June 1-7, 2025
I almost missed out on gaming again this week, but thankfully my friend and I got another Tales of Phantasia session in. On another note, I decided that I wanted to revisit my emulation plans and expand the list of games I’m interested in playing from older consoles. I’ve been doing a lot of research from “top console exclusives” lists and compiling more games to add to my emulation library. It’s turning out to be quite an endeavor which is yet another reason gaming is going to be on the lighter side for a while. I’m excited though, there’s already so many good games I’ve added that I’ve heard really good things about, and others I’ve never heard of but everyone describes as hidden gems. I’m planning on doing a mass add to backlog once my research is done so be prepared for that backlog total to shoot up. Speaking of…
Game Acquisitions
Another Humble Choice redemption, that’s two months in a row! Haven’t had that in a while. I bought yet another bundle too, Fanatical’s Build your own Triple Pack (Summer 2025). Three games for $3, not bad. Between Amazon Prime giveaways and this month’s Choice, I now have every Legacy of Kain game in the series free of charge. That should be a fun deep dive when the time comes.
# of Games: 19
Total Money Spent: $3
Price/Game: $0.16
Game Recaps
A much more reasonable two-hour session of Phantasia this week compared to the six hours a couple weeks ago. It was still productive though! We took on the Spirits of Earth and Water, and even the leader of the Four Great Spirits himself! Check out our playthrough here. These videos will be going up June 28-29 as I continue my daily uploads throughout the month. TV/Movie Recaps
Here is everything I watched this week:
· Star Wars: Andor Season 2 Episodes 11-12 (complete)
· My Little Pony: Make Your Mark Season 2 Episodes 5-6 (still watching, show ended)
· The Last of Us Season 2 Episodes 1-2 (still watching, show ongoing)
· Mickey 17
I felt that Andor ended with a bit of a thud. It was still good, but years were literally flying by in the show and it ended abruptly with the expectation that you would watch Rogue One afterwards. I didn’t feel like watching that movie yet again, so I decided to leave it there. I still recommend it to all Star Wars fans though. My Little Pony continues to be a good enough time. I’m still at the beginning of Last of Us Season 2 but I can already tell it’s gonna be another depressing season. I have played both games so I already know the general story beats, unless they change something drastically. I decided to swap out Ghost in the Shell for Mickey 17. It was OK, I felt like they could’ve used less flashbacks and expanded on the whole cloning thing but not bad overall.
Conclusion/Upcoming
My friend and I are still really enjoying Tales of Phantasia, which is very exciting to me. I hope we get to experience the whole series together. Between our sessions, I’m still gonna be working on emulation stuff like I mentioned earlier. Random fun fact: the HowLongToBeat website has a stats page where you can see the top 50 users for most backlogs, most completions, most retires, and most forum posts. After I add all the emulated games I’m interested in, I think I’ll be very close to hitting the top 50 on backlogs. Maybe not the best thing to be proud of since it implies I keep getting more games instead of playing the ones I already have. It would still be cool to see my name on there. I did recently crack the top 50 forum posts though! I’m officially HLTB famous or something 😛
There’s a good chance I don’t get any gaming time this week, it all depends on if my friend and I have a chance to hang out. Their work schedule has been weird the last few weeks so it could go either way. In the meantime, I’ll continue my console exclusive game research. I’m going to be spending all week watching The Last of Us season 2, which probably won’t take the whole time. I’ll likely start Daredevil Born Again next. I’ve postponed Ghost in the Shell by a couple weeks and am going to watch Boondock Saints instead. Thanks for reading!
Backlog total: 3,289 (+22)
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