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No screenshots for these because I'm too lazy. This is a list of games that I started playing a little bit of (probably about an hour for each) but then kinda dropped for one reason or another, that I think MIGHT be good enough to make the list, but I didn't get far enough to evaluate them - but I played them long enough that they didn't go on the "didn't play" list either. So they ended up in this limbo here.

6 Games that I started playing, but bounced off of, but they seemed kind of interesting so I might return to them:

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX

Ahhh, good old misery dungeon. I've never been quite sure if the original one for GBA/DS was actually fun, or if I just enjoyed it because it had super cute art and characters and great music and stuff. I'm a sucker for all that! I like the new, revamped art style in this one - it's a lot more unique looking than the generic stuff that Pokemon usually puts out now - but I couldn't really get too far into the game itself without feeling a little bored. Maybe I'll come back to it sometime though just because I'm kinda in love with the world and stuff.

Noita

Holy crap, I am absolutely garbage at Noita. I think the game might have made my top 50 if not for the fact that I'm just irredeemably bad at it - I played it for an hour and can't do much more than like accidentally blow myself up. I do love the randomly generated maps, and it seems like there's so many different weapons and abilities to collect here, which really seems super cool, but this game is HARD and I wish I was better at it or could just kind of play around in it a bit more.

Omori

I'd heard a lot of good things about Omori so I gave it a go. Anything that can be described as Earthbound-like isn't necessarily my thing, but hey, that includes stuff like Undertale, so you never know. I'm not sure what I think of it after an hour. The whole setting feels like it follows some kind of dream logic that I'm not initiated into, and the cast is either too boring to care about or too silly to take seriously. It's certainly creative, but it's not really landing for me. And I find the creepypasta horror elements to be really trite and overdone - ooooh, you have to open a menu and stab yourself with a knife, how edgy! That stuff's not landing at all. But! The combat system seems refreshingly creative and interesting, and the game seems to be always trying to do new things, and it seems like it could get really interesting even if I found a lot of aspects of the game stupid. I don't know, should I keep going? What do people think of this game?

Lenna's Inception

Again with the trite creepypasta horror stuff! I hate it unless it's set up and done extremely well (hi, Undertale). Other than that, this seems like a kind of interesting proc-gen Zelda-like that I enjoyed for about an hour before setting it aside and not remembering to go back to it. Maybe I will? It seems kind of fun although I wasn't immediately hooked, but I am kind of interested in where it's going. (I'm 8-bit style all the way, by the way.)

Head AS Code

I always feel like I'm like kind of obligated to at least look into any game that's kind of like Zero Escape or its ilk, so this obvious Zero Escape knockoff is kind of interesting. I don't mind so much that the art's not great, I can tell it's a passion project and I can kind of respect that. What I can't respect is that the main character of this game is the most obnoxious asshole that I think has ever been written in a piece of fiction before, which did turn me off. But I might be tempted to go back to it sometime, it just didn't hook me right away.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

I gave it a try, despite the fact that I've never played a Dynasty Warriors game before, and the fact that that style of gameplay couldn't be less appealing to me. Unfortunately, I was right that the gameplay is still not appealing to me - I'm just not interested in this type of 3D action game at all! I really tried. I hoped the BotW setting would make me want to get into it more, and it kind of does - I sorta forgot how much I love BotW that the characters and even stuff like the sound effects just immediately put me in a good mood. I dunno if I'll go back to this one mainly because the performance on my system was extremely bad - is it just a Switch Lite thing or is it this bad on all consoles? Oh well. If I don't get back to it, at least Tears of the Kingdom is coming pretty soon. Look for that on the 2022-2023 list!