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Games Played in 2022

Since 2014 I've been documenting every time I play a game and what I thought about it during that session. You can see all the previous lists here.

A session can be anywhere from a few minutes to many hours. Sessions that last longer than one block of time (illustrated below) are counted for each block individually. Sessions that cross over a block (like from 2:30 to 4) count towards the one that more time was spent in.

This will be unedited and likely full of typos and misspellings. The descriptions of my sessions may include story spoilers. Any spoilers will NOT be marked.

Here's the break down of the time of day:

Time	Term	Time	Term
12am to 3am	Midnight	Noon to 3pm	Afternoon
3am to 6am	Early Morning	3pm to 6pm	Early Evening
6am to 9am	Morning	6pm to 9pm	Evening
9am to Noon	Late Morning	9pm to 12am	Late Evening

List items

Mixolumia

Played: 1/1. Midnight. PC Itch. Enjoyed.
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Played: 1/1. Morning.
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Played: 1/2. Morning.
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Played: 1/2. Midnight.
Came SO close to beating my Endless high score. Literally less 600k off.
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Played: 1/4. Early Morning.
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Played: 1/4. Morning.
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Played: 1/4. Late Evening.
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Played: 1/5. Morning.
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Played: 1/5. Late Morning.
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Played: 1/5. Late Morning.
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Played: 1/6. Midnight.
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Played: 1/6. Morning.
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Played: 1/6. Late Morning.
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Played: 1/6. Late Evening.
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Played: 1/7. Early Morning.
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Played: 1/7. Morning.
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Played: 1/7. Late Morning.
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Played: 1/7. Afternoon.
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Played: 1/15. Early Evening.
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Played: 1/16. Early Evening.
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Played: 1/18. Evening.
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Played: 1/22. Late Morning.
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Played: 1/22. Afternoon.
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Played: 1/27. Early Evening.
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Played: 1/29. Afternoon.
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Played: 1/30. Early Evening.
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Played: 1/30. Late Evening.
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Played: 2/4. Late Evening.
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Played: 2/5. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/5. Late Evening.
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Played: 2/6. Midnight.
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Played: 2/6. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/12. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/3. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/4. Midnight.
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Played: 4/9. Afternoon.
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Played: 4/10. Midnight.
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Played: 4/12. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/15. Evening.
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Played: 4/16. Afternoon.
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Played: 4/16. Early Evening.
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Played: 4/16. Evening.
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Played: 4/17. Afternoon.
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Played: 4/17. Early Evening.
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Played: 4/17. Evening.
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Played: 4/19. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/20. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/21. Evening.
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Played: 4/21. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/22. Evening.
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Played: 4/22. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/23. Afternoon.
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Played: 4/23. Early Evening.
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Played: 4/23. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/24. Evening.
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Played: 4/24. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/26. Early Evening.
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Played: 4/26. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/4. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/5. Evening.
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Played: 5/7. Late Evening.
NEW ENDLESS PB!!!! 49,502,474!!
Wish I broke 50 mil, but I'll get there. I felt such an incredible rush. Like I was in complete control for so long.
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Played: 5/8. Midnight.
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Played: 5/8. Afternoon.
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Played: 5/9. Midnight.
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Played: 5/10. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/13. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/14. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/28. Evening.
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Played: 5/30. Afternoon.
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Played: 6/4. Evening.
NEW ENDLESS PB. 68 mil. I am now 3rd in the world.
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Played: 6/30. Early Evening.
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Played: 8/26. Evening. Switch!
Mixo is now on Switch and I played it! I got 13 mil in my first Endless mode run. It's pretty good to be honest.
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Played: 11/27. Late Morning.
Got the itch to mixo. I'm super rusty!!!
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Played: 11/28. Late Morning.
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Played: 11/28. Afternoon.
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Played: 11/28. Evening.
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Played: 11/30. Afternoon.
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Indie

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Moonlaw
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Started: 1/1. Late Evening. PC Itch. Negative
This is a free metroidvania and probably the person's first released game, but it plays so poorly and is so frustrating that I couldn't stand playing it for more than like 15 minutes.
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Midnight Manor
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Played: 1/1. Late Evening. PC Itch. Enjoyed.
This game is nifty. There's not much too it mechanically but there's some it has some ideas and apparently there are multiple endings and tons of secrets. I might play through it again some time.
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Played: 1/2. Early Morning.
Tried to get all the secrets and stuff. Found 6 of the 7 pumpkins but could only get 5 of them. I don't know how to get to the top of the house at the very beginning. I couldn't take space jump out of the last area either. Cool game. I don't think I'll play it again though.
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BulletGarden
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Played: 1/30. Early Evening. PC Steam. What?
It's a shmup that is completely inscrutable. Partially due to the translation being really awkward (in a sort of charming way). Partially because you can only view the tutorial once it seems and it just throws everything at you. Seems cool though. I don't think I'll play it again.
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UFOTOFU: HEX
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Played: 1/31. Early Evening. Mobile. Neutral.
I was looking for a new mobile game and this one just came out so I thought I'd give it a try. It's OK. I don't know how I feel about it, but I'll probably play a bit more of it.
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Played: 2/4. Afternoon.
Wish I liked this game more...
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WitchCraft TD
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Played: 9/11. Afternoon. PC Browser. Enjoyed.
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Played: 9/11. Early Evening.
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Played: 9/11. Evening.
Saw this game on itch and played it for about 6 to 7 hours.
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Played: 9/12. Early Evening.
Found out that you can play this in the browser on your phone. It's not perfect, but it's good enough. RIP my time doing anything else.
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Played: 9/12. Early Evening.
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Played: 9/12. Late Evening.
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Played: 9/13. Morning.
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Played: 9/13. Late Morning.
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Played: 9/13. Late Morning.
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Played: 9/13. Afternoon.
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Played: 9/13. Afternoon.
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Played: 9/13. Early Evening.
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Played: 9/14. Midnight.
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Played: 9/14. Midnight.
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Played: 9/14. Late Morning.
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Played: 9/14. Afternoon.
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Played: 9/15. Morning.
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Played: 9/15. Late Morning.
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Played: 9/15. Afternoon.
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Played: 9/16. Afternoon.
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Played: 9/20. Early Evening.
I'm at the point where I can beat this game pretty easily without losing any health. It's a great proof of concept. I'd love to see it expanded on.
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Played: 9/21. Late Morning.
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Played: 9/22. Afternoon.
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Lost To Time

