2018-01-18 02:30
I have a bad habit of making songs, only to stuff them into a metaphorical drawer where they’re unlikely to see the light of day again. This particular track is one of my favorites fro… Read More
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2018-01-17 04:14
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Something I totally forgot to mention in the last progress log is that the candles littered around the levels can be seen regardless of how… Read More
2018-01-16 03:33
Originally released for the Xbox One in January of 2017 and now being released for the PC on Steam exactly a year later, Candleman is a physics puzzler with an interesting angle: you play as… Read More
2018-01-15 01:24
The last time I reviewed a Soul Calibur game was in 2012, just a month or so after I started this site. My reviews for Soul Calibur 4 on the PS3 (because my PS3 could still read discs back t… Read More
2018-01-14 05:53
Call it superstition, but I always like my first review of a new year to be somewhat indicative of that year. That’s one of the reasons I had intended Omega Quintet to be that first re… Read More
2018-01-14 05:50
Omega Quintet is one of those games that I’m really on the fence about. On one hand, the amount of busywork required to get the real ending is absolutely maddening and exists solely to… Read More
2018-01-13 03:24
I’ve already reviewed Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China, which means that it’s a little late to be putting up a progress log, but I’m dealing with a new puppy at the moment… Read More
2018-01-12 04:12
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Chapters 9 and 10 are mercifully short as far as the sidequest fluff is concerned, and the final two boss fights proved to be total pushover… Read More
2018-01-11 15:01
All I knew going into the Xbox One version of Flying Tigers: Shadows Over China was that it was an arcade-style flying game originally released for the PC, and one that Steam’s user re… Read More
2018-01-11 15:00
As is usually the case with Xbox One screenshots, the ordering got messed up. I worked out a way of avoiding that something like a month ago, but got busy and totally forgot about the extra… Read More
2018-01-11 03:05
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This is going to be a short progress log out of necessity; I used up most of my free time today trying to push through to Omega Quintet&rsqu&hell…Read More
2018-01-10 02:39
Okay, so I went back and played through some Soul Calibur 3 for context, and Seong Mi-na’s moves are totally different there. Earlier I mentioned that learning her moves in 2 was easy… Read More
2018-01-09 02:14
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There were things about Soul Calibur 2 that I found incredibly annoying leading up to this point, but this is the point where those irritati… Read More
2018-01-08 04:00
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Okay, so I just finished chapter 7 (Omega Quintet is set up in an episodic format despite not being released piecemeal) and it took forever… Read More
2018-01-07 02:52
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The format here will be the same as in the last progress log, with the full, unedited version of my second day with the game being posted at… Read More
2018-01-06 01:32
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I have no idea what the ideal difficulty setting is for this game. Normal is the easiest one available, and I typically stick with that when… Read More
2018-01-05 01:29
One of the unexpected benefits of doing these progress logs leading up to reviews is that it’s possible to cover Early Access/In Development titles that were previously off-limits; it… Read More
2018-01-04 02:07
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All of my worry that I missed a small number of skill-level-increasing quests turns out to have been for nothing, as #4 and #5 ended up show… Read More
2018-01-03 05:03
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All right, the combat mechanics in general are definitely a bright spot. The sidequests, on the other hand, are soul-crushingly tedious fetc… Read More
2018-01-02 02:53
I’m not going to go into another rant about how disappointed I am with Square-Enix’s behavior as far as the DRM and general money-grubbing customer unfriendliness is concerned, b… Read More
2018-01-01 02:42
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It’s revealing that I’ve played Omega Quintet for around 7 hours now and still don’t know exactly how all of its systems w… Read More
2017-12-31 01:23
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There’s this deeply OCD side of me that doesn’t like leaving things unfinished, so I’ve been working my way through Soul C… Read More
2017-12-30 03:12
First, let’s address the elephant in the room (specifically, the one with the big sparkly anime eyes): this isn’t my kind of game. That’s not entirely accurate, though, bec… Read More
2017-12-30 01:03
Christmas (and some change) is over, and as much as I’d love to sit around relaxing until 2018 begins, there’s way too much to do. Do you hear me, New Year’s Eve and Day? Y… Read More
2017-12-29 01:01
Madcap Castle is an action-puzzle-platformer for the PC that masquerades as an old Game Boy game. That retro devotion extends far beyond mere aesthetics, too, as this is the kind of game tha… Read More
