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    Aug 6th, 2012 at 12:24:28     -    Kingdoms of Amalur (360)

    I desperately need to stop playing and write about Kingdoms of Amalur. I've been tearing it up all weekend, like, main activity from Thursday night through today. Haven't been this into a game for a while, and it's one of those that's ridiculously easy to sit down on the couch and begin and then you just, you know, sink into the couch, and at the end of the day you have to pry yourself away from it. Okay if you've got free time. Not so good if you've got a lot of work. Guess which is me?

    And I had no intention of ever playing Kingdoms either. I'd followed it a bit in development because I like the genre, but it ultimately turned me off because it seemed like it was taking too much from action games like God of War for my purist tastes. I like God of War, but I don't like the idea of swinging Kratos's blades around in a fantasy RPG. You might ask how Greek mythology isn't fantasy. It just looked out of place, okay! Anyway, turns out the combat is the only real non-RPG bit of the game. When I was collecting data last semester I had this participant talking to me constantly about Kingdoms for months. He would tell me all about it, and I developed a negative opinion of it from the things he focused on telling me, which turns out to be just how he played, as in he loved to go hunt for treasure. I don't care to scour the map for all the treasure. He loved the action-RPG fighting and when he'd tell me about it, I'd be like meh, played God of War, played Devil May Cry. Then N bought it and I played it for 30 minutes at his house a couple months ago and again wasn't really impressed with the beginning. It seemed very generic high fantasy stuff about elves and gnomes, and the story about Fate upon first impression seemed really gimmicky the way they tied it into the combat. But again, N raved on and on about it. I also thought it looked like Elder Scrolls Lite, which I kept writing down as I was playing. So, in the end, N finished it and insisted I try. I put it in the Xbox Thursday and here I am 33 hours into it.

    So what do I think about it now? I've got a list of pros and cons. The main pro is that the big name artists scored big. Todd McFarlane did the art. He did Spawn and is awesome. R.A Salvatore did the story. He's been doing D&D stories since I was a kid. He is also awesome. Curt Schilling, all-star Baltimore Orioles pitcher, runs 38 Studios that developed it. He was one of my heroes as a kid. He is not an artist, but he is still awesome too. But let me state for the record that Kingdoms looks phenomenal. Beautiful. Jaw-dropping. Mesmerizing. My character has this magical shield that protects him from some damage. One of my biggest complaints about the game is that the magic shield is too shimmery, that it distorts my view of the environment. Weird gripe, I know, but I want to look at the backgrounds when I play, not see everything through blue mana-shield-tinted eyes. If it wasn't so beautiful I wouldn't care. And the story, wow. A lot of people hated on the story, but I find it engrossing. The story of the main character itself isn't particularly interesting, but the world of Amalur they've built sure as hell is. There's intriguing backstory and so much culture created for the game. There are tons of characters and zones and so much going on. I feel like I'm playing a book, that level of detail.

    And the game world is HUGE for a single player game. Maybe not Elder Scrolls huge (Elder Scrolls Lite!), but it's gonna take you a long time to go everywhere. At 30 hours, I had cleared either 8 or 9 zones. I think I'm up to 10 or 11 now. Yeah, there are more than triple that. Looking at the map, I'm maybe 33% through the game. At 33 hours? Holy crap. My character, however, is level 21 or 22 out of a 40 cap, so that puts me more than 50% developed. There's a downside to this, and that is if you choose a pure class type, like my pure sorcerer, then you are very close to the top of your skill tree at this point. I think by 25 I'll have all the abilities I can get, which leaves me with just damage upgrades and nothing new for a long time. Will it get dull? I've thought about respeccing to might or finesse, or doing some dual 'destiny,' as Kingdoms calls it, but I think it kind of will suck if I have to respec just to not get bored with a spec by halfway through the game. That means the specs can't compete with the length of the game, which is a problem. You should be unlocking cool new stuff up until the end. Of course, there may be a surprise or two waiting for me later, who knows.

    In addition to the game being huge, it's fully voiced. On the plus side, the voice actors are very good and it's very engaging to be able to read and listen and watch every conversation. On the downside, due to the massive scope of the game, they can't possibly hire all different voice actors, so there are really obvious repetitions. "Hey this Homer NPC sounds just like Lenny...who sounded just like Carl, who is the same voice as Moe." The huge world is a double-edged sword in another way regarding the characters. The story is wonderfully detailed, as are the quests, and I think out of necessity of making such interesting storylines, they had to try and make every character The Most Interesting. So on the one hand, every single character will comment on a range of topics and every single character says unique things! It's nothing short of incredible. They don't just repeat what other NPCs say or reword what other NPCs say; they say their own thing as they would. Like I've listened to probably 50 NPCs tell me about the Tuatha or the Summer Fae or whatever, and because each one of them said something unique, I know A LOT about the Tuatha, what NPCs think of them, their relationships with other peoples and places, the war they're waging, where they come from, what their goals are, how they are affecting characters' lives...this is one of my favorite things about the game. That's the positive. But on the other hand, at times, it's like they tried to write too much significance into each NPC. They've all got some story of how they came to be wherever they are, they all tell you what they think about other characters, or whatever. It can get a bit much. Typically in games you have all these 'common' NPCs who aren't that important and will tell you the common line. In this game there are no common NPCs. Because of this, though the world is beautiful and humongous and richly detailed, it can feel a bit dead, especially in settlements, because there aren't any NPCs just going about their day a la Elder Scrolls games. The only ones you really see are the important ones. There's supposed to be this big war going on, but like there aren't any orphans, no wounded soldiers, no burning villages, no battles or battlefields. It's an odd contrast of such a rich story and detailed world with relative lifelessness.

    Kingdoms moves you around with quests just like any RPG like it. The quests are really well integrated into the story and they feel very fluid, not like you're running from quest hub to quest hub 'picking up quests' and then making your rounds through the zone to turn them all in and pick up the next set. Quests are really thought out, many have multiple parts, and they all relate to the larger story, whether it's a faction or some trouble plaguing each individual zone. The quests are really well done. Like in my 33 hours, I've done like 60 quests. So they're involved! That comes to like half an hour per quest. Compared with most MMOs, this is really nice. In WoW and others, questing is just something to do as fast as possible to level, and no reading the quest text or anything, so I love that they're interesting and meaningful here and not just a means to an end. But there's always a downside to everything in this game it seems. There's one particular type of quest that's gotten a bit monotonous, and that's the kind to go into some cave or barrows or underground somewhere to do something. All the caves in the game are the same with different skins. They're all roundabout mazes of tunnels. Pick a direction and you'll eventually come to the quest objective and circle around to the exit. And they're all narrow corridors that open up occasionally for skirmishes. Some have lots of pretty glowing plants, some are fire caverns, some are ruins, but they're all the same experience. Oh, and also although the outdoor environments are gorgeous, there is very little variety. I just today made it to a new environment, desert, whereas I'd been in forest for the entirety prior.