Played: 1/2. Early Morning. PC Steam.
This game controls really weird and doesn't seem to work with my PS4 controller right. It doesn't explain itself either. So I refunded it. Maybe there's a cool game in there, but I'm not going to spend the headache to find out.
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Usurper

Started: 1/3. Early Morning. PC Steam. Neutral.
This game seems like an OK 2D souls-like. It's a bit slow but done so intentionally and that's kinda cool. I do have an issue with enemies overlapping and getting hit that way, especially when the game is very dark. You're not very survivable either. I don't know if I'll keep at it to be honest. But apparently the game is only about 6~8 hours long so perhaps I will.
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Played: 1/4. Midnight. Enjoyed.
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Played: 1/4. Early Morning.
Beat two bosses and am now exploring downwards. This game kind has its own thing going for it. It doesn't feel great compared to other games, but it's designed with the way it feels and outside of some wonkiness it's pretty good? The wall jump ability is an example of that. It feels very hacked together and buggy, but it works well enough.
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Played: 1/4. Late Morning. Neutral.
This game is mostly alright. It's fine. I don't know. I got double jump and can explore a lot of places, but the enemies in the section I found kinda suck. The area is vertically orientated and I don't really have anything that attacks upward. It kinda sucks.
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Played: 1/5. Midnight. Mixed.
Got the teleport ability and stuff. This game has largely devolved into "go here do this" style of metroidvania which is the least interesting form and that's unfortunate but probably accounts for it's short play time. It does showcase this game's very narrow sequence.
Right now I'm dealing with an area that is very vertical and the double jump + teleport is not great. Apparently I'll be able to fly after this and that will open up much of the game.
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Astalon: Tears of the Earth

Started: 1/8. Early Morning. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
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Played: 1/8. Morning.
So far this game is an interesting combination of things I've seen in a lot of metroidvanias. It's definitely drawing some inspiration from La Mulana in terms of feel though it's a lot less obtuse so far. I've seen other games do the 3 character thing but not quite as well as this game seems to. One character is good at exploring/transversal, another has abilities that open certain doors, and the last one seems to be good for bosses mostly.
I'm not really a fan of the healing mechanic. Especially since it took me too long to realize that's what the candles are for. I don't think it'll matter too much though, since currency gain seems pretty exponential and you can just grind it out. Which I might end up doing because that's the kinda of person I am.
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Played: 1/8. Late Morning.
Yeah, this game is rad as hell. I'm vibing with the health/death mechanic a bit more now that I can get the enemies to drop health orbs. Though it's super rare. One thing that's odd to me is that I'm getting abilities for the knight and wizard, but none for the rogue and while I initially liked playing her the most, I'm finding that, outside of when I need to use her, I'm not using her at all. That's a shame. I guess she is meant to be the backtracking character where the wizard is meant to be the explorer. I also got a dash ability for the knight, but I don't really find it very useful. You're not immune while using it and it doesn't give you any momentum. I guess it's just meant to use escape and dodge.
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Played: 1/9. Morning.
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Played: 1/9. Late Morning.
Unlocked a fourth character and was spoiled on a fifth when I looked up some stuff. I made a lot of progress through the tower too, but am definitely hitting some weird walls. The characters have come into their own and, outside of the new one, I'm using them all for specific things. Though the mage is still definitely the best of the initial three.
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Played: 1/9. Afternoon.
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Played: 1/9. Early Evening.
Ok, so I beat it with the normal ending, but then I went back and got 100% of the bestiary, map, and items. Now I'm grinding to get 100% of the upgrades, which I'm not sure if it's necessary, but I might as well. I just have Bram and Zeek left. The HP upgrades get WAY to expensive. I hope this isn't necessary but who knows.
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Finished: 1/10. Early Evening.
Beat the game with the true ending. I did grind to get all the shop upgrades and looking at the achievement it seems like that was not necessary for the true ending. I tried the other three modes but I don't think I'll play through them. They all kinda want you to have the low amount of hits and other sorts of challenges that I'm not interested in. If they were more like victory laps where you're running through the game super powered, I'd be interested.
But it's a great game regardless. I wish there was a randomizer.
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Transiruby

Started: 1/22. Early Evening. PC Steam. Neutral.
This game is alright. It reminds me a lot of types of metroidvanias that were popular as browser game. You basically go around a big area collecting dodads and abilities. It has a really nice art style and good music, but for whatever reason I'm not really clicking with it yet. Like, it's fine, it's well made, the character is cute and all, but I don't know. It's not really grabbing me like I thought it might.
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Played: 1/22. Evening. Mixed
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Played: 1/22. Late Evening.
The more I play this game the more I think it's not that great. It's fine, but the level design is annoying. It has the worst sort of metroidvania level design. You find your way to progress only unlock something on the other side of the map. Then when you go there you get an item that brings you back to where you just came from. It's all busy work.
Moving around in this game is annoying to since you don't jump at a variable height. Your jump height is your jump height no matter how long you hold the button. The freeze gun mechanics is interesting but I think it would be more fun in a game that controlled better.
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Finished: 1/23. Early Evening.
Finished the main ending. Took under 6 hours. Overall I'm pretty mixed on it. It's fine. I ended with 97% though so I might go back and get the stuff I missed.
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Played: 1/23. Evening.
Tried to get 100% since I was at 97%. I was able to get up to 99% but am missing two of the big coins and I have no way of knowing which two they are. I am not enjoying playing this game so I am not going to hunt those down.
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Metroid Fusion

