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I won't bother adding (most) VNs to this account because there's an ultimately better website to list those. So just use my list there if you care enough about my thoughts on mongolian erotic novellas or you are a federal agent who's collecting my digital footprint: https://vndb.org/u177843 (I only added Muv-Luv here because I felt like it OK?)

You're probably visitng this page because you didn't like my rating for some of the normie yoba game you liked and are looking into how bad of a guy I am. Hello there.
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Played 250+ games

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Being part of the Backloggd community for 2 years

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Found the secret ogre page

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Participated in the 2022 Game of the Year Event

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Played 100+ games

Favorite Games

Driver: San Francisco
Driver: San Francisco
The Talos Principle
The Talos Principle
Muv-Luv Alternative
Muv-Luv Alternative
Deus Ex
Deus Ex
Rance Quest Magnum
Rance Quest Magnum

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Total Games Played

029

Played in 2024

073

Games Backloggd


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Hello Lady! Complete Edition
Hello Lady! Complete Edition

May 31

Castlevania Chronicles
Castlevania Chronicles

May 31

Age Archives: 20th Box Edition
Age Archives: 20th Box Edition

May 25

The Sopranos: Road to Respect
The Sopranos: Road to Respect

May 21

Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising
Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising

May 13

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Cool box art and soundtrack are kinda all this game has going for it. The level design is fundamentally broken, with almost every threat being an unpredictable "gotcha" aimed at making you memorize the stages by heart instead of actually enjoying the game. Arrange mode is just a bandaid on a fundamental level design issue and doesn't help much, I still won't call it a fair challenge.
At least it was saved from emulation hell by getting a PS1 port, since this system is way easier to emulate.

Surreal experience of playing a shitty tie-in game made so that clueless parents buy them to kids who liked the cartoons they are based on but instead being based on The Sopranos

FILLER EPISODE
AKA SKIP THIS ONE
Do you love fetch quests? You should if you want to enjoy the blood pumping, semen boiling action of walking around the same locations over and over again, telling kids to go back home for dinner and collecting junk to later give it away for experience and some money.
The gameplay loop never really changes or meaningfully evolves, you are experiencing the same fetch quest "how else can we make this game longer?" type of design philosophy for 10 hours and then the game ends. The story, what little of it is there, can be summarized in a single sentence, and the character writing never really becomes engaging or goes beyond your average fantasy archetypes. If the goal of the game was to hype up the main event, Curse of the Moon-style minimalist adventure would have done fine, and delivered a way more fun burst of experience than this slog.
From what I've heard about the main gamae, Rising is ultimately irrelevent as the main cast plays only a minor role there. Find a better way to spend these 10 hours: play Rance 01.