What Games Have You Completed? (2021 Edition)

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

I honestly can't fathom why you would spend 45 hours or more getting a platinum on a game you despised.

Trophy hunters, just like the trophies they are after, don't make sense. Well unless you factor in OCD and skinner box psychology.

Game|Platform|Game|Platform
Megaman X2|SNES||
Streets of Rage 4|PC||
Sekiro|PC||
Megaman 7|SNES||
Megaman 8|PS1||
Megaman X3|SNES||
Megaman & Bass|SNES||
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4||
Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC||
Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC||
Mischief Makers|N64||
Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC||
Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4||
Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy||
Virtua Racing|Switch||
Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC||
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC||
Crysis Remaster|PC||
God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3||
Resident Evil Village|PC||


Resident Evil Village

Left my thoughts on the main thread. While it's not an absolute classic I really enjoyed by time with this game. It's also nice to play a relatively brief by modern standards and well paced action game. I like how each section plays a little differently and the developers have fun with that. Level design is a high point as well with a Dark Souls-esque inter connected world.

Game|Platform|Game|Platform
Megaman X2|SNES|Live a Live|SNES
Streets of Rage 4|PC||
Sekiro|PC||
Megaman 7|SNES||
Megaman 8|PS1||
Megaman X3|SNES||
Megaman & Bass|SNES||
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim|PS4||
Broken Sword: Director's Cut|PC||
Command & Conquer: Red Alert|PC||
Mischief Makers|N64||
Wolfenstein 2: New Colossus (DLC)|PC||
Deception 4: Blood Ties|PS4||
Final Fantasy Adventure|Gameboy||
Virtua Racing|Switch||
Thief 2: The Metal Age|PC||
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault: Spearhead|PC||
Crysis Remaster|PC||
God of War: Chain of Olympus|PS3||
Resident Evil Village|PC||


Live a Live

This is a weird one. Very late SNES RPG that never made it to the west. At the start you have 7 selectable characters and each one is a 1-3 hour RPG scenario that does something unique and interesting with the genre. The ideas probably wouldn't support a 40+ hour RPG but work perfectly in as bitesized RPGs. Each chapter is illustrated by a different manga artist.

Caveman: A RPG set before language. There's no written dialogue and everything plays out in pantomime. This chapter is great fun. It's full of great visual gags and laugh out loud funny at times. The MC Pogo can also smell where battles will occur or where plot items are. Had a lot of fun here.

Ninja: Infiltrate a castle and take out the evil leader. This takes place in a Massive Shogo era castle and courtyard. It's a very open ended chapter with many ways of beating it. You can take it entirely stealthily only killing the final target or can rush in and kill everyone (with a hidden reward for killing all 100 people). There's plenty of traps and devices to keep you on your toes. One of the longer chapters but really enjoyed this one. JRPG Hitman.

Present Day: This plays out like a RPG megaman crossed with street fighter. You basically play as a fighter in a tournament trying to become the strongest. There's 6 fighters you can choose to fight and you can learn each fighters abilities. You basically have to find a route that will allow you to gain abilities that will help you defeat each opponent as some are near impossible with out the tactical advantage of some moves. Very short but fun chapter. Yoko Shimomura provides the soundtrack for the entire game, which is excellent, but really plays off the street fighter 2 influences here because.... well she composed that soundtrack as well.

Near Future: This is a mish mash of anime tropes. Mecha, psychic troubled teens, shady government laboratories and.... a plot point about stealing a child's panties. Stay classy Japan. This sounds awesome but it's far and away the worst chapter. The MC can use psychic powers to read peoples minds but it just means you have to talk to everyone twice. It's also the worst designed and worst written of the bunch. Also for a chapter called 'Mecha' you get to use the Mecha for 2 minutes at the end of the chapter. At about 3 hours this one is a chore.

Sci-Fi: A RPG with no combat. This predates all those RPG maker visual novel type games. In this you play as a robot helping the crew of a spaceship in what feels like a 2001 Space Odyssey/Aliens Homage. This is pretty short but also my favourite. Lots of fun and the robot is super cute.

Kung Fu: You play as an old kung fu master selecting 3 students to pass his skills on to. It's an interesting concept that doesn't quite work. Only one student will make it through the chapter so the optimal way is to pick your favourite and just train them. This one is a bit ordinary but short enough that it doesn't out stay its welcome.

Cowboy: High noon the RPG. You're a cowboy tasked with defending a town before gang of bandits arrive to cause trouble. You have a set amount of time to collect items to use as traps and then have to task the towns people with setting up the traps. Some towns people will take longer than others to set traps while others will balls them up. When the time is up the bandits will arrive and the traps you set up will thin them out for the final battle. This one works great and is loads of fun. My only issue is I'd like more of this one!

There's an extra chapter that plays like a standard save the princess JRPG but then really subverts that trope.

In the final chapter all the characters have to join forces, take on some optional dungeons and bosses to get the best equipment and then face a (pretty brutal) final boss. The final chapter takes a couple of hours and plays more like a standard RPG so is the least interesting but a nice way to wrap everything up.

Live a Live isn't entirely successful but the chapter based approach to it's gameplay keeps it lively and it's always fun to finish a chapter and find out what the next one is like. Ultimately the overarching narrative doesn't come together in a satisfying way but it's just such a fun experimental game that it's hard not to like for what it tries and how interesting it is.

There's some talk of a re-release or remaster and it might just happen, square have put out some pretty deep cuts in terms of remasters recently and the director of this game is now pretty high up in square and has been tweeting about it.