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Bubble
Turtles

Contra
Mario

In The End
Crawling
One Step Closer
Place For My Head
Pushing Me Away
With You
Points Of Authority
Papercut
Runaway
By Myself
Forgotten
Cure For The Itch

Mega
Galaga

Cardigan
Exile
Epiphany
This Is Me Trying
Hoax
My Tears Ricochet
The 1
Mirrorball
Seven
August
Peace
The Last Great American Dynasty
Mad Woman
Illicit Affairs
Invisible String
Betty

5. Beat a game released in 2022

Infernax. Nice homage to Castlevania II, except that this game is actually good. If you have Game Pass I recommend checking it out

18/50

SMZ3 is available! It's something I want to do but I'm in the same boat as you; done plenty of SM but barely touched LTTP. I just need to suck it up eventually and learn how to route it right

Hotel California
Life In The Fast Lane
Victim Of Love
Wasted Time
Pretty Maids All In A Row
The Last Resort
Try and Love Again
New Kid In Town
Wasted Time (Reprise)

how about some Atlus

11. Beat a game made by a developer you like

Persona 5 Royal. I like the new additions, they did a good job integrating it all without it feeling out of place

24. Beat a game with romance as a central theme

Catherine. Unlike Royal with P5, I heard that the additions in Full Body did feel out of place, so I stuck with the original since I already owned it. After watching the new scenes, I believe they fit just fine so if you haven't played either just go with Full Body.

17/50

++ Death Stranding | Asylums For The Feeling | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3tN1BxjsgU
++ Ecco: The Tides Of Time | St. Gabriel's Mask | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BwEBix43xc
++ Cytus | Entrance | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZZvtEfAd1o
++ 999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors | Senary Game | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZpWRgWkGrc
++ Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice | Just Like Sleep | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yynx6VEVR8w

Put me in for Timespinner (progression balancing set to no, everything else default)

36. Beat a game that's been in your backlog for a long time

Gunfright. Getting back into the Rare Replay games slowly but surely

15/50

1. Beat a game released before 1992

Knight Lore

14/50

A Million Billion Stars
Collene
Woods
Iron Lung
Frisk
It's Conditional
Portland U
Golden Heart
Missing Sibling
Self Guided Tours
Interdiction

38. Finish a game in one day

Armored Warriors

13/50

17. Beat a shooting game

Mass Effect 3. Definitely have some issues with the end which I assume is where most people's opinions lie, but the journey was still amazing. To me, what makes the trilogy special is that each game has different strengths that make them stand out individually.

12/50

46. Beat a game you received for free or through a paid subscription service

Telling Lies. If you've played Her Story this plays in a similar format (same developer). I liked it but it's not as good as Her Story, mainly because there's more mystery in HS you need to figure out yourself. Perfect kind of game to put on Game Pass though, I'd recommend checking it out (plus it's short).

11/50

Very strong album, the top five have all been #1 at some point in my life

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
Orion
Disposable Heroes
Master of Puppets
Battery
Leper Messiah
Damage, Inc.
The Thing That Should Not Be

45. Beat a game that features historical events or people

The Forgotten City

30. Beat a game with a female lead

Paradise Killer

10/50

Learning To Live
Metropolis - Part I: The Miracle and The Sleeper
Wait For Sleep
Surrounded
Take The Time
Pull Me Under
Another Day
Under A Glass Moon

41. Beat a game with a Metascore above 90

Mass Effect 2. While the first game has a charm to it that I feel can't be replicated, this is straight up a better game.

8/50

Red Rain
In Your Eyes
Big Time
Sledgehammer
Mercy Street
We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)
This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds)
Don't Give Up
That Voice Again

Ranked in tiers (and they are in order):

Great

Rush - Moving Pictures
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
The Knife - Silent Shout

Very Good

Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Coeur de pirate - Roses
Moby - Play

Pretty Good

Spice Girls - Spice
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
OutKast - Aquemini
Taylor Swift - Speak Now

OK

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
Tears for Fears - The Hurting
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Lorde - Melodrama
Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground and Nico

Didn't Like

Of Monsters and Men - My Head is an Animal
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

42. Beat another user's favorite game

Xenoblade Chronicles. Definitely worthy of a favorite

7/50

In The Air Tonight
Droned
Hand In Hand
Thunder and Lightning
Tomorrow Never Knows
This Must Be Love
I Missed Again
You Know What I Mean
The Roof Is Leaking
Behind The Lines
If Leaving Me Is Easy
I'm Not Moving

1. Here
2. The Niles Edge
3. You
4. Im Dying
5. Flames
6. Three Doors
7. Pretty When You Cry
8. Untitled
9. Dirty Hole
10. Touched
11. Somewhere Else To Be
12. Temptation

39. Finish a game that took you at least twenty-five hours to beat

Yakuza: Like A Dragon. New gameplay mechanics, but keeps the Yakuza charm. Excellent game!

14. Beat an RPG

Star Ocean: The Last Hope (4K and Full HD Remaster). Don't care what anyone says, this is a great game

6/50

Sad I missed Toxicity. Good final rankings overall (title track is my #1, and I like Psycho more than most at #3)

Labyrinth
Time Machine
Isle Unto Thyself
White Ball
7
Stranded Lullaby
Black Rainbows
Murders
The Mind Electric
Introduction To The Snow
Dream Sweet in Sea Major

1. To Rid The Disease
2. Windowpane
3. In My Time Of Need
4. Hope Leaves
5. Closure
6. Weakness
7. Death Whispered A Lullaby
8. Ending Credits

Metroid Dread

Done! Got walled by Speed Booster and Gravity Suit for a few days, but Lolo came through with the suit. And it turned out Speed was in my own game locked behind Gravity. I want to try this with Timespinner in the future after I do a solo run of it.

Metroid Dread

Metroid Dread

Sign me up for Super Metroid. Default settings are good for this first go-round

1. In My Life
2. Norwegian Wood
3. If I Needed Someone
4. Nowhere Man
5. Think For Yourself
6. Michelle
7. Run For Your Life
8. Wait
9. Girl
10. Im Looking Through You
11. The Word
12. Drive My Car
13. You Wont See Me
14. What Goes On

Tales of Arise

Compliments
Plans
Blue Light
Price Of Gas
So Here We Are
Shes Hearing Voices
Pioneers
Little Thoughts
This Modern Love
Like Eating Glass
Banquet
Luno
Helicopter
Positive Tension

9. Beat a remake or enhanced port

Mass Effect (Legendary Edition). Massive improvement over the original!

32. Beat a game with a non-white lead

Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life. Thus ends the Kazuma Kiryu saga. This one was weird in that I just couldn't get used to the 30 FPS framerate even though I had no trouble adapting to it in Yakuza Kiwami 2. One of my least favorite in the series, but I still enjoyed it. Here's my ranking for all the games (not including Like A Dragon since it takes a different path):

0 > Kiwami 2 > Kiwami 1 > 4 > 5 > 6 > 3

All of them good with their own merits (3 for example has some of the better villains)

21. Beat a strategy game

Fire Emblem: Three Houses. A year and a half in the making, but finally completed all four routes! This was my first Fire Emblem game and it did not disappoint.

6/50

dang I missed another one, hopefully I'll make the next outing

50-52. Beat three games in a series

Yakuza 3
Yakuza 4
Yakuza 5

0 and the Kiwamis leaving Game Pass motivated me to get on the rest of the series right away.

1/50

Definitely interested in doing this in the future! I'd be up for Super Metroid and/or Timespinner

As someone who isn't really into simulation games and hasn't played one in a long time, what are some good recommendations to check out?