Monthly Update #5: So Much Gaming!

May 2025

This was likely the most productive month of gaming I’ll have this year. Over 38 hours! This was due to me putting everything else aside and taking as much advantage of my two-week Game Pass trial as possible. In the end, six games were beaten in that timeframe which was nuts. I had a healthy dose of game acquisitions too, and a similarly sized dent in my wallet to show for it.

Game Acquisitions

A lot of gaming and a lot of game buying too. Can’t have one without the other apparently. This is the reason I’ll never get through my backlog no matter how much time I spend playing. At least I don’t have to worry about running out. Most of these games seem like they’ll be pretty cool, and even the smaller indie stuff looks interesting if nothing else.

# of Games: 68

Total Money Spent: $45.09

Price/Game: $0.66

Game Recaps

It’s beautiful, so many games! I love the variety here. I really thought my marathon session of Tales of Phantasia would’ve put that game in the lead, but Road 96 just barely eked out a win. I guess slow and steady really does win the race. Also, I think this is the first time I’ve seen the word eked written out before. It looks wrong somehow, but Google says it’s spelled right so whatever. Anyway, here are playlists for every game I played in May. The videos are coming out every day throughout most of June so be patient if you don’t see all of them right away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TV/Movie Recaps 

Here is everything I watched last month:

·       Arcane Season 1 Episode 2-Season 2 Episode 9 (complete)

·       Family Guy Season 23 Episodes 11-14 (all caught up, show ongoing)

·       My Little Pony: Make Your Mark Season 2 Episode 4 (still watching, show ended)

·       Captain Laserhawk: A Blood Dragon Remix Season 1 Episodes 1-6 (complete)

·       Star Wars: Andor Season 2 Episodes 1-10 (still watching, show ended)

·       Rise of the Planet of the Apes

·       Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

·       War for the Planet of the Apes

·       Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

·       Dog Man

I wrote my thoughts in previous posts, but everyone go watch Arcane. It’s a masterpiece. My Little Pony and Captain Laserhawk were OK. Andor is very good, although it had a pretty slow first half in my opinion. I still need to watch the finale to get the full picture but it’s one of the best Star Wars shows for sure. I liked all of the Planet of the Apes movies and am interested to see what direction they take for the new trilogy. It was weird watching a movie that was not part of the franchise after seeing so many in a row. Speaking of, Dog Man was better than I expected for a kid’s movie. I was a fan of Captain Underpants as a kid and it’s from the same creator. I was disappointed by the Captain Underpants movie, but I actually enjoyed this one. Kudos!

Conclusion/Upcoming

And that’s a wrap on my best month to date. I had a blast playing most of these games. If I ever get Game Pass again, I wanna try some longer games instead of sticking to <10-hour ones to get as many in as possible. My biggest plan for June is to dive deep into the Ghost in the Shell franchise. I’m planning to watch the first two movies in my usual Friday slots then go straight into all the various anime that’s available. I’ve got it all mapped out too, I’m excited! That’ll be mainly the second half of the month. I still need to watch Daredevil Born Again, Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld, and The Last of Us season 2 so hopefully I can get those in. If I have any time left over which I doubt, I also have Raised by Wolves and Tales from the Loop on the backburner. Gaming will be at a minimum; it’ll probably just be Tales of Phantasia if my friend and I get some more time in it. The rest of my free time will be dedicated to Playnite setup. I’ll get back to gaming on a regular basis eventually, I promise. My weekly post should be out tomorrow. Thanks for reading!

Backlog total: 3,267 <-It’s back! And so much higher than my last update of 3,196 😭