Topic: Last Game You Beat

Finished of Resident Evil.4 on the Wii last night. Still a great game over all and my favorite.version. Not sure if I will play another game before Halloween due to not being able to finish it before then.

Finished off The Handsome Jackpot DLC Last night. Very very enjoyable DLC in fact I liked it better then the main storyline. If you are a Borderlands 2 fan then you gotta play this DLC. Overall not to hard only had one problem boss and the end boss was a great fight. The casino setting was different but didnt feel out of place for Borderlands. Alot of people say this DLC was homage to the Fallout New Vegas DLC Dead Money which I can see but to me it also felt like they took some ideas from Bioshock and of course Heist movies. Still any enjoyable playtrough and great to see Jack again. I also like how they brought Timothy in from Pre-sequel and the ending was great. As DLCs go I would give this one 8/10 due to the one boss.

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So good. And it took some time.. Dont want spoil anything for you. A prophecy. .

I completed Ball X Pit the other day. A very enjoyable, and fairly easy, completion. I would recommend it if you enjoyed Breakout back in the day

Finished the Guns Love and Tentacles DLC for Borderlands 3. Another solid DLC, seriously I am enjoying the DLC stories for Borderlands 3 alot more then the main story. I loved the Lovecraftian theme of this DLC. Next up will be Krieg's DLC which is the one I have been looking forward to the most.

@Tasuki. Heard so much about Boderlands but never played it. Does it hold up well in 2025 ? It feel like it was some time since we got any news about the franchise. It seemed so big a few years ago.

@oliverp Ummm 4 just came out literally 2 months ago.

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Metroid Prime 4. Finished on New Years Eve. My game of the year.

Top 3 All finished
Metroid Prime 4 - Doom The Dark Ages - Avowed -

Feels like it's been ages, but here some writeups on the last few games I beat (all on Steam).

Tales of Symphonia

I spent a large portion of the back half of 2025 playing through this. I don't think it's quite as great as it's reputation would lead you to believe, but it's still great JRPG comfort food. I do love the little "diorama" aesthetic of the towns & dungeons in this era of Tales games too (they make great use of 3D space for verticality & have a charm to them that I think is largely gone from the more modern Tales games). Also nice is a bit of non-linearity when it comes to dungeon completion order at points, but unfortunately it also has missable quests/areas that aren't really telegraphed well (there's like 3 towns that are wiped off the map as you progress through the story).

Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution

Not the best in the franchise, but still a solid "Metroidvania" that's well infused with the colorful aesthetic & bubbly humor found in the series. The big twist here is that you can manipulate the layout of the environment in certain areas (they'll have foreground & background planes, and certain switches will move the background around letting you access different areas) which is novel, however in a huge oversight there's absolutely no in-game map whatsoever. Nothing is ever quite so confusing for this to be anything but a mild inconvenience, but it does mean I'm not going to bother looking for the two Secret Squids left unfound.

Captain Blood

A long lost pirate themed hack & slasher cancelled right before release, finally seeing the light of day decades after the fact. It's certainly a PS360 era game, from the over the top bloody action to the plethora of insta fail QTE's. In all honesty it's not all that hard of a game, though it can be inconsistent. It's only ever hard if it decides to cap off a level by puking out wave after wave of random enemies in large amounts. Otherwise, they tend to end with a cinematic QTE sequence (while insta fail, it'll just send you back to the start of the sequence & they usually aren't long) or a boss fight (bosses are spongey, but not at all hard other than one instance where it pairs the boss with the aforementioned enemy waves). One annoyance is that it also features a QTE after every boss, and (based on the couple I failed) sometimes it'll just set you back at the start of the QTE, but other times... it'll make you redo the entire boss fight. The story largely just exists to provide context for the action on screen and could largely be improved (you're an outlaw taking on various missions for the English to attack the Spanish, and I had assumed that the Brits were going to throw you under the bus at some point, but that just doesn't happen & the game ends. I have a feeling the game was originally going to be longer).