Daily Challenge - 2025-02-21
Score: 270 / 300
🟪🟦🟪 🟦 = 90 | R | Axiom Verge
🟦🟪🟦 🟦 = 84 | P | Final Fantasy XV: Royal Edition
🟪🟪🟪 🟦 = 96 | S | The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

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I've never posted here before but I've played this game every day for a few months and this is by far my best game.

I've been replaying Oblivion for the first time in 10 years and having one of the best gaming experiences of my life.

Sonic Adventure boxart. Hastily applied one night.

I read 12 books this year. 9 Stephen King books and 3 George Orwell books. 12 is in or around my average for most years.

1. Salem's Lot (1975) - I really enjoyed this book. It's probably my favourite piece of vampire fiction I've ever experienced. It's basically Dracula but in a rural American town and the main antagonist vampire (Count Barlow) is very successful in his vampiric endeavours.

2. It (1986) - Very famous story. Second longest book I read this year. I prefer this book to all adaptations.

3. Joyland (2013) - Nice coming of age story written under the hard case crime label so there is a little crime mystery sprinkled in there.

4. Carrie (1974) - I already had seen Brian De Palma's adaptation before I read this and the story is as tense and tragic as the film.

5. The Shining (1977) - The Shining is one of my top 5 films of all time so I naturally had some hefty expectations for this book. I finally was able to see the differences that everyone talks about. I love both the film and the book.

6. Animal Farm (1945) - Re-read. Iconic cautionary tale about revolutionaries becoming as corrupt as their overthrown tyrants.

7. 1984 (1949) - Re-read. I read this every year to compare the state of the world to Oceania in 1984.

8. Revival (2014) - I thought this was cosmic horror but I got more of a journey through someone's life with cosmic horror sprinkled in. Loved it.

9. Doctor Sleep (2013) - Sequel to the Shining. I found it incredibly entertaining and I'll probably watch the adaptation soon.

10. Burmese Days (1934) - George Orwell's first novel about the effects of British colonialism on Burma. While reading it I felt as if I could smell Burma the setting was so well described.

11. The Stand (1979) - Magnificent. Longest book I read this year. Wish it was longer. Post-apocalyptic perfection.

12. Misery (1987) - Really great psychological thriller that I finished really quickly. Can't wait to see the adaptation.

Either I'm too easily impressed or I just got very lucky with what books I read as I liked all of them this year. I'm currently reading Al Pacino's new autobiography. I'll probably then go on to read George Orwell's A Clergyman's Daughter and Stephen King's Pet Semetary.

Someone can take my turn.

Is that Kid Chameleon?

My turn can be taken.

Highland Song

Started this a long while back, recently started working on it again.
Amaterasu (Okami)

I'm playing Okami for the first time currently and I'm loving it. Your Ammy looks so cute.

You have probably heard of it before but I think Firewatch is a game you'll enjoy if you liked Killer Frequency.

Someone can take my turn.

It's Megacopter.

Someone can take my turn.

Rise of Nightmares. I've owned it for 10 years and never played it.

Someone else can take my turn.

I think that is Ghost Song

I'm going to say:

15. Banjo Kazooie
14. Metroid Prime
13. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
12. Fable
11. Mirror's Edge

It constantly changes but at the moment I would say:

10. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
9. Sonic Generations
8. Rayman Legends
7. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
6. The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
5. Halo Combat Evolved
4. Resident Evil 4 (2005)
3. Half Life 2
2. Portal
1. Portal 2

Someone can take my turn.

Highland Song I believe. I remember seeing it at a (relatively) recent Nintendo Direct.

I think Screamride is pretty good game.

1. Portal 2
2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
3. Resident Evil 2 (2019)
4. Half Life 2: Episode 1
5. Assassin's Creed 2
6. Halo: The Master Chief Collection
7. Resident Evil 4 (2023)
8. Super Mario Bros Wonder
9. Resident Evil 8: Village
10. Detroit Become Human
11. Half Life: Opposing Force
12. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
13. Forza Horizon 4
14. Aperture Desk Job
15. The Last of Us
16. Sonic Mania
17. LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
18. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
19. Half Life: Source
20. ---

It's sad because it's by far the most successful the Xbox brand ever was and will be. The 360 is my personal favourite console of all time. From the moment Xbox had that disaster showcase for the xbox one at E3 2013 it all went to hell.

This is the worst end of era sale. What even is this? Have Microsoft no respect for the 360?

Someone else can take my go.