Started: 1/23. Late Evening. PC Emulator. Neutral.
I've been watching the first tournament of the randomizer and decided to play through it again. At least for a little bit. I don't know if I'll play through the whole thing. My thoughts on this game have not really changed in the the past 20 years. I don't like the narrative bits or the railroading, but I do like the aesthetic. I also like how much the terrain differs. It's not just long flat hallways.
I think the initial narrative set up is really good, but the stuff with Adam sucks.
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Played: 1/29. Early Evening.
Beat the hoppy boss and got high jump. I continue to be neutral on this game. I don't think it feels particularly good to play but I do like the art (outside of the backgrounds, but those weren't really meant to be seen on a large screen).
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Played: 1/30. Afternoon. Negative.
I got to the first cyborg spider boss that folks called "Box" and I hated this boss when I first played the game 20 years ago and I think I hate it more now. What a terrible boss. I don't know how the speedrunners make it seem so easy. Like you just got super missiles and are ready to fuck shit up and then they throw a boss at you that is completely invincible save for a tiny area that also is super agile and constantly moving. So shots that look like they should connect just bounce off.
For this boss to appear at this point in the way, I just, I don't know what the devs were thinking.
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Lyne

Played: 1/24. Afternoon. Mobile. Enjoyed.
This is a favorite mobile game of mine and I had run through all the data on my phone so I couldn't do any internet stuff at work. So I decided to play this and you know what I actually solved a good chunk of puzzles I was stuck on.
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Played: 1/24. Afternoon.
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Played: 1/24. Afternoon.
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Played: 1/24. Early Evening.
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Played: 1/24. Early Evening.
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Played: 1/25. Afternoon.
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Played: 1/25. Early Evening.
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Played: 2/4. Early Evening.
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Knights of the Tiny Table

Played: 1/27. Evening. PC Steam. Mixed.
This game doesn't quite have enough going on for it to be interesting. It relied too much on RNG and doesn't have enough actual strategy. To be honest if it was just the heroes and no dice rolling I think it might be a better game? I'll probably play it a few more times, but so far I'm not impressed.
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Eastern Exorcist

Started: 2/5. Afternoon. PC Steam. Neutral.
This game seems cool though there's something kinda janky about it that I can't quite place. It also seems to have a lot of repetitive tutorialization of everything. I don't know. I'm also not sure if the character choice at the start or any other choices matters much. The combat is fun, but I think I need to figure out a better button layout of my own. Something isn't quite jiving with me about it.
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Played: 2/5. Early Evening. Mixed.
I just don't really understand this game's mechanics? Like the magic system makes absolutely no sense to me. I'm using the lightning spell and have full magic, but pressing the "use magic" button doesn't do anything in combat.
Also the game is so dark and the colors so muted that I can't tell what's happening half the time. It doesn't help that the text is largely dark gray on black.
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F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch

Started: 2/6. Late Evening. PC Steam. Positive.
Another Chinese character action metroidvania. This one is more metroidvania and that's more what I'm looking for. I've played about two hours of it and it seems really cool. The localization is a bit stilted and there's some jank/rough edges, but it's pretty cool so far.
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Played: 2/9. Midnight.
There was a real shit prison escape area, but after that it was pretty cool.
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Played: 2/12. Early Evening.
Went through the Arsenal area. I am a bit disappointed there's so few new abilities in this game at this point. I'm not really getting anything very interesting. I found a Parry ability there and it's like I hope they never make me use it for progression because that mechanic is not at all interesting to me. Especially since my gamepad seems to be either dying or having issues. I found inputs not getting read or that I was getting stuck walking in a specific direction. It could be the game though. It did crash on me when I tried to go to the sewers. So who knows. Still enjoying my time with it though.
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Played: 2/13. Afternoon. Mixed.
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Played: 2/13. Early Evening.
I'm continuing to have issues where after playing for long periods my controller gets wonky. Not sure if it's the game or the gamepad though.
I went through the Sewers and now through a Mine area and the amount of items this game lets you find has dropped considerable. In the entire 3 to 4 hours I played I got ONE heart piece but found mostly money and plant seeds. It feel bad. I just want like actual rewards for exploration since I like to explore.
This game is also massive it seems. There's SO many areas. Just when I think it couldn't go west anymore, there's a whole new section to the west. When I didn't think it would go deeper there's a whole new section deep below everything else.
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Played: 2/13. Evening.
I'm stuck at a boss. This game has gotten way more interested in it's substandard combat and that's super disappointing. I really wish it would just give me a few more of the damn charges for items and abilities since I'm never using them in combat outside of the healing. I found out it has fighting game like combo challenges and like the game is not built for doing those at all. Maybe if it used the dpad instead.
I did find the final weapon and it's a whip/grappling hook that's pretty sick to be honest. Maybe I can go back explore areas to see if I find anything that's not money or plant seeds, but I'm not that interested in doing that right now.
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Pyre

Started: 2/12. Evening. PC Itch. Positive
My partner and I have been meaning to play this game again for a few years and have finally gotten around to it again. We're having fun. I have to get refamiliar with the controls.
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Played: 2/15. Evening.
We have a lot of fun reading out loud with voices. We just got to the sea.
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Played: 2/19. Late Evening.
We have the wyrm and the harp now.
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Played: 2/24. Evening.
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Played: 2/24. Late Evening.
We played up to where we met Sandalwood in person and can go up the mountain.
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Played: 3/2. Evening.
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Played: 3/2. Late Evening.
We liberated Rukey as our first choice. We do so, so so sososo much reading out loud hahaha. Sandalwood just has so much to say.
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Played: 3/5. Evening.
We did one match and then tried the Cpu v Cpu which was very silly. We mostly just read the book to each other.
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Played: 3/13. Evening.
We did two matches. Gosh we love Ti'zo so much.
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Played: 3/19. Evening.
Freed Sir Gilman then read a lot of the Book.
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Played: 4/3. Late Evening.
We accidentally told Jodi we love her and it was super awkward and amazing.
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Played: 4/5. Evening.
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Played: 4/5. Late Evening.
We met the TRUE NIGHTWINGS.
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Played: 4/10. Evening.
We faced Baker in at the mountain and it was extremely difficult.
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Played: 4/26. Evening.
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Played: 5/7. Evening.
We're quite close to the end now. One more session.
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Played: 5/10. Evening.
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Finished: 5/10. Late Evening.
Game is good, but so much reading... I think the game's politics are not as revolutionary at it thinks they are but it is still an tremendous game.
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Vampire Survivors

