PS2 Backlog Committee

New game releases this week:

Aug. 18
Entropy (PC)
REKA (PC)
Starsand Island (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, PC)
The Sinking City 2 (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC)

Aug. 20
DayZ (Switch 2)
Ground Zero Hero (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, PC)
Mexican Ninja (PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PC)
Mortal Shell II (PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC)
Slayblade (PC)
Theropods (PC)




Played recently: Sackboy: A Big Adventure

Finished: nothing

Added to backlog: nothing

I'm nearing the end of Sackboy. Things are getting tricky in the last section, and the different/shifting camera angles and forced movement can make the platforming very frustrating. But it's still a very enjoyable and charming experience. Glad I finally played it.

Mexican Ninja looks kinda interesting. I put it on my list.

This week I played the Dawn of the Machine Quake expansion that was just released and it was, like the rest of the content, an absolute blast.

I also started up Kentucky Route Zero. I had it in my backlog for a long time and was waiting for the last episode to release. Then I blinked my eyes, and six years elapsed after that happened, lol. So, I finally started it up, and it is surely an interesting experience. I'm on Act 3 of 5, and it has a very unusual flavor. It's a point and click with a meandering and unconventional narrative structure, but is really intriguing in its delivery. If you like Twin Peaks level of inscrutable/mysterious, yet magnetic, it's that sort of thing.

And my year 1900 OOTP league is a blast. No game....NO GAME is ever over.



Back then games often felt like the wild west. Errors ALL OVER THE PLACE, triples galore, endless steal attempts and sacrifice bunts where things become a Little League sort of adventure, pitchers approaching 150 pitches or more sometimes, etc. It's both infuriating and irresistible in equal measure. I won a game earlier in the season where I had an ungodly 10 ERRORS, and I have one of the better defensive squads in the league, lol. (granted that was a VERY strange anomaly) I had never done a replay or fictional league in this era, and it's really fun because of how different it is. It's definitely not the modern era's "three true outcomes" of K, HR or BB. So happy MLB has at least TRIED to steer the ship away from that tedious formula.