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#53 - Strangers of Sword City Revisited (PC) Dungeon crawler with a lot of complex systems. The difficulty is very high and there are very few ways to level up quickly. With multiclassing being pretty much mandatory to get debuff and crit resist, there's a lot of grind. #Beat2025

#52 - Fatal Frame (PS2) A mighty fine, albeit kind of clunky start. Combining survival horror and photography is fun, and most of the ghosts were fun to fight. The difficulty is all out of wack, though, and the later games definitely smoothed things out. #Beat2025

In Resident Evil DS, they seem to have rendered a new room for the problematic gas vents box push room. They rotated it and straightened the view so its more clear where to push the boxes, and even added floor grids. The puzzle is exactly the same otherwise. down to the ladder that gets in the way.

#51 - Resident Evil: Deadly Silence (DS) A weirdo version of Resident Evil where they added in tons of touchscreen puzzles, first person knife fight events, and rearranged the enemies. They added tons and tons more ammo and health, too. Lot of fun. #Beat2025

#50 - Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World (PC) Very chaotic. Early open-world style CRPG that kinda just throws you out there and says go do it. Its all pretty unbalanced, with most of the encounters in the game being super random. It's a lot of fun to find ways to get OP, tho. #Beat2025

#49 - SaGa DS Remake (DS) Really good! Super faithful to the original game to a fault, but the graphical and music upgrades are quite lovely. And I've got a lot of nostalgia for this game. #Beat2025

Any clue as to the synth? 1983 or earlier. I'm saying a Fairlight

#48 - Savior of Sapphire Wings (PC) A remake of Students of the Round, which was a remake of Class of Heroes. The dungeon design is nice, the story is rather cozy and the crafting system makes sense. A step above CoH I think. #Beat2025

#47 - Resident Evil: Dead Aim (PS2) Resident Evil spinoff from Cavia (Bullet Witch, Drakengard, Ghost in the Shell) that plays alright. Bit stiff and doesn't play as well as RE4, but its short and pretty fun. Got a very cozy vibe to it and a soundtrack by the Ridge Racer guy. #Beat2025

#46 - Class of Heroes 3 (PC) Pretty alright dungeon crawler. Straightforward gameplay and simple dungeons, weird difficult curve where theres like one spike right at the beginning then the rest is pretty easy. Also the crafting system is a mess and I don't like it. #Beat2025

#45 - Galerians (PS1) Weird survival horror game where you play a psychic kid who has to solve puzzles, while an anger meter constantly fills up the whole time. Really awkward combat but fun story. Falls off after Chapter B though. #Beat2025

#44 - Bards Tale II: The Destiny Knight (PC) Pretty good. Feels like they were struggling to figure out ways to make it more interesting or challenging, and ended up just filling all the dungeons with Darkness+Anti Magic+Spinner+Teleport squares so you couldn't see where you were going. #Beat2025

#43 - Silent Hill (PS1) Silent Hill. Got the bad ending. Not much I can say about this that hasnt been said. Its a classic. Absolute banger of a game. #Beat2025

#42 - Deep Fear (Saturn) The worst kind of experience is when someone tries to copy something without understanding why any of it worked. In this case, you wind up with a Resident Evil copy that's just boring. An experience thats just endlessly running through hallways. #Beat2025

RetroAchievments is doing a two month long event where you plot a path through a maze and play games to get to the exit

#41 - Daikatana (GBC) A weird Gameboy Color port of the game that plays sort of like a Zelda thing. It's pretty fun, short, and has an amusingly bad localization. #Beat2025

#40 - DOOMBLADE (PC) A really cool Metroidvania where you play THE GLOOM GIRL and team up with a super cool sword called THE DOOMBLADE to form the Doom and Gloom Rebellion. Unique mouse and keyboard based movement where you click and zip around the screen, even going through walls. #Beat2025

#39 - Wonderboy: Dragon's Trap Remake (PC) Lizard Cube's breakout game. A wonderful HD remastering of the old SMS/TG16 game. Kind of a metroidvania where you change into different animal forms to get through different challenges. #Beat2025

#38 - Ratshaker (PC) Not sure. You shake a rat up and use it to do magical things. Strange, very short walking simulator style game. #Beat2025

The bench is BROKEN?! I PAID FOR IT. #SilkSong

#37 - Ys: Memories of Celceta (PC) Falcom finally made their own version of Ys 4, combining elements from both of the original two Ys 4s and made something new. The story is great, and exploring Celceta Island is a lot of fun. #Beat2025

#36 - boyfriend or cake? (PC) What? It's a gameshow where you have to determine if a dude is a cake or a boyfriend. Also there's existential dread #Beat2025

#35 - frog detective 1 (PC) An adorable and weird game where you're a frog and have to solve the mystery of ghosts on an island. Also there's breakdancing #Beat2025

@badgerpunch.com Probably mentioned it before, but I love love how Roguecraft looks. I have some pretty intense childhood memories of Legend (Trazere), and despite those games being impossible to play, they have a visual style that's very nostalgic to me.

