Not as many games as I usually beat in a month, but I played quite a lot of longer games.

Nov 4 - Picross e6 (3DS) - 7/10
Nov 9 - Fruits (PC) - 1/10
Nov 9 - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (GameCube) - 8/10
Nov 16 - Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country (Switch) - 10/10
Nov 19 - Picross Touch (PC) - 5/10
Nov 22 - Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed (Switch) - 10/10

Best Game: Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country
Worst Game: Fruits

Oooh I'm first!

With it being the 20th anniversary, and it being free on Steam a few days ago, I will pick Half Life 2

For anyone who wants to join in but is indecisive about games to nominate, I have made a collection of previous games nominated in the past that have not won. Plenty to choose from.

https://howlongtobeat.com/user/R2D21999/lists/55197/Itchmas-Games-Previously-Nominated

Half-Life 2 is free on Steam until the 18th. https://store.steampowered.com/app/220/HalfLife_2/

Here are mine:

What Never Was: https://ackehallgren.itch.io/whatneverwas

Moida Mansion: https://dukope.itch.io/moida-mansion

Creature Packets: https://kenforest.itch.io/creature-packets

Here's stuff I got in October.

Oof this month was rough near the end in terms of how bad the games were. Two 1/10 games not only in the same month but in the same week is pretty unheard of from me.

Oct 4 - The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (Switch) - 10/10
Oct 6 - Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (PS4) - 9/10
Oct 6 - Resident Evil 7: Biohazard - Not a Hero (PS4) - 6/10
Oct 7 - Don't Pee (PC) - 6/10
Oct 7 - Mega Coin Squad (PC) - 6/10
Oct 8 - Starship Damrey (3DS) - 7/10
Oct 15 - Link-a-Pix Color (3DS) - 4/10
Oct 19 - Pic-a-Pix Color (3DS) - 4/10
Oct 21 - Art Style: ZENGAGE (DS) - 6/10
Oct 27 - Creepy Tale 2 (Switch) - 6/10
Oct 27 - Death's Door (Switch) - 8/10
Oct 28 - Connection ReHaunted (Switch) - 1/10
Oct 29 - Body of Evidence (Switch) - 4/10
Oct 31 - Dream Alone (Switch) - 1/10

Best Game: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Worst Game: Dream Alone

Kind of funny I started with the best game of the month and ended with the worst.

Astro Bot! I already beat it like two months ago, but I'd like to go back to it for the new speedrun levels.

I finished Resident Evil 7 on VR last night. I think it's a great game, although it kind of lost what made it scary halfway through for me. Still a fun time though.

I did also enjoy my time in VR, I felt very immersed. However, I had some issues with it. The image quality was iffy. Very pixelated in some areas, especially on characters in a lit room. The dinner scene at the beginning is a great example. Then there's also issues with the subtitles. Sometimes the subtitles are often too long to fit in view. Sometimes when an object is right in front of you, the subtitles will be behind the object. It's very unreadable at times and I doubt they actually tested this for proper accessibility. Quite unfortunate to see.

As much as those issues bothered me, I still quite enjoyed my time with the game and would give it a 9/10. I will probably play it again sometime, but without the VR.

I also played the Not a Hero DLC. It's fine. Most of my complaints stem from the multiple instances of near endless enemies spawning, a section where you have to run past nigh-invincible enemies in narrow hallways, and a story that adds basically nothing.

I do think the DLC does an interesting Metroidvania-ish set up that was pretty fun at times, and I mean it's more RE7 so that's not bad. The DLC is a 6/10 for me as far as DLCs go.

Less games than usual since I've become so very busy in September.

Sep 1 - Serial Cleaner (PS4) - 8/10
Sep 2 - LocoRoco (PSP) - 5/10
Sep 7 - Revenge of the Colon (PC) - 7/10
Sep 10 - Astro Bot (PS5) - 10/10
Sep 16 - Shadow of the Colossus (PS3) - 8/10
Sep 17 - Journey (PS3) - 7/10
Sep 25 - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (GameCube) - 8/10

Best Game: Astro Bot
Worst Game: LocoRoco

Didn't get anything in August... but a lot came in September. Along with a Gamecube and some other games I found in my dad's storage.

I finished Echoes of Wisdom so I'll start up Resident Evil later today. I've never played a mainline RE game. The only RE game I've played is Resident Evil Mercenaries on the 3DS and that game was rough. So I'm looking forward to playing a hopefully good game.