    The few quests that are different really stand out and make the similar ones feel all the more monotonous. I remember 3 in particular that I enjoyed. One was in one of the cave networks, and I was pursuing a guy who had these cursed boots that made him invisible. It was set up like a hunt where I was hunting him and he was hunting me. He'd pop out and attack until I got his health down to 75%/50%/25% and then he'd disappear and I'd have to continue on and find him again. So the whole thing was a bit scripted with pounding music and everything. It was really cool. Another was searching for a missing caravan. You're sometimes given an ally or two who will help you. This time it's you and this commander you're reporting to, and 3 other recruits like you. The 5 of you split up to look for clues and patrol the area when you hear one of the recruits screaming. You meet up with the rest and realize that was him dying. So you all move on, and another one gets killed. Then the three of you stick together and move on again and eventually the thing attacks you all and murders the last recruit and you fight it off and solve the mystery. Another cool scripted quest. Then finally there's a type I've done 2 or 3 of that are little puzzles where you have to read through a few books to piece together some order of events for an NPC or talk to a bunch of NPCs to figure out, in one case, which order they are supposed to line up in to see the the king. It's like one would say "I don't want to be behind Moe because he smells." Then Moe would say, "Homer should be in front. But I want to be behind Marge because I like watching her butt [actual NPC sentiment]." And you talk to a handful of people and arrange them so they're all happy. It's silly but a fun diversion.

    I've written down a bunch of other random things. Like I said, the game is very Elder Scrolls-ish, like a more structured and simple Oblivion or Skyrim. There are the typical factions you can join up with, the thieves, warriors and mages. There is the array of skills like persuasion, pickpocketing, blacksmithing, etc. There's the map complete with fast travel. There's the lockpicking and sigil ward minigames. There's the stealthing, the theft, the paying fines/resisting arrest/going to jail for getting caught, the fencing stolen items, the trade skills...and on and on. It's all similar but lighter. I like the Elder Scrolls way better because it's more in depth and there's more freedom to play. Elder Scrolls is just a more developed world. I mentioned the NPC schedules already and how there are none in this game, or very few. In Elder Scrolls games, NPCs will go to bed, take walks, eat dinner, pray, meet friends, and do all kinds of stuff. Here, they just hang out in their house. If you go in someone's house at 4:00am because you need to steal something, don't be surprised if they're awake sitting in a chair for no reason. Then say you try and steal from them, there are magic guards that rush in if you get caught. Doesn't matter if there are guards around or not. And the entire town will automatically become hostile to you. But then if you get caught and pay the fine, everyone is magically fine. I like Elder Scrolls how you have a standing with every NPC from 0-100. Also in Kingdoms there's this weird thing with stealing. Say you go in a house and there are a few NPCs in there. Sometimes there will be a chest that will be like free to loot. Other times it will be marked as a theft if you take things. It seems weird to me that it would ever NOT be marked as a theft if you take it. But whatever. So Kingdoms has a % chance on any theft item that NPCs will notice you taking it. If they can see you in stealth, it's 99%. At some point I figured out that if you just stand by the treasure chest in stealth, that number will drop to 0 most of the time, and sometimes even if the NPC is staring right at you or sitting right by the chest. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense. So if you want to steal something, you just open the chest, see the 99%, close it, stealth, wait 10 seconds or so, then all the items should be about 0%. But I don't spend a lot of time stealing. It's really easy, and stealing isn't a big part of the game anyway. You find so many items that it's unnecessary. Which also means that skills where you make your own items are pretty unnecessary, like blacksmithing and alchemy. You find items EVERYWHERE. You find so many items so often that you quickly become filthy rich with nothing to spend your fortune on. At first, the 15,000 gold required to train a skill was a lot, and the 3,000 gold required to remove curses wasn't pocket change either. But now I have like 600,000. The most expensive thing I've seen at a shop is like 50,000 and I don't want hardly anything at shops because I find so much better stuff. I'm decked out in sets and rare pieces. So money becomes pretty meaningless. Actually this pisses me off a bit because I devoted a lot of skill points to Mercantile so that I would get more money from selling items and so things would be cheaper for me to purchase. Those points could have been spent on other skills. Now I'm putting points in persuasion because most of the other skills I don't see much point in putting points into, and persuasion just gives me some different dialogue options, which I enjoy using but haven't been too successful at with a low persuasion skill. I was short on cash in the very beginning of the game for a while, but then my stash just increased exponentially and I foresee having a hilarious amount of money by the end with nothing to spend it on. I think that's too bad. They should at least have some money sinks for neat things.

    That's pretty much it. Just a few more annoying things. Sometimes the map is hard to navigate because I find the buttons for using it kind of strange. Also the A button is unresponsive during dialogue wheel conversations and the Left Stick is the same during lockpicking sometimes. It's odd, I'll have to mash the A button sometimes because it won't read during dialogue. One of the options for characters' faces is golden rings (lip, eyebrow, nose). But by now I've seen so many random golden lip rings or nose rings that look so stupid on so many NPCs, I am really questioning the choice to make golden rings such a prevalent piece of jewelry. My favorite recent one was a bearded gnome where I caught a shimmer of a golden lip ring under his mustache/beard. Aaand finally, the game revolves around the idea that your character has no fate, no destiny, and therefore you can change the fates of others. This makes you dangerous because the world is changing, and you may be the harbinger of it or you may prevent it. Dunno! But, the game incorporates fate into combat in a gimmicky way. When your 'fate meter' fills up, by killing enemies, you can 'fateshift,' which makes you essentially go berserk and kill everything real easily. Enemies killed during fateshift have a big 'A' over them, so you do a little quick time event finishing move exactly like in God of War. When you do that, you get extra experience from all the enemies you've killed while fateshifted. It's pretty much the only unique idea in the game, and even it's half borrowed from the family of quick time event using games. It's cool to strategically fateshift when you're up against tough enemies that will next you lots of experience. I try to plan for this and always drink an experience potion for another +10% or +15% xp. If you score big, you can net thousands of experience and make a nice dent in your level progress. But, again a downside. Don't think you're going to pull this trick and fateshift during bosses or minibosses even. If there's ever a cut scene during a fight while you're fateshifted, it ruins it. Wasted fateshift, wasted potion. It's really really irritating because you never know if there's going to be a cut scene during any given quest. It's like if you want to be sure, you need to use it on normal enemies, but if you want to take a risk, try it on a boss, but you might waste it all. It's a stupid gamble that they should have designed around so that players can fateshift during boss battles and during quests and not fear it being ruined by an unanticipated cut scene.

    That's all for my first Kingdoms of Amalur log. Longest one I've written in a long time and worth the words. I plan on slowing down considerably because I've got other things to do and I don't want to burn out on it. I'll probably write again about my expectations and how the rest of the game turns out regarding character development and anything new or significant gameplay-wise I discover.

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    Aug 2nd, 2012 at 22:30:24     -    Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 (PS2)

    It's interesting how fine the line can be between methodical and tedious. I played another dungeon and change in DDS in the last 2 days and I seem to have crossed the line. I pinpointed some reasons:

    (1) My Perfectly Planned Characters - I spent a lot of time mapping out my perfectly planned characters through choosing skills in the mantra grid. I would have all the major bases covered, all the elemental attacks and defenses, all the status cures, all the healing and resurrection...everything would be spread out across my party, and some really important things would be doubled up. But then, DDS began killing off my characters! The one I relied upon for Death and Expel magics? DEAD! Now what happens when I face enemies who are strong/weak to Death and Expel? I have immense trouble because no one else learned death and expel magic and no one else can defend against it! She was also my secondary healer, so now I have only one healer. In addition, DDS takes your main character away for the duration of a long dungeon! That's the one you rely on most usually, right? GONE! Then DDS gives you a simulacra for a while, and then gives you your main character back. So the dungeon I'm in now, I have two of the exact same character, my healer/electricity person and my force/physical person. They took away my alt healer, my earth, death, expel and ice people. It is really debilitating!

    (2) Enemies Becoming Superbeings - For the first half of the game, I'd analyze an enemy and find out that it had 2 or 3 strengths and weaknesses, so I had a few things I could safely attack it with and a few to avoid. The scales are so tipped against me now. When I analyze an enemy now, there will typically be one weakness (which is half the time the aforementioned death/expel/earth that I no longer have) and about 6 strengths. Needless to say, this also sucks.