You're a Dutch pop act in the 1980s and your label tells you to re-record your album for German listeners. Well sure. But how are you gonna change up the album artwork for the new market

#34 - Realms of Arkania: Star Trail (PC) A classic! Wonderful world traveling RPG where you hunt down a special artifact that will unite dwarfs and elves to fight the orc menace. Interesting set pieces, weird humor, and lots to explore. #Beat2025

#33 - Donald Duck: Goin Quackers (PS2) One of the 5 completely distinct versions of Goin Quackers. This version adds boss fights and special moves that you use in stage challenges to get score. #Beat2025

#32 - Dalmations 3 (PS2) Not a game. A 'film' (8 minutes of the 40 minute runtime is from Dalmations 2) they stuck on a PS2 DVD with some slide puzzles. Not great. #Beat2025

#31 - Madagascar (PS2) Based on the movie. Toy For Bob delivers a fun platformer that keeps delivering fresh gameplay for its entire runtime. Top marks for a license title. #Beat2025

#30 - Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (PS2) The last Breath of Fire game. An effort from Capcom to try and make something entirely new, and produce a more challenging game then Breath of Fire IV. It's a lot of fun and has an interesting tone to it. #Beat2025

#29 - Gungrave G.O.R.E. (PC) Avoided it at launch because it looked like it played like the first Gungrave, but picked it up when I learned they re-made the game to play like Overdose. Its a lot of fun. Dumb arcade shooting stuff. But it looks and plays nice. #Beat2025

#28 - Hammerboy (Amiga) Some sort of whack a mole thing. It's got about 4 levels and then loops. It's really not very good. #Beat2025

#27 - El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron (PC) An incredibly stylish bust mostly inexplicably beatemup where you have to punch your way to the top of a biblical tower so God won't flood the earth. Very pretty and weird. #Beat2025

#26 - Demonicon (PC) Extremely mid action RPG based on the Dark Eye roleplaying system. It's just alright. Extremely short, too. #Beat2025

#25 - Breath of Fire IV (PS1) A gorgeous, but sadly rushed and incomplete feeling JRPG. It has a really strong start, but the story beats stop hitting and you mostly end up going from place to place with little rhyme or reason by the end. And they didn't even finish the ending. #Beat2025

#24 - Gungrave (PS2) An aggressively anime game where you play a zombie frankenstein that's made of shooting. You blast up the anime mafia and fight big blob monsters, too. #Beat2025

#23 - Record of Lodoss War: The Advent of Kardis (Dreamcast) A unique game in that weird post Diablo 1 pre Diablo 2 era when everybody was experimenting. It's got a really unique advancement system where you modify and buff your gear. One of my favorite games. #Beat2025

#22 - Arzette: Jewel of Faramor (PC) Hilarious homage to the classic (?) CD-I Zelda games. Spot on structure and animation style, but still tweaked enough to be an actually appealing game to play in the modern era. #Beat2025

ALSO. The Retro Achievement set for the Dreamcast game Record of Lodoss War is 80% complete, and will probably be released in June. Its one of my favorite games ever, so when that drops, I WILL be doing a playthrough of it.

Next game on stream will be Breath of Fire IV. Been planning this one for a WHILE.

#21 - Drova: Forsaken Kin (PC) The first effort by German studio Just2D. Basically a 2D pixel art version of Gothic. Sublime vibe, great writing, secrets and surprises around every single corner. Worth it. Give it a try #Beat2025

#20 - Labyrinth of the Demon King (PC) Unique first person Silent Hill-esque game by J. R. Hudepohl. Fun atmosphere and story, interesting puzzles with pretty unforgiving combat. Took me 10 hours, so its a bit on the short side. But its good for what it is. #Beat2025

#19 - Star Wars: Force Unleashed II (PC) Kinda crazy. It's like they got told 'make the most exciting game ever' so its just nonstop explosions and bananas shit happening the entire time. It does end up making the game rather short though because it burns itself out. #Beat2025

#18 - Shining the Holy Ark (Saturn) Amazing follow-up to Shining in the Darkness, and a direct prequel to Shining Force 3. Brilliantly designed dungeons that never get boring, with each having some special theme or gimmick to them. Very good. #Beat2025

#17 - Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Switch) Really fun metroidvania. Goes absolutely bananas on the spike platforming sections, giving some of the most uncivilized platform sequences I've seen in games. #Beat2025

#16 - Shin Megami Tensei IV (3DS) Pretty much a masterpiece. Has a bit of a strange difficulty curve where it starts really hard, then the rest of the game is pretty easy. But the vibe is great, the music is great, and fusing demons is fun. #Beat2025

Short montage of what I played on Amiga Friday Had a lot of fun. Still slowly working through the Ds www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUme... #amiga #friday

Amiga Friday was a lot of fun today. Actually found a lot of really fun games, and I had a nice time. Thanks to the huge raid from BillBull, too! I made a highlights montage #Amiga youtu.be/yF_CaKp7qiI

#17 - Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown (Switch) Really fun metroidvania. Really tricky combat and some of the most crushing platforming sections I've experienced in a game like this. They seemed really obsessed with spike mazes. #Beat2025