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Games

This page lists many games I played. I wanted to have detailed reviews but I am too busy playing new ones. Probably will update the list over time.

PC games

Many old games I enjoyed before I came to US.

• Heroes of Might and Magic series
  • My first “real” game. It and the LotR movies are the stuff.
• Age of Empires 2
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
• FIFA 02 and 02 WC
• Warcraft III
• Diablo II and III
• Sid Meier’s Civilization V

Metroidvanias

“What is a man?”

• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
  • A miserable little pile of secrets. And the most important one is that Schmoo has a chance to drop Crissaegrim.
• Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
  • A bit too short. Otherwise it’s great playing as the reincarnated Dracula himself.
• Metroid Dread
  • I really like the EMMI mechanics. Nintendo again shows why the genre is half metroid.
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
  • One of the best Igavanias since it was made by Iga. Optimization is ass, but PS5 runs it smoothly by brute force.
• Afterimage
  • A hidden gem. I heard the English translation quality was bad so the story was too cryptic. I played in original Chinese though and it was pretty decent.
• Ori (both games)
  • Beautiful arts and fluid platforming. Combat system is overly simplistic though.
• Touhou Luna Nights
  • Silly colorful spin-off game and short
• Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark
  • Another silly colorful spin-off game

Open world

“Open your eyes.”

• The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild
  • BEST GAME I EVER PLAYED. PERIOD.
• The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom
  • A worthy sequel. Slightly worse because a bit too linear, and the material economy is too stingy for a game where you can build mechs.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2
  • Pokémon should learn from it. However, navigation in this game is dog shit, and the combat is unnecessarily complicated.
• GTA V
  • Driving with radio on WCTR. And Trevor waking up on a mountain top wearing lingerie is hilarious.
• Elden Ring
  • At least I beat the Tree Sentinel naked with a stick and first few bosses. Eventually got bored of having to either flee from fights or repeat dodge rolls.

RPGs

“I am Ferdinand von Aegir.”

• Fire Emblem series
  • A great franchise with very high replayability. A unique blend between traditional JRPG and grid based strategy game.
• Shin Megami Tensei V & VV
  • Best turn-based JRPG I played. Much better than its spin-off Persona series in terms of gameplay.
• Persona 3R and 5R
  • They are good and have more cultural relevance, but SMT is still much cooler.
• Metaphor: ReFantazio
  • An admirable attempt of mixing the better parts from SMT and Persona into one game. The result is a great game yet still slightly worse than both SMT V and P5R.
• Pokémon series
  • “High quality animations” yeah as a game series it fell off hard
• Octopath Traveler
  • Really good gameplay, beautiful sprites, and some of the best music.
• Tales of Arise
• Baldur’s Gate 3
  • Started at a really bad time to enjoy highly complicated games. Plan to eventually restart and finish it. I can see why people enjoy it even from the very small portion I played.

Platformers

Mario games are fun for what they are, but not my main thing.

• Super Mario Odessey
• Super Mario Bros Wonders

Other genres

Also probably many more I did not list here.

• Mario Kart 7, 8, and World
• Super Smash Bros Ultimate
• Various Mario sports games

Mobile Gacha

Basically regularly updating, playable anime with varying, questionable-to-good story quality, plus a predatory card collector system.

• Honkai Star Rail
  • Story is somewhat on the comedy or meme side but many jokes probably only make sense in Chinese.
• Wuthering Waves
  • With glory I shall fall. Great music.