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Oh yeah I got a couple Ninty games too.

StarCraft Ghost Pt. 2

It's also not an RTS but an open-world shooter apparently...

STARCRAFT!! \m/ \m/ 2030!!!

Live action prequel to Ace Combat 8. \m/ \m/

Along with their respective amiibos. Cause I buy amiibos now, I guess. I was planning on continuing my Metroid series marathon soon, so now I've got a specific date to shoot for. Shouldn't be too long anyway, up next is Samus Returns, then Metroid Fusion and Dread. I may or may not skip Super Metroid since I've played it before.

Mortal Shell II Didn't expect anything of this when I heard it was coming out a few months ago. However, after 45 hours with the game, I think I'm officially a fan. It doesn't reinvent the wheel or anything, but it does everything really well, and without any real frustration. I enjoy these games greatly, but often I find there's one little thing that frustrates me no end. That wasn't the case here. Sure, there's the occasional badly designed boss, but for the most part, the rest of the game felt like it was designed to give the player a challenging but incredibly fun time. 4/5 - About as high a score I can give a game without it becoming something I'd consider getting tattooed on my actual human body.

Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies We've made the jump to PS2! A bunch of changes and improvements, better graphics, special weapons, the ability to buy new aircraft and weapons, lots of cool stuff. Story presentation also changes, the story here is mainly told through the narration of this boy who loses his home and family after an enemy ace, Yellow 13 shoots down a jet that crashes into his house. Pretty different from the previous 3 games, also, your character doesn't really appear in the main story, except for some mentions later on. The other part of the story is similar through previous games, mission briefings and result screens tell you how the war is progressing, were your forces are, losses, wins, etc. Fun thing about the story too, this is the first game that presents you as this super pilot, Ace of Aces, living legend, etc. 1 and 2 had you as the leader of Scarface squadron, and while your team was famous, this wasn't as big of a deal during the actual game, 3 had some pilots knowledge your skills (pretty funny considering the true ending lol), this one though, is a whole new level. During missions allies will go all "it's Mobius 1! We're saved!", "Mobius 1 is here! Victory is ours!" while your enemies are all "That's the ribbon fighter! The grim reaper!" It's over the top, it's cheesy, I love it. Last mission took me several tries, even if they're pretty short, four tunnel runs in one mission is too much lol. 6 was my first AC, and this one is much closer to it than the previous 3 games, so it was a cool experience. Grade: A+

Mortal Shell II I love this game. Low-key might be my favourite non-From Souls game; overtaking Lies of P for that title. For context, I didn't enjoy the first game at all. I tried three times on multiple platforms but it just never stuck. This thing though? It feels like it's almost the perfect version of what I want from these games. The boss fights are difficult without being frustrating slogs that expect you to be damn near perfect at all times. The world is fun to look at and enjoyable to explore and the combat feels tight but fair. Plus they've just released a massive update that fixes some of the more pressing issues the community was having, like patching in a system that'll allow you to respawn outside a dungeon upon death; a pet hate of mine. Honestly, this thing is great, and I'm pleased to see the devs getting their moment in the sun because they fully deserve it.

Gone halves with my brother. Should be able to finish it pretty quickly and make a lil bit of our cash back on resale.

Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (JP) Counting this as a separate game from the US version because they're completely different. This one has a ton of cutscenes (by Production I.G. no less), several characters, multiple endings, a hidden true ending unlocked when you get all the other endings, it's easily one of my favorites in the series. Really liked the UPEO and Cynthia endings, both are fairly bittersweet but still end in a higher note than some of the other paths, then the true ending played out. I would love to see a remake of this one, or at least a proper release of this version in English, the series is more popular than back then so maybe there's a chance. My only issue, as with the US version, is the Electrosphere mission lol, cool concept, but a visual nightmare. Grade: S

Couple of days after my birthday lol. Looks really fun, love the tone of the trailer, and it's not a gacha, so it also has that going for it. "We do this together, or we die together, yeah?" "To the end" \m/ \m/ Witcher 3 remastered, free upgrade, also, Songs of the Past expansion coming next year. Not what I expected from Hoyoverse lol, Monster Hunter with a touch of Elden Ring, looks cool! Looks great! I can't wait!

September is insanely packed this year. I'm really glad Capcom decided to release Onimusha three weeks earlier because both of these dropping on the same day was fucking brutal. These are both no-brainer day one purchases for me, so I wouldn't have known which one to play first. I'll probably get Silent Hill Townfall as well but that one can wait until closer to launch.

Pokémon FireRed I picked it up when they released the port on the eShop earlier this year and got most of the way through it but then something else came out that distracted me from it and I only just got around to finishing it. Except for a difficulty spike at the very end that forced me to spend a few hours grinding, I enjoyed it for the most part. I did what little bit of story there is in the post-game and I'm at the point where all that's left to do is grind some more and fill out the pokédex. And since I don't have anyone to trade with, I'm not going to bother. It was fun to revisit the series after all this time, though. I had only played the first two gens on gb/gbc back in the day, so this version was good for a retro nostalgia trip while still feeling a bit fresh. I definitely want to play more of the series but I'm not sure where to go next. There's rumors that more ports might be coming soon so maybe I'll just wait for those but it's tempting to jump ahead to the more recent gens to see what modern Pokémon games are like.

I played a few hours of Yes, Your Grace like 5 years ago now so I may be misremembering somewhat. I found Y,YG to be more interested in the day to day management of the kingdom, whereas ST is more focused on pushing the story along with your decisions...if that makes sense.

That looks neat. Is it anything like Yes, Your Grace?

Sovereign Tower Like I said in the previous post, I don't typically go in for these sorts of games. That said, this one stole my heart in much the way a game called Bad North did a few years ago in that it's perfect for short sessions, looks brilliant on the smaller Steamdeck screen and is very chill. The later game *does* get a bit harder than the earlier stuff, as you might expect. Although the game also features a neat way to amend any mistakes you may have made along the way. That fix is also incorperated into the plot of the game in a way that just works. Again, I wouldn't normally go in for this sort of thing but I ended up really enjoying it, and if I fancy a second run at some point, I may actually take that up.

Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere (US) Felt like a step backwards in some respects, no more voiced briefings, mission end messages were super short and dry, bare bones story, the titular Electrosphere mission hurt my eyes, not a lot of positives lol. I did like the more sci-fi look of the planes though, that was neat. I had more to say, but then I got the JP version running with a translation patch... That one's a whole new game! So for this one, I'll just leave it with: Grade: C Palworld 1.0 1.0 Adds a ton of stuff, new areas, new pals, story stuff, more technology, etc. Many of the new pals made it to my list of favorites, including a main story one that is really cool, though kinda useless when assigned to a base lol. The end game grind was pretty bad but the devs released an update that improved things, increasing drop rates for some stuff as well as changing crafting requirements for some tech. I really liked this game before, like it even more now, my biggest issue, outside of some minor bugs and glitches, is the expedition station, that thing is huge, ugly and doesn't fit anywhere, wish there was an ancient tech version of it or something. Grade: A+