I do have Death's Door. I'll probably get to it after I play a few other spooky games for October. It looks cool.

Inside... I've never played but I do remember watching the Game Grumps play it years ago, and while I still might play it eventually, I don't feel a rush to get it anytime soon.

I've been debating about what to pick. Do I want to pick the creepy and mysterious card game Inscryption? Or the amazing classic-style survival horror game Signalis?

In the end, I think I'm actually going to go with Resident Evil 7.

Concord is dying already and it's barely been a month.

https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/03/an-important-update-on-concord/

It's going offline on September 6, so you have three days to "enjoy" Concord. They're offering refunds for anyone who bought it. The store page is already down.

I've only done three challenges in August... however, these are the last three of the main challenge I have to do.

I still want to do the bonus challenges, but I am technically done with the 2024 challenge.

Here's my collection: https://www.howlongtobeat.com/user/R2D21999/lists/29881/R2D21999-2024-Challenge

09-1. A remake or remaster of a game - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) - This is a remake of the Game Boy version.

10. A game with 6+ endings - Vampire Savior: The Lord if Vampire - This is also known outside of Japan as Darkstalkers 3. And if you know anything about fighting games, is that they have multiple characters, and sometimes each one of those characters has their own storyline to go through with their own endings. Especially so with something like Darkstalkers. I think there's 10 characters? So at least 10 endings.

44-2. A game that you have beaten before and are replaying - Lego DC Super-Villains - I beat this in 2019, before joining the site. I beat it again now.

Jan: 14 games
Feb: 5 games
Mar: 13 games
Apr: 7 games
May: 4 games
June: 6 games
July: 6 games
Aug: 3 games

Finished a lot of games in August. Lot of short ones, but a lot of terrible ones too. Not as terrible as the bigot posting above tho.

Aug 2 - Pokemon Alpha Sapphire (3DS) - 8/10
Aug 5 - Vampire Savior: The Lord if Vampire (Saturn) - 8/10
Aug 5 - Virtua Fighter 2 (Saturn) - 6/10
Aug 5 - Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe (PC) - 5/10
Aug 5 - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch) - 9/10
Aug 6 - Donut County (Switch) - 6/10
Aug 8 - Picross e3 (3DS) - 7/10
Aug 12 - Lego DC Super-Villains (Switch) - 7/10
Aug 13 - SkateBIRD (Switch) - 2/10
Aug 14 - Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (NES) - 5/10
Aug 14 - Contra (Arcade) - 7/10
Aug 18 - Carnival Games (Wii) - 4/10
Aug 18 - Picross e4 (3DS) - 7/10
Aug 19 - Velocity 2X: Critical Mass Edition (PS4) - 8/10
Aug 20 - Shrek's Carnival Craze Party Games (Wii) - 3/10
Aug 22 - Picross e5 (3DS) - 7/10
Aug 26 - Anno Mutationem (Switch) - 6/10
Aug 26 - Castle Conqueror Revolution (DS) - 7/10
Aug 27 - Looksley's Line Up (DS) - 4/10
Aug 28 - Solitaire (Game.Com) - 4/10
Aug 29 - Roombo First Blood (PS4) - 6/10

Best Game: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Worst Game: SkateBIRD

Forums are social media. You're already posting on social media, girly.

I have mixed feelings about this. Don't you think it tends to trivialize a lot of things and makes the game a little too easy? Not that I'm a menuing addict :)

Absolutely not. Having played both the OG and the remake, I absolutely hated the inventory management in those GB games. My biggest complaint of those games was having to pause and switch items every single second I ran into a different kind of rock. That's not difficulty, that's just tedium. The remake fixes that and I absolutely love it for just that reason alone.

Also, if we're really comparing difficulty I would go with the remake. Unlike the GB versions, they made the fish boss function like an actual boss. I also struggled way more with the Armos mini boss in the remake for some reason.

Astro Bot is coming out at the start of next month, so I'll nominate Astro's Playroom, which is the free pack-in game that came with every PS5.

Here's stuff I got in July. Not too shabby I think.