    (3) 1 + 2 = I Quit - Having enemies only weak to one thing, and then not having that thing because the game keeps screwing with my party is making me frustrated. And things that I liked/didn't mind before are just exacerbating it now, like the long dungeons/confusing story. And I can't just learn the spells I'm missing again because it takes time and grinding in the dungeons. I can get like the basic earth or healing spells pretty quickly, but the ones with more oomph that I need will take a while. And then while I'm worrying about replacing skills that I already had once, I'm not getting any new ones. So I fee like my characters are just growing too weak and spreading themselves out. Where once I felt like I could reliably progress through the mantra grid and learn skills I needed according to how I thought would be useful, I find now that the game will mess up your plan. Added challenge, sure, but I don't want that challenge. And the type of challenge it's added is one of tedious grinding, not strategy.

    So boo on you DDS2.

    Oh also, the "Jamaican" character has revealed himself to be of "Latin" origin! Even though he doesn't sound Latin at all, whatever Latin means. He sounds like a terrible imitation of a Jamaican or some kind of Caribbean islander.

    Next.

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    Aug 2nd, 2012 at 00:54:01     -    Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 (PS2)

    Been playing this since the weekend and loving it. I played the first DDS game years ago, and this one feels familiar. The characters are mostly the same, and I like them all except the same one I hated back in DDS1: Cielo, the mandatory character with the irritating accent. In this case, it's a very poor Jamaican. "Ya mon, dere be monsters in de dungeon, ja!" And he has stupid blue dredlocks.

    The most interesting thing to me about this game is that I now have a better understanding of and appreciation for the Shin Megami Tensei series, or Megaten as fans call it. I won't call it Megaten because I don't feel cool enough. I'll say SMT. Back during DDS, I had no idea that SMT was a series. Then a few years later, which was a few years ago, I played SMT: Persona 3. I suppose since it had been a few years, I didn't recognize Persona 3 as from the SMT universe. But fastforward to now and I recognize all the spells and enemies in DDS2 from Persona 3. It's like the Final Fantasy conventions that you recognize game after game. Agi is fire, Bufu ice, Zio electricity...putting Ma- in front of it makes it hit all enemies. Putting -dyne at the end makes it really strong. The enemies are all also the same. I remember Persona 3 very vividly because it was so cool and I spent a lot of time with it, and a lot of the personas or whatever from that game are enemies here, with the same elemental strengths and weaknesses. Like I said, it makes the game more familiar and like you're fighting old enemies.

    Besides the SMT universe, DDS2 is a fairly standard turn-based RPG. You run through the levels engaging random battles, fighting bosses along the way, until you get to the end and move the story forward, go to the next dungeon, fight, boss, story, next dungeon, and on and on. The battles are pretty standard. The story sets it up such that your characters can transform into demons, but they're transformed automatically for battle and 'reverting' to human form is basically treated like any other status effect. So in practice, the whole transformation thing doesn't carry much weight. You can use a few nice combo moves if someone is in human form, but that's it. You get one turn per character, but if you score a crit or expose an enemy's weakness, you only use 1/2 a turn. So with 3 characters, by playing weaknesses, you can get 6 turns. All enemies have preset strengths and weaknesses. If you hit a weakness, sometimes the enemy becomes 'frightened' and you can 'devour' them when you're in demon form. Devouring enemies nets you extra AP, which are the points that you use to learn skills. There's a big 'mantra [skill] grid' where you select which spells and abilities characters will learn. You pay money to 'download' the mantra and then that character learns it through earning AP from battle. So devouring enemies just lets you learn mantras faster, which isn't necessarily desirable because they become very expensive to download the more powerful they are, and what I ended up with from constantly consuming was that everyone knew all these cheap mantras since I never saved money to learn the better ones because I learned them so fast because I devoured so much and got so much AP. Confusing sentence.

    The story is some kind of post-apocalyptic sci-fi tale. In the first DDS game, you were a tribe in 'the Junkyard' fighting for dominance. Some mystery girl appeared and something something you wake up in a ruined city. In DDS2 it is revealed that you are just AI in a computer program and that the Junkward was a warfare simulation to find the best AI, which is your tribe. But now you're kind of going rogue and assaulting the Karma Society which rules the wasted earth. There's a virus caused by sunlight that turns people to stone, so everyone lives underground, and the Karma Society's project...well, I can't recall what exactly it was for. Anyway...I honestly don't quite understand what I'm doing, but I'm enjoying doing it. The game flows in a very formulaic way that I like, and the dungeons are such that you need to explore every corner for items, and it's very orderly, which I like. I can go through DDS2 being very logical and methodical.

    The dungeons themselves are HUGE. The last one took me maybe 4 hours. I can't exactly remember how long because I took a long break in between. In the last one I was in, I got stumped as to how to proceed at one point and had to go to a walkthrough. There were all these gates that you had to find the correct switches to open, and I had it all done except for this one switch that I couldn't find! It was tricky, but you had to do some backtracking to get around a locked door and open something else from behind. So that took a while. The boss battles weren't bad, but I think that's primarily because I'd done some level grinding in the previous dungeon where the final boss had me on the ropes. That's the other time I had to look at a walkthrough because he was kicking my ass. He'd change his strengths and weaknesses throughout the battle and I couldn't figure out a pattern. Turns out there were just 3 phases, and once he goes through all 3 in turn, then it's random phase switches instead of predictable ones. And that battle forced me to use a benched character who was level 19 (my main party was like 26). So I took time there to level grind to like 25 and 30, and I think that helped in this most recent dungeon.

    A-n-y-w-a-y. Good times. Maybe I can kill it this weekend and move on to the next thing. There's this website called howlongtobeat.com that has evolved a lot since I first signed up for it over a year ago. But one thing it lets users do it backlog their games, and then it adds up how long your backlog will take to complete based on everyone's submitted completion times. I sat down the other day out of curiosity and entered every game I own but had never played, and the number it spat out...70+ DAYS. I have 70 DAYS worth of unplayed video games. It's hard to express how futile this makes it feel, haha.

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    Jul 27th, 2012 at 03:18:29     -    Odin Sphere (PS2)

    I'm really sad to have to put down Odin Sphere. It's an amazing RPG through and through, but it's got horrible fun-killing game-stopping framerate issues. Also there frequent lengthy load times. I'm able to look past the load times, and I was able to look past the framerate stuttering up to a point. Last night I sat down to finish Valkyrie's epilogue, and the boss fight there just brought my PS2 to its knees. You fight Odette, Queen of the Underworld or something, and she just summons so many enemies and there is so much stuff going on on the screen and the action slows SO MUCH that she is unbeatable as far as I can tell. I guess the main problem with the slowdown is that buttons are unresponsive or have major lag between the time you hit X and Valkyrie actually jumps. If you can't jump precisely, you get hit all the time. If Odette's actions are really slowed down, you can't tell what she's doing because the animations skip, so you don't know that she's about to cast this or that until she does it. She has some move that hits for more than 1/2 my HP where she disappears and reappears wherever you are to hit you. Well if the game is so laggy that you don't really see her disappear and you don't see her begin to reappear, how are you supposed to know when to move out of the way or where she is appearing? I thought about going back and grinding levels and stocking completely full of health potions, but the slowdown is so lame that I won't do it on principle. There are a whole lot of other areas where the game slows down like this, whenever there are a lot of enemies on screen, which is every 4-5 star level so far. But you could always still beat the normal enemies like this. Another thing is that Odette heals herself, so when I make some progress, she'll heal back up eventually. Because it takes me so long to attack her, she heals most of my damage back up and I can't get ahead.