2017-12-24 01:25
I’ve been hitting things pretty hard lately, posting almost every day for several months now, and it’s been exhausting. That type of pace will resume when I get back, but I do ne… Read More
2017-12-24 01:13
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After 18 more minutes of being stuck on level 92 and having perfectly safe attempts ruined by the fact that you insta-die if you switch to y… Read More
2017-12-23 03:58
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I’m currently stuck on level 92 of Madcap Castle, but that seems as good a stopping point as any given how many new mechanics have com… Read More
2017-12-22 03:11
I covered a bit of Soul Calibur 2 for the PS2 yesterday because my internet was acting up, and the download for the game I thought I’d be covering wasn’t going to finish in time… Read More
2017-12-21 03:22
I went to download a new game to start on, only for my internet to decide that it didn’t feel like playing ball. Long story short, the download went slow enough that I had no time to a… Read More
2017-12-20 02:23
Journey is one of several games I had sitting around on my PS3’s hard drive for a long time, though I’ve since played through it several times both there and on PS4. Mostly becau… Read More
2017-12-19 01:25
Battle High 2 A+ is a game that makes me feel good at fighting games, and that’s cool. It’s also a game that gave me a headache, and that’s not cool. Now, normally I’… Read More
2017-12-19 01:25
Let’s get something out of the way immediately: I’m not good at 2D fighting games and usually avoid them for that reason, preferring to stick with their more roomy 3D counterpart… Read More
2017-12-18 02:07
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A couple of the characters here are really fun to use. I started with a character named Beat who’s pretty much perfect for beginners (… Read More
2017-12-17 01:47
2D fighting games have never been my forte, though I’ve always had an interest in learning how to play them as effectively as I can their 3D counterparts. Awhile back, Killer Instinct… Read More
2017-12-16 02:31
Youtube isn’t something I’ve ever taken particularly seriously, with its role mostly boiling down to hosting the thousands of random unlisted videos I eventually end up embedding… Read More
2017-12-15 01:05
Judging something like Half-Genie Hero’s Friends to the End DLC is difficult, because it’s inexpensive and has some really good parts, but it also feels like half of my time with… Read More
2017-12-15 01:05
Maybe it’s paranoid, but I’m starting to feel as though Half-Genie Hero and its accompanying DLC (Pirate Queen’s Quest and now Friends to the End) has been designed for the… Read More
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2017-12-14 02:02
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Boss fights being more difficult because of the absence of health upgrades is a reasonable way of creating a sense of difficulty. After all… Read More
2017-12-13 03:27
I took a couple days away from the site to catch back up on sleep after the past 2-3 months of daily updates started to take their toll. Besides that, the new Shantae: Half-Genie Hero DLC&rs&hell…Read More
2017-12-10 02:45
One of the best things about gaming is that so much work invariably goes into each release that developers sometimes get burned out and start coming up with crazy ideas to switch things up… Read More
2017-12-10 02:01
The Surge was an enjoyable game, though some of the endgame enemies started to feel like cheap roadblocks, and there were also a small handful of bugs that really got under my skin (includin… Read More
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2017-12-09 01:33
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As it turns out, I was farther into A Walk in the Park than I had thought and managed to finish it off fairly quickly. Not that it’s o… Read More
2017-12-08 01:53
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The extra implant slots all of my grinding unlocked are already making a difference, as I was able to slot in something that restores 20% of… Read More
2017-12-07 03:21
The Surge seemed to delight in throwing the player into a bunch of dark, claustrophobic hallways and vents, so setting the expansion in what appears to be a sunny theme park gone horribly aw… Read More
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2017-12-06 02:43
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Endgame-5 is the final endgame chapter (and thus the end of the game), so this is going to be an especially long one full of pictures and vi… Read More
2017-12-06 02:21
Frictional Games makes some incredibly well-received games, and yet these have been entirely inaccessible to someone like me because of their focus on helplessness. Not having the option to… Read More
2017-12-06 01:27
SOMA is a great story wrapped up in gameplay that adheres to traditional horror-game cliches, even when playing in the new “Safe Mode” that grants main character Simon a superhum… Read More
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2017-12-05 04:01
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After all of the frustration of the last progress log, getting to the next area and being handed a bunch of dark hallways to complement a ch… Read More
2017-12-05 04:01
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This is the second-to-last chapter in the game, and it’s usually one of the hardest ones thanks to my style of play typically only giv… Read More
