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PC88
Hydlide II: Shine of Darkness 
NOT PRIORITY. Getting better armor. Laser Sword obtained, Strength and Magic maxed out. Replay, first time on PC88.
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Updated about 1 day ago
Innovative but to what point, is how I'd best describe this. It was an early adopter of shops and currency in an Action RPG alongside Xanadu, as well as being a VERY early instance of a morality system. But all of this is not thought out well enough and literally just exists to pad out grinding, even for the time it's too grindy. Morality doesn't really matter since it's basically a stat. It just locks you out of shops and NPCs if you're Evil aligned, and beating the game if you're not Justice.
N64
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
NOT PRIORITY. Replay. Past Goron's Ruby. 7/36 H. Piece | 21/100 Gold Skullt. | 2/2 Bullet B. | 1/2 Stick | 2/4 Bottles | 2/4 Mask
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Updated about 2 days ago
People really like this game and I'm kind of the same, but I have to confess how a lot of the game, just feels... Kind of awfully jank for what it's doing? I suppose it's limitations, but at points the game feels like it's falling at the seams, which is a plus for me personally, but I can imagine it makes coming back to this game much harder. Also 100%ing it is complete bullshit ass, don't do it legit.
SNES
Super Mario World: 8 Powers
NOT PRIORITY. At WATER WORLD. Replay, aiming for all Dragon Coins. By MIZUNO.
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Updated about 2 days ago
PS2
Final Fantasy X
NOT PRIORITY. Sphere Grid grind at Mi'ihen Highroad. International ver. Replay, semi-completionist.
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Updated about 2 days ago
Stunningly beautiful game about loss, the oppression that comes with blind faith, and the complicated relationships with and standards set by our family. A lot of people complain about the voice acting, but aside from Hedy Burress (sorry miss!), everyone does their job lovingly and give life to the wonderful writing of this game. The pure turn based gameplay is also much more accessible and the sheer customizability with the Sphere Grid is phenomenal. It's one of my faves!
PS2
Tales of Destiny 2
I didn't have a backup endgame save so Replay. Future 1st visit: At Cherik, heading to Hope Town.
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Updated about 1 week ago
A step up from Destiny 1, of which the PSX ver. I was pretty underwhelmed by. The battle system has the benefit of being made after Eternia, and I like its emphasis on defensive play, with Kyle being a wall to ward off the enemies, while the others cast spells. The story is still Tales High Concept™ which I'm not a fan of, but the story centered around society being sheltered for its protection feels interesting all of the same. The characters are also just much more likable, still miss Kongman.
PS2
Summon Night 3
Chapter 16: What He Wished For ~His Will~. Wrapping up chats before grind.
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Updated about 1 week ago
Compared to SN1&2, the difficulty was increased by a sizeable amount. The AI requires some better strategizing than just overlevelling. Beyond that, the Schaltos mechanic allows for toning down difficulty for worse players (though punishing with karma), Summon Units made more reliable through the aspect of lite pet sim mechanics for their stats and abilities, the Brave Clear mechanic encourages challenge runs, and general streamlining, on top of one of the strongest stories next to SN2.
GCN
Sonic Heroes
Replay. Team Dark: Casino Park. Team Sonic, Rose Clear.
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Updated about 2 weeks ago
Another divisive entry. Biggest problems with this is how, in essence, you're expected to beat the game four times, mostly with just variations in difficulty and length (Team Dark going up to 15 minutes) outside of Chaotix's strange mission mode style setup, along with the bizarre physics. The acceleration was increased to absurd lengths from SA2, which makes Speed characters harder to control, and deaths more frequent. I do like this game though, but it's more for Sonic fans and young kids.
PS
Arc the Lad II
Replay. Heading to Salba Desert. 13/58 Jobs | 9/50 Wanted Monsters
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Updated about 3 weeks ago
Severely underrated SRPG. Longer, grimmer and more engaging, this sequel focuses on showcasing G-Craft's original ambitions for Arc 1. The new cast is very much likeable and have nice interactions with the original cast, Chongara taking a backseat sadly (or not considering how WD wrote him). The Hunter Guild sidequests also provide a lot of extra bang for your buck and are a welcome addition. There is some WD jank so heads up.
PC
Bunny Must Die! Chelsea and the 7 Devils
By Platine Dispositif. Bunny run. 60% Item completion, tidying up before continuing Jade Tower.