    Anyway, there's my rant. And it's too bad because besides these issues, I was loving this game. The animation was phenomenal, great voice work, dialogue very good, story and storytelling were fascinating. The game is set up so you play this one story from 5 intertwining perspectives. You can always go back and view the story events in sequence. This part where I got stuck is at the end of Valkyrie's section, which is the first character you play with. Maybe I can go on Youtube or something and just watch the entire storyline.

    The game is segmented into 3 types of events. There's the drama, the battle, and the home. Drama events are cut scenes where the main story unfolds. Battle events take place across locations in the world map. Home events are when you can walk around a safe spot, in a castle or somewhere, and talk with NPCs and buy and sell and that kind of thing. There's not much else to say about the drama events, besides to reiterate how awesome the art style is since this is where you can put the controller down and gaze at it.

    The battle events take place from the world map. There are several locations which correspond to this or that kingdom. You select the level where you need to go and then you enter that location. This is the cool part. There are a bunch of stages in each level. Each stage has a difficulty rank, and is connected to at least one other stage. Each stage is also a sphere (Odin Sphere..?). They're 2-d spaces and if you run one direction, you'll eventually come full circle. So the stages are 1-5 stars in difficulty, shops, mini-bosses, or main bosses. You beat the whole level if you kill the main boss. You don't always know where you're going. There are exits from each stage and each exit goes to another stage that is connected in that direction. If you find a map, the whole level will become known and you can move more purposefully from stage to stage to go to the boss or the shop or that 5-star stage with a sweet reward, or whatever. Each stage has a reward, so once you get the map you can see the reward for each stage and chase after specific coins or food or alchemy materials or whatever. I really liked the design here.

    Like many RPGs, Odin Sphere has a food system and an alchemy system. The food system is tied in to the neat leveling system. So in Odin Sphere you have two levels, a Psypher level and an HP level. Psypher level is your attack strength and how many special moves you have/can perform. You increase this by collecting phozons, little particles that emit from dead enemies mostly. You can also use phozons to feed seeds, which sprout food. Food restores HP and gives you HP experience. Get an HP level up and your max HP increases. So you need both, but it's up to you to figure out a balance. I just kept them close to one another, but it takes some managing. If you collect all the phozons, your attack will be higher than HP. If you let seeds absorb all the phozons, your HP will be higher than your attack. So there are various types of seeds and they take xyz number of phozons to sprout food, more phozons for seeds that give food with higher HP recovery or HP experience. I found it fun to manage growing food during battle, harvesting it, and eating it strategically for levels during battle, and also for getting the right foods to bring to the cafe or restaurant to have the chefs make me the really awesome HP leveling food. You find recipes throughout the game that teach the chefs how to make you really really kickass food if you bring them the right combinations of ingredients and coins. It's somewhat in-depth, and was something different for me.

    The fighting seems pretty basic action-RPG stuff, with the food and phozons and alchemy for added depth. Alchemy by the way lets you make various healing and damage and status effect potions with materials and these little mandragoras you find in the stages. Nothing too exciting there. X jumps, square attacks, circle opens your bags, and triangle brings up your psypher abilities. according to the instruction manual, each character has a unique move or two. Valkyrie has a shield to block with by holding square. I never used it, but maybe some of the other characters' abilities would be cooler. You get hit a lot in battle. I'd usually either try to power through enemies by button-mashing X, or I'd double-jump and do an aerial attack because it was safer. Oh, they don't let you button-mash too much because there's a power gauge that depletes as you button-mash. It was a bit constraining, but I felt it was nice in a way because it forces you to run away to refill the power gauge. While you're on the other side of the sphere, it kind of forces time for you to plant a seed or make a potion. I actually found this irritating at first like it broke up the action, but later on I found it more useful because you do need to grow fruit and make potions.

    So yeah, very cool stuff. When I was looking online to get information on the framerate issue, I found out that there's an HD version for PS3 that doesn't have the issues. Also, they released a European PS2 version that doesn't have the issues. Apparently just the NTSC release has the framerate issues. There are also videos of people who hacked it on a PS2 emulator playing it on PC. But whatever. On to the next thing.

