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ytadel
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3 21%
Starlight Legacy (2025) - Rated 13 Oct 2026
I played through it all because it's quite short and I enjoy retro JRPG aesthetic and mechanics, but in a post Chained Echoes etc world these kinds of games need to try a little harder, for the most part outside of SNES level graphics this is NES Dragon Quest 1 level simplistic.
6 67%
Mina the Hollower (2026) - Rated 19 Jul 2026
Fun Link's Awakening/Oracle-alike with mix of good platforming, dungeons, items to collect and boss battles, although there were points when I had a frustrating sense of "uhh what now?" with little direction (this openness could be a pro not a con for you) and the lack of map is a pure wtf to me; they put out some cutesy little YouTube video explaining why but still I would rather had a simple button to push to bring up a map. Great music, albeit maybe a bit below the tunes in Shovel Knight.
8 92%
007: First Light (2026) - Rated 09 Jun 2026
Much closer to what I want from a James Bond story than Spectre or No Time to Die tbh. Story enjoyable, action pretty good with some John Wick esque slickness; sometimes the QTEs could be a bit modern game design for me but overall I'd definitely like a sequel or two w/ same cast.
5 50%
Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake (2025) - Rated 19 May 2026
The Dragon Quest 1 campaign was good clean snappy JRPG fun that occupied my free gaming time enjoyably for a few weeks. The Dragon Quest 2 campaign ground on and on and on endlessly and took me months and I was pretty desperate for it to be done by the end.
6 67%
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (2025) - Rated 05 Apr 2026
If there'd been Metroid Prime games every 2-3 years since 2007 and this was like Metroid Prime 11 or whatever I'd be like "yeah that seems about right" but after an 18 year wait this is a bit shocking. I didn't hate it – green score still – but mixed with some peak boss fights, fun "dungeon" design (more like Zelda than Metroid tbh), cool secrets there's so many AVGN "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!!" bits: the desert, the green crystal hunt, the generic space marine cutscenes, the ending, etc.
6 67%
Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound (2025) - Rated 27 Oct 2025
Filled my gaming time amusingly for a week. Bosses just hard enough (ie do a little better every try and get it on your 20th try; restart you right outside boss room).
4 35%
Suikoden (1995) - Rated 12 Apr 2025
The overall gimmick is interesting - a realistically (by 90s fantasy JRPG standards) depicted military campaign where the status of both sides in terms of lands, armies, castles etc held and the ebb and flow of war is reasonably well considered and believable. HOWEVER… I didn’t much care for the clunky magic system, needlessly silent protagonist, simplistic dungeons, and the “collect 108 characters strewn across the world to see the real ending” thing (some of them missable!)… not for me at all.
6 67%
Mario's Picross (1995) - Rated 09 Mar 2025
Sittin and rottin my brain cells away toggling lil squares
7 82%
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (2024) - Rated 08 Feb 2025
To my shame I never actually beat the NES original back in the day (that game is long as FUCK, bro, and hard!) but a literal lifetime later I've finally conquered Zoma & saved Alefgard n shit. And if you like JRPGs - yeah, the formula's all here. Recruit a party, towns, random battles, EXP, dungeons, learn spells, fight bosses, get your boat and flight device, all that. And I like that shit! They should have done a proper boss theme though even if the NES version just used the one battle tune.
7 82%
Sonic Mega Collection (2002) - Rated 27 Jan 2025
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