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hello. i play videogames in meant of pursuing the beauties of single playing. also an "intermediate" passionate in japanese videogame and anime/manga culture. my other favourite hobby outside of gaming is drawing, hoping to make through the grinding.

platforms i use: PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Nintendo 3DS (rarely)

favourite genres include action RPGs, action platformers, experimental games and soulslikes
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Clearin your Calendar

Journaled games at least 15 days a month over a year

GOTY '23

Participated in the 2023 Game of the Year Event

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Gained 10+ total review likes

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Journaled 5+ games in a single day

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Being part of the Backloggd community for 1 year

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Best Friends

Become mutual friends with at least 3 others

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Gained 3+ followers

Shreked

Found the secret ogre page

N00b

Played 100+ games

Full-Time

Journaled games once a day for a month straight

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Journaled games once a day for a week straight

Favorite Games

Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid
Cave Story
Cave Story
Undertale
Undertale
Dark Souls III
Dark Souls III

220

Total Games Played

032

Played in 2024

182

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Dark Souls: Remastered
Dark Souls: Remastered

Mar 28

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade

Mar 28

Sid Meier's Civilization VI
Sid Meier's Civilization VI

Mar 24

The Jackbox Party Starter
The Jackbox Party Starter

Mar 24

Drawful 2
Drawful 2

Mar 24

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This review contains spoilers

[still playing the game, and damn if it's that long]

There's way lots to say for this "remake". Way lots.

Before i gave this a play i played through the original Final Fantasy VII for the PSX (PS4 version, which is a bit ugly) which was largely based upon (and later on the whole Compilation of FFVII created by the infamous Tetsuya Nomura), up to the point i gave up halfway during the 75% of Disc 1 and watched someone play the rest of it. It was a breakthrough hit for Squaresoft that was acclaimed by everyone and was known for having a modular Ability system known as Materia which allowed them to customize their own set of abilities and magic.

In the late 2010s, Nomura would be really purposeful to plan a trilogy of games that set in the main storyline of FFVII, starting with Remake (with Rebirth coming just after 4 years) which largely is compromised of the entire Midgar part, with further extensions and slight alterations. They apparently couldn't bother doing the Remake in one single entry so they decided to go on that direction, which apparently caused a questionable amount of fans that didn't like the way Squaresoft decided.

But what about how i felt about FF7 Remake? It's a remarkable experience. Not perfect, but just good enough. Problems? The English and Japanese dubs are VERY different in context which has caused quite a lot of confusion that, for example, the Italian subtitles match the Japanese translitteration. I've had encountered this problem since when i played the Live A Live remake. Apparently, it's quite a controversial decision from the localization team for being a Square Enix game. But anyway, let's cut it off.

The story of the game takes on a dramatic spin compared to the old Final Fantasy titles, with cinematic-style cutscenes taking the hurdle and extended plotlines all over the way. Parts of the rest of FFVII are taken and placed in Remake as well, including bits of soundtrack from the latter half of Disc 1 and familiar plot points such as Cloud's flashbacks. Taking in consideration this game heavily takes place inside Midgar, there is no actual overworld zone and the game mostly takes through a linear world progression (as of Chapter 11) with several small towns. Just like in FFVII, your party supports up to three playable characters and feature the famous Materia system, but the main difference is that combat is entirely redone with a different real-time battle system which replaces the necessity of having to use a separate battle scene, instead going for a more Chrono-esque immediate start and having the player control one of the three player characters, each one with their unique ability skillsets that can learn off from specific weapons they can obtain from shops.

Played this jolly good game during the period when i first bought the PlayStation 4 in a time when the PlayStation 5 was about to come.

I'm not that great with videogames and movies that tell stories about exploring forbidden ruins, such as Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones franchises, although this was a great experience for the first time i played it when during the COVID-19 pandemic Sony gave away the Uncharted collection for free. This game was developed by the folks behind the original Crash Bandicoot series before they sold it to Activision, although there's nothing really anything interesting to note about this.

As far as i could remember, the game tells the journey of Nathan Drake who searches for the treasure of El Dorado following the diaries of Francis Drake, only to be surrounded by many adversaries who seem to go after him or the treasure. The main thing of this game is that the progression switches between exploration and combat parts constantly as you delve into mysterious locations such as temples, abandoned castles and cities, alongside solving interesting puzzles, before getting into combat scenes involving loan sharks and other enemies that Drake encounters.

The first game had a twist that kind of thrilled me when they put off that archeological haunting atmosphere decently, but i appreciated the twist of the second game more than this one, but the first Uncharted never ceases to be amazing.

In the collection, there's also extra secrets that however i do not ever intend to go seeking for because of obvious completionist stuff i don't care about getting into.

To be honest, i NEVER played a Silent Hill game and therefore i'm quite of an ignorant when it comes to my knowledge of the franchise. I was terribly curious of how this game was THAT darn panned so i decided to give it a try.

The game's performance, even on a PS5, is terribly unoptimized, first of all, and there is no option of using a Performance option, but the graphics might not be the problem at all. The story, even towards the end, manages to be really confusing that it only solves with the usual, repeated message about suicide prevention.

I just feel like they tried their own best to bring back a beloved franchise, but then, there's yet to wait for Silent Hill f in this case...