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My 2021 Game Diary

by audiobusting

This follows the end of my diary from 2020!

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Tokimeki Memorial

Tokimeki Memorial

Starting the year out strong, after Tim Rogers's review got me off my ass to finally finish this game before I watch the video, so I don't get spoiled. I played this a while ago, but my Japanese wasn't as good back then. Fortunately, the language barrier is not too high with this game. It was good practice. It's a pretty fantastic game for its limitations. It really maximised the narrative impact with what they could fit into the game, with the use of its structure. Repetition is used both to establish stability and habits and to easily disrupt them for memorable moments. The gameplay challenges make it fun to puzzle out and survive through. Dating is easier AND harder than you'd think, in interesting and sometimes unexpected ways. Kinda makes u think... For the 1st playthrough I ended up with Kisaragi (i was aiming for Himoo but I met her a bit late 😔). I feel like I want to keep replaying this!

Monster Hunter Rise

Monster Hunter Rise

Got the demo for this. Haven't actually played it but I thought I might as well add it first. I saw a hunting horn speedrun from my favourite hh player and i had no idea they changed so much of the moveset. it looks wild. i gotta get on it right now update: i played this a few times and hh is completely insane. they reworked the entire moveset and it's really cool now. repositioning moves from the recitals are now faster and integrated into the normal attacks, with a couple new additions. recital move does self improvement by default and it's... a defensive move too?? the spinny is now a meter?? simplified AND flexible maintenance? wirebug gap closer???? waaaaaahhhh woo update2: got the game for real now, unsurprisingly it is very good. i even kinda like the tower defense, even tho i hate tower defense. incredible decision to put a lot of vocals in the music with multiple languages including a made up one oh yeah i wanted to note, i guess poetry reading differs between cultures, but it's kind of a bummer that they don't sing out the english intro poems! it's not even like spoken word. ah well

A Way Out

A Way Out

We finished it! The two end climaxes got me laughing so hard. Thanks Josef Fares for this wonderful game.

Final Fantasy VII

Final Fantasy VII

Been setting up my PS Classic (which is a pain in the ass but it's kinda fun) and giving FF7 another serious try. To no surprise, it is pretty good. I'm having a good time. I think Aeris is pretty cool. Oh yeah I did change everyone's name actually, so far: - Clout - Barreth - Tifer - Earithe

Arknights

Arknights

ah i don't like tower defense but i like furry i do want to just point out, i don't really know the roots to this, but something that confuses me about this and a lot of other mobile gacha games is that they're Chinese games being marketed with Japanese branding internationally. is this a focus test thing? strange!

Star Wars: Episode I - Jedi Power Battles

Star Wars: Episode I - Jedi Power Battles

damn this game fukkin SUCKS. the gba version is more fun to play tho, surprisingly

Star Wars: Episode I - Racer

Star Wars: Episode I - Racer

played the GBC version. pretty cool???

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

lol alright

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

this one's a big surprise! it's kinda tough, but it's a weirdly fun action adventure game. it does have this 90's PC game energy, and it's neat that it got on the PS1 as well. save states are a huge help lol

Raw Danger

Raw Danger

kinda bummed because this game's one of the PS2 games that STILL doesn't work really nicely with emulators in 2021. apparently it's so bad that the PSN release on the PS3 straight up just turns off some graphical effects so it can run at full speed! maybe i should just get a modded PS2...

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