And the N. Sane Trilogy version of Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back on PS4 makes 24.
So far, I'm only at 85%.
Games Beaten 2025
Re: Games Beaten 2025
Would it be odd that if beat the second game before beating the first?
On a related note, I've just beat Cortex in the N. Sane Trilogy version of the first Crash Bandicoot on PS4. That's 25 now.
Like CB2, I'm at 85% completion.
On a related note, I've just beat Cortex in the N. Sane Trilogy version of the first Crash Bandicoot on PS4. That's 25 now.
Like CB2, I'm at 85% completion.
Re: Games Beaten 2025
pierrot wrote: ↑Tue Dec 30, 2025 7:34 pm Ranger X is so friggin' good! It's definitely one of my favorite games on the Genesis. GAU entertainment became Nextech (Crusader of Centy), so they're responsible for a couple of my favorite games on the Genesis. Unfortunately I didn't find Linkle Liver Story on the Saturn to be quite up to par, and after the Saturn they seemed to mostly work on established franchises as a mercenary outfit, but I think their technical abilities still potentially shine through in a lot of those, too.
Totally agree about Ranger X and I'm glad to hear that others appreciate this one! It's really unique for a 16-bit action game and with great graphics and an impressive soundtrack. Hadn't planned on focusing on their games this year, but I also played Crusader of Centy earlier in the year and really enjoyed it. Another highly rated Genesis game for me as well.
What type of issues did you have with Linkle Liver Story? I've heard mixed things about it, so I'm genuinely curious. I feel like GAU/Nextech had a lot of potential, so it's too bad they ended up closing.
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Re: Games Beaten 2025
Ranger X is great, but is it better than Cybernator?
And those graphics, damn. Not only the pixel art, but the background effects!
And those graphics, damn. Not only the pixel art, but the background effects!
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PartridgeSenpai
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Re: Games Beaten 2025
Partridge Senpai's 2025 Beaten Games:
Previously: 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
* indicates a repeat
1~50
51~100
101. Rayman 2: The Great Escape (N64)
102. Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom)
103. Panic Restaurant (NES)
104. Mr. Gimmick (NES)
105. Bucky O'Hare (NES)
106. Wheel of Fortune (N64)
107. Resident Evil 2 (PS1)
108. Dragon Quest VI (SFC)
109. Ninja Gaiden (NES)
110. StarTropics (NES)
111. Parody World: Monster Party (Famicom)
112. Super Mario Bros 2 (NES)
113. Kamen No Ninja Hanamaru (Famicom)
114. Power Blade (NES)
115. Power Blazer (Famicom)
116. Metroid (NES)
117. Kid Icarus (NES)
118. New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U) *
119. Ganbare Goemon 3: Shishi Juurokubee no Karakuri Manjigatame (SFC)
120. Hitman: Blood Money (Xbox 360)
121. Super Bonk (SNES)
122. Plok (SNES)
123. Batman: The Video Game (NES)
124. Power Blade 2 (NES)
125. Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (NES)
126. Phantasy Star (SMS)
127. Solomon's Key (Famicom)
128. Solomon's Key 2 (Famicom)
129. Panel De Pon (SFC)
130. Ice Climber (Famicom)
131. True Crime: Streets of LA (PS2)
132. True Crime: New York City (PS2)
133. Mafia III (PS4)
134. F.E.A.R. 3 (Steam)
135. F.E.A.R. (Steam)
136. F.E.A.R. Extraction Point (Steam)
137. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (Steam)
138. F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate (Steam)
139. Dead Space (Steam)
140. Alpha Protocol (Steam)
141. We Were Here Together (PC)
I hadn't planned to beat any more games this year, but this was too fun a game not to just play all of today. My partner had the idea to play this game together after it was free on the Epic Games Store a week or so ago. Just from the look of it, it looked like a Long Dark-style survival game or something, so I really wasn't interested, but upon hearing it was actually a co-op puzzle game, I was immediately super interested. We wound up having so much fun that we played through the whole thing in one sitting in a little under 5 hours without looking up any puzzle solutions~ (making me write this review tonight before bed to make sure it still got done this year X3)
We Were Here Together is actually the 3rd game in its series, not that we were aware of it. This series is now 5 games long, and they all center around very similar premises to this. Two explorers in the arctic come across a mysterious distress signal and head out to investigate, but as the long and poetic opening cutscene full of kings, curses, and magic imply, this is far more than just some arctic adventure X3. Will you and your buddy be able to get back *together*? The narrative is fairly simple, but it's really cleverly executed beyond just being a good excuse for puzzle solving. The two players are separated very often, and that means the story events you see end up being quite different too. After every big cut scene, my partner and I got to fill each other in on the completely different aspects of the story that we'd both just seen, and it made for a remarkably tense and satisfying narrative conclusion for a puzzle game.