2017-12-04 02:05
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At the end of the last progress log, I was at a place of “I can’t wait to see what’s around the next corner.” Now I… Read More
2017-12-04 02:04
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This chapter is where we get all of our main weapons blessed (sadly, not our staves, so there’s no chance of infinite long-range heali… Read More
2017-12-03 03:44
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A long, long time ago, an episode of Batman: The Animated Series twisted my mind in all the right ways. It was one where a new character was… Read More
2017-12-03 01:55
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We’re officially done with the story recaps now that we’ve reached the multi-part endgame, and the same goes for the base menu… Read More
2017-12-02 04:58
SOMA is a game that I’ve heard a lot of great things about, but that I had no real interest in when it first released; monsters that can’t be beaten with clubs, shot with guns, o… Read More
2017-12-02 03:12
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We’ve finally made it to Act 4’s endgame, or at least the beginning of the endgame. Unlike previous endgame chapters, there are… Read More
2017-12-01 04:45
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This is going to be a special chapter. Not only are we going to kill an endless number of feral laguz and have some lingering questions answ… Read More
2017-11-30 02:16
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I’ve always been fond of this chapter, but what I remember most is it being a seemingly impossible hurdle during my hard mode playthro… Read More
2017-11-29 01:47
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This stage is awful. I adore the game as a whole, but this stage really is bad. It’s slow because movement is limited, an enemy has an… Read More
2017-11-28 04:56
I’ve (rightfully) been accused of being hypercompetitive, and that side of me took hold shortly after I posted my review of Nidhogg 2; I played through the game’s single-player a… Read More
2017-11-28 01:50
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It didn’t occur to me until this chapter, but I usually stick Zihark and Volug into this Tibarn/Elincia group. Instead, they’re… Read More
2017-11-27 03:26
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This chapter gives us control of Ike’s group, and while it’s significantly stronger than the other two groups thanks to the adde… Read More
2017-11-26 06:59
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A whole lot of stuff just happened at the end of Act 3, and Act 4 only piles on more and more. Most of it makes sense, though there are a sm… Read More
2017-11-25 06:41
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Act 3 was a long one, but we’ve finally made it to its endgame chapter where everything goes horribly wrong, setting up Act 4. To be p… Read More
2017-11-24 03:22
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The thing about support bonuses is that enemies don’t receive them. Or if they do, the characters who I always have supporting each ot… Read More
2017-11-23 08:17
Some back story: one of Gamestop’s front-and-center Black Friday sales (which starts on Thanksgiving for cynical reasons, or perhaps because calendars are hard) was a used Xbox 360 for… Read More
2017-11-23 06:10
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A lot happened in the last chapter, but even more happens in the next two. We’re playing as the Dawn Brigade again, and that means it… Read More
2017-11-22 02:32
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This is going to be a long one. Not because of the stage itself, which takes about as much time as the last one did, but because of how many… Read More
2017-11-21 02:54
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Before Path of Radiance’s final chapter, I made a point to use up the extra bonus experience I had on Elincia in order to bring her cl… Read More
2017-11-20 02:38
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The politics of this conflict have already become all tangled up and interesting (and will become even more so later), and this chapter is c… Read More
2017-11-19 21:23
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The previous two chapters were some of my favorites in the series. The next two, however, don’t even come close to living up to them… Read More
2017-11-18 05:18
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Zihark was impressive during that last chapter, but Ike and Mia aren’t about to be outdone. The Laguz Alliance (or at least the broken… Read More
2017-11-17 06:58
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Remember way back when I missed a hidden Beastfoe skill and mentioned that it’d be more convenient than necessary? This chapter is whe… Read More
2017-11-16 05:06
Tower 57 is a game that’s a lot of fun, but how much fun you’re bound to have with it will depend on a few things. First, whether or not you have a controller. This game is hard… Read More
2017-11-16 04:47
The version of Tower 57 that was supposedly uploaded to Steam today is 17.84. The version I was sent didn’t have any instructions to opt into a beta branch or anything, though, and it… Read More
2017-11-16 03:31
