Recent content by Johnny Novgorod

Probably PS3 Demon's Souls, in terms of time/skill/effort involved. I didn't savescum to the cloud so it also took me the maximum amount of playthroughs required to see and do everything. A lot of people say Bloodborne but honestly I found it cakewalk after Demon's Souls. A second might be Spec...

Yup! But that was in September, so a little over 7 months ago. To give even more perspective, I got the first trophy for that particular list in November 2019. I just figured I'd go back and clean up for my 100th. A lot of Plats I just get from going back to a game 3-4 years later and replaying...

Trophy lists just make me want to Plat the games I already enjoy on their own. Unless it's too much of a hassle. But if it makes for a fun meta game, or simply adds more "content" in the form of goals for something I've already beaten, I'll go for it. I don't have a hard rule about Platinums...

Civil War This was pretty good, I liked it a lot. Watched the trailer afterwards and it really sells a very different kind of movie. This has more in common with Children of Men and that vein of post-apocalyptic road trip drama, including Garland's own 28 Days Later (he recycles that particular...

Finished Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth. I liked it, while it is basically "just" a Castlevania clone it has one particular mechanic that made it interesting in its own way. You get Wind and Fire magic early on. You can switch between them, one is always active. You level up magic by landing hits...

I don't know what drives this man.

And as usual The Simpsons already did it but better.

Rebel Moon Part 2 - The Scaramanga The Empire has a lot of things. It has spaceships and war mechs and interstellar travel. It has plasma rifles and laser swords. Interplanetary communication. Robot soldiers. Astral planes. A machine that resurrects the dead (no biggie). You know what it...

I bought Touhou earlier this year, I'm looking forward to it. Only a couple of hours into Deedlit and I can tell already it's not gonna be amazing or very memorable but eh it's good enough. It's like a good enough tribute game to Castlevania and feels very cozy as such. To be honest I'm still...

Started Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth. No, I don't know anything about the anime or the manga. I'm just here for the Metroidvania party. The game really is "just" a Castlevania clone, which might be a disappointment to some, although I posit there are much worse things for a...

Started The Sympathizer on HBO/Max. From Park Chan-wook, who made Oldboy. It's good! It's a dark "comedy" set towards the end of the Vietnam war about a mixed race communist spy who has infiltrated the South Vietnamese high command and gets evacuated with them to America as Saigon falls. So far...

Finished Headlander. It's pretty good and well worth checking, out especially since Adult Swims are (supposedly) getting delisted from stores this year. Is it a great Metroidvania? Not really. Is it a great Double Fine/Tim Schaefer game? Well you're competing with Grim Fandango and Psychonauts...

I haven't seen it yet but Roger Ebert's review of it is hilarious.