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    1100 Floors (Other)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    213 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (PS5)Finished playing
    3140 (PC)Finished playing
    41979 Revolution: Black Friday (PC)Finished playing
    560 Seconds! Reatomized (PC)Finished playing
    67 Billion Humans (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    780 Days (PC)Finished playing
    8A Hat in Time (PC)Finished playing
    9A Mortician's Tale (PC)Finished playing
    10A Plague Tale: Innocence (PC)Finished playing
    11A Plague Tale: Requiem (PC)Finished playing
    12A Space for the Unbound (PC)Finished playing
    13A Way Out (PC)Finished playing
    14Abzu (PC)Finished playing
    15AER: Memories of Old (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    16Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures (PC)Finished playing
    17Aion (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    18Alan Wake (360)Finished playing
    19Alan Wake's American Nightmare (PC)Finished playing
    20Alice: Madness Returns (PC)Finished playing
    21Alien Breed: Impact (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    22Alien: Isolation (PS3)Finished playing
    23Alien: Isolation (PC)Finished playing
    24Altitude (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    25Always Sometimes Monsters (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    26Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (PC)Finished playing
    27Amnesia: Rebirth (PC)Finished playing
    28Amnesia: The Bunker (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    29Amnesia: The Dark Descent (PC)Finished playing
    30Among the Sleep (PC)Finished playing
    31Anachronox (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    32And Yet It Moves (PC)Finished playing
    33Angry Birds (Other)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    34Animal Crossing: New Horizons (NSW)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    35Animal Well (PS5)Finished playing
    36Anomaly: Warzone Earth (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    37Antichamber (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    38Apart of Me (iPd)Finished playing
    39Ape Out (PC)Finished playing
    40Aperture Desk Job (PC)Finished playing
    41Apotheon (PC)Finished playing
    42Arx Fatalis (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    43As Dusk Falls (PC)Finished playing
    44Assassin's Creed II (360)Finished playing
    45Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (360)Finished playing
    46Assassin's Creed Odyssey (PS4)Finished playing
    47Assassin's Creed Origins (PS4)Finished playing
    48Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (360)Finished playing
    49Assassins Creed III (360)Finished playing
    50Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles (PC)Finished playing
    51Astro's Playroom (PS5)Finished playing
    52Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana (PS2)Finished playing
    53Audiosurf (PC)Finished playing
    54Avadon: The Black Fortress (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    55Baba is You (PC)Playing
    56Bag It! (Other)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    57Ballpoint Universe - Infinite (PC)Finished playing
    58Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden (PC)Finished playing
    59Bastion (PC)Finished playing
    60Batman: Arkham Asylum (PC)Finished playing
    61Batman: Arkham City (360)Finished playing
    62Batman: Arkham Knight (PC)Finished playing
    63Battlefield 3 (PC)Finished playing
    64Battletech (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    65Bayonetta (360)Finished playing
    66Bayonetta 2 (WiiU)Finished playing
    67Beat Hazard: Ultra (PC)Finished playing
    68Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians (PC)Finished playing
    69Before I Forget (PC)Finished playing
    70Before Your Eyes (PC)Finished playing
    71Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery (PC)Finished playing
    72Beholder (PC)Finished playing
    73Bejeweled 3 (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    74Beyond Eyes (PC)Finished playing
    75Beyond Good and Evil (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    76Beyond: Two Souls (PS3)Finished playing
    77Bioshock 2 (PC)Finished playing
    78BioShock Infinite (360)Finished playing
    79Bit.Trip Presents Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    80Black Mesa (PC)Finished playing
    81Blair Witch (PC)Finished playing
    82Blind Drive (PC)Finished playing
    83Bloodborne (PS4)Finished playing
    84Bloons TD 6 (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    85Borderlands (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    86Borderlands 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    87Botanicula (PC)Finished playing
    88Braid (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    89Bramble: The Mountain King (XBX X/S)Finished playing
    90Bridge Constructor Portal (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    91Broken Age (PC)Finished playing
    92Brotato (PC)Finished playing
    93Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (PC)Finished playing
    94Brutal Legend (PS3)Finished playing
    95Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition (PC)Finished playing
    96Burnout Paradise (PC)Finished playing
    97Burnout Revenge (PS2)Finished playing
    98Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (PC)Finished playing
    99Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (PC)Finished playing
    100Call of Duty: Black Ops (360)Finished playing
    101Call of Duty: World at War (PS3)Stopped playing - Technical problems
    102Canabalt (PC)Finished playing
    103Capsized (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    104Card Hunter (Web)Finished playing
    105Card Shark (PC)Finished playing
    106Carrion (PC)Finished playing
    107Catherine (PS3)Finished playing
    108Cave Story+ (PC)Finished playing
    109Celeste (PC)Finished playing
    110Champions Online (PC)Finished playing
    111Chants of Sennaar (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    112Chicory: A Colorful Tale (PC)Finished playing
    113Child of Eden (360)Finished playing
    114Child of Light (PC)Finished playing
    115Children of Morta (PC)Finished playing
    116Chrono Trigger (PC)Playing
    117Chuchel (PC)Finished playing
    118Citizen Sleeper (PC)Finished playing
    119Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    120Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (PC)Finished playing
    121Clive Barker's Undying (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    122Clone Drone in the Danger Zone (PC)Finished playing
    123Closure (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    124Clustertruck (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    125Cocoon (PC)Finished playing
    126Cogs (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    127Company of Heroes (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    128Control (PC)Finished playing
    129Costume Quest (PC)Finished playing
    130Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    131Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (PC)Finished playing
    132Crayon Physics Deluxe (PC)Finished playing
    133Creaks (PC)Finished playing
    134Crypt of the NecroDancer (PC)Finished playing
    135Crysis (PC)Finished playing
    136Crysis 2 (360)Finished playing
    137Crysis: Warhead (PC)Finished playing
    138Cult of the Lamb (PS5)Finished playing
    139Cultist Simulator (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    140Cut The Rope (Other)Finished playing
    141Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft (PC)Finished playing
    142Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    143Darkest Dungeon (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    144Darkfall (PC)Finished playing
    145Darksiders (PC)Stopped playing - Technical problems
    146DARQ (PC)Finished playing
    147Darwinia (PC)Stopped playing - Technical problems
    148Dave the Diver (PS4)Finished playing
    149Day of the Tentacle Remastered (PC)Finished playing
    150Dead Cells (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    151Dead Space (PC)Finished playing
    152Dead Space 2 (PC)Finished playing
    153Dead Space 3 (PC)Finished playing
    154Dead Space: Extraction (Wii)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    155Dear Esther (PC)Finished playing
    156Death Squared (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    157Death Stranding (PC)Finished playing
    158Death's Door (PC)Finished playing
    159Deathloop (PC)Finished playing
    160Defcon (PC)Finished playing
    161Defense Grid 2 (PC)Finished playing
    162Defense Grid: The Awakening (PC)Finished playing
    163Depression Quest (PC)Finished playing
    164Desperados III (PC)Finished playing
    165Destiny 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    166Detention (PC)Finished playing
    167Detroit: Become Human (PS4)Finished playing
    168Deus Ex (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    169Deus Ex: Human Revolution (PC)Finished playing
    170Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    171Devil May Cry 4 (PC)Finished playing
    172Devil May Cry 5 (PC)Finished playing
    173Diablo III (PC)Finished playing
    174Diablo III: Reaper of Souls (PC)Finished playing
    175Dicey Dungeons (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    176Dino D-Day (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    177DiRT 3 (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    178Disc Room (PC)Finished playing
    179Disciples 3 (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    180Disco Elysium (PC)Finished playing
    181Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (PS2)Finished playing
    182Dishonored (360)Finished playing
    183Dishonored 2 (PC)Finished playing
    184Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (PC)Finished playing
    185Divinity: Original Sin II (PC)Playing
    186DmC: Devil May Cry (360)Finished playing
    187Do Not Feed the Monkeys (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    188Doki Doki Literature Club (PC)Finished playing
    189Donkey Kong Country Returns (Wii)Finished playing
    190Donut County (PC)Finished playing
    191Doom (2016) (PC)Finished playing
    192Doom Eternal (PC)Finished playing
    193Doom: The Dark Ages (PC)Finished playing
    194Dorfromantik (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    195DotA 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    196Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist (PC)Finished playing
    197Dragon Age II (PC)Finished playing
    198Dragon Age: Inquisition (PC)Finished playing
    199Dragon Age: Origins (PC)Finished playing
    200Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening (PC)Finished playing
    201Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator (PC)Finished playing
    202Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (PC)Finished playing
    203Dredge (PS4)Finished playing
    204Dungeon Keeper Gold (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    205Dungeon of the Endless (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    206Dungeons of Dredmor (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    207DUSK (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    208Duskers (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    209Dust: An Elysian Tail (PC)Finished playing