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The next stage will finally give us back control of Micaiah and her forces for a chapter (though Act 3 still skews pretty heavily toward Ike… Read More
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2017-11-15 21:46
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I’ve already finished the game. Twice, in fact. This is definitely an enjoyable game, but it’s also a short one. That first play… Read More
2017-11-15 02:21
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A lot of the early Act 3 chapters revolve around Ike’s group in order to give you some time to reacquaint yourself with everyone and f… Read More
2017-11-14 21:25
“Tower 57 is a top-down twin stick shooter with 16-bit inspired pixel art, destructible environments and heavy focus on co-op. It is also a modern take on what made Amiga games so grea… Read More
2017-11-14 02:13
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There are a lot of cutscenes and interesting military maneuvers in this chapter, and the actual gameplay is equally interesting. The goal he… Read More
2017-11-14 01:56
The best way to describe my experience with Ayo is a bell curve of enjoyment, where the middle part was incredibly enjoyable and full of character, but the beginning (where you’re goin… Read More
2017-11-13 21:25
I uploaded all of these images to XOMF as per usual, but my site told me that the images didn’t exist (and going to several pictures’ URLs confirmed that they were blank for some… Read More
2017-11-13 01:17
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This is a chapter that I’ve had so much trouble with in the past that all of the dangers are burned into my mind. I remember the wyver… Read More
2017-11-12 23:17
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Well, that took a sudden turn. One minute I’m loving everything about this game, and then a comically ill-advised stage full of nuisan… Read More
2017-11-12 02:00
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That last chapter was a cakewalk. This one, on the other hand, is legitimately dangerous. Not only are Lethe and her younger sister yellow a… Read More
2017-11-11 21:18
Ayo: A Rain Tale is a game claiming to shed light on the struggle of girls in Sub-Saharan Africa as they’re forced to trek long distances to fetch water. I don’t know about that… Read More
2017-11-11 01:15
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Act 3 is where Radiant Dawn kicks into high gear and things start to get crazy. We’ll play most chapters as Ike and his mercenaries, b… Read More
2017-11-10 03:39
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We’ve finally made it to Act 2’s final chapter, which is a doozy. At least, that’s usually the case. A seemingly endless n… Read More
2017-11-09 05:44
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In the first chapter, Elincia was the lead character. Then it was Nephenee and Brom. The previous stage had Lucia as the lead. Now Geoffrey… Read More
2017-11-08 02:10
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Having Nephenee become such a central part of my Path of Radiance strategy was unintended, but fortuitous; whereas she’s normally not… Read More
2017-11-07 03:35
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This chapter is yet another one without a base menu, but we’ll get it back in the next chapter. As mentioned before, Act 2 doesn&rsquo&hell…Read More
2017-11-06 04:22
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You know what I just realized? The game doesn’t refer to its sections as “acts,” but as “parts.” I’ve be… Read More
2017-11-05 16:40
The original Bubsy is a mess, but it’s a lovable mess filled with sunglass-wearing giraffes, roller coasters, and egg-throwing enemies who have a yarn ball fetish. It takes a lot of pr… Read More
2017-11-05 01:49
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The way Radiant Dawn handles its acts is kind of interesting, because each act has a prologue and endgame (and Act 4 has a special 5-chapter… Read More
2017-11-04 00:36
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This is either the easiest or hardest Act 1 chapter to get through depending on whether or not you want Micaiah to be involved in the combat… Read More
2017-11-03 00:03
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Chapter 8 of Act 1 is one of the more memorably difficult chapters, if for no other reason than it being another one of those “enemies… Read More
2017-11-02 01:34
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Back in chapter 24 of my Path of Radiance playthrough, I finally had Ike and Soren reach an “A” level support and mentioned that… Read More
2017-11-01 03:00
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This might seem like a bit of a fluff chapter at first, but there are a small handful of interesting interactions between characters here. T… Read More
2017-10-31 03:48
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This is another chapter where we meet up with some old Path of Radiance characters, including Zihark (finally). Sadly, he and the other two… Read More
2017-10-30 02:29
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Okay, full disclosure: I don’t think I’ve ever gone through this game while following a guide. That means that I’m bound t… Read More
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