Topic: Games You Recently Beat?

Woohoo! Finally! It seemed like a fun game. It caught my attention along with Ty.

@Yousef-
I still haven't finished yet my Ty Tasmanian Tiger games on PS2 & GameCube.
Too many games to finished.
Maybe I will try to finish my short PS5 games like Paw Patrol or The Smurfs Mission Vileaf.

@Anti-Matter yeah, too many games! I hope o finished donkey king country tropical freeze today too xD

Princess Peach Showtime! Good game. Didn't blow up my skirt but overall just a good game. I'm definitely not the target demographic by a long shot but I had a good time with it. I'd say it felt more like a palate cleanser of a game before I dive into the next meaty game in my backlog. In this case I finally picked up Sifu (Switch) on a 60% discount. That one has been on my backlog for over a year. I just put 2 hours into it and holy sh#t is friggin' tough but at the same time so friggin' awesome! Talk about two games on complete opposite ends of the spectrum!

Just finished Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door today!

@MarioVillager92 Let’s go! It’s such a great game

I beat Tomb Raider Legend and now I’m 85% through Metroid Zero Mission. I should have that beaten by the end of this weekend!

I reached the credits in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Switch) yesterday evening. A very fun game, one I'm glad I FINALLY got to play! I liked many (though not all) of the different areas in and around Rogueport, and I liked the partner characters too (Bobbery and Goombella are my favorites). Per most Paper Mario titles I've played, a lot of the writing was very enjoyable. The plot was a bit predictable, but there were occasional turns I really enjoyed too. Great visuals to where I don't understand the 30 FPS complaints at all. The combat was the best I've experienced in a Paper Mario title to date. Much of the music was good too, with Rogueport, Frankly's theme, and the X-Naut fortress theme being among my favorites. I can kind of understand the minor backtracking complaints, but I think the newly added pipes help mitigate that.

I'm not going for 100%, but I do want to mess around with some of the unlocked post-game content.

Dragon Quest Treasures. Fun cute game. I spent about 40 hours with it. Simply exploring wherever I wanted pretty naturally made the main plotline and the largest side quests all finish at the same time which is good game design. The combat was basic, but it was just a fun game to explore and grab treasures and attempt to climb ridiculous cliffs where there was inevitably a secret if you made it to the top. The game felt a little repetitive if you played for too long straight but worked well as a 'play for an hour or two' game so I played it over a couple month time period.

Solid 8/10 for me.

One thing that impressed me in particular — there are a series of main quests you unlock, but if you explore in weird enough places you can achieve them before you unlock them because they always exist in the world. And the game later acknowledges you did things out of order in a funny way.

As is common in these type of games, there is a long-winded post-game I will likely sample but probably won't do much of — the two main plotlines were pretty satisfying and I don't really feel the need to get 100%.

I finished Stranded Sail PS4 just now.

It was a big surprise for me as I bought the game in December 2019 but I neglected the game for very long until I got PS5 in June 2024.
I installed the game on PS5 and it got 60 fps boost. The performance boost gave me some motivation to continue the game until finished the storyline.

It was very simple adventure by stranded on uncharted island and have to survive and rebuilt the ship by doing Harvest Moon style activities (farming, fishing, gathering materials, befriend with your crew mates, exploring the island, cooking, etc.

The flaw was only the depleted energy by sprinting. Overall, I gave the score 6 from 10.

I finished the Perfect Dark remaster about an hour ago on my Xbox. I actually started playing it before they released the original N64 version on NSO, so it was a coincidence. The game had a really good blend of gadgetry with its gunplay and felt nice to control and I liked the plotline, though it had a very confusing level layout and a terrible final level that I wasted so much time and energy on.

Paper Mario TTYD solid game overall. But origami king is still my favorite of the bunch. There were a few frustrating sections including the last boss. Other than that, glad I got to experience it.

I finished the Shadow of Erdtree Elden Ring DLC last night with all of the main bosses beaten. Brutally hard but very good, it's almost as big as the main game, the map is massive.

Just finished Metroid: Zero Mission once more, this time on NSO. I got most of the items, but not all of them. There were some items that caught my attention, but I just couldn't get them. Still a great remake though, and I'd definitely play that over the NES original.

Beat Perfect Dark Zero a few hours ago. The gameplay is an improvement over the first game and introduced a ton of new mechanics that made playing it all the more easier, not to mention it specifies objectives and helps the player when they are stuck. A lot of people dislike the game because if how it doesn’t look or feel like a Perfect Dark game, but the cheesiness and campiness of Zero was so freaking hilarious and made my game experience all the more memorable. I bursted out laughing at three or four scenes from how ridiculous they were, and on top of that the protagonist dressed like a Disney Channel character, several characters had absolutely ridiculous outfits and designs that didn’t fit the game, the voice acting was hilariously exaggerated, and the final battle was so goofy and hard to take seriously, though all of this is in a good and funny way. Had a ton of fun with it.

Just beat Elden Ring for a second time This time on PS5 and just from the disc version of Shadow of the Erdtree (v1.10). What a perfect game. That journey took me 860 screenshots to complete

Now I will get the DLC and start it

I beat the Splatoon 3 DLC...almost by accident. I genuinely did not expect to beat it after so few tries, especially after I failed to beat Shovel Knight Dig with more than 10X as many tries.

Not entirely sure how to feel about it because of that. I liked it, but I'm undecided how much. I will say its better than the first 2 Splatoon campaigns and worse than Octo Expansion and possibly 3's main story as well. I mean only now do I even really "get" rogue-likes but even with anything I liked about how it was done here, it still felt a bit too limited and odd, especially since I beat it unexpectedly, which is a funny thing to say. I mostly think the stages are too limited and samey, it was going for something but I'd much prefer what Octo Expansion and to an extent 3 had done going forward. But I am kinda glad I didn't take long to beat this, I'm super behind on the games I want to play this year.

For the record, the chips that lead to me winning were the ones that gave the Pearl drone multiple attacks in a short time via killing enemies. It was like a giant wall of destruction preventing most of my deaths, which was cool.

I finished doom eternal about half an hour ago.

Properly 100%-ed Shin Megami Tensei V yesterday. Just the original version, now that it's been replaced and delisted. Got there eventually
I bought it on release day years ago, played it on normal. Just answered things as I felt without planning a certain alignment.
But I picked the chaos ending, but was aligned neutral. So I didn't get everything exclusive to that ending.

That mixed with the "just okay" story didn't make me want to replay it. The gameplay was what I enjoyed, and I've finished all the quests.

Fast forward to the start of June, and I picked it up again. Cleared every route and have 100% in the compendium.
The first replay was interesting because it had been years , the others I was basically speedrunning. Muted the game, listened to something else and skipped all cutscenes.

I enjoyed my time though. Nice to get another month or so out of something I've paid for.
I'll pick up Vengeance during a sale, look forward to the Fiend DLC being included as I never bought it.

Beat Mario Sunshine after collecting all 120 Shines yesterday.
It's a pretty good game. Holds up well, at least in the Mario 3D collection. I don't think it has the timeless appeal of Mario 64 or the grand excitement of Galaxy, but it is admittedly a perfect summer game. Bowser's voice acting and boss battle are not great though.