Played: 2/18. Late Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
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Played: 2/19. Midnight.
Ah, what a hell of a podcast game...
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Played: 2/19. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/19. Early Evening.
I think I've unlocked most of the stuff currently in the game.
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Played: 2/19. Evening.
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Played: 2/20. Early Morning.
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Played: 2/20. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/20. Early Evening.
OK. I have one more item to unlock and 4 achievements left over.
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Played: 2/21. Early Evening.
I unlocked all the current unlockables outside of getting 5000 gold in a run and getting the last two characters to level 100.
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Played: 2/25. Evening.
Unlocked the reroll and got 5000 gold in a single run. Just gotta get the panda to lvl 100 and I've unlocked everything.
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Played: 2/26. Late Evening.
Unlocked Reroll 2! I've gotten all the achievements now.
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Played: 3/2. Late Evening.
NEW PATCH. Seems cool. Found a map. They added things that SHOOT at you.
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Played: 4/30. Evening.
It's been a long time since I've played this and there's a lot of new stuff. Seems really cool.
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Played: 5/1. Midnight.
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Played: 5/4. Evening.
Unlocked some of the coffin characters.
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Elden Ring

Started: 2/28. Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
I haven't played an official Souls game really since Dark Souls, but since magic is apparently good and since there's some nice QoL features here I decided to give it a shot. I'm enjoying it so far! Basically all I did was make a character, play through the tutorial, and then clear out that camp between the two bonfires.
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Played: 2/28. Late Evening.
Unlocked the spell vendor.
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Played: 3/1. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/2. Midnight.
Did a lot of exploring. The world is very dense. Ended at the roundtable.
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Played: 3/2. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/3. Midnight.
Got to the island. It's cool. Can't use that magic since I'm not faith/arcane, but it's cool. Then just went exploring and found a big tree and then went further and found a guy at the top of a tower with a dang blood sword thing that one shot me.
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Played: 3/3. Evening.
Tried to fight the dragon in the swamp and almost beat it!! Got it down to like 25%. If I didn't use so much of my magic on nothing dude I think I would have.
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Played: 3/3. Late Evening.
Got the S scaling staff and now I just need to get out hell place.
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Played: 3/3. Late Evening.
Beat the dragon, beat Margit (first try), and then died a against that knight right by the starting area.
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Played: 3/4. Evening.
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Played: 3/4. Late Evening.
Mostly just explored!
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Played: 3/5. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/5. Early Evening.
Explored pretty much the entirety of the southern area. A little disappointed how little is there to be honest. I keep finding things that make the flasks stronger, but no golden seeds, which is really what I want. I want more flasks.
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Played: 3/5. Evening.
Started into Stormveil Castle. Got to the lift. Hopefully the big hand creature doesn't respawn.
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Played: 3/5. Late Evening.
Took down Godrick. Met the Two Finger, which is a very silly looking thing. Then explored to the north a bunch.
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Played: 3/6. Early Evening.
Went to the tower to unlock Godrick's rune. It was kinda a pain to get there.
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Played: 3/6. Late Evening.
Mostly just did some clean up/exploration. I started just using the map on the wiki. I don't really care too much about spoilers at this point. Looks like I need to go to the lake area as the next main quest thing.
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Played: 3/8. Evening.
Just explored the lake area. Got all of or most of the map there. Might the Turtle Pope. I think the game is directing me to fight a dragon?
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Played: 3/9. Late Evening.
Beat that dragon and then tried to get into the magic school, but the two guards keep killing me. I can't get to them and survive.
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Played: 3/11. Evening.
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Played: 3/11. Late Evening.
Looked up the grinding spot and got to the point where I can start doing it. It's pretty good, but I think there's probably a better way in that same area once I have the big spells.
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Played: 3/12. Afternoon.
I grinded up to level 78 and then went exploring in the second zone. Found a mine that lead me to the plateau so I tried to get to the volcano area's map location since I know there's a quest for the mage lady you meet early in the game there, but I could not figure out a direct route to it. Looks like there must be a teleporter or cave or something that gets you up there. Very annoying.
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Played: 3/12. Evening.
Got to the top of the manor and started Ranni the Witch's quests. I think I want to do Hyetta's quest next.
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Played: 3/13. Afternoon.
Did the side quests to the point where I wanted/can't progress anymore and decided to start on the Academy. As a mage this area is fucking trash. haha. The Night Maiden's Mist spell does do wonders on the folks strong to magic though.
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Played: 3/13. Early Evening.
Went and got the Meteor spell since I wanted to see if its any good. Doesn't seem to be to be honest since there is no tracking on it. Then I went back to the academy and got to the next bonfire.
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Played: 3/13. Evening.
Got some cool sorcery gear from the roof top area. Now I gotta go through the rest of the Academy.
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Played: 3/13. Late Evening.
Beat Rennala and got her outfit. Should probably figure out how to get into the tower to unlock her rune, but whatever, I always forget that great runes are a thing you can use. Probably going to go to Caelid next.
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Played: 3/14. Evening.
started Radahn's fight but he keeps killing me literally once I get into the arena haha.
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Played: 3/14. Late Evening.
Beat Radahn and am now exploring the Eternal City and just beat the mimic.
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Played: 3/17. Evening.
Explored more of the Nokron and that place sucks actually. I did get the item for Ranni's quest and continued that. Unfortunately I didn't do Sellen's quest and she was killed. BOOO. I'm kinda getting a little annoyed with this game and have been having some trouble with my controller.
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Played: 3/18. Evening.
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Played: 3/18. Late Evening.
GB was down when I did these sessions. I mostly just did clean up and did two great rune towers.
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Played: 3/19. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/19. Early Evening.
Continued with Caelid clean up. Got the Moonveil, but I don't think I like the attack animations on it over Rogier's Rapier despite the stats eventually being better.
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Played: 3/19. Late Evening.
Did more clean up and beat the Gargoyles fight with co-op. Then went back and helped someone else. Then went to take out that Frenzy orb thing just cause it was bugging me. Now I'm back on Ranni's quest for the time being.
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Played: 3/20. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/20. Early Evening.
Explored the area near the lake of Rot and got a lot of cool things. Now I have a really sick dragonfly wing sword that works well with my INT build. I am at level 101, which feels about right for the area.
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Played: 3/20. Evening.
Finished Ranni's questline. Wish all the NPCs don't just die at the end of the quests, geez. RIP to Wolf-man.
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Played: 3/22. Evening.
Started my way to the capital after doing a tiny bit of clean up.
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Played: 3/24. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/25. Midnight.
Tried to explore the capital while listening to to a podcast and this is not a podcast game. So I instead went and grinded until I got my INT to 65 and my MND up a bit more. Not really impressed with either moon spells, but apparently they are quite long range. Wish the AOE on them was bigger.
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Played: 3/26. Early Evening. Mixed
Going through the capital and it seems like a pain in the ass. I'm sure there's tons of items I've missed, but probably nothing major. I finally found the 2nd bonfire.
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Played: 3/27. Afternoon.
Fucked off from the capital to do some stuff around the Altus Plateau, but it's not progress and I didn't really find anything other than Sacred Tears that would help me. Maybe the invisibility spell. Then going back to the capital and those gold knights are just such a pain in the ass. Grumble. I kinda just want this game to be done. It's too long.
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Played: 3/27. Early Evening.
Beat Morgott second try. I think I'm pretty overleveled since I could not be summoned by anyone afterwards. Now that the Capital is more or less done I have a renewed vigor in this game. It was really cool how there's a Round Table Hold in the capital.
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Played: 3/27. Evening.
Now exploring the snowy area to the north. I never went to Volcano Manor, but it seems like that's optional?
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Played: 3/30. Evening.
Got through the snowy area. Fought that big terrible Fire Giant boss fight. That sucked. Now I'm in the crumbling area and it seems whatever. I just want this game to be over to be honest. I think I could get through it within one or two sessions though. I'm really trying to mainline it to the end.
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Played: 3/31. Evening.
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Played: 3/31. Late Evening.
I am literally at the final boss. Could no get passed the first phase at all. Even with help. Gonna try again later.
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Played: 4/1. Evening.
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Played: 4/1. Late Evening.
Spent two hours trying to defeat the final boss. Mainly as a summon and oof. I made decent-ish progress though.
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Played: 4/2. Late Morning.
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Played: 4/2. Afternoon.
Got myself up to 40 vigor and maxed out both my weapons. I was able to beat the final boss as a co-op partner but have not had any luck as the host.
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Played: 4/2. Late Evening.
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Finished: 4/3. Midnight.
DONE WITH THIS GAME! I had two co-op partners basically carry me through the 2nd phase of the final boss since I just could not get close to it at all. That fight feels really weird since the arena is so massive, but maybe you can use your horse if you haven't summoned? I did end up enjoying co-oping and summoning though. I wish it was more friendly mechanically, but I had eventually was having fun with it for that fight.
Regardless, this game is too long. I wish it was half the length with less repeated content. I don't think I"m going to play it again or even check out any future DLC. I might not play a sequel either.
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Gundam Evolution

