The Backlog Check-in Vol. 381: 4/19/25: Days Gone Remastered Edition

[Phaseknox]

Played: Nothing

Finished: Nothing

Playing: ?

Added: Nothing

Games releasing this week
Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy
Annie: Last Hope
Ao Oni: The Horror of Blueberry Onsen
Asura the Striker
Beholder: Conductor
Bokura: Planet
Castle of Secrets
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Darkest Days
Darkwater
Days Gone Remastered
Deep Deep Deep Nightmare
Desperate Place
Detective Dotson
Dolls Nest
Dreamy Syrup
EcoGnomix
Escape the Mad Empire
Farming Supermarket Simulator
Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
Fuel Harvest Together
Ghost Town
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
Kindaichi Mystery Series: The Honjin Murders
La Quimera
Logiart Grimoire
Maliki: Poison of the Past
Metro Quester
Mistfall Hunter
Monster Prom 4: Monster Con
Mother Hub
NanoApostle
Old Skies
Once Human
Once Upon a Puppet
Oppidum
Out of Hands
Outworld Station
Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero
Post Trauma
RailGods of Hysterra
Realpolitiks 3: Earth and Beyond
Rise of Rebellion
SpellRogue
Starless Abyss
Steel Seed
Stellar Monarch 2: Old Dynasties
Sunderfolk
Tempest Rising
Truck Driver - Heading North
Two Strikes
Viking Frontiers
Warborne Above Ashes
World of Goo 2
Yasha: Legends of the Demon Blade

[argyle]

Games added: Nothing

Last week: Finished nothing, played Vampire Survivors, Rogue Legacy 2, & Blue Prince

This week: Same, especially Blue Prince

Wow, Blue Prince is an absolutely amazing game. When's the last time you needed a notepad handy to take notes in a game? Well, you better have one for this one. It's a rogue-lite puzzle game that's not like anything else I've played. You're exploring a house with your end goal to be to find a hidden room to claim your inheritance. But every day the house resets - when you go to a door you're presented with blueprints for 3 different rooms and you choose which one to create. So you're building the map each day. There's a LOT more to it than that, and it's insanely addictive. My wife had started playing it first, and I was holding off starting it to let her play on her own - playing the exact same game side-by-side can, of course, create spoilers. But after a few days she told me she wanted me to play it so she could discuss it with me, so I started (I had been wanting to anyway, what little I had seen of her playing had me very interested). It's actually a lot of fun trading off notes (on puzzles we are both still actively working on, if one of us has solved something we don't just give it away for the other person). Some of the puzzles are VERY cryptic. And these aren't puzzles like The Witness, they're more organic mystery-solving type puzzles. If that makes sense.

Anyway, this is one of those games I very strongly recommend to everyone here. It's GOTY-material.

[jfissel]

Finished: Nothing

Now Playing: Octopath Traveler II

Added to Backlog: Nothing

Current Backlog: 40 games

After debating several options, I decided to start Octopath Traveler II. Maybe 5 hours in, on my second character, and really enjoying it so far. The visuals are nice and the voice acting is solid - we shall see how it all comes together.

[isthatallyougot]

Blue Prince sounds really fun. I had already put it on my wishlist from some other internet chatter, but nice to hear your positive take as well.

I finished up Ion Fury, and wow what a fun game! I already started up another run on the difficulty above normal, but I'm not sure if I'll stick with it. It's not that it's grown tiresome, but it's rare that I want to retread my steps immediately after completing a game. But it's just so easy to turn on and kill some baddies, search for secrets and keep going. We'll see.

I should probably sink my teeth properly into Ecco The Dolphin before it gets relegated to the back of my mind altogether, and crim hunts me down due to my lazy ways.

[canedaddy]

Played recently: Final Fantasy III, Astro's Playroom

Finished: FF3, Astro

Added to backlog: nothing

Current backlog: 44


So I platinum'd FF3 last week... glad I finally got to that one, very enjoyable.

Right about that time, I got my fantasy hockey second-place money, which enabled me to get ... a PS5! The Astro Bot bundle. Ordered from Best Buy on Friday and it arrived Saturday.

I spent much of the weekend playing Astro's Playroom and platinum'd it yesterday. That has to be the best pack-in ever. What a great showcase of the PS5. I was smiling pretty much the whole time I was playing it (aside from when I screwed up trying to get the time trials trophy).

Not sure what I'll play next. I'm taking some games to Gamestop later to get some credit so I can re-up PS Plus. Might do Extra for a short time... a lot of stuff on there I need to play.

[canedaddy]

This is crazy...



Any of you all jumping on that?

I loved the original when I played it... up until I had to close all those Oblivion gates. Very tedious. I wonder if they've improved that aspect.

[argyle]

This is crazy...



Any of you all jumping on that?

I loved the original when I played it... up until I had to close all those Oblivion gates. Very tedious. I wonder if they've improved that aspect.

It's on GamePass, so I'll definitely give it a go. Gonna be hard to pull me away from Blue Prince for very long right now tho.

[canedaddy]

I'm taking some games to Gamestop later to get some credit so I can re-up PS Plus. Might do Extra for a short time... a lot of stuff on there I need to play.

I got enough credit to buy a few PSN cards and get a few months of PS+ Extra. Now playing Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. After that... well I see Blue Prince is on there.

[argyle]

After that... well I see Blue Prince is on there.

So. Addictive!

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[jfissel]

I got enough credit to buy a few PSN cards and get a few months of PS+ Extra. Now playing Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. After that... well I see Blue Prince is on there.

Enjoy!