayStation via Vita PSOne Classics) 4/25
6. BoxBoy! (3DS) 5/29
7. Proteus (Vita) 6/13
8. Tokyo Tattoo Girls (Vita) 7/2
9. Illusion of Gaia (SNES) 9/30

Some minor annoyances aside, this was a great game that I'm glad I finally got around to. It's also the first home console game I've beaten (on a home console) since late 2019, minus a few puzzle games I played through in one sitting, so it feels good to sink some serious time into non-handheld gaming again. And now I've completed both games (this and Arcana) I bought in the early 2000s instead of another SNES game that I still don't have a cart of. The game I passed on? A copy of EarthBound that was priced around $25. I almost never dropped more than $20 for a used SNES cart in those days and thought I was getting a much better deal buying two RPG/adventure games for that much than just one, haha. Still one of my biggest game collecting mistakes. But I enjoyed this and Arcana and have still never played EarthBound and thus don't know if I'd like it, so who knows, maybe in terms of my own entertainment, I made the right choice. Either way, I picked up the Virtual Console release of EarthBound on 3DS, so I do have a legit copy of the game in that manner, and if I really want to play it on SNES someday, I've got a SNES flash cart too. But I digress. Illusion of Gaia was good fun, with or without comparison to anything else. Makes me want to explore Quintet's games more. I'm already a big fan of ActRaiser (and found it cute that Illusion of Gaia recycles some of its sound effects), but I have minimal to no experience with their other games. It's just a shame that many of their SNES games are stupidly expensive to get legit now.

[AceAerosmith]

1. Alien Triilogy (PS1) 01/09/22
2. Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Operation Resurrection (PS2) 02/10/22
3. Max Payne (XBX) 02/27/22
4. Star Trek Voyager - Elite Force (PS2) 04/06/22
5. Metal Slug 4 (Metal Slug Anthology) (PS2) 04/13/22
6. Metal Slug 5 (Metal Slug Anthology) (PS2) 04/13/22
7. Gun (PS2) 04/20/22
8. Metal Slug 6 (Metal Slug Anthology) (PS2) 04/20/22
9. The Order 1886 (PS4) 04/29/22
10. Cyberpunk 2077 (XBSX) 05/09/22
11. Assassin's Creed Valhalla (XBSX) 06/18/22 (Probably the first game I've put 100 hours into.)
12. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days (PS3) 08/03/22
13. Quantum of Solace (PS3) 08/08/22
14. Astro's Playroom (PS5) 09/09/22
15. Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron (PSP) 10/12/22
16. Titanfall 2 (PS4) 10/22/22
17. Sniper Elite 4 (PS4) 11/16/22

[Tron 2.0]

Been having a marathon of castlevania recently on the "castlevania anniversary collection" via ps4.I have completed most of it's games and earlier belmont revenge the only game left i need to beat is simon's quest.

[Aussie2B]

1. Shantae (GBC) 1/1
2. Donkey Kong Country (GBA) 1/4
3. StarHawk (GB) 3/1
4. Crimson Room Reverse (PSP) 3/21
5. Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PlayStation via Vita PSOne Classics) 4/25
6. BoxBoy! (3DS) 5/29
7. Proteus (Vita) 6/13
8. Tokyo Tattoo Girls (Vita) 7/2
9. Illusion of Gaia (SNES) 9/30
10. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS) 12/11

Huh. I could've sworn this game was my 9th game beaten this year, and I was thinking I'd try to pick something short to finish before the year's end in order to hit 10, but apparently, I totally lost track and have hit that goal already. This is the first year since my daughter's birth that I've managed to hit double digits for my games beaten. If I were to set another goal, I'd go for 12 so I could average one a month, but the odds of me squeezing in two more in half a month, between Christmas and everything, are slim unless I get super-deliberate about my choices, but I'd rather just follow my whims in terms of what I start playing. It's hard to believe it's been a decade since I played through Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow, but here I am finally starting to tackle the three DS Castlevania games. I actually started this in October and could've counted it as beaten then, considering I got the bad endings back then, but now I've gotten the proper, good ending, after doing a ton of soul-grinding that tripled the time I had on the clock. In the end, I racked up 30-some hours. That may not seem like a ton in the grand scheme of things (maybe a lot for this kind of game), but when I average 30-60 minutes of gaming time most nights (sometimes none), it makes sense that I'd still be playing even into December. I feel I better understand my childhood gaming now. Sometimes I'd wonder, as an adult, how I'd spend months on games, as a kid, that really weren't that long, but between not being that good back then and losing a lot and having a small window of gaming time after school, things got stretched out.

[Aussie2B]

1. Shantae (GBC) 1/1
2. Donkey Kong Country (GBA) 1/4
3. StarHawk (GB) 3/1
4. Crimson Room Reverse (PSP) 3/21
5. Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PlayStation via Vita PSOne Classics) 4/25
6. BoxBoy! (3DS) 5/29
7. Proteus (Vita) 6/13
8. Tokyo Tattoo Girls (Vita) 7/2
9. Illusion of Gaia (SNES) 9/30
10. Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (DS) 12/11
11. Labyrinth (DS) 12/16

This is another game where I'm making the call on it being beaten. There's no way to get the credits roll in this game outside of selecting it in the Options menu. There are a finite number of courses and stages in the single-player mode, but you get nothing for clearing them all, unlike with its predecessor, On the Ball, on Super Nintendo. But considering there's nothing left to do but replay those same stages to improve my rankings and unlock new ball designs, I'm saying I beat it. I wasn't intentionally aiming to pump up my total with a quick game, but I just happened to be in the mood to play this.

[Niku-Sama]

just "beat" GT7

1. Hot Wheels Unleashed
2. GranTurismo 7