I read your review of RE4R, and I too am in awe. It's at once faithful and fresh, serious yet comical. And an extremely tight action-shooter game. I'm not so much surprised that they did it, but at how easy Capcom makes it look when so many of today's remakes are vision-less.

I was especially impressed with what they did with Luis. I also caught the Don Quixote references (fitting addition considering the setting), so when that final scene with Luis came it actually made me cry. What a powerful allusion. I already think this is my game of the year. It's biggest competition being Hi-Fi Rush.

Merry Christmas!

Xenobalde 3 has been fantastic so far

Everything you expect from a Xeno game is present incredible music, vast open world, unique monsters/characters and battle mechanics but this time the story + characters have taken centre stage. The writing has improved massively for all scenarios, serious, sad, conflict and goofy moments have that extra bit of realism and each character shines at putting their own opinions and views on different topics. It feels like they put a lot of effort into this one to make it feel more grounded.

(Theres one scene later on that we as a player have seen a hundred times before but the cast is experiencing it for the first time and the way they did everything and reacted was truly special)

I'd say it's well worth a look into if you have the time
Though looking at your backlog maybe one for the future

Hey! Just found your profile through SekaiIshtal's and while looking through your Top-Rated games found your reviews of Zero Escape 999 & Pokémon Soul Silver (Both great btw )

Feel like those review where almost my own Soul Silver is one of my all time favourite games and 999 is a special one because so many people from Backloaggary recommended it to me finally breaking into the camp of these visual novel games are pretty great actually

Eyeing up that Minish Cap review next but just wanted to say keep to the great work!

Lucky for me I got a 3DS Card Binder. Normally when I look through what toys are at a Goodwill, I am usually searching for anime merch that get donated. When I saw one of their stapled bags of toy goodies containing two game cartridges, I snatched it right up. Looking further in (without ripping the bag open and getting accused of theft) I saw multiple 3DS cartridges in it.

With how unbelievable my luck was finding such an intense haul (since each game alone otherwise costs quite a hefty amount of bucks), I bought a scratch-off lottery. The scratch-off won me $200.