Board 8 > Post Each Time You Beat a Game - 2017 Edition

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Kirby's Dream Land (3DS VC), a couple days ago in honor of the anniversary.
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (XB1)
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Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move (3DS)
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Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment (switch)

I loved shovel knight and this was even better. That's some solid platforming
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Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise for PC. It was the first non-Putt-Putt or Fredi Fish Humongous Entertainment point-and-click adventure that I've played. Probably.
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Yooka-Laylee (PC)

What a thoroughly disappointing game. I'll admit, I haven't played Banjo-Kazooie in fifteen years, but I remember loving it. YL had almost none of the BK magic, and it replaced all that fun with frustration. Levels were all poorly designed, usually just stringing together challenge sections. The camera was horrendous. The final boss had, like, ten stages and each of them was annoying. What a letdown.
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Thirty Flights of Loving (PC)
Persona 5 (PS4)
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Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
It was pretty broken no matter how we tweaked the setup (A highlight was frequent crashes during the last puzzle) but it's a pretty solid game for an old FMV point-and-click. Even if some of the puzzle solutions were crazier than the psychological horror.
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Conker's Bad Fur Day (via Rare Replay)

Loved it. But, I will say I got frustrated with some portions consider it has aged and coming from a N64 games the camera and controls are somewhat wonky.
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Detective Hank and the Golden Sneeze for PC
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Kamiko (Switch)

Not bad for a $5 game. It's clearly made for speedrunning
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Bump
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Steins;Gate (Vita)

It was good. Okabe's whole persona annoyed me like crazy and I have some qualms with how it handled time travel, but overall I'm glad I went through it.
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Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days.

I thought it was a bit underrated overall, although the gameplay did get tedious towards the end. The story was absolutely wonderful, though (especially considering its entire existence basically hinges on "okay, let's explain more of what the hell was going on in Kingdom Hearts II now").

KCF0107 posted...

Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise for PC. It was the first non-Putt-Putt or Fredi Fish Humongous Entertainment point-and-click adventure that I've played. Probably.

I remember this game! I know I loved it as a kid. Don't remember much about it though, haha.

Outlast 2 (Xbox One)

Fantastic, I dare say it's up there with Silent Hill 2, Resident Evil 2, and Dead Space 2 as one of the best survival horror sequels around.
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Punch Club (PC)

Legitimately one of the worst games I have ever played. Everything was a tedious grind, there was zero strategy, and the humor was nowhere near as charming as it thought it was.
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Omg I cant believe you actually trudged through that game. I gave up a third of the ways in
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Dead or Alive: Dimensions (3DS) and Sonic Triple Trouble (3DS)
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Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova and Eventide: Slavic Fable for PC
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Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth (PS4)
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The Witcher (PC)

I've been at this for weeks now. So glad its over! The story was very intriguing but I detested everything else: the shitty battle system, the backtracking, the triggered quests, and the some of the choices drove me insane.

I'll start on the sequel soon.
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ABZU (PS4)
That was cool.
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Human Fall Flat (PC)
Fun game
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Return to PopoloCrois: A Story of Seasons Fairytale (3DS)

It's decent, but simple. Kind of overly long in the middle. Farming mechanics aren't deep, but it might scratch an itch if you really want to play a new farming game and have nothing else. Glad I got it on sale.
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Rhythm Tengoku (GBA)

If you liked the other games in the Rhythm Heaven series, this one should be no different for you. It's a little more strict in getting superb ratings than the others, i feel. Ironically, it's actually the only one I've gotten every single perfect on.

Manos: The Hands of Fate for PC
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Tales from the Borderlands (PC)

Well, that was immensely entertaining. Easily the best Telltale game I've played so far, and it more than did justice to the Borderlands universe. Fiona was also a great character!

Anyway, we're nearing the end of the topic so I'm going to go through and add things to the doc again for anyone who doesn't do it themselves.
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Ys II (PC)
Magic and enemy attacks made this game work a fair amount better than the other. And you can talk to all the enemies! Although that made me feel bad about killing them.
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</reality> (PC)

I was wary going in, but this visual novel actually wasn't bad. I related with the main characters and overall theme a lot. The choices also never felt restrictive, and I was able to guide everyone to exactly the end I envisioned for them. I can't recommend it too highly, especially not over truly great VNs I've played recently like Highway Blossoms, The House in Fata Morgana, or even Steins;Gate, but I don't regret my time with it. Sometimes buying random indie games on Steam pays off! And other times it leads to absolute junk like Punch Club but oh well, this is the life I chose.
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Persona 5 (PS4)

Wouldn't put it above P4G (still my favorite game ever) overall, but it was an excellent game that improved on a lot of things.
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Devil on G-String (PC0

Lost Dimension (Vita)

Gonna do another playthrough since it seems like that wasn't the true ending.
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Rance 4: Legacy of the Sect
I barely participated, but watched the whole thing. I'd say the series is on an upwards trend. That final battle sequence was pretty impressive.
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Persona 5 (PS4)
Pony Island (PC)

persona 5 was fun. i think i've discovered that 3 is the maximum number of times i can whole-heartedly enjoy an iterative formula

persona 3, 4, and 5 were all great, but i don't particularly mind if it takes another 9 years for the next to come out
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Nier (Xbox 360)

Life is Strange (PC)

I put this off even longer than the Witcher because of the deliberately slow pacing. I think the game would've benefit itself to have only 3 episodes instead of 5. The first 2 parts are only boring until the eventual twist in which you are inspired to revisit them for signs of foreshadowing and symbolism. All in all, while the ending was expected, the tone shift from slice of life to darker and edgier was sort of refreshing. I would compare it to Gone Home, which I also loved.
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice for 3DS and Mythic Wonders: The Philosopher's Stone for PC
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bumpers
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Rain World (PC)
Actually quite good despite the professional reviewers who most likely played the game for a hour or two and gave up.
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Catherine for PS3

That was a doozy
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I imagine the people who participate in the Great Video Game Challenge also check here, so I'll post here about it since the topic regrettably purged. I can repost it much later tonight, but if someone else has the list saved they can feel free to make it too. Sorry for letting it purge. I'll make sure to keep it bumped in the future

I also beat:

Sound of Drop -fall into poison- (PC)

It was a spooky visual novel. It was alright, but a lot of sentences were really awkwardly translated. I'm also nowhere near as afraid of aquariums as the game assumed I was so a lot of the horror fell flat.
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I am usually good about keeping topics bumped, but I barely had time to check B8 the past few days
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Late:
Tombs and Treasures (NES)
It pulled the ol' "Start the game over due to a mistake" on me! But I got through it. I've played worse, for something unknown.

Tonight:
Injustice: Gods Among US (PS4)
Replayed story mode. It actually seems pretty fun, honestly. Wasn't liking it at first, but that's just STAR Labs being annoying.
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Went ahead and made a new topic

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/75340930
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Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed (PC)

Watching the Neptunia girls interact is always fun, but the actual gameplay in this was so brainless and tedious.
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Dishonored 2 (PC)

Fun game
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd (PC)

Felt a bit like fanservice, but TitS has a good enough cast that I'll allow it
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uncharted 1 and 2 again