Played: 4/10. Midnight. PC Steam. Neutral.
I requested to be part of the network test and got a confirmation a few hours later. All I did was go through the tutorial and then test each of the mobile suits. I think I like the Turn-A and GM the best?
I named myself ApollyBae.
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Played: 4/10. Late Morning.
Played four matches and got 2 wins and 2 loses. The GM is probably my favorite. The map layouts are kinda awkward and I'm still learning them.
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Played: 4/10. Early Evening.
Doing a lot of Losing. Not playing on voice chat so maybe that's it.
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Played: 4/10. Evening. Enjoyed
I think I'm getting the hang of this game now and am enjoying a lot more.
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Played: 4/10. Late Evening.
I would definitely like to play this game with other people over voice chat.
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Played: 9/21. Late Evening.
It's OUT! It's Back! It's still very good. I only stopped playing because the servers started to have issues.
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Played: 9/22. Early Evening.
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Played: 9/22. Late Evening.
Played with voice chat and it's good!
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Played: 9/26. Early Evening.
The game crashed on me 3 times!!
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Played: 9/30. Evening.
Pulled the ugly Gold Turn A skin!
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Kirby and the Forgotten Land

Started: 4/12. Evening. Switch. Neutral.
This game is very cute, but so far it feels very simple, but all I did was go through the first level.
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Played: 4/23. Afternoon.
This game is very cute, but I'm having trouble finding motivation to play it for a long periods. There's something about it's controls that I don't like, but I can't quite tell what yet. Maybe because there is no run?
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Rogue Legacy 2

Played: 4/29. Evening. PC Steam. Neutral.
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Played: 4/29. Late Evening. Negative.
After playing it for a bit, I just really don't like the way it controls. The knockback and recovery feel awful. The hitbox is wonky. You're character seems to take forever to turn around. Coupled with how infrequently you get heals and how precise the game wants you to be, it just isn't for me. I stuck through the first one, but not this time. I just refunded it. I have so many other games I want to play.
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Timberborn