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Updated about 3 weeks ago
Super good retro hard-style metroidvania. I appreciate its humorous nature, but I also adore how deviously challenging it is despite it being mostly fair. Mostly. Jade Tower is can be a total pain. It's also not too long either, clocking in at 8 hours if you just do Bunny's story and around 15 if you do Chelsea's as well. It is currently delisted, sadly, though pirating it isn't too hard if you know where to look. Another classic by Platine Dispositif.
PC
Cave Story
By Pixel. Good Ending run - Sand Zone. DL: https://www.cavestory.org/download/cave-story.php
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Updated about 3 weeks ago
An old gem from the early days of indie game awareness. It hasn't aged as gracefully, a lot of the subareas involve going back and forth a billion times (Sand Zone...) and the physics are floaty in a bad way, but its storytelling, visuals+music and /most/ of its gameplay are terrific. The storytelling especially makes a compelling case to encourage people to play this game. If you're curious as to which version to play, the freeware version is fine, but just make sure you avoid the 3DS version.
PS3
Sonic Unleashed
Heading to Rooftop Run before dipping into Holoska and Cool Edge. Changed to playing on RPCS3.
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Updated about 3 weeks ago
(please watch warmly until it is ready, this game gets way too hard so I want to account for that difficulty spike)
PS3
Sonic the Hedgehog
Replay on RPCS3 custom build to re-experience the awfulness. Heading to White Acropolis as Sonic.
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Updated about 3 weeks ago
(please watch warmly until it is ready, trying to account for when the game gets Truly Bad)
PC
TalesWeaver: Episode 1: Apparition
Gikel's Request 1, Quadir's Request 1&2 and Fernata's Cigs done. Gikel 2 start. Working on Narvik quests for now, Clad fast travel get.
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Updated about 4 weeks ago
A 2D MMO cut from the cloth of Ragnarök Online, by Softmax, of War of Genesis fame, though while RO focused on a class system, TW focuses more on characters as a base, sort of emulating single player RPGs. As an MMO from the 2000s it's quite grindy, but I feel the music and aesthetics are what elevate it the most for me. It's a very comforting game to zone out to. Balancing isn't the best, but I vibe with it and that's good enough for me.
NES
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
Alucard route - Stage 7. Japanese version. The falling blocks aren't that bad guys
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Updated about 4 weeks ago
A superb Castlevania, the levels are more fleshed out, graphics are improved and given more detail (sometimes to their detriment), and a partner system is introduced to allow more options in gameplay. Sadly the game was made harder in the US version, so I'd recommend the Japanese version for the slightly lower difficulty, slightly better visuals and music are also a bonus. It's one of the best Castlevanias alongside the 16-bit ones (discounting Drac X on SNES), so do give it a go.
PC
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn: A Realm Reborn
MSQ: Out of House and Home. Doing early sidequests around Thanalan.
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Updated about 4 weeks ago
A pretty well balanced MMO, with not too much grinding and a proper difficulty curve. Gameplay is the standard staggered real time normal to MMOs, but what matters here is the execution compared to the original FFXIV. On top of that it has a very solid story even compared to the offline FFs, which is the big selling point I feel (other than horny gposes with mods lol). I'm not going to evangelize the Free Trial as that's done to death, but it's not a bad game, I feel.
SNES
Secret of Mana: Secret of Mana Turbo
Heading to Sage Jacques' trial. By Queue (main), zhaDe (base), various (the bonus patches).
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Updated about 4 weeks ago
A superb rebalancing of Secret of Mana, doing away with the stamina mechanic which slowed down the game tremendously, as well as having the option to remove the gameplay pausing from magic casting, with added enemy difficulty to counterbalance. Furthermore, the grinding to level up weapons and magic is made much faster, with the EXP gains being doubled. It elevates the game to the level of its series brethren (at least up to Sword), and is how the remake should have played. Absolute must.
SNES
Romancing SaGa 2
Replay. Year 1379. At Teretuva, tower quest. 15/30 non-Hero Quests, 0/7 Heroes dealt with. Party: Mouse / Bear / Terry / Topaz / Mahan
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Updated about 4 weeks ago
A very deep Square RPG, rather than focusing on characterization, it focus more on the aspect of roleplaying, with a lot of the quests (that aren't all required) having many ways to clear them. In a way it's closer to a classic CRPG than a JRPG, and that makes it fascinating. Regardless it also takes Romancing SaGa 1 as a basis and improves its systems tenfold, cutting some of the chaff as well. A hidden gem from the SNES days, I recommend this to anyone who's hardcore about RPGs.
PC88
Hydlide
Replaying for fun, don't @ me. Working to Lv7 with the Zombies before going for the sword.
