You may know me from my writings at GameFAQs: guides, reviews, Top 10s, and other miscellanea. I also wrote for GamingSymmetry; I was known as Alice Kojiro there. You can also find me in the club:
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Credit for my banner goes to the fantastic artist, Lois van Baarle. Check out her works here:
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Special thanks to Bevr for making my avatar blink!
My humble collection of uncommon video game memorabilia:
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My setup:
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About the ancient dreamer:
+ Physical Anomolies: congenital anosmia, heterochromia, no depth perception, synaesthesia (multiple types), low vitals
+ Languages Spoken: English and Spanish, but the latter is very rusty. Sometimes, I can read enough of Romance languages to figure them out.
+ Religion: Agnostic; elements from Hinduism and Buddhism
+ My theme song:
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+ Playing Since: 1987
+ First Game Systems: NES, SEGA Master System
+ First Computer: Apple II CE
+ Favorite System: SNES
+ Favorite Genres: 2D Platformers, Action-Adventure, Adventure
+ Favorite Games: Live-A-Live (SNES), Anodyne 2
+ Favorite Franchises: Mega Man, Yakuza
Rating System:
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x0 (F) - I hated this game or haven't finished it
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x1 (D) - I didn't like it, but it's not unplayable
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x2 (C) - It's okay
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x3 (B) - I enjoyed it
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x4 (A) - I had a blast with it
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x5 (S) - This is one of my all-time favorites
Status:
- Games that have no end, but I've played enough to be satisfied with it. Since compilations will always list every game in them, any that I don't like enough to finish will have this status. The actual collection might also have this, if I think it's worth summarizing how good it is as a whole.
- Games I haven't even touched yet, or games I've only sampled, even if they don't end.
- Games that I've begun, even if they don't end.
- Games that have been beaten with at least one character, but not to my satisfaction; I'm not done here.
- Games that have been 100% completed with all characters where appropriate. All optional bosses have been destroyed. You get the idea. Higher difficulty levels are considered only if there's something in it for me; most of the time, stuff like artwork or music won't count. Achievements are meaningless and don't matter.
- Any game that's been beaten 100% and with some sort of
intentional additional challenge; 1CCs, no death runs, and no item runs don't count. Achievements are still meaningless and still don't matter.
Rom Hacks:
Rom hacks are filed under the original game, but with a (Hack) tag to denote that they're not official expansions. My mini-review assumes you've read the review for the original game, and thus details only what's new in the hack.
PC Games:
PC is my main platform, so anything DRM-free will be under PC, regardless of whether I got it at GOG or itch or wherever; the only store-specific labels I use are things (like Steam or Epic) that require the use of a launcher to install, uninstall, etc. If something looks cool, and you're curious about where I got it, you can try this:
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Whether you're in a wonderful land or a nightmare, never stop dreaming...
And please do not take this the wrong way, you can do a Tier list from D to A and add S, R and X at the end, I couldn't care less, it's just that the little scientist in me says: Well, S is a 10, A is a 9, B is an 8, C is a 7, D is a 6, E is a 5, F is everything from 4 to 1. And, except for Big Rigs, what game was ever deserving of a 1? I think the lowest rated game I ever played is "TellTales' Texas Hold'Em" and that is just a terrible excuse for a Poker game in videogame form, if you are lonely and need someone to play random poker with....
Anyway, I don't mind the Tier systems, they feel just as arbitrary as numbers to me, and at this point, I stick to numbers. They feel... oddly, but satisfyingly, quantifiable.
Also, all and any rating systems, as we said before, I and definitely agree, "decay" after a while. I gave Donkey Kong Country a 9.5/10, and I still feel emotionally very connected to that game. I also gave Super Mario Galaxy a 9.5/10. Obviously, I know, Super Mario Galaxy is the superior game, technically speaking. So is DKC's 9.5 worth less than Super Mario Galaxy's? Obviously, emotionally, no. But technically? Maybe. But for its time? Probably not.
I guess we can agree, it can be quite difficult to judge certain games...
Oh, you touch a nice point. Maybe my preferences have changed a bit as well. I also used to be a lot more into racing games once, now I mostly go for Action/Adventures, Platformers, Strategy Games, Simulators and starting to get more into RPGs (with one of many letters in front of the -R).
I saw the Witcher TV shows, they were good, even funny, I'd say. Better than the game I am playing for sure. But, yes, Geralt is a male sex fantasy protagonist, edge-lord and... hmmm... just "hmmm"...