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Oh man, I remember renting this back in the day and actually beating it. Even back then I could tell this wasn't very good lol.

Area 51 (PS2) Took a bit of time to get used to the controls, using R2 to aim, L2 to jump and L1 to crouch feels weird but after my brain adapted it wasn't so bad lol. The story is fun, silly, cheesy and cool, it really throws every Area 51 conspiracy theory at you lol, there's government experiments, alien weapons, a virus, a fake moon landing, a secret underground base, everything! Voice acting is neat (except for a VA that aged like milk), David Duchovny voicing a character that's involved with alien stuff, that just feels right. There were only two alien weapons but they were fun to use, and one of them has infinite ammo so that's always neat, just wish you fought more grey aliens. Alien monsters, infected mutants and humanoid soldiers are cool and all, but greys should be more common as an enemy type in a game like this. Grade: A

P.N. 03 This was... something lol, the most positive thing I can say is that some of the ideas present here went on to become Vanquish, and that one's cool. Oh, and I guess the Papillon suit is kinda neat. The controls are awkward, even for a GameCube game, some enemies and bosses move way too fast for how slow the aiming is, environments are empty and barren and not in a GameCube era kind of way. The story is pretty much non-existent: "Here's your next mission" "Will you tell me about the target?" "No" "OK" The last boss is a nightmare too lol, overall, not recommended unless you really, REALLY want to see what came before Vanquish. Grade: D-

It's Trails Day once again. Which means I get to spend an excessive amount of money on a game I won't be playing anytime soon. One day I'll be able to play these at launch again. Just need to catch up on Yakuza first. Then I can get to work on catching up on Trails...

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I'm trying Risk of Rain 2 again. I dropped it back when I originally bought it because I just could not make any progress at all, but I'm doing a little better the second go around. It's a decent enough roguelike shooter, but what really stands out to me is the soundtrack. I mean, holy shit:

90% off, the eshop version.

I played this on a flight, love the surrealism. It smacks of the animation bits in Monty Python. Has a little bit of untitled goose game vibes too.

Star Fox Assault Shorter than I remember, but still pretty fun. Really appreciate that it uses the C-Stick as a right stick camera control instead of some other weird control setting lol. Aparoid infection is still super creepy, specially the Corneria boss fight, still hits hard after all these years. There are some issues though, voice acting is a weak spot, Peppy went from cartoony old guy voice to monotone apathetic old guy voice lol, graphics also look like a downgrade from Adventures, and (this is just me lol) I much prefer the Arwing from Adventures over this one, Adventures has a more practical look and feel to it, Assault just kinda has pointy stuff everywhere and doesn't really land, just hovers in place. Grade: A

Star Fox Adventures Better than I remembered, but also kinda bad lol, some of the parts I recall being super frustrating (like the test of strength in Lightfoot village) were way easier this time, while the bomb puzzles were as annoying as always. Gameplay holds up better than expected, except for some things. Trying to aim the fire blaster feels like you're fighting against the staff itself, really frustrating, specially with how many timed puzzles require that you hit targets with this thing. Not being able to jump down while climbing rock walls gets annoying real fast, more so if you make multiple visits to the store. Not having proper camera controls is also quite the choice, specially when Assault does have the option to use the C Stick as a normal right stick camera control. I actually didn't remember that moment with Scales lol, was actually looking forward to that fight and then... Nothing. Grade: B+

Yakuza 5 Remastered Finished it two weeks ago but I immediately jumped into Rebirth and that first week I couldn't be bothered writing my thoughts because that was time I could spend playing Rebirth instead. Then I kinda forgot about it. I'm not joking, either. I literally finished Yakuza 5 like 15mins before Rebirth finished downloading. Anyway, it was pretty good. It was also very long but it never overstayed its welcome. Mostly because every time you switched protagonist it was like playing a completely different game. You start out with Kiryu and he's a taxi driver now, so naturally you end up getting sucked into the street racing world with drifting and eurobeat music. Then the next character fights like 78 dudes at once while breaking out of prison only to immediately get into a high-speed snowmobile chase followed by a fist fight with a giant bear. Then you spend the next 5 hours in a little mountain village playing a survival/hunting roguelike minigame. Then it's time to play as Haruka, Kiryu's adopted daughter, and she's training to be a pop idol so now the combat has been replaced by a rhythm game. Did I mention that this game is fucking bonkers? I can easily see how someone might just bail when they get to the Haruka chapters but it just made me love the game even more. This is the most unapologetically schizophrenic game I've ever played and I loved it for it. Overall, it did the multiple protagonist thing much better than Yakuza 4 but the story ended up feeling a lot less cohesive as a whole. Yakuza 4 kept me on the edge of my seat for the most part and it was only the finale that was a bit underwhelming (I still can't get over how our heroes' big plan was "We don't understand what's going on or know what to do, so let's just put that big pile of money on top of Millenium Tower and beat up whoever comes to get it"). Yakuza 5 was kind of the opposite. The story was so meandering and full of distractions that by the time I was on the last protagonist I had basically forgotten how things had started out with Kiryu at the beginning. The finale itself was much more exciting, although it did end rather abruptly. Anyway, that's now all the PS3 games done. That took me way longer than I expected but I can finally play Yakuza 6 and then move on to the Ichiban games. I'm almost caught up!

Hell yeah OLED life!

Been touching up the living room, making it better with cleaning and new furniture and such. This is the fun part: getting a new tv. My old one was 32 inches because I was using an old pre-HD cabinet and that was all it could fit. Now that I have more room, I bumped it up to a 55 inch. Also went for an OLED because I wanted to get more out of an upgrade than just a bigger viewing space.

My laptop needed a keyboard too. I actually didn't buy this one specifically because of the theme. I tried a smaller TKL keyboard but I didn't like how the right side buttons were vertically aligned so I got this slightly bigger one instead. Feels great to type on but man is it loud. If I had to worry about waking up people in the house I wouldn't be typing on this thing after bedtime, that's for sure.

I'm an adult and I spend my money in a responsible and mature way. I've also got a decent collection of figma figures at this point but they're all still in their boxes because I currently have no space to display them. With the ones I received yesterday, I now have the entire God Hand from Berserk!

I just didn't enjoy the encounter design, and thought every encounter went on way way too long.

It's basic but tbh if your game's combat is stealth-focused then all I need is a decent toolkit and a room full of enemies to pick off one by one and I'll be a happy camper.

Mouthwashing I sure picked a hell of a game to follow up on one of the silliest games I ever played. Mouthwashing is bleak. Very bleak. The premise is a commercial space freighter gets into an asteroid collision and the crew is now trapped on a dead ship in the middle of space with rescue unlikely. Food and water supplies are dwindling and the cargo hold is full of nothing but thousands of boxes of mouthwash with just enough alcohol content to get a person drunk if they're determined. The story jumps back and forth in the timeline, leaving you to gradually piece together what happens to the crew as they begin to despair and give in to their darker impulses. A line that is repeated more than once in this game is "I didn't believe people are defined by their worst moments." Are they, though? That's something they leave you to ponder. Some of the implications about what these people do to each other is absolutely vile and since they're all trapped on a spaceship together it's impossible for anyone to run away from their worst moments. It's presented to you through surreal segments full of psychological horror. There's no monsters on the ship other than the ones that already exist inside the crew but you'll be running from them anyway. It's like you're playing a David Lynch film. That's the best comparison I can think of. It deserves the praise it's been getting, but don't expect to be in a good mood when you finish it.

Even the gameplay of the first Last of Us was fairly basic but it was held up by a story people could really get invested in so if the story doesn't work then pretty much everything else falls apart.