#beglitched

I started an awesome new physical gaming (and reading) journal this month and it's really been encouraging me to play more games more actively. I was also on vacation for a week so I got a lot of gaming done then. Hence it only took me a month to experience twenty games!

Amnesia: The Bunker (watched: Laila Dyer): I have no interest in playing survival horror games myself but Laila always makes it seem so easy. Watching her is calming!

Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy (played): I'm taking a break after the first game in the trilogy, which I think is absolutely fine so far.

Beglitched (watched: Circe the Hex Witch): This is such a cute game :) The Let's Player had played the game before, which is not my favorite kind of Let's Play, but the upside is that this allowed her to end the series with a kind of video essay on the themes and story and why she enjoyed them so much, which was very cool.

Chrono Trigger (watched: PlayFrame): I'm a little too spoiled on modern games to find the story and characters in this one at all intriguing but I'm glad Dan enjoyed it.

Date Everything! (played): I could very well be dating real men if I felt like it, but at this point playing Date Everything! feels like an "instead" kind of thing instead of an "also".

Decarnation (watched: adricarra): Haven't gotten far in this one but it seems very cool. And hits a little too close to home, I am also a 29-year-old woman.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (watched: Welonz): I'm sorry, this game just seems awful. Stuffed to the brim with unfun minigames with a completely aimless, repetitive story. I've never heard Welonz complain about a game (or you know, barely contain herself from complaining) this much before.

Golden Idol Investigations: The Age of Restraint (played): No one gives the Golden Idol team enough credit for their incredible worldbuilding.

Inspector Waffles (played): Cat detective adventure game. Like, they made this game specifically for me to enjoy.

Kentucky Route Zero (played): I want to read and write academic essays about this game. A masterpiece.

Lisa the Hopeful (watched: GSDBoxer): I don't understand wanting to make a Lisa fangame. Like, expanding on the gameplay is fine and all, but once we've gone through Brad and Buddy, the only characters left to make into protagonists are, you know, all those awful men who want to rape Buddy. Why would you want to play as one of them?

Mission: It's Complicated (played): I dunno man, I think romance games are just better when all the characters are bisexual. Real life would be better too.

Promise Mascot Agency (played): I feel like I'm never going to finish this game. I like it! I just can't bring myself to record my Let's Plays, and it feels like I'm not very far along in this one despite being up to twenty episodes already.

Semblance (played): A solid (ironically, given the concept) puzzle-platformer.

Super Metroid (watched: Quasimofo): I stopped watching current Let's Play series pretty fast, but I'm glad I tried watching them for a little while, since it led to me watching this series. Experiencing a classic for the first time through the eyes of someone who's also experiencing it for the first time. Priceless.

Unpacking (watched: Welonz): Welonz doesn't know what a dreidel is. She called it a fidget toy. Sad times.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (watched: Kikoskia): Second time I'm attempting to subject myself to this gross game. This is what child me thought video games were when she thought they were just for boys.

Welcome to Elk (played): The worst feeling in the world to me is to dislike something that other people generally like. My review was one of the only negative ones on Backloggd and that makes me feel really sad, like I'm missing something that could bring me joy.

Wildermyth (watched: Quasimofo): I think there was a time when I was interested in this game, and now I'm glad I didn't buy it for myself because it seems way too complicated for my tastes. But I'm glad I have it in my current rotation of Let's Plays because the rest is all horror games and dudebro-poisoned games and this one is cute and light (tonally, at least).

Oxenfree

I played this one prior and oh my gosh I love this game. It’s one of my all time favorites and made me fear-cry. It’s a story based game that follows a girl named Alex, as she endeavors to keep her brand new step brother Jonas, her stoner friend Ren, Rin’s crush Nona and a girl named Clarissa who was Alex’s late older brother’s girlfriend, alive until morning on an abandoned island haunted very literally by the ghosts of the past.

Night in the Woods

My sister’s favorite game of all time and for me it is definitely up there. Focuses around a girl named Mae who recently dropped out of college and returned to her home town to try to reconnect with her friends and family and deal with her mental health, but there is something lurking in the woods... also all the characters are anthropomorphic animals and it’s adorable.

Celeste

Harrrrddddd. It’s hard. So hard. But I did it! Celeste is a platformer following a girl named Madeline as she tried to climb Mt. Celeste chased and hindered by her fears and anxieties as she attempts to cope. It’s a very good game but can be very frustrating.

A Short Hike

A short game relatively speaking about a bird girl named Claire who is on an island state park with her aunt and is attempting to get to the peak of the mountain to find cell service for a very important phone call. She can walk, climb and fly in this little open world game and it is very charming. I never got around to catching all the fish cause I have other things to do but maybe one day...

Minit

A very stressful game where you die every minute which is definitely not enough time to do everything but luckily all your progress stays each death, you just end up at your little house over and over. Reminds me of top down zelda games and is completely in black and white. I was tense the entire time but beating the game was such a rush of relief.

Wheels of Aurelia

Aaa so many endings! I got 3 so far to be honest. It’s a visual novel driving game following a woman named Lella and a lady she picked up at a dance named Olga as they travel the Aurelia road in Italy on their way to France for their own reasons. I wish you could slow down the car as well as speed up cause I hit so many people when trying to be careful lol.

Gnog

This game made my computer overheat and shut down! Aaa. Anyway it’s about opening boxes through puzzles and is very neat for what I played before my computer decided to throw a tantrum!

WitchWay

Adorable platform puzzle game playing as a little witch who fell into a ruin and has to find her pet bunnies, get her stuff back and get to the surface. In like every room there’s a eye on the wall that opens when you pass it and it took forevvvveeer to find them all and I’m not even sure what their point was but it was a fun game.

Beglitched

A bejeweled like puzzle game where you find a laptop owned by an apparently infamous user Glitch_Witch who apparently decided to take a break from her internet kingdom and dump it on some rando: you, and left you notes on how to get rid of “hackers” hiding in the puzzle boards. Very fun but the cat levels killed me. So. So hard. It’s a cute game worth a look

Ephemera of Evalynn Cott

I didn’t really “get” this game? It was a little hard to understand but interesting to say the least. I think I finished it and it didn’t take long. It’s about a girl trying to find her missing assignments I think. It’s like Atari graphics which is neat but it was hard for me to tell what was happening, you know, being younger than the Atari and all.

#hasicontent

A pixel game where you take photos of bunnies in a garden in a top down fashion. There’s no real point or anything for this game but it’s cute.

Pikuniku

2d puzzle platform styled game with a cute minimalist design where you play as a little red oval with legs and eyes called Piku who runs around a cute and quirky little island and kicks the crap out of robots. Rather short but very cute and charming, now only if someone would play co-op with me :/

Death and Taxes

I honestly don’t know how I feel about this game. You play as a grim reaper in an office and the main game play is stamping papers with short info blurbs on humans to decide if they live or die. It’s a weird game that suggests the world is better off if some people die and I don’t know how I feel about that. I really don’t.

Lenna’s Inception

important announcement!!!

❃ BEGLITCHED ❃ ☺︎ by @q_dork & @bad_tetris ☺︎

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