Mega Man X:

I've played a Mega Man X game before on PS1, but essentially, this is the first time I'm properly playing the series. It took me around 6 hours, with some additional wrapping up for any items I had missed. I expected the difficulty to be worse, but most of the stages were pretty light on challenging sections, and a lot of them felt like a breeze to go through, especially the second time. Pretty linear and rather short stages, but at the very least each one felt unique enough and employed some sort of gimmick. The order in which you tackle each boss seems to be the most important part of the game, but despite that, I managed to take out the first two bosses without any gimmicks (Penguin and Armadillo) and then felt like an avalanche with each win as you kept getting stronger. The game also seems to be very lenient in some ways, like, there were plenty of places where you could farm energy, fill up, and grab some extra lives along the way as well. Despite its age and the lack of some QoL, I liked the controls quite well and was surprised to see how dynamic the game feels with the dash/wall jump. Anyway, it was a good game, and I want to say that hopefully the next entries build upon that and improve, but I think that's not entirely true. 

Pretty good detective game, great even for being so short. A girl named Seowon went missing and was never found leaving the case unsolved, until years later the retired detective who handled the investigation is urged to reexamine the details and try to figure out what happened to her

Searching through a mess of past conversations with the people relevant to the case, the goal of the game is to make sense of the detective’s distorted memories by reordering these conversations and assigning them to the right person, initially being confusingly jumbled until they gradually fit in proper order and you start to get an understanding of what was really going on. It’s only about 3 hours but found its mystery pretty compelling, and I liked the game’s simple pixel style and music which fit its moody tone really well