Log #1: May 2024

• Resident Evil Revelations 2
  

  10 hours playtime

  13 of 43 achievements

• Old School Musical
  

  6 hours playtime

  2 of 13 achievements

• Balatro
  

  31 hours playtime

  19 of 31 achievements

• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
  

  37 hours playtime

  23 of 42 achievements

• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
  

  58 hours playtime

  26 of 32 achievements

I really enjoyed this game. I thought the episodic format worked really well and I liked how each character had their use and you had to switch between them during both exploration and combat. My only real complaint is that Claire doesn't get enough screentime, and also this is on me but Hades 2 dropped while I was 20mins from the end so I ruined the end for myself by opting to play 30+ hours of that before returning to this.

I'm not usually one for rhythm games but there are always exceptions, this game was very charming and the music was good. The only other rhythm game I've played is Everhood (which I love) so I can't really judge this game on gameplay, but I personally liked it.

Balatro was an impulse purchase but not one I regret. To be honest I didn't get it at first, I had to do 3-4 runs before I started having fun, but once I got it I started staying up til 6 am.... Overall very well put together rougelike (rougelite?), it doesn't always feel fair but that's because it uses poker, which is entirely luck based but it remedies that part a bit by giving you a few discards to work with (at least on lower stakes). A game I will probably return to.

This was my first Metal Gear game so I didn't know any of the character's backgrounds and stories, but I plan to replay this once I've seen more of the series. I had a lot of fun with this one, extracting an entire outpost should not be as fun as it is (or extracting a car while someone is driving it). Some things I didn't like were how long you had to wait between missions (why do I have to watch snake sitting in a helicopter for so long?), and how in later missions tranquilizers become useless, but overall I really liked this game, and I will probably play more of it.

I will talk about the 3rd game in this collection; Spirit of Justice, since I played the other two in March. I have two gripes with this game keeping it from being perfect for me. First is Case 4, which is entirely out of place and reduces Athena's character to an incompetent rookie (and I was so excited to see her lead a case again </3) but even with that the case by it self is solid and the witness (Uendo) is great, but I have to wonder why this was even placed there since it doesn't connect with the rest of the game (and case 5 could easily be split into two cases like DD did, so why was there even a need for this case?). My other small complaint is Nahyuta, the other AA prosecutors are so iconic and memorable, and having finished this game two days ago I cannot tell you a single thing about this guy that doesn't relate to Apollo or his dad and his redemption feels entirely unearned. Even still, I loved this game, case 3 and 5 especially, but especially 5. Not gonna talk in depth about it here since this is already too long, but they really outdid themselves with that one.