Played: 5/1. Afternoon. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
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Played: 5/1. Early Evening.
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Played: 5/1. Evening.
Oops lost an entire day to this game again...
I made my own map and it is perhaps too easy, but that's OK. Growing is going to be the hard part.
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Played: 5/2. Early Evening.
Beginning to split my city to build more dams!!
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Played: 5/3. Evening.
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Knotwords

Played: 5/6. Early Evening. Mobile. Enjoyed.
I didn't think I'd like this game, but it's free so I gave it a shot and it's really good.
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Played: 7/9. Afternoon. Mixed.
I think I'm tired of doing the dailies on this game.
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Shot2048

Played: 5/6. Evening. Mobile. Enjoyed.
This game is very simple, the ads are annoying, but it's very cool.
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Played: 5/6. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/7. Midnight.
I don't know how long this game will keep my attention, but it's pretty cool.
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Played: 5/8. Evening.
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Played: 5/14. Afternoon.
I really like this game, but it hurts my arm when I play it after a while. I also wish I could aim at angles or set the power of my shots.
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Played: 5/20. Early Evening.
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Played: 6/13. Early Evening. Negative.
I think I am just done with this game.
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Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising

Started: 5/11. Late Evening. PC Steam. Neutral.
Excited about this series. More so for the RPG coming out next year though.
So far this game very much feels like a game form the late 90's/ early 00's, but with a certain level of Japanese indie game jank from the early 10's. Pretty much right up my alley. There's a bit too much talking at the start. I kinda wish it let me get used to the controls. The music is also a bit tedious at the moment. Not terrible but kinda repetitive. I don't expect much from this game, but I will probably think it's OK. Hopefully the story and world is interesting or at least nostalgic.
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Played: 5/12. Evening.
This game's intro is kinda dragging a bit too long. I hope it opens up more soon.
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Played: 5/12. Late Evening. Enjoyed.
I don't fully enjoy this game's structure, side quests, and tiny upgrades, but I am enjoying the story and characters. Particularly Garoo. The British localization has some quirks but has generally been pretty charming. I can now do up and down attacks with the main character and that has made the combat feel more like combat. I'm building her to do crits.
I'm not a fan of the button lay out. I tried the simpler mode but it is also not what I'm looking for. I just want one attack button and one switch button, let me hit the switch button to do special link attacks or whatever, and that's it. Really strange choice there.
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Played: 5/13. Early Evening.
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Played: 5/13. Evening.
Now I have all three characters. The game is still doing the "go a bit into a dungeon and then turn back" thing which is a little annoying, but now I can at least explore a lot more.
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Played: 5/14. Early Evening.
Got to the lava zone. I now have all the elements and the platinum stamp card. The third town theme is not as good as the second.
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Played: 5/15. Afternoon.
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Played: 5/15. Early Evening.
One thing that I am liking about this game is how the town's popular increases as you do more things. It's pretty cool. The main plot is starting to come together too.
This game certainly is aggressively mediocre in a lot of ways, but I am still enjoying it.
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Played: 5/15. Evening.
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Played: 5/15. Late Evening.
Getting to the actual dang plot!!
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Played: 5/15. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/16. Midnight.
I got credits, maxed out the Black Stamp card and there are still more side quests!!!! It's a bit annoying, especially since they have dialogue too.
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Played: 5/16. Late Evening.
There is too much shit to do in this post game. GAH! JUST BE DONE ALREADY! None of it is very interesting or deep. It's all the same shit before. Just unnecessary grinding.
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Finished: 5/22. Afternoon.
Did all of the quests and beat the game on "hard mode". I have 4 achievements that are all grinding to get levels and mats for equipment that I am not going to do. I am done with this game. Overall I still really like it despite it's mediocre-ness.
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Scarlet Nexus

Started: 6/19. Late Evening. PC Steam. Neutral.
Been meaning to play this game for a while since I really enjoyed Code Vein. Only played like 20 minutes of it so far but it seems cool. The combat seems like my kinda of mashy. I will have to resist the urge to explore a bunch.
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Played: 6/20. Evening.
Didn't play too much more but it's picking up. I like how everyone shits on and dismissing the loser dude with glasses. That's very funny.
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Played: 6/25. Evening.
Played significantly more and this game is alright so far. I had a lot of trouble on the first boss since it makes it so you can't dodge and that was very frustrating.
But otherwise the game seems fine so far. I hesitate to upgrade it to "enjoyed" just yet though.
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Played: 6/28. Evening. Enjoyed.
I'm definitely having some fun with this game. I could see folks who are into way more technical games not really enjoying it, but it's pretty much at the exact level for what I'm looking for from a game like this.
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Played: 7/4. Evening.
Sister turned into a monster now. then I s-linked!
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Played: 7/9. Early Evening.
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Played: 7/9. Evening.
Long session. Created a pseudo-blackhole. Went to the future. Found out I gotta kill the other protagonist, but didn't tell him any of that. I guess there's a civil war happening too? The story is extremely convoluted and honestly not told particularly well, but ah well. The game play is fun enough. I think I'm nearing the halfway point, but it also feels like the game just started.
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Played: 7/10. Midnight.
Fought a boss that was incredibly shitty until I remembered I could turn invisible and slow down time. Then it was a lot more tolerable. Still annoying though. The game is still pretty cool even if it's a bit too heavy on story. The story is not terrible, but it's a mess in a way a lot of mediocre anime stories are messes. Kinda trying to do too much at once. And since it involves time travel I figure I know where it will likely end up. But it's amusing for what it is.
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Played: 7/10. Early Evening.
In a winter zone now. The story in this game continues to be contrived as hell. JUST FUCKING TALK TO EACH OTHER!!! But ah well. I do wish I had some different party members, though the abilities are cool. I miss having a different set each mission.
One thing I do love about this game is that as you give character's gifts those gifts show up in the hideout. That's pretty nifty.
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Played: 7/10. Late Evening.
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Played: 7/11. Midnight.
They did the thing! THEY TALKED TO EACH OTHER! also apparently this game really is Neir: Automata in more ways than just being a kinda mashy character action game. There's a whole moon race situation.
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Played: 7/16. Afternoon.
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Played: 7/16. Early Evening.
High Drama abounds! Sister dead but now I have all ten characters in my party and can switch between there SAS stuff freely. That'll be neat I guess. I have SO MANY bond episodes to do now though...
I've been having the occasional trouble with some of the encounters. Particularly with the alligator guys. They often get me in a loop where I can't dodge or heal so I just die over and over again. I did realize right at the end of this session that I have a whole other move type on LB now that my bonds are high enough. I guess I should have been using those.
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Played: 7/16. Evening.
Finished up the bond stuff I had.
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Played: 7/16. Late Evening.
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Played: 7/17. Midnight.
I gotta be getting to the end soon. I can't imagine much is left over. The main story has been kinda whatever. Definitely the weakest part of the game so far. Hopefully it wraps up either nicely or is completely buckwild, but I suspect it'll be fine.
With my bond stuff, my team bond suddenly jumped from rank 1 to rank 4 and I can now watch a bunch of team bond stuff. Only watched the first one and it was actually pretty funny.
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Played: 7/17. Early Evening.
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Finished: 7/17. Evening.
This game took forever to end! The final dungeon is absurdly long and then there's the pre-credits, then the post credits. Then it has the audacity to say "First Ending Clear" on the Clear Data save file.
I liked this game, but I am not doing any sort of true ending attempt. I'll probably just look that up. (EDIT: Looking this up and apparently this isn't the case. There is no special secret true ending. It's so weird because the game 100% signposts that there would be. Ah well!)
All and all it was pretty good. There's so much dialogue and the story is typical anime high drama but decently told I guess. It certainly has tropes and characters I don't like, but I really found a grove with the combat system towards the end. I never did use the super brain move since I never felt I had to. I appreciate this games ambition even if it is still very much a "B" game.
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Gordian Quest