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Updated about 4 weeks ago
Hydlide is a very important game that helped shape the ARPG as it is today, but man is it a Thing to play today. It takes its Druaga inspiration way too close to heart with its strange puzzles, and the balance is just not there. Despite all this, I don't hate the game. It's a pioneer, and it was trying to do something that, along with Courageous Perseus and Dragon Slayer, hadn't been done before outside of like, Caverns of Freitag. For all of that I respect it.
SNES
Super Mario World: A Super Mario Thing: Demo's Journey
Replay. World 5 - Cave, at Night of the Living Charlie. Going for all raocoins. By raocow's talkhaus.
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Updated about 3 months ago
An iconic, yet very flawed romhack. For its release year, 2010, the stages are relatively solid for a game made mostly by first timers and children, though as a result of being an older SMW collab hack, it has quite a lot of duds and just downright unfair levels. The flavor and vibes it gives off help make it digestible, with the added benefit that there's still quite a lot of fun levels, despite the difficulty. My advice is to approach this with savestates, the postgame (and W4 castle) is BS.
PC
Fantasia Sango
Getting our bearings in Xudu.
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Updated about 3 months ago
PC
Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut
Replay. Heading to Ice Cap as Sonic. Have to redo my progress due to reinstalling the Dreamcast mods, 3/130 Emblems.
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Updated about 3 months ago
A worse port of the GameCube version which was a worse port of the Dreamcast version. It's a very sad way to treat a game that was on the cutting edge of graphics in 1999, what with worsening its lighting engine, simplifying its graphics and artstyle... If you respect art direction in games, the PC port doesn't come recommended. However, now you can use the SA Mod Launcher to restore it to its Dreamcast glory, so I encourage anyone to give it a go with that mod. Please enjoy!
GBA
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
Grind to prepare for Battle Arena (raise to Lv80, get Gambler Armbands, grind recovery drops, go ham). Map: 93.9%
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Updated about 4 months ago
Not the best follow up from SotN, but a decent enough showing regardless! The bigger emphasis on grinding isn't something I'm kind of a fan of, though I do appreciate the concept of the card system and the increase in difficulty. Generally a pretty well done game, that just needed a little bit of time to be better balanced while retaining some of the challenge. Maybe just altering how Luck affects drop rates.
X68k
Aquales
Stage 2: A Search of Edias Rith (i think they mean "Recon Mission at Edias Rith"?)
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Updated about 4 months ago
TG16
J.J. & Jeff
Field 4: 4-1.
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Updated about 5 months ago
A comedic Wonder Boy 1/Adventure Island inflected platformer based on the likenesses of Ken Shimura (RIP) and Cha Katou, as well as their Gokigen TV skit show. As expected of WB1, it's a very slippery platformer, but I quite enjoy the physics and gameplay myself. It's not ideal (enemies are hard to time jumps on due to how small they are), but I feel like its jank is part of the joke. The "collect the hidden key to access stage 4" mechanic is also weirdly cruel, but I think it's funny too.
PS
Resident Evil 
Director's Cut, no Samuragochi. Chris run, currently at the Storage Room with Rebecca.
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Updated about 5 months ago
PSP
Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection: Final Fantasy IV
Zeromus beat with the main cast, need to do it with the optional cast to unlock the rest of Lunar Ruins. Cave of Trials done, not going for Pink Tail.
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Updated about 7 months ago
A superb port of Final Fantasy IV Advance, though the same issues with Final Fantasy IV apply here. The difficulty can be a bit overwhelming, especially due to how ATB works, but something that is a small bugbear to me is how the encounter rate is still high in the level of late era NES, early era SNES games. Personally, I would have toned it down and adjusted EXP rates accordingly.
TG16
Momotarou Densetsu Turbo
Bartering at the Capital of Hope.
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Updated about 7 months ago
A pretty good graphical upgrade to the original Momotarou Densetsu. The overworld graphics feel less generic, and the colorful lightheartedness and dumb jokes of the original are still there. It's still a Dragon Quest clone at heart, but it's enjoyable nonetheless.
PC
Fallout
Hub quests, Junk Town mostly clear of EXP outside of recruiting Dogmeat, need to check if I can recruit Tycho.
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Updated about 1 year ago
An impeccable game. It's a bit clunky, but it's very rewarding to explore. The quests are pretty fleshed out, most of them do have different ways of progressing making you able to say, avoid combat as much as possible, which is very good. There's a lot of choices for builds that can beat the game, though for some you're gonna have to have quite a bit of knowledge and experience under your belt. It's also phenomenally written. 100% recommended, could just use more cute men /joke
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