The Backlog Check-in Vol. 274: 4/1/23: GrimGrimoire OnceMore Edition

[Phaseknox]

Played: Nothing

Finished: Nothing

Playing: ?

Added: New Tales from the Borderlands

Games releasing this week
Across the Valley
Atari Mania
Batora: Lost Haven
Capoo Pals
Creed: Rise to Glory
Curse of the Sea Rats
Dashing Orange
Dice Kingdoms
Drill Deal: Oil Tycoon
EA Sports PGA Tour
Everspace 2
Filthy Animals
Full Metal Sergeant
GrimGrimoire OnceMore
Horror Tale
Liberte
A Light in the Dark
The Library of Babel
Marfusha
Meet Your Maker
Melon Journey: Bittersweet Memories
Mindhack
Moviehouse
Oxygen
Path of Exile: Crucible
Pupperazzi
Ravenswatch
Road 96: Mile 0
RPG Stories
Song of the Prairie
Spiritfall
Supplice
Volley Pals
Zombie Soup

[canedaddy]

Played recently: Nobody Saves the World, Super Perils of Baking

Finished: Nobody Saves the World

Added to backlog: nothing

Current backlog: 28


Nobody Saves the World was a good time. It's cool that Drinkbox does so many different kinds of games and all of them are fun and have a signature style. My final play time was 35 hours... a lot longer than I expected. I might have gone for the platinum if I didn't see that it requires beating the game again in NG+. Maybe some other time.

After that, I fired up Super Perils of Baking, a pixel platformer that's a tribute to (or knockoff of) 2D Marios. Check it out if you like that kind of thing. As much as I'm digging jumping around and avoiding/killing monstrous baked goods, I'm finding it very hard to 100% some of the levels so I'm giving up on that pursuit.

[jfissel]

Finished: Nothing

Now Playing: Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy, Like a Dragon: Ishin

Added to Backlog: Nothing

Current Backlog: 44 games

I'm in chapter 6 of Ishin...moving along since I've done a lot of the side stuff already. Might just continue the story for a few chapters while tackling substories occasionally or when I run into them.

[argyle]

Games added: Nothing

Last week: Finished nothing, played a few different games - nothing stuck

This week: I think I finally settled on something last night, FF7 Remake.

[Phaseknox]

Saturday night I was kind of rushing to the restroom from my bedroom using my walker and my wheelchair was sitting outside my bedroom door with the front wheels slightly in the way, so I lifted the front of the walker to get over them and it hit them and I fell straight down directly on my stump breaking the incision completely open. I was immediately rushed to the hospital, and had emergency surgery the next day. The doctor said that it went well, and I came home yesterday. I’ve been in a lot of pain. I’m strictly using my wheelchair now because using the walker is too dangerous. This has set me way back, so I don’t know when I’ll be able to get my prosthetic leg/foot now.

[canedaddy]

Man, that sucks. Has anyone suggesting a knee cart? It would be easier to maneuver around the house than a wheelchair but sturdier and safer than a walker.

[isthatallyougot]

Sorry about your setback phase. Hang in there. Little by little everything resolves.

I think I'm just about finished with Crystalis. It has been a fun old-school action rpg. It has some of the same annoyances I often find in Zelda along with many of the same strengths. But overall, it's surely been worth playing. Glad I went back in time. I seem to be playing far more retro stuff in recent years. As time moves forward, I move backwards. Where will it lead? Surely to the deconstruction of commonly accepted "reality".

[Phaseknox]

Man, that sucks. Has anyone suggesting a knee cart? It would be easier to maneuver around the house than a wheelchair but sturdier and safer than a walker.

I wanted one of those for the reasons that you mentioned, but my doctor said that I couldn’t use one until my incision healed because I couldn’t put so much weight down on my stump while it’s healing. By the time that it heals I’ll have a prosthetic leg/foot, so I won’t have a need for a knee cart.

[Phaseknox]

I think I'm just about finished with Crystalis. It has been a fun old-school action rpg. It has some of the same annoyances I often find in Zelda along with many of the same strengths. But overall, it's surely been worth playing. Glad I went back in time. I seem to be playing far more retro stuff in recent years.

I have Crystalis on my little retro game console, and I plan on playing it. I started playing BloodRayne ReVamped, and it’s a really good remaster displayed in HD widescreen and running at 60fps. Like you I’ve been wanting to play more retro stuff lately, BloodRayne and BloodRayne 2 are a couple of my favorite third person action games from the past and I was really enjoying playing the first game again now. Unfortunately, my stump is hurting too much to play for very long. It only doesn’t hurt much when I lay in bed and don’t move it.

[canedaddy]

I wanted one of those for the reasons that you mentioned, but my doctor said that I couldn’t use one until my incision healed because I couldn’t put so much weight down on my stump while it’s healing. By the time that it heals I’ll have a prosthetic leg/foot, so I won’t have a need for a knee cart.

Well as a wise man once said, that SUCKS!!!!

Glad you're enjoying your return to BloodRayne for as long as you can play it.