The Backlog Check-in Vol. 426: 2/28/26: Marathon & Pokemon Pokopia Edition

[jfissel]

World of Warcraft: Midnight (PC, Mac) – March 2
Esoteric Ebb (PC) - March 3
Gnaughty Gnomes (PC) - March 3
Legacy of Kain: Defiance Remastered (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch, PC) - March 3
Scott Pilgrim EX (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, PC) - March 3
Homura Hime (PC) - March 4
Marathon (PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC) - March 5
Never Grace: The Witch and the Curse (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch, PC) - March 5
Planet of Lana II: Children of the Leaf (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Switch 2, Switch, PC) - March 5
Pokemon Pokopia (Switch 2) - March 5
Poker Night at the Inventory (Remaster) (PlayStation 4, Switch, PC) – March 5
Portrait of a Torn (PlayStation 5) – March 5
Slay the Spire 2 (PC early access) - March 5
Timberborn (PC) – March 5
Heart of the Machine (PC) - March 6
Lost and Found Co. (PC) - March 6
Mirage 7 (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC) - March 6
Over The Top: WW1 (PC) - March 6
Sumerian Six (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S) – March 6


Finished: Nothing

Now Playing: Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties

Added to Backlog: Nothing

Current Backlog: 38 games

Beat the YK3 story and currently working through the rest of the trophies for that part of the game. Then comes the Dark Ties spinoff game with Mine.

[isthatallyougot]

Have any of you guys got anything special a'brewin' for the rest of the year?!? RE9 just came out, the DQ VII remake (j/cane?), whatever? I've got lots of things I'd like to try if I could ever tear myself away from my true love!!!! Not bloody likely!

Man, OOTP just sucks me in and won't let go, ha! Well if you can't live for your bliss, life ain't worth too much, I reckon. So, in the honor of the coming spring, baseball, optimism, happy vibes and the ever-recurring and natural renewal of seasons and cycles (and argyle's presumably sweet new set-up!), I offer a couple tracks in that spirit for the virtual spinner:

(I could easily have thrown out Here Comes the Sun here, and it's surely a deserving classic, but it gets/has gotten an abundance of play over the years.)

[canedaddy]

Have any of you guys got anything special a'brewin' for the rest of the year?!? RE9 just came out, the DQ VII remake (j/cane?), whatever? I've got lots of things I'd like to try if I could ever tear myself away from my true love!!!! Not bloody likely!

Good question. I'm rarely buying games on day 1 these days, but there are a handful slated to come out this year that might change that (GTA VI, Marvel's Wolverine, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Blood of the Dawnwalker). We will see!


Played recently: Horizon: Forbidden West

Finished: nothing

Added to backlog: nothing

I wasn't super excited to start Forbidden West, maybe because I heard so much negativity online, but I finally fired it up and I'm really enjoying it so far (even though some of the criticism is undeniably true). Beautiful game, fun world to explore, robot dinosaurs, I cannot complain.