Started: 7/7. Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
Heard about this game on the Waypoint podcast and it seems extremely cool so far. Love a game that's not explicitly a rogue-like.
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Stray

Started: 7/21. Evening. PC Steam. Neutral.
This game seems alright. Only played about 40 minutes of it. So far it is very linear without a lot of exploration, but I suspect that's because I'm just in the intro. I think I don't feel enough like a cat. I also wish it let you choose which cat you wanted to be from the four cats at the start.
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Played: 7/23. Afternoon.
Got to the first town area and am just wandering around a lot.
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Played: 7/24. Late Evening. Mixed.
Just got the UV Gun. I wish this game was less of an adventure game and more about being a cat. I really don't like the contextual jumping. It feels very stiff. The puzzles are kinda whatever too. I don't like running from the little headache fuckers. But I like the vibes and the music.
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Played: 7/30. Afternoon.
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Finished: 7/30. Early Evening.
Completed this game. It was OK. It has some good vibes but it's not especially interesting overall. I wish it was more about the cat and how cats impact people's lives rather than about humanity and generic sci-fi stuff.
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Final Fantasy VII Remake

Started: 7/31. Late Morning. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
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Played: 7/31. Afternoon.
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Played: 7/31. Early Evening.
Been meaning to play this for a while now and decided to start today. It's pretty cool so far. When watching videos I didn't notice how dynamic the music is. The arrangements are a bit too soundtrack-y for me, but I do like how it uses a lot of the original's music.
I'm not very good at darts.
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Played: 8/7. Afternoon.
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Played: 8/7. Early Evening.
Played passed what I have seen, so now I have no clue what will happen. Just got to the Sector 5 reactor.
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Played: 8/13. Afternoon.
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Played: 8/13. Early Evening.
In Sector 5 Slums now with Aeris. This game continues to impress quite a bit. I really love all the music arrangements. I wish there were more references to the original's level design though. Maybe there is and I'm just not recognizing it.
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Played: 8/14. Afternoon.
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Played: 8/14. Early Evening.
Did the sidequests around Sector 5. Had some trouble with the eye guys. It took me a bit to figure them out. I actually died a ton.
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Played: 8/20. Afternoon.
Got to Wall Market.
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Played: 8/21. Late Morning.
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Played: 8/21. Afternoon.
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Played: 8/21. Early Evening.
Completed the Wall Market. It was incredible. Shame they put most of it on the dance routine. Kinda miss the original's side quest, but it was still pretty amazing.
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Played: 9/5. Afternoon.
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Played: 9/5. Early Evening.
Finally getting back to this game. Got through the sewers and train graveyard. I don't really understand how Tifa's stagger gauge increase moves are supposed to work. I can't seem to get them to. I don't really understand the whole stagger gauge thing to be honest. I tend to kill enemies before it's even a factor. I'm also constantly forgetting I have certain actions anyway.
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Played: 9/11. Evening.
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Played: 9/11. Late Evening.
Finished up the Train Graveyard and the Sector 7 Plate collapse. I appreciate that this game can go hard with it's politics though it still might be too subtle for some folks.
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Played: 9/20. Evening.
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Played: 9/20. Late Evening.
Got through the Sector 7 Wreckage. I'm glad the cat is OK. Shame only one of them got through it. Surprised they kept Wedge alive,
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Played: 9/25. Afternoon.
After so much emotional stuff I am now doing so many side quests.
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Motorsport Manager

Started: 10/6. Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
Watched Waypoint play a bunch of this and it was 80% off so I decided to pick it up. I know nothing about motorsport other than what I watched in the streams. I am not very good at this. Maybe I should have done the tutorial.
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Played: 11/13. Evening.
Decided to restart with the tutorial and decided I wasn't very interested in playing this.
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Slice & Dice

Played: 10/12. Early Evening. Mobile. Enjoyed.
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Played: 10/13. Late Morning.
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Marvel Snap

Played: 10/30. Afternoon. Mobile. Enjoyed.
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Played: 10/30. Evening.
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Played: 10/31. Late Morning.
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Played: 11/1. Early Evening.
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Played: 11/2. Evening.
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Black Book

