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Logging as of 2020 onward.

I know my ratings curve isn't pretty but I sincerely want to admit that I think 2.5⭐ is a good score
Personal Ratings
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Listed

Created 10+ public lists

GOTY '23

Participated in the 2023 Game of the Year Event

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Elite Gamer

Played 500+ games

GOTY '22

Participated in the 2022 Game of the Year Event

Shreked

Found the secret ogre page

Gone Gold

Received 5+ likes on a review while featured on the front page

Best Friends

Become mutual friends with at least 3 others

Busy Day

Journaled 5+ games in a single day

Donor

Liked 50+ reviews / lists

Roadtrip

Voted for at least 3 features on the roadmap

3 Years of Service

Being part of the Backloggd community for 3 years

GOTY '21

Participated in the 2021 Game of the Year Event

Famous

Gained 100+ followers

Treasured

Gained 750+ total review likes

Gamer

Played 250+ games

Adored

Gained 300+ total review likes

Trend Setter

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Loved

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On Schedule

Journaled games once a day for a week straight

N00b

Played 100+ games

Well Written

Gained 10+ likes on a single review

Popular

Gained 15+ followers

Liked

Gained 10+ total review likes

GOTY '20

Participated in the 2020 Game of the Year Event

Noticed

Gained 3+ followers

Favorite Games

Sin and Punishment
Sin and Punishment
WipEout: Omega Collection
WipEout: Omega Collection
La-Mulana
La-Mulana
Gravity Rush 2
Gravity Rush 2
Lost Planet 2
Lost Planet 2

602

Total Games Played

021

Played in 2024

328

Games Backloggd


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Dragon's Dogma II
Dragon's Dogma II

Mar 23

Dark Souls: Archthrones
Dark Souls: Archthrones

Mar 22

Face Of The Killer
Face Of The Killer

Mar 11

Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix
Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix

Mar 09

Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name

Mar 03

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(Day one impressions)
Kind of surreal I'll be honest. Over a decade has passed and so much of the DNA of that made the original DD so unique and anachronistic are being picked up and expanded upon in perfect stride. I'm seeing much of the same enemy types, vocations, locales, brutality in the sheer darkness, quests with hidden steps and branches - shit, the tone of the voice acting, the character animations - all back and taken as far as the little RE Engine can carry it. Too early to give much judgement on the quality of the whole shebang yet, but find it in ur dragonbound heart to forgive me for being blown away by how they didn't fuck it up lol. Probably the most noticeable shift for me is that there's a palpable weightiness to everything now, expounded by the CPU-aggressive focus on physics simulations and incredibly rocky topography. Launch performance has been smooth for me 90% of the time outside of the stop-motion capital city. Pawns are so much like labradors in this it's so funny, they'd jump to their deaths to try and impress you with a shortcut they swear they know about.

It doesn't do a whole lot to really deal with my foundational qualms with Late Souls entries;- where I think the incoming damage is tuned way too fucking high. Necessitating the need to turn off the part of my brain that is capable of enjoying the cool fantasy adventure and instead allocate more power to memorising excruciating enemy movesets, and resisting the urge to fucking kill myself while looking at a blacksmith menu.

What's here is incredibly cool though, there's some serious nerve to calling what is essentially a fanmade standalone Souls game a """demo""" that is currently, playably, almost as content-rich as Demon's Souls. It leaning into the linear Archstone level structure from Demon's is such a salve to me, it's like being given five different adventure novels and being tasked to push your bookmark as far as u can thru them. Each of the worlds call to prior Souls entries to varying levels of explicitness, from a remux of Heide's Tower of Flame to an entirely new desert biome that is abso gorgeous. These locales not needing to necessarily feel beholden to eachother to have that interlinked coherence is just such a buzz of variety I love it.

In complete honesty i didn't play Bloodborne Souls 2 or 3 any more than the once (sorry sory) so my memory of the minutia of their locations and enemies are incredibly hazy. Even then, it's pretty clear at times when the mod runs a boss through something akin to the Pokemon Fusion website, Frankensteining together a funny little Radagon of the Boreal Valley or whatever.

Ultimately I'm just spellbound by the ambition here, what the mod desperately needs is some rebalancing to stop the enemies from being insanely damage spongy. I don't care how gud i need to git as much as I care about wasting my time doing 50 damage per hit on an regular mob enemy that has 10,00000,0000000 hp & will give a pittance of souls on defeat.

Big 'your mileage may vary' thing here but it's free and has a great installer so it's an easy recc. If this project sees fruition I can imagine it'd be special to the point of legal action being considered or something. Saria is a my queen etc.

Had next to no expectations about this one so forgive me but I'm very pleased lol. I was Not expecting Rockstar to have it in them, this has so much arcade racer DNA despite its open-world core. Blisteringly fast & cartoonishly responsive controls, making great use of the open world's hazards and emergent chaos to make every race feel rich w/ needle-threading improv. Most impressed by how hard this is clearly pushing the PS2 graphically, in service of a dreary industrial conkcreet hellscape. With enough tricks of the light 20FPS feels like 9999FPS. Would earnestly recommend playing this in software rendering mode on pcsx2 for it to hit just right. Techstep of all things on the OST and fugly neon car underglow it's good to be back in 2006 again babye. Career mode is kind of threadbare, all of the cutscenes are Xavier Renegade Angel-grade FMVs where the dialogue is just "yo is that a car🤔❓ hit the boost ese 🗣️🔥" and you essentially experience all the game has to offer in the first hour of playing.