About You: Video Games
Took this from https://www.backloggd.com/u/Archagent/list/about-you-video-games/ ! Thought it'd be fun to give a shot.
18 Games
FAVOURITE GAME OF ALL TIME: Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age
It's not a perfect game, but it's my perfect game. It's presentation, writing, gameplay, characters, everything it did made me love it more and more. Dragon Quest is far and away my favourite game series, and XI is the best encapsulation of why it is.
It's not a perfect game, but it's my perfect game. It's presentation, writing, gameplay, characters, everything it did made me love it more and more. Dragon Quest is far and away my favourite game series, and XI is the best encapsulation of why it is.
FAVOURITE SERIES: Dragon Quest
One of the first to ever do it, and still one of the best. Incredibly charming, with brilliant writing and localization, and classic turn-based gameplay polished to a gleaming sheen. It knows what it is and stays in it's lane, but each game always does something new that always tends to wow me. Both me and every friend I know who has delved into Dragon Quest are always shocked at how many staples of the best JRPG's come from a Dragon Quest of some kind.
One of the first to ever do it, and still one of the best. Incredibly charming, with brilliant writing and localization, and classic turn-based gameplay polished to a gleaming sheen. It knows what it is and stays in it's lane, but each game always does something new that always tends to wow me. Both me and every friend I know who has delved into Dragon Quest are always shocked at how many staples of the best JRPG's come from a Dragon Quest of some kind.
FAVOURITE SOUNDTRACK: Ihatovo Monogatari
Like most things about this game, the soundtrack just touches me somewhere deep in my soul. And, like the game itself, it's just hard to put into words. Even the feelings it gives me I can hardly place words for. It's really something special.
Like most things about this game, the soundtrack just touches me somewhere deep in my soul. And, like the game itself, it's just hard to put into words. Even the feelings it gives me I can hardly place words for. It's really something special.
FAVOURITE PROTAGONIST: Shulk
Shulk will always be one of my favourite characters in games. He's what I think is the ideal of a "JRPG McSwordGuy". He's also super autistic-coded, which is just really nice for me to see.
Shulk will always be one of my favourite characters in games. He's what I think is the ideal of a "JRPG McSwordGuy". He's also super autistic-coded, which is just really nice for me to see.
FAVOURITE VILLAIN: Uh, Badeline, I guess? The concept of mental illness and neruodivergency?
Okay, so this is a weird one. I know it's a weird one. But it gives me an excuse to talk about why Celeste means so much to me. Like Madeline through most of the game, she views her mental illness as something to oppose, as an enemy to defeat, in a sense. But, as things get harder, as it seems like she's at her lowest point, she has to make the difficult realization that it, and Badeline by association, isn't something to discard and minimize. Badeline doesn't go away, because she's a part of her. You can't just get rid of parts that you find unsavory about yourself, and when you find the beauty in it and how it makes you who you are, can you have the strength to meaningfully move forward. As a depressed, autistic trans woman who grew up in the Catholic school system, you can probably imagine why this game spoke so much to me.
Okay, so this is a weird one. I know it's a weird one. But it gives me an excuse to talk about why Celeste means so much to me. Like Madeline through most of the game, she views her mental illness as something to oppose, as an enemy to defeat, in a sense. But, as things get harder, as it seems like she's at her lowest point, she has to make the difficult realization that it, and Badeline by association, isn't something to discard and minimize. Badeline doesn't go away, because she's a part of her. You can't just get rid of parts that you find unsavory about yourself, and when you find the beauty in it and how it makes you who you are, can you have the strength to meaningfully move forward. As a depressed, autistic trans woman who grew up in the Catholic school system, you can probably imagine why this game spoke so much to me.
FAVOURITE STORY: Mother 3
I mean, get real. It's Mother 3. Considering the circumstances under which I started playing it, it's narrative and what it said tore right through me and made me cry for so many reasons, and more than any other game I think really could.
I mean, get real. It's Mother 3. Considering the circumstances under which I started playing it, it's narrative and what it said tore right through me and made me cry for so many reasons, and more than any other game I think really could.
HAVEN'T PLAYED BUT WOULD LIKE TO: Lost Odyssey
Maybe I'll get my Xbox 360 back someday.
Maybe I'll get my Xbox 360 back someday.
YOU LIKE BUT EVERYONE HATES: Shin Megami Tensei
People who don't like this game just don't see the vision
People who don't like this game just don't see the vision
YOU HATE BUT EVERYONE LOVES: Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Jesus Christ. Like, Oh My God. What do I even say. How do you make a sequel this insultingly awful. I really don't get it! I've wondered how this game could be so bad for years and I still don't get it! I was about to play all of Xenoblade 1, and Xenoblade 2, and script and record and edit an entire essay on these games and even if I did I probably still wouldn't get it! What the hell happened?
Jesus Christ. Like, Oh My God. What do I even say. How do you make a sequel this insultingly awful. I really don't get it! I've wondered how this game could be so bad for years and I still don't get it! I was about to play all of Xenoblade 1, and Xenoblade 2, and script and record and edit an entire essay on these games and even if I did I probably still wouldn't get it! What the hell happened?
FAVOURITE ARTSTYLE: Splatoon
If there was a dictionary definition for "me-core" this game would be the picture for it.
If there was a dictionary definition for "me-core" this game would be the picture for it.
FAVOURITE ENDING: Mother 3
It's fucking, god-damn Mother 3.
It's fucking, god-damn Mother 3.
FAVOURITE BOSS FIGHT: Slave Knight Gael
An incredible fight, and a perfect summary of everything Dark Souls is and strives to be. I don't know anything from any game that could make me feel so solemn while also getting my heart racing like this boss does.
An incredible fight, and a perfect summary of everything Dark Souls is and strives to be. I don't know anything from any game that could make me feel so solemn while also getting my heart racing like this boss does.
CHILDHOOD GAME: Pokemon Crystal
My first Pokemon game, and the game that made me ever want to start drawing more than little scribbles in the edges of school journals. Thank you Suicune
My first Pokemon game, and the game that made me ever want to start drawing more than little scribbles in the edges of school journals. Thank you Suicune
RELAXING GAME: Animal Crossing
My little animal neighbours were better friends to me than my real life friends in elementary school.
My little animal neighbours were better friends to me than my real life friends in elementary school.
STRESSFUL GAME: Guilty Gear -Strive-
How the fuck do I beat Millia
How the fuck do I beat Millia
GAME YOU ALWAYS COME BACK TO: Luigi's Mansion
I play this game every year on the Halloween season. Perfect little game to get through in an evening.
I play this game every year on the Halloween season. Perfect little game to get through in an evening.
GUILTY PLEASURE: Bloons TD 6
Dude, okay, wait. Just one more. I totally would've gotten past round 113 if I had another Perma-Spike trap here. It would've been eaaaasy money.
Dude, okay, wait. Just one more. I totally would've gotten past round 113 if I had another Perma-Spike trap here. It would've been eaaaasy money.
TONS OF HOURS PLAYED: Final Fantasy XIV
I wish I didn't play this game.
I wish I didn't play this game.
Archagent
1 year ago