Very good game. Audio and visuals are phenomenal, and the soundtrack is incredible. It's worth playing for those reasons alone. Sound design when moving around, climbing and walking over different surfaces sounds amazing and so crisp. Just a very good-sounding game overall. The soundtrack constantly hits with upbeat tunes, but also darker tracks in areas that need it. The gameplay is fun, but it can get a bit repetitive in the combat. I do, however, love the traversal around levels where you have to climb, use a hookshot-like tool and so on, plus fun puzzles here and there. Makes it a bit more to do than the average RPG.

The story is simple but in a good way. Think Paper Mario 64 and other RPGs like that. It's sweet and heartwarming, but it doesn't go crazy with details that you need to remember. Gets darker later in the game as well. It's nice with a chill RPG like that every once in a while. I can definitely recommend it, even at full price.

Quantum Break is a decent game, but it has some major issues. First of all, the story isn't the best, and you have to literally watch a show within the game. I'm talking 20-25 minute episodes. The story does get interesting at times, but also boring and cliché at other times. The game looks very good though. That's definitely a positive, but it runs terribly. I have a high end card from 2023, but the game keeps stuttering like crazy, even though it originally ran on a 900p/30fps Xbox One console. It makes no sense why the game runs this bad on PC. For the stuttering alone, I have to give it a negative review. Might be worth it on a deep sale, however.

I finally got around to playing Final Fantasy II, but I didn't like it that much. The story has more to it than the first game, but it's still pretty simple and forgettable. That isn't even a problem though. The problem is the extremely grindy gameplay, and enemies that spawn way too often. It becomes a chore just to play through this game after a while. It was pretty fun at the start: magic and weapons level up as you use them, but in the later stages of the game, it takes forever for magic to level up. Also, you do a lot of the same stuff over and over again. Talk to the princess, walk to objective while fighting a bunch of enemies, navigate overly long and samey dungeons with way too many encounters, then return to the princess. It gets very repetitive. Still, the music and atmosphere are pretty good, but I would say this is probably my least favourite Final Fantasy out of those I've finished. I will give it a positive review though, because the Pixel Remaster makes it a lot better. You can turn of encounters if you feel like you've had enough for one area, you can speed up leveling and/or battles, and you can even switch to the original soundtrack if you want. For those reasons, it barely gets a nod from me.