    210Dustforce (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    211Dyad (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    212Dynamite Jack (PC)Finished playing
    213Earthbound (PC)Finished playing
    214Eliza (PC)Finished playing
    215Else Heart.Break() (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    216En Garde! (PC)Finished playing
    217Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights (PC)Finished playing
    218Endless Legend (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    219Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (360)Finished playing
    220Enter the Gungeon (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    221Eternal Sonata (PS3)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    222Eternal Threads (PC)Finished playing
    223Eufloria (PC)Finished playing
    224EVE Online (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    225Everlands (Other)Finished playing
    226Everquest 2 (PC)Finished playing
    227Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PC)Finished playing
    228Everything (PC)Finished playing
    229Exo One (PC)Finished playing
    230F.E.A.R. (PC)Finished playing
    231Faeria (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    232Fallout 3 (PC)Finished playing
    233Fallout 4 (PC)Finished playing
    234Fallout New Vegas (PC)Finished playing
    235Far Cry 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Technical problems
    236Far Cry 3 (360)Finished playing
    237Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (360)Finished playing
    238Far Cry 4 (PC)Finished playing
    239Far From Noise (PC)Finished playing
    240FAR: Changing Tides (PS4)Finished playing
    241FAR: Lone Sails (PC)Finished playing
    242Faster Than Light (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    243Fatal Frame (PS2)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    244FEZ (PC)Finished playing
    245Final fantasy 13 (PS3)Finished playing
    246Final Fantasy V (PS)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    247Final Fantasy VI (PS)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    248Final Fantasy VII Remake (PS4)Finished playing
    249Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PS3)Finished playing
    250Final Fantasy XV (PC)Finished playing
    251Finding Paradise (PC)Finished playing
    252Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Wii)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    253Firewatch (PC)Finished playing
    254Firework (PC)Finished playing
    255Flow (PS4)Finished playing
    256Flower (PS4)Finished playing
    257Folklore (PS3)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    258Forza Horizon 5 (PC)Finished playing
    259Fran Bow (PC)Finished playing
    260Freud's Bones (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    261Friday the 13th: The Game (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    262Frostpunk (PC)Finished playing
    263Frostpunk 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    264Frozen Synapse (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    265Galcon Fusion (PC)Finished playing
    266Game of Thrones (2014) (PC)Finished playing
    267Garry's Mod (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    268Gauntlet (PC)Finished playing
    269Gears 5 (PC)Finished playing
    270Gears of War (360)Finished playing
    271Gears of War 2 (360)Finished playing
    272Gears of War 3 (360)Finished playing
    273Gears of War 4 (PC)Finished playing
    274Gears of War: Judgment (360)Finished playing
    275Gears Tactics (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    276Gemini Rue (PC)Stopped playing - Technical problems
    277Genesis Noir (PC)Finished playing
    278Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved (PC)Finished playing
    279Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (PC)Finished playing
    280Ghost of Tsushima (PS4)Finished playing
    281Ghostrunner (PC)Finished playing
    282Global Agenda (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    283Gloomhaven (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    284GNOG (PC)Finished playing
    285Goat Simulator (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    286God of War (2018) (PS5)Finished playing
    287God of War 2 (PS2)Finished playing
    288God of war 3 (PS3)Finished playing
    289Golden Axe (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    290Gone Home (PC)Finished playing
    291Gorogoa (PC)Finished playing
    292Grand Theft Auto IV (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    293Grand Theft Auto V (PC)Finished playing
    294Grandia III (PS2)Finished playing
    295Gravity Bone (PC)Finished playing
    296Gravity Rush 2 (PS4)Finished playing
    297Griftlands (PC)Finished playing
    298Grim Fandango Remastered (PC)Finished playing
    299Grim Grimoire (PS2)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    300Gris (PC)Finished playing
    301Grow Home (PC)Finished playing
    302Growlanser Generations (PS2)Finished playing
    303Guacamelee! (PC)Finished playing
    304Guacamelee! 2 (PC)Finished playing
    305Gunpoint (PC)Finished playing
    306Gwent: The Witcher Card Game (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    307H1Z1: King of the Kill (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    308Hacknet (PC)Finished playing
    309Halo 2 (XBX)Finished playing
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    315Halo Reach (360)Finished playing
    316Hand of Fate (PC)Finished playing
    317Hand of Fate 2 (PC)Finished playing
    318Happy Game (PC)Finished playing
    319Hatoful Boyfriend (PC)Finished playing
    320Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (PC)Finished playing
    321Heaven's Vault (PC)Finished playing
    322Heavy Rain (PS3)Finished playing
    323Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (PC)Finished playing
    324Helldivers (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    325Her Story (PC)Finished playing
    326Hi-Fi Rush (PC)Finished playing
    327Hitman 2 (PC)Finished playing
    328Hitman 3 (PC)Finished playing
    329Hitman: Blood Money (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    330Hollow Knight (PC)Finished playing
    331Homefront (PC)Finished playing
    332Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak (PC)Finished playing
    333Homeworld: Remastered Collection (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    334Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4)Finished playing
    335Hotline Miami (PC)Finished playing
    336Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PC)Finished playing
    337Humanity (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    338Hypnospace Outlaw (PC)Finished playing
    339ibb & obb (PC)Finished playing
    340ICEY (PC)Finished playing
    341Iconoclasts (PC)Finished playing
    342Immortality (PC)Finished playing
    343Impostor Factory (PC)Finished playing
    344In Other Waters (PC)Finished playing
    345In Sound Mind (PC)Finished playing
    346Incredipede (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    347Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (PC)Finished playing
    348Infamous (PS3)Finished playing
    349Infamous 2 (PS3)Finished playing
    350Infamous Second Son (PS4)Finished playing
    351Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (PC)Finished playing
    352Inscryption (PS5)Finished playing
    353Inside (PC)Finished playing
    354Into the Breach (PC)Finished playing
    355Intrusion 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    356INVERSUS Deluxe (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    357Invisible, Inc. (PC)Finished playing
    358It Takes Two (PC)Finished playing
    359Jamestown: Legend of the Lost Colony (PC)Finished playing
    360Jazzpunk (PC)Finished playing
    361Jet Set Radio (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    362Joe Danger 2: The Movie (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    363Journey (PS4)Finished playing
    364Jusant (PC)Finished playing
    365Just Cause 2 (PC)Finished playing
    366KAMI (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    367Katamari Forever (PS3)Finished playing
    368Katana Zero (PC)Finished playing
    369Kentucky Route Zero (NSW)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    370Kerbal Space Program (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    371Killer Frequency (PC)Finished playing
    372Killing Floor 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    373KillZone 2 (PS3)Finished playing
    374Killzone 3 (PS3)Finished playing
    375Killzone HD (PS3)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    376Kinect Adventures! (360)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    377King's Bounty: The Legend (PC)Finished playing
    378Kingdoms of Amalur (360)Finished playing
    379Kirby's Epic Yarn (Wii)Finished playing
    380Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    381L.A. Noire (PC)Finished playing
    382Layers of Fear (PC)Finished playing
    383Lead and Gold (PC)Finished playing
    384League of Legends (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    385Left 4 Dead 2 (PC)Finished playing
    386Legend of Grimrock (PC)Finished playing
    387Legend of Grimrock II (PC)Finished playing
    388Legends of Runeterra (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    389Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (PS2)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    390Life is Strange (PC)Finished playing
    391Lifeless Planet (PC)Finished playing
    392Lil Gator Game (PC)Finished playing
    393Limbo (PC)Finished playing
    394Lisa "The First" (PC)Finished playing
    395Lisa: The Painful RPG (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    396Little Big Planet 2 (PS3)Finished playing
    397Little Inferno (PC)Finished playing
    398Little Misfortune (PC)Finished playing
    399Little Nightmares (PC)Finished playing
    400Lobotomy Corporation (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    401Lone Survivor (PC)Finished playing
    402Loop Hero (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    403Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    404Lost Odyssey (360)Finished playing
    405Lovely Planet (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    406Luigi's Mansion 3 (NSW)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    407Lurking (PC)Finished playing
    408Machinarium (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    409Madworld (Wii)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    410Magicka (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    411Maneater (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    412Manhunt 2 (PS2)Finished playing
    413Manifold Garden (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    414Mario Kart 8 (NSW)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    415Mark of the Ninja (PC)Finished playing
    416Marvel's Spider-Man (PS4)Finished playing
    417Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (PS5)Finished playing
    418MASQ (Web)Finished playing
    419Mass Effect (PC)Finished playing
    420Mass Effect 2 (PC)Finished playing
    421Mass Effect 3 (360)Finished playing
    422Max Payne (PS2)Stopped playing - Technical problems