Started: 10/30. Late Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
Started this as my partner and I's next game to play together. We like how the lore pages actually are a factor. The card game is kinda whatever so far.
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Played: 10/31. Evening.
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Played: 10/31. Late Evening.
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Ghost Song

Started: 11/3. Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
IT'S FINALLY OUT!!! WOooo. This game seems rad as hell so far. A really good combo of metroid and dark souls.
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Played: 11/4. Late Morning.
Stayed home sick today so I got to play this a bit more. Got to the crash site.
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Played: 11/5. Evening.
Got Double Jump.
They did an incredible job combining elements from modern metroid, dark souls, and a bit of hollow knight (particularly the equipment) to make something that feels really special. I was worried the NPCs would be too souls-like, but no, they're their own unique thing with a unique feel. Like they're way more hopeful and fun.
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Played: 11/5. Late Evening.
It seems like you can only fight some of the bosses once? Like if you lose then they run off and you can't fight them again. That's a little disappointing.
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Played: 11/6. Late Morning.
Explored pretty much everything I can at the moment. There are two bosses who don't run away that I can face but they're both really really tough. I did find some cool new items though.
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Played: 11/6. Afternoon.
Got another ship piece. I found out that the air attack on the fist is like an extra jump. Turned out I didn't need it to get the piece, but it put me in the direction for it.
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Played: 11/16. Afternoon.
Still not sure where to go. Feel like I need another upgrade but am not sure where it is. I've just been grinding against a boss. Feel like I should maybe restart on easy.
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Played: 11/19. Morning.
Decided to restart on the easier difficulty.
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Played: 11/19. Late Morning.
Got up to the camp. Kinda running through it quickly to get back up to where I was. Skipped out on a lot of the exploring because I can do that later.
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Played: 11/19. Late Morning.
I think I'm enjoying this game more on the easier difficulty.
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Played: 11/19. Afternoon.
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Played: 11/19. Early Evening.
I am now back up to where I was originally. I defeated the one boss but there was no progression behind them. Only a fast travel location. So I'm going to go after the Yellow area since everywhere else I need a Space Jump or something.
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Played: 11/19. Evening.
Wall Jump acquired, Part 3 is returned. I realized I could have just run away from that one boss so I did. Now the map is largely open to me. I can go pretty much everywhere except for a few locked doors.
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Played: 11/20. Morning.
4th part collected. I love the vibes of this game so much.
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Played: 11/20. Late Morning.
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Played: 11/20. Afternoon.
Got the final part. Ate a peddle. Fighting a statue. I realized a lot of the bosses are weak to Melee.
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Finished?: 11/21. Early Evening.
I got an ending, but it feels like there is more to go and a lot left unexplained.
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Cyberpunk 2077

Started: 11/22. Afternoon. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
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Played: 11/22. Early Evening.
Been watch Patrick play this game and decided to pick it up. It's a solid 3/5 janky game that I think I'll have mindless fun with for a bit.
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Played: 11/22. Evening.
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Played: 11/23. Late Morning.
Going around and doing gigs for now. Just kinda wanna get a feel for the stealth and everything. I like pistols and swords but once a gunfight breaks out, it's hard not to just rely on a big gun. I wish I had 4 weapon slots instead of 3.
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Played: 11/23. Afternoon.
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Played: 11/23. Early Evening.
I now have Johnny in my head and am doing side missions/working on my build. Kinda stealth but also very armored.
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Played: 11/23. Evening.
Doing a lot of the side quests because why not? Mostly just killing guys with a katana. Can't really seem to get the stealth to work most of the time.
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Played: 11/24. Morning.
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Played: 11/24. Late Morning.
Did more side quests. I kinda like my build. I like throwing knives and the katana. Stealth is very situational. This game really is very head-empty though.
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Played: 11/24. Afternoon.
Started on the quest to find Evelyn. I already know it doesn't go super well for her.
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Played: 11/27. Early Evening.
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Played: 11/27. Evening.
Recused Evelyn. Now just doing side quests. Had a really silly sex scene with a militech later. Got a dildo bat from it.
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Wildermyth

Started: 11/22. Early Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
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Played: 11/22. Evening.
Started playing this with my brothers and having a blast.
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Slay the Spire

Played: 11/27. Late Morning. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
This is apparently the first time I played this game this year? That's wild. Anyway. I was watching a streamer couple I follow play this and got the itch. I did a run as the Defect focused on Lightning and crushed it. Gosh I love this game when I'm good at it.
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Played: 11/27. Afternoon.
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Played: 11/27. Early Evening.
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Played: 11/30. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/1. Evening.
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Played: 12/2. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/3. Late Morning.
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Played: 12/3. Afternoon.
Had some absolutely good runs while listening to podcasts.
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Played: 12/3. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/3. Early Evening.
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Played: 12/6. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/6. Evening.
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Played: 12/7. Late Morning.
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Played: 12/7. Afternoon.
Tried to beat the Heart with the characters I haven't yet, but I couldn't even get it once!
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Played: 12/8. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/8. Early Evening.
Came close to beating the Heart as the Silent. If I had full health I would have won.
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Played: 12/9. Midnight.
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Played: 12/9. Late Morning.
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Played: 12/9. Late Evening.
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Played: 12/10. Afternoon.
I feel like I am terrible at this game....
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Played: 12/11. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/11. Early Evening.
Not having much luck on taking out or even getting to the Heart.
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Played: 12/11. Late Evening.
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Played: 12/12. Midnight.
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Played: 12/25. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/25. Early Evening.
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Played: 12/25. Evening.
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Played: 12/26. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/27. Early Evening.
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Buriedbornes

Played: 12/20. Afternoon. Mobile. Neutral.
This game is confusing and I don't get it, but it's a decent time waster.
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Played: 12/20. Late Evening.
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Played: 12/22. Morning.
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Played: 12/22. Early Evening.
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Played: 12/24. Late Evening.
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