My Full Game List So Far

__If you've been following this blog for a while, you'll know that video games have been occupying almost all my time. I've compiled a list of every game I own, be it legitimately or as a ROM for an emulator, and I'm going through them in order from oldest to newest (or rather alphabetically within each year). I've mainly been focusing on the ones that I haven't played before, and whose rating on my list is therefore blank.

__Now, I never claimed to be a good gamer, so typically what happens is that I try playing the first few minutes of the game, and if it becomes clear that I can't progress quickly (whether it's because I can't see the way forward or I don't feel like putting in the necessary practice), I switch to watching a longplay on YouTube so I can at least see the rest. After all, I have so many games to get through that I don't want to get hung up on each one for days or weeks at a time. Still, there are exceptions where I have actually played the whole game myself, like Super Metroid, Chrono Trigger and Super Mario 64.

__I've been at this for over a year now. I first made the inventory and started playing some of the older games (or at least trying to) towards the end of 2020, but it wasn't until February the next year that I started writing reviews for them. And guess what. I'm still not even halfway through the list! That's partly because the schedule keeps getting interrupted by other games that I decide to preview to see if they're worth adding to my library. At the moment, the prime examples are the Sonic and Castlevania series, of which I'd only played a select few before, but now I've decided to catch up on all the rest.

__Anyway, now that I've finished with the games from 2004, I thought I'd write up a full list of all the games in my collection that I've covered up to this point. As I said, most of them are new to me (and you can check the backlog for my "first impressions" comments), but there are a few old favourites mixed in there, including some educational titles that were among the cornerstones of my childhood.

First Impressions Review Diary 5-Mar-2022

__Hello. I'm posting this the weekend after Shrove Tuesday. I hope everyone enjoyed their pancakes.🙂

__If this is your first time reading my blog, I always post on the first Saturday of the month, at noon on the dot, and my blog consists of very brief reviews of movies or video games I'm seeing/playing for the first time. They're compiled from my Twitter feed, which is always the first place I jot down my thoughts. I used to write much longer reviews, but I find that the more movies you see, the harder it becomes to think of things to say without repeating yourself. So I have the utmost respect for those who write long reviews on a regular basis!

__I'll be talking about both movies and video games this time. Obviously, the big release at the moment is The Batman, and I will actually be going to see it later today, but unfortunately just after this post's deadline, so you'll have to wait until next month to hear my thoughts. (This happened with a couple of cinematic releases last year as well.)

__The few movies I am reviewing this time are all sequels. You see, I usually watch a few TV show episodes in the evening (because I have a huge backlog of both video games and TV shows to get through), but I decided to spend March running through all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies to refresh my memory for the three being released this year, and I didn't have time to start another show before then. As there were six days left in February when I finished the last show (which was Mr Bean, by the way), I decided to fill in those evenings with three film series consisting of only two movies, watching the original one evening and the sequel the next. In all cases, I'd seen the original before (which is why they don't qualify for these reviews), but not for a long time.

__So let's comment on those three sequels first.