    423Max Payne (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    424Max Payne 2 (PC)Finished playing
    425Max Payne 3 (360)Finished playing
    426Medal of Honor (2010) (PC)Finished playing
    427Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (360)Finished playing
    428Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)Finished playing
    429Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (PC)Finished playing
    430Metal: Hellsinger (PC)Finished playing
    431Metro 2033 (PC)Finished playing
    432Metro Exodus (PC)Finished playing
    433Metro: Last Light (PC)Finished playing
    434Metroid Prime (Wii)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    435Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (PC)Finished playing
    436Middle-earth: Shadow of War (PC)Finished playing
    437Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes (PC)Finished playing
    438Minecraft (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    439Mirror's Edge (PC)Finished playing
    440Mirror's Edge Catalyst (PC)Finished playing
    441Monaco: What's Yours is Mine (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    442Monkey Island 2: Special Edition (PC)Finished playing
    443Monster Hunter: World (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    444Monster Train (PC)Finished playing
    445Monstrum (XBONE)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    446Monument Valley (PC)Finished playing
    447Monument Valley 2 (PC)Finished playing
    448Mount & Blade (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    449Mountain (PC)Finished playing
    450Mullet Madjack (PC)Finished playing
    451My Friend Pedro (PC)Finished playing
    452N++ (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    453Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    454Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (360)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    455Neon White (PC)Finished playing
    456Never Alone (PC)Finished playing
    457Neverwinter Nights 2 (PC)Finished playing
    458Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer (PC)Finished playing
    459Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir (PC)Finished playing
    460Nex Machina (PC)Finished playing
    461Nexuiz (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    462Nier Automata (PC)Finished playing
    463Night in the Woods (NSW)Finished playing
    464NightSky (PC)Finished playing
    465Nine Sols (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    466Nioh (PS4)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    467No Man's Sky (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    468No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Wii)Finished playing
    469Nobody Saves the World (PC)Finished playing
    470Norco (PC)Finished playing
    471Nuclear Throne (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    472Observation (PC)Finished playing
    473Observer (PC)Finished playing
    474Octodad (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    475Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    476Odin Sphere (PS2)Stopped playing - Technical problems
    477Off-Peak (PC)Finished playing
    478Okami (PS2)Finished playing
    479One Hand Clapping (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    480One Leaves (XBX X/S)Finished playing
    481Opus Magnum (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    482Orcs Must Die! (PC)Finished playing
    483Ori and the Blind Forest (PC)Finished playing
    484Ori and the Will of the Wisps (PC)Finished playing
    485Orwell (PC)Finished playing
    486Osmos (PC)Finished playing
    487Outer Wilds (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    488Outland (PC)Finished playing
    489Outlast (PC)Finished playing
    490Outlast 2 (PC)Finished playing
    491Overcooked! (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    492Overlord (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    493Overwatch (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    494Oxenfree (PC)Finished playing
    495PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX+ (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    496Paper Sorcerer (PC)Finished playing
    497Papers, Please (PC)Finished playing
    498Papo & Yo (PC)Finished playing
    499Paradise Killer (PC)Finished playing
    500Path of Exile (PC)Finished playing
    501Payday 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    502Pentiment (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    503Persona 5 Royal (PS5)Playing
    504Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (360)Finished playing
    505Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    506Pikuniku (NSW)Finished playing
    507Pilgrims (PC)Finished playing
    508Pillars of Eternity (PC)Stopped playing - Technical problems
    509PixelJunk Eden (PC)Finished playing
    510PixelJunk Shooter (PC)Finished playing
    511Planescape: Torment (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    512Planetside 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    513Plants vs. Zombies (PC)Finished playing
    514Plants War (Other)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    515Pony Island (PC)Finished playing
    516Portal (PC)Finished playing
    517Portal 2 (PC)Finished playing
    518Portal Reloaded (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    519Portal Stories: Mel (PC)Finished playing
    520Portal: Revolution (PC)Finished playing
    521Post Void (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    522Prey (PC)Finished playing
    523Prey (2017) (PC)Finished playing
    524Prison Architect (PC)Finished playing
    525Proteus (PC)Finished playing
    526Psychonauts 2 (PC)Finished playing
    527Pyre (PC)Finished playing
    528Q.U.B.E. 2 (PC)Finished playing
    529Quantum Break (PC)Finished playing
    530Quantum Conundrum (XBONE)Finished playing
    531QuizCross (Other)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    532Race the Sun (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    533Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (PS3)Stopped playing - Technical problems
    534Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3)Finished playing
    535Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (PS5)Finished playing
    536Rayman Legends (PC)Finished playing
    537Really Big Sky (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    538Red Dead Redemption (360)Finished playing
    539Red Faction: Guerrilla (PC)Finished playing
    540Red Steel 2 (Wii)Finished playing
    541Remnant II (PC)Finished playing
    542Resident Evil 2 (2019) (PC)Finished playing
    543Resident Evil 5 (PC)Finished playing
    544Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (PC)Finished playing
    545Resident Evil Village (PC)Finished playing
    546Resistance 2 (PS3)Finished playing
    547Resistance 3 (PS3)Finished playing
    548Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3)Finished playing
    549Resogun (PC)Finished playing
    550Return to Castle Wolfenstein (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    551Returnal (PS5)Playing
    552Rez Infinite (PS4)Finished playing
    553Rift (PC)Finished playing
    554Ring of Pain (PC)Finished playing
    555Rise of the Tomb Raider (PC)Finished playing
    556Risk of Rain (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    557Road 96 (PC)Finished playing
    558Rocket League (PC)Finished playing
    559Rogue Galaxy (PS2)Finished playing
    560Rogue Legacy 2 (PS5)Finished playing
    561Rollerdrome (PC)Finished playing
    562Ruiner (PC)Finished playing
    563Rumu (PC)Finished playing
    564Ruzzle (Other)Finished playing
    565S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    566S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (PC)Finished playing
    567Saint's Row: The Third (PC)Finished playing
    568Saints Row IV (PC)Finished playing
    569Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love (PS2)Finished playing
    570Sanctum (PC)Finished playing
    571Sanctum 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    572Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves (PC)Finished playing
    573Sanitarium (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    574Sayonara Wild Hearts (PS5)Finished playing
    575Scanner Sombre (PC)Finished playing
    576Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (PS5)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    577Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (PC)Finished playing
    578Shadow Complex (PC)Finished playing
    579Shadow of the Tomb Raider (PC)Finished playing
    580Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice (PC)Finished playing
    581Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (PC)Finished playing
    582Shadowrun: Dragonfall (PC)Finished playing
    583Shatter (PC)Finished playing
    584Shattered Horizon (PC)Finished playing
    585Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon (PS2)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    586Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2 (PS2)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    587Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne (PS2)Finished playing
    588Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 (PS2)Finished playing
    589Shining Force EXA (PS2)Finished playing
    590Shogun Showdown (PC)Finished playing
    591Signalis (PC)Finished playing
    592Silent Hill (PS)Finished playing
    593Simulacra (PC)Finished playing
    594Sin & Punishment: Star Successor (Wii)Finished playing
    595Slay the Spire (PC)Finished playing
    596Slender (PC)Finished playing
    597SMITE (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    598Solar 2 (PC)Finished playing
    599Solar Ash (PC)Finished playing
    600SOMA (PC)Finished playing
    601Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (PC)Finished playing
    602Sonic Adventure DX (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    603Sonic the Hedgehog (PC)Finished playing
    604South of Midnight (PC)Finished playing
    605South Park: The Stick of Truth (PS3)Finished playing
    606Space Channel 5: Part 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Technical problems
    607Space Rangers 2: Rise of the Dominators (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    608Spacechem (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    609Spec Ops: The Line (PC)Finished playing
    610Spelunky (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    611Spelunky 2 (PC)Playing
    612Spiritfarer (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    613Splice (PC)Finished playing
    614Split Fiction (PC)Playing
    615Spore (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    616Stacking (PC)Finished playing
    617Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (PC)Finished playing
    618Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (PC)Finished playing
    619Star Wars: The Old Republic (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    620Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm (PC)Finished playing
    621Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void (PC)Finished playing
    622Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty (PC)Finished playing
    623SteamWorld Dig 2 (PC)Finished playing
