can't play bc no memory card lmao

spent more time building monsters than playing the actual mini-games

on a totally different planet from any other game in the series. customization limited, soundtrack is informed by subtle dissonance, your neighbors get mad for no reason and sometimes straight up steal shit from you. maintaining the ideal living space in the original animal crossing is impossible by design. your role in this story is that of the klutzy comic relief. this is a game about finding joy in suffering, making sense of a world too unpredictable and unforgiving to keep under control. the inclusion of NES pinball helps too

played nonstop for like 4 months and then stopped forever just like i do with every animal crossing game

terraformed my island into a giant maze with various weird environments and setpieces and whenever my friends would visit i'd hide bags of money around and make them look for them. made me feel like willy wonka

this had something going for it tbh. my most prominent memory of this game was getting rich farming gold beetles on the island every night, but my emotional bond with a video game tends to be strongest when i learn how to break/exploit it. idk what that says about me

played nonstop for like 4 months and then stopped forever just like i do with every animal crossing game

love the concept but got bored and never finished

takes some weird liberties with the original trilogy's source material, but it works i like it

whimsical to an almost unsettling extreme. features probably my favorite villain dynamic ever. gruntilda's face is on everything, her voice echoes through the castle, her presence follows you constantly, but you never actually face her in person until the very end of the game. a simple but intense buildup that works so well

i gave this a chance but i got bored in like the first hour

its tone is drier, gloomier, better suited for the long haul than the original game's loud overstimulating presentation. streamlines certain gameplay elements to make room for vastly more complicated ones, namely its massive interconnected levels. navigating the worlds with no map forces you to pay attention to every detail and rely solely on your memory to get around, until eventually the layouts register in the same part of your brain as your own family members. easily the most breathtaking thing to come out of the collectathon platformer era

extremely well designed but these ranked linear action games are tough for me to sink my teeth into. one playthrough is enough for me

underrated classic. even basic movement brings me joy. i went as a goth version of the main character for halloween when i was 12

tries to make a meaningful statement about player agency and fails, but succeeds at damn near everything else. atmosphere is distinct and unforgettable, pacing is dramatic and horror-like, all weapons are fun to use, thematically shits all over randian objectivism. what more can you ask for

bought this bc my crush at the time liked it then we stopped talking. will probably never play

bought this while i was obsessed with rare and just never got around to playing it lol

they made the bosses super difficult towards the end to incentivize microtransactions, but i powered through without giving them a fuckin cent. the plot twist isn't anything super original, but the buildup to it is admittedly kind of insane. loove the battle system

heard this was good. never got around to it :(

bought this at a friend's recommendation and the timing was unbelievable. cute story that brought me to tears once or twice. gameplay is fun but has too much IWBTG vibes for me to ever truly fall in love with. i like games to feel a little aimless and empty sometimes; the level of polish here is impressive but doesn't leave much room to resonate with me

no jrpg has touched me on a personal level quite like this one. one of the most profoundly strange and beautiful games ever made. lulls you with long stretches of uneventful gameplay and a lush dreamy soundtrack to prepare you for the periodic mindfuck of its harsh nonsensical plot twists. subverts the "power of friendship" theme by instead exploring the mundanity of acquaintanceship. rewrites the rules of rpg battle systems to emphasize the weight of each individual encounter rather than test your endurance over time. chrono cross is a game that does things differently just because it can, and the resulting product straddles the line so hard between stupid and genius i can't not adore it

easily the most refined 90s rpg. i used to consider this an objectively better final fantasy, but with time i find myself valuing more unorthodox risk-taking over this game's simple conventional beauty. corridors of time is still probably my favorite song from any OST

cool mouse puzzle game. if i'd played this during its active years it would've taken over my life

i suck at this

does some charming things with the soundtrack and voice acting. shoutout unknown 90s roots rockers the bygone dogs for gracing this game with the most memorable and least fitting music ever. but otherwise a pretty unremarkable sci-fi racer

couldn't get into this one :(

played this repeatedly as a preteen for some reason. there's a strange beauty in the cold repetition of a dated arcade game. also the theme song still gets memed a lot which is fun

changed me in a profound and permanent way. as a distant clueless 7 year old lacking any sense of order, this game felt like the first thing in the world that made perfect sense to me. its touch is loving but never condescending. i felt understood but never spoiled. my friend told me there was an unlockable space level and i didn’t believe him until i saw it with my own eyes. a miracle was possible after all. this is the standard to which i’ve held not only every video game, but every life experience period

getting to see the ultimate crowning game of my childhood through a modern corrupted lens is honestly kinda cool in a fucked up way. by all technicality a bad remake, but i'm still glad it exists

a little over-ambitious plus banjo-tooie does almost everything this game does better, but still too special to be ignored. nails it with the atmosphere and level design, but making every single objective exclusive to a specific character was kind of a lame move. having to constantly switch characters/forms/time of day is a simple task on paper but the wasted time adds up. i restarted 3 different playthroughs of this before i finally made it to the end. there’s a masterpiece buried in here somewhere, but i’m still happy with what we got

i'd feel like i dreamed this game up if not for all the songs on the soundtrack still being burned in my memory

bought this right before a vacation where i got sick from unknowingly drinking contaminated water. played it in between headaches and throwing up and eventually beat the entire thing. unfortunately even looking at it makes me nauseous now

takes place in a twisted dreamlike version of suburban america designed to tickle your senses at every corner. nonsensical, terrifying, everchanging, yet sincerely moving. playing this as a kid probably would’ve rattled me to my core, but after multiple playthroughs as an adult it still only ever grows more fascinating. even its flaws somehow make it perfect. i want to live in this game

you know i thought i didn't like this but looking back it's one of the more interesting rpgs i've played? everything about its design feels crude and impulsive like it was dreamed up by a literal child. leveling is unbalanced and maps are laid out with the sloppy unorganized passion of a kid's train of thought. feels like one of those games that shouldn't exist but does. also if you refuse the last recruitable partner enough times you get abruptly sent back to the beginning of the game which is one of the dumbest and most amazing gags i've ever seen

nothing special mechanically, but never stops being infectiously charming. it takes a lot for high fantasy to win me over but they nailed it with this. the escort npcs cheering every time you kill an enemy is actually the most adorable thing ever

does an exorbitant amount of things right. vault 11 could have been its own standalone game and i'd still love it, and it makes up literally like 1% of this game's content

the cleanest FF installment. every game in this series has a ton of shit wrong with it, but this one has the fewest problems. characters are fleshed out and grow naturally over the course of the story. (freya might be my fav in the series) battle system is balanced perfectly with no easy shortcuts to steamrolling everything. medieval high fantasy world isn’t quite to my preference but the execution is so tasteful i can’t not love it

subsequent titles would further improve upon the FF formula, but this game’s vibes are immaculate and it deserves the hype for that reason alone. its bare-bones rudimentary gameplay combined with its bizarre and somewhat inconsistent retro sci-fi aesthetic makes for a super relaxing world to just exist in. there’s an indescribable magic that transcends its technical limitations in a way that few other games can pull off. any story about defying fate always gets to me emotionally. also the main cast is undeniably great when you look past their flanderized place in pop culture. sephiroth’s emotional vulnerability always personally appealed to me more than the blind chaotic evil of other series villains around this time