Ebe71aac853092062596ff1844b992fc?s=156&d=identicon Alastor

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Posted in PWB September 2026

As far as FF7 and the Reactor bombing goes I really dislike how the Remake tried to clean the hands of Avalanche by making Shinra responsible for the blast getting out of hand, in the original that does not happen and any collateral was on their hands. Even if you go with the thinking that Avalanche believe they were responsible and still carry on, we know they weren't so we don't have any moral dilemma.

Posted in Your Games Completed of 2026

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
Azure Striker Gunvolt
Trails beyond the Horizon
We Love Katamari
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Resident Evil: Requiem
Resident Evil (1998)
Final Fantasy X
Space Marine
Pragmata
Final Fantasy VII
Streets of Rage 4
Onimusha Warlords
Muramasa Rebirth
Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny
Halo: Campaign Evolved
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Pokemon Leaf Green
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Metal Gear Solid 4

Onimusha 3: Demon's Siege
Solid game, and if it wasn't having to play as Jean Reno, would probably be my favourite. I don't think he's horrible to play, he's clearly got a strong moveset with cool utility, but I just wanted to cut things down with Samanosuke's swords every time I had to play as him. That isn't to say the time swapping mechanic is bad either, it's used to cool effect in some good environments, I just never felt his combat was all that satisfying, which probably won't be a very common opinion, I bet people love him.

Posted in PWB September 2026

Play

Onimusha 3: Demon's Siege
This is the most 'Resident Evil' this series has ever felt, with the Samurai sent to modern day France and Jean Reno sent to Sengoku era Japan, you eventually stop alternating between their sections of the game and have to actively solve puzzles in the same area but in respective time zones to help each other by manually jumping between them at will. It's not hard, it's actually pretty cool.

Final Fantasy Resonance - the demo is out and I'm not too far in it but…I'm basically sold, solid looking game.

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - This is so much better than MGS4 already, and I'm not even that far again but it's just so fun even if the premise of ballooning enemies up into your gunship to recruit them is silly, it's a game kind of silly and I like it. It's clearly a PSP game and if we're looking at it like that it's got to be like one of the Top 5 games on the system, but even playing it on a console the handheld 'bite sized' design still ends well to short bursts of play. That said, with you being able to buy this separately from MGS4 and Ghost Babel, there's no reason I couldn't just get it on the Switch 2 and get the option to play handheld OR TV, oh well….

Want
If I can beat Onimusha 3 tonight I might buy the new one, Onimusha 4 will have to wait I guess. Also I will try replay FF7 Remake and Rebirth for sure before the new one is out

Posted in Your Games Completed of 2026

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance
Azure Striker Gunvolt
Trails beyond the Horizon
We Love Katamari
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Resident Evil: Requiem
Resident Evil (1998)
Final Fantasy X
Space Marine
Pragmata
Final Fantasy VII
Streets of Rage 4
Onimusha Warlords
Muramasa Rebirth
Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny
Halo: Campaign Evolved
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Pokemon Leaf Green
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

Metal Gear Solid 4
The internet is full of people calling this a masterpiece, but I think it's the worst game in the series, it feels to me like what MGS would be if someone made a movie of it, the 'Foxdie doomsday' plot and scenes like Meryl and Johnny fighting that army of soldiers while proposing to each other are straight out of something I'd expect to see if that actually happened. At best Kojima wrote himself into a corner trying to tie everything up into a neat bow, at worst he actively regretted some of the stuff he did in previous games and just retconned almost everything.

Gameplay wise it has moments of brilliance, then after Act 2 you kind of don't even get that, so I don't know why people even defend it from that angle either. I'm just looking forward to playing Peace Walker too, which has a lot of problems, but at least was fun to play

Posted in PWB August 2026 - Everything's still on fire

Started Vice City Stories and I can't describe how but something feels…off, Liberty City in LCS feels like it could have been straight from the PS2 but the rendition of Vice City here feels like a bit of a cheap version of VC from the PS2. I have only done a few missions and they were fine, playing as a character we know dies in the intro to Vice City is interesting too, he's an (ex)-soldier and has his morals so far so unlike Toni Cipriani in LCS who was a mafioso so I'm interested to see how he becomes corrupted.

Also beat Act 2 of MGS4 and the Africa map was way better than I thought, I can't wait to try and do the Big Boss Extreme (No alerts, no kills) run on it at some point. I'm already getting annoyed with the game again, I absolutely despise Raiden in this, who feels a like really pathetic attempt to make a controversial character work through really shallow means and this is made worse by the fact that it obviously worked for a lot of people, thank God he's not lame and gay anymore I guess. The scene where he dismembers a load of Gecko and fights Vamp is actually fantastic though (the latter is extremely homoerotic for some reason ha ha) I just wish he didn't talk. (Same for the bosses whenever they leave their mech suits, urgh)

For a PS3 game this looks crazy good still I think