    624SteamWorld Heist (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    625SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    626Stephen's Sausage Roll (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    627Stick Fight: The Game (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    628Still Wakes the Deep (PC)Finished playing
    629Stories Untold (PC)Finished playing
    630Stray (PC)Finished playing
    631Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    632Submerged: Hidden Depths (XBONE)Finished playing
    633Subnautica (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    634Subsurface Circular (PC)Finished playing
    635Suikoden Tactics (PS2)Finished playing
    636Suikoden V (PS2)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    637Sunless Sea (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    638Sunlight (PC)Finished playing
    639Super Columbine Massacre RPG (PC)Finished playing
    640Super Hexagon (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    641Super Mario 3D World (WiiU)Finished playing
    642Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)Finished playing
    643Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)Finished playing
    644Super Meat Boy (PC)Finished playing
    645Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    646SUPERHOT (PC)Finished playing
    647SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE (PC)Finished playing
    648Superliminal (PC)Finished playing
    649Supreme Commander 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    650Suzerain (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    651Swords & Soldiers (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    652Syberia (PC)Finished playing
    653Syberia II (PC)Finished playing
    654System Shock 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    655Tacoma (PC)Finished playing
    656Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 (PC)Finished playing
    657Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack (PC)Finished playing
    658Tales from the Borderlands (PC)Finished playing
    659Tales of Vesperia (360)Finished playing
    660Team Fortress 2 (PC)Finished playing
    661Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (PC)Finished playing
    662Telling Lies (PC)Finished playing
    663Terraria (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    664That Dragon, Cancer (PC)Finished playing
    665The 7th Guest (PC)Finished playing
    666The Artful Escape (PC)Finished playing
    667The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit (PC)Finished playing
    668The Ball (PC)Finished playing
    669The Banner Saga (PC)Finished playing
    670The Banner Saga 2 (PC)Finished playing
    671The Banner Saga 3 (PC)Finished playing
    672The Beginner's Guide (PC)Finished playing
    673The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (PC)Finished playing
    674The Blue Flamingo (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    675The Book of Unwritten Tales (PC)Finished playing
    676The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    677The Bridge (PC)Finished playing
    678The Case of the Golden Idol (PC)Finished playing
    679The Cat and the Coup (PC)Finished playing
    680The Cat Lady (PC)Finished playing
    681The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (PC)Finished playing
    682The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (PC)Finished playing
    683The Dark Pictures: Little Hope (PC)Finished playing
    684The Darkness II (PC)Finished playing
    685The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    686The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PC)Finished playing
    687The Eternal Cylinder (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    688The Evil Within (PS3)Finished playing
    689The Evil Within 2 (PC)Finished playing
    690The First Tree (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    691The Forest (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    692The Forgotten City (PC)Finished playing
    693The Last Campfire (PC)Finished playing
    694The Last Guardian (PS4)Finished playing
    695The Last of Us Part II (PS5)Finished playing
    696The Last of Us Remastered (PS4)Finished playing
    697The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess (Wii)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    698The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (WiiU)Finished playing
    699The Longest Journey (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    700The Medium (PC)Finished playing
    701The Norwood Suite (PC)Finished playing
    702The Novelist (PC)Finished playing
    703The Pale Beyond (PC)Finished playing
    704The Pedestrian (PC)Finished playing
    705The Polynomial (PC)Finished playing
    706The Red Strings Club (PC)Finished playing
    707The Riftbreaker (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    708The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (PC)Finished playing
    709The Sims 3 (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    710The Stanley Parable (PC)Finished playing
    711The Swapper (PC)Finished playing
    712The Talos Principle (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    713The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia (PC)Finished playing
    714The Typing of the Dead: Overkill (PC)Finished playing
    715The Unfinished Swan (PS4)Finished playing
    716The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (PC)Finished playing
    717The Walking Dead: A New Frontier (XBX X/S)Finished playing
    718The Walking Dead: Season One (PC)Finished playing
    719The Walking Dead: Season Two (PC)Finished playing
    720The Witcher (PC)Finished playing
    721The Witcher 2 (PC)Finished playing
    722The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (PC)Finished playing
    723The Witness (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    724The Wolf Among Us (PC)Finished playing
    725Thief: Deadly Shadows (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    726Thirty Flights of Loving (PC)Finished playing
    727This war of mine (PC)Finished playing
    728Thomas Was Alone (PC)Finished playing
    729THOTH (PC)Finished playing
    730Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales (PC)Finished playing
    731Thumper (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    732Titanfall 2 (PC)Finished playing
    733To the Moon (PC)Finished playing
    734Toki Tori (PC)Finished playing
    735Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (360)Finished playing
    736Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas (360)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    737Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist (360)Finished playing
    738Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction (360)Finished playing
    739Tomb Raider (2013) (PS3)Finished playing
    740Torchlight II (PC)Finished playing
    741Total War: Shogun 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    742Totally Accurate Battle Simulator (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    743Tower Defense: Lost Earth (Other)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    744Transistor (PC)Finished playing
    745Trials Evolution: Gold Edition (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    746Trials of Fire (PC)Finished playing
    747Tribes: Ascend (PC)Stopped playing - Something better came along
    748Trine 2 (PC)Finished playing
    749Trolley Problem, Inc. (PC)Finished playing
    750Trombone Champ (PC)Finished playing
    751Tunic (PC)Finished playing
    752Twelve Minutes (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    753Tyranny (PC)Finished playing
    754Ultima VII: The Black Gate (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    755ULTRAKILL (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    756Unblock Me (Other)Finished playing
    757Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3)Finished playing
    758Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (PS3)Finished playing
    759Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (PS4)Finished playing
    760Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3)Finished playing
    761Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4)Finished playing
    762Undertale (PC)Finished playing
    763Universe Sandbox (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    764Unravel (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    765Untitled Goose Game (NSW)Finished playing
    766Valiant Hearts: The Great War (PC)Finished playing
    767Valkyria Chronicles (PS3)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    768Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (PS2)Finished playing
    769Vampire Survivors (PC)Playing
    770Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (PC)Stopped playing - Technical problems
    771Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    772Vanquish (360)Finished playing
    773Velocity 2X (PS4)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    774Vessel (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    775Viewtiful Joe 2 (PS2)Finished playing
    776VVVVVV (PC)Finished playing
    777Waking Mars (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    778Wandersong (PC)Finished playing
    779Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (PC)Finished playing
    780Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising (PC)Finished playing
    781Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution (PC)Finished playing
    782Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (PC)Finished playing
    783Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (PC)Finished playing
    784Watch Dogs 2 (PC)Finished playing
    785We Love Katamari (PS2)Finished playing
    786Webbed (PC)Stopped playing - Got frustrated
    787Weird West (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    788What Remains of Edith Finch (PC)Finished playing
    789Who's Your Daddy (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    790Wildermyth (PC)Finished playing
    791Wingspan (PC)Finished playing
    792Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (PC)Finished playing
    793Wolfenstein: The New Order (PC)Finished playing
    794Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (PC)Finished playing
    795Words With Friends (PC)Finished playing
    796World of Goo (PC)Finished playing
    797World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (PC)Finished playing
    798World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (PC)Finished playing
    799World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (PC)Finished playing
    800Worms Crazy Golf (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    801Wreckfest (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    802Wuppo (PC)Finished playing
    803XCOM 2 (PC)Finished playing
    804XCOM: Enemy Unknown (PC)Finished playing
    805Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii)Finished playing
    806Xenoblade Chronicles X (WiiU)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    807Xenosaga (PS2)Finished playing
    808Xenosaga Episode II (PS2)Finished playing
    809Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra (PS2)Finished playing
    810Yakuza 0 (PS4)Finished playing
    811Year Walk (PC)Finished playing
    812Ynglet (PC)Finished playing
    813Yoku's Island Express (PC)Finished playing
    814Zen Bound 2 (PC)Stopped playing - Got Bored
    815Zeno Clash (PC)Finished playing
    816Zombie Gunship (Other)Stopped playing - Got Bored

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