The Backlog Check-in Vol. 379: 4/5/25: Commandos: Origins/South of Midnight Edition

[Phaseknox]

Played: Nothing

Finished: Nothing

Playing: ?

Added: Nothing

Games releasing this week
Against the Storm
Age of Empires IV - Knights of Cross and Rose
All in Abyss: Judge the Fake
Armored Brigade II
Asgard’s Fall - Viking Survivors
Aviassembly
Battlefield Waltz
Big Buck Hunter: Ultimate Trophy
Bioid
Blue Prince
Burden of Command
Commandos: Origins
Crashlands 2
Cursed Dawn
Dave the Diver - Ichiban’s Holiday
Dissent on Mars
Driveloop
Electro-Bop Boxing League
Fortune Avenue
Gedonia 2
Girls Made Pudding
Hollow Survivors
Hollywood Animal
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
IXION
Jumping Jazz Cats
Junkyard Builder
Kaya’s Prophecy
Leila
Locomoto
Milord
Monaco 2
Peppered: An Existential Platformer
Pocket Bravery
Polo and the Holobook
Promise Mascot Agency
Sandwalkers
Slimekeep
Snow Bros. 2 Special
South of Midnight
Star Overdrive
The Talos Principle: Reawakened
Typing Ninja
Used Cars Simulator
Velev
Wild Assault
Wildgate
Wind Story

[argyle]

Games added: Rogue Legacy 2, Jitsu Squad

Last week: Finished nothing, played Enter the Gungeon & Rogue Legacy 2

This week: Same.

Enter the Gungeon is good, but RL2 is excellent. Absolutely loving that game so far.

[canedaddy]

Played recently: GTA San Andreas

Finished: GTA SA

Added to backlog: nothing

Current backlog: 45

I haven't figured out what to play after SA. Nothing in the backlog is calling my name at the moment.

... RL2 is excellent. Absolutely loving that game so far.

Hmm, that might be the one. I enjoyed the first one.

[isthatallyougot]

I really enjoyed the first Rogue Legacy, but never got around to the second.

I've mostly played OOTP this week, but I have also been enjoying Ion Fury. It's a boomer shooter with a wise-cracking female protagonist in a cyber-punk future setting. It's greasy fast and fun, and if you have any affinity for such games, I'd surely recommend it. The level design is really nice and the shooting is really satisfying too.

[argyle]

Hmm, that might be the one. I enjoyed the first one.

I really enjoyed the first Rogue Legacy, but never got around to the second.

That was me. DG has actually been playing it for 2-3 weeks now, he's the one that got me to bump it up my list. Glad he did too, it's really scratching the gaming itch I had right now.

[jfissel]

Finished: Ace Attorney Trilogy (platinum), Astro Bot DLC

Now Playing: ???

Added to Backlog: Nothing

Current Backlog: 40 games

Ace Attorney Trilogy is in the books! My thoughts are below:

Positives:
- Story that comes together at the end of the trilogy
- Music is fantastic, very catchy, might have to find it for download
- The hand(s) slamming on desks sound effect I need this for my phone somehow

Negatives:
- Sometimes things in the trials and investigations are overly long and drawn out. All of the games are way longer than I thought they'd be. The amount of dialogue is staggering
- Several wacky ass annoying characters
- That damn judge seems to vary between super smart and the dumbest person in the room. It was mostly for comedic effect, but was still off-putting at times

[argyle]

- That damn judge seems to vary between super smart and the dumbest person in the room. It was mostly for comedic effect, but was still off-putting at times

[jfissel]

- That damn judge seems to vary between super smart and the dumbest person in the room. It was mostly for comedic effect, but was still off-putting at times

[Phaseknox]

I've mostly played OOTP this week, but I have also been enjoying Ion Fury. It's a boomer shooter with a wise-cracking female protagonist in a cyber-punk future setting. It's greasy fast and fun, and if you have any affinity for such games, I'd surely recommend it. The level design is really nice and the shooting is really satisfying too.

Ion Fury is one of my favorite FPSs in recent years.

[isthatallyougot]

Ion Fury is one of my favorite FPSs in recent years.

I can surely see why. What a fantastic blast of fun this game is! I'm a little surprised that you feel that way though, given how you feel about challenging games. Although, maybe I'm just not that great at FPSs, well, actually I'm sure I'm not, lol. But even on normal, I feel like this is a nice sense of challenge and resistance - very satisfying on the default difficulty. And even though I almost only play on PC nowadays, I still prefer controller over KB&M, so I'm even worse because of that, I'm sure, ha.

Anyway, I just finished the rooftop fight with the Revenant 8991-PX last night and

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took the long elevator to the underground railway after setting off the self-destruct sequence, blowing everything to hell

, and what an incredibly fun and hectic battle. I usually enjoy FPSs, and so I play them from time to time, but they rarely crack my own personal hall of fame, even when they're good, but this has a chance. Such a fun time! It's the only thing that I've played recently that has had any sense of pull against my desire to keep playing OOTP baseball at every free moment. Nice to hear you chime in on something phase.