Here's my list:

Page 1 - Hollow Knight, Hades, Celeste, Bioshock, Bioshock Infinite
Page 2 - Half-Life, Bioshock 2
Page 3 - Little Nightmares, Persona 5 Royal, BotW, Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition
Page 4 - Limbo
Page 5 - TotK, Castle Crashers
Page 6 - Dead Cells
Page 7 - GRIS, Blasphemous, FFVII, A Short Hike
Page 8 - Among Us, Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Page 9 - Borderlands, Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Page 10 - Alien Isolation
Page 11 -
Page 12 - Aperture Desk Job
Page 13 - Watch Dogs, Monster Hunter Rise, What Remains of Edith Finch, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
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Page 15 - Katana Zero, Brawlhalla
Page 16 - Superliminal
Page 17 - Watch Dogs, Metroid Prime, Enter the Gungeon
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I thought I would have made it to page 20.

I beat the Game Boy version on the Zelda Game & Watch for the first time a few weeks ago and I really liked it! So I'm looking forward to trying the 2019 remake here soon.

Six challenges finished in July. Not only that, I have only three left plus the bonus challenge. I might actually finish this year!

Here's my collection: https://www.howlongtobeat.com/user/R2D21999/lists/29881/R2D21999-2024-Challenge

11. A collection of games - Bioshock: The Collection - It's Bioshock... the Collection... it's in the name.

14-2. A game whose title contains the name of a color - Red Earth - It's... RED Earth... it's in the name.

31. A cornerstone to gaming culture - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Game Boy version) - It's Zel... da... it's in the nam- ok sorry that joke's old. But seriously I think Link's Awakening is as much a cornerstone as something like A Link to the Past.

33-2. A spin-off game - Metroid Prime Hunters - Metroid Prime is arguably a spin-off series... so Metroid Prime Hunters is a spin-off of that.

36. A game that heavily features either fire or ice - Atomic Punk 2 - This is literally a bomberman game under a different name. Imo the fire upgrade is an extremely important upgrade in the Bomberman games since it expands the explosion range. Also you light the fuses with fire, so it *is* kind of important.

45. A game that is on someone else’s HLTB 2024 Gaming Challenge List - Folder Dungeon - Thank you FrozenRoy for having it as your game you got for free.

Jan: 14 games
Feb: 5 games
Mar: 13 games
Apr: 7 games
May: 4 games
June: 6 games
July: 6 games

Played quite a bit this month.

Jul 1 - Metroid Prime Hunters (DS) - 6/10
Jul 1 - Folder Dungeon (Browser) - 8/10
Jul 7 - Sunset Overdrive: The Mystery of Mooil Rig DLC (Xbox One)- 4/10
Jul 7 - Sunset Overdrive: Dawn of the Rise of the Fallen Machines DLC (Xbox One) - 5/10
Jul 7 - Sunset Overdrive (Xbox One) - 7/10
Jul 10 - Oceanwork (PC) - 6/10
Jul 10 - Link's Awakening (G&W) - 8/10
Jul 10 - Mr. Platformer (Browser) - 5/10
Jul 14 - Bioshock Infinite (Switch) - 8/10
Jul 14 - Bioshock Infinite: Clash in the Cloud (Switch) - 5/10
Jul 14 - Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 1 (Switch) - 7/10
Jul 15 - Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea - Episode 2 (Switch) - 9/10
Jul 15 - Bioshock: The Collection (Switch) - 9/10
Jul 15 - Cats in China (PC) - 6/10
Jul 15 - Cats Hidden in Paris - Extra Level (PC) - 6/10
Jul 15 - Cats Hidden in Italy (PC) - 6/10
Jul 15 - Cats Hidden in Maple Hollow (PC) - 6/10
Jul 15 - Cats Hidden in Bali (PC) - 6/10
Jul 21 - Borderlands: The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned DLC (Xbox 360) - 6/10
Jul 22 - Borderlands (Xbox 360) - 6/10
Jul 23 - Strider (Xbox 360) - 6/10
Jul 24 - Asteroids (Arcade) - 6/10
Jul 24 - Jambo Safari (Arcade) - 7/10
Jul 24 - Atomic Punk 2 (Arcade) - 6/10
Jul 25 - My Friend Peppa Pig (PC) - 5/10
Jul 27 - Kentucky Route Zero (Switch) - 5/10
Jul 29 - Red Earth (Switch) - 7/10
Jul 29 - Capcom Fighting Collection (Switch) - 9/10
Jul 30 - Tasty Planet (PC) - 6/10

Best Game: Bioshock: The Collection
Worst Game: Sunset Overdrive: The Mystery of Mooil Rig DLC

Not sure if we're counting only the amount of written reviews or if including non-written ones as well, but I'll pick Boss Slayer. It's a flash game, even in the realm of flash games it's generally unknown. It's a great and short shmup that I loved playing.