That separation naturally plays into the puzzle design too, and this game ends up having some really solid puzzle design as a result. The actual mechanics are pretty straightforward. Yeah, you can run and jump, but all you actually *need* to do is move, interact with stuff, and communicate with your co-op buddy. Just about all puzzles in the game relate in some way to doing something together, usually regarding missing information for one or both of you. Luckily, the two of you have walkie talkies to chat with each other with, and just like real walkie talkies, you can't hear the other person if you've got the button held down (though you can thankfully see on a little indicator if they're also trying to talk at the moment). Even with just those simple pieces, though, they manage to make some really well-designed puzzles! Not all of them are winners (a couple have one person sitting around bored too much while the other person does kinda everything, and a couple are also so timing-based that they make for very fiddly solutions with any kind of internet latency you'd have to be dealing with), but by and large, they're really good brain teasers. They manage to do a really good job of making figuring out the actual puzzle solution (or even what you're solving in the first place X3) just as fun as figuring out how to communicate all that to your buddy X3. The two halves are honestly SO different that you could easily play through this game with your roles switched and have a great time all over again with just how unique the experience is as you play both halves (something my partner and I are really seriously considering!), and that's not something you can say for most puzzle games!
The aesthetics of the game are very modern 3D indie game. Lots of well made 3D environments that are well put together with a few bits of graphical weirdness here and there. The art style doesn't try to over complicate things, and they do a fine job of having an art style that both has some character to it as well as doesn't get in the way of the puzzle presentation. The audio is also good, with VERY hammy, campy voice acting and some good, mood-setting music for when you're on a time limit and the pressure is really on.
Verdict: Highly Recommended. I'm really happy I got to end this year of gaming with such a bang. It of course helps that my partner is so wonderful (and we both love puzzles), but this is genuinely a really great puzzle game if you've got anyone in your life who likes puzzles too. It's not a very technically demanding game in terms of reflexes or fast movements, so even if someone is only marginally familiar with how to use a modern controller, they should have no serious issue playing along with a more experienced player. The demand to communicate clearly isn't always easy to deal with, and this very well might test your patience from time to time as a result, but if you and a buddy are puzzle lovers and willing to face the challenge together, than this will make for some awesome and memorable weekend fun for the two of you~ ^w^
Previously: 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
* indicates a repeat
1~50
102. Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa (Famicom)
103. Panic Restaurant (NES)
104. Mr. Gimmick (NES)
105. Bucky O'Hare (NES)
106. Wheel of Fortune (N64)
107. Resident Evil 2 (PS1)
108. Dragon Quest VI (SFC)
109. Ninja Gaiden (NES)
110. StarTropics (NES)
111. Parody World: Monster Party (Famicom)
112. Super Mario Bros 2 (NES)
113. Kamen No Ninja Hanamaru (Famicom)
114. Power Blade (NES)
115. Power Blazer (Famicom)
116. Metroid (NES)
117. Kid Icarus (NES)
118. New Super Mario Bros. U (Wii U) *
119. Ganbare Goemon 3: Shishi Juurokubee no Karakuri Manjigatame (SFC)
120. Hitman: Blood Money (Xbox 360)
121. Super Bonk (SNES)
122. Plok (SNES)
123. Batman: The Video Game (NES)
124. Power Blade 2 (NES)
125. Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (NES)
126. Phantasy Star (SMS)
127. Solomon's Key (Famicom)
128. Solomon's Key 2 (Famicom)
129. Panel De Pon (SFC)
130. Ice Climber (Famicom)
131. True Crime: Streets of LA (PS2)
132. True Crime: New York City (PS2)
133. Mafia III (PS4)
134. F.E.A.R. 3 (Steam)
135. F.E.A.R. (Steam)
136. F.E.A.R. Extraction Point (Steam)
137. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (Steam)
138. F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate (Steam)
139. Dead Space (Steam)
140. Alpha Protocol (Steam)
141. We Were Here Together (PC)
I hadn't planned to beat any more games this year, but this was too fun a game not to just play all of today. My partner had the idea to play this game together after it was free on the Epic Games Store a week or so ago. Just from the look of it, it looked like a Long Dark-style survival game or something, so I really wasn't interested, but upon hearing it was actually a co-op puzzle game, I was immediately super interested. We wound up having so much fun that we played through the whole thing in one sitting in a little under 5 hours without looking up any puzzle solutions~ (making me write this review tonight before bed to make sure it still got done this year X3)
We Were Here Together is actually the 3rd game in its series, not that we were aware of it. This series is now 5 games long, and they all center around very similar premises to this. Two explorers in the arctic come across a mysterious distress signal and head out to investigate, but as the long and poetic opening cutscene full of kings, curses, and magic imply, this is far more than just some arctic adventure X3. Will you and your buddy be able to get back *together*? The narrative is fairly simple, but it's really cleverly executed beyond just being a good excuse for puzzle solving. The two players are separated very often, and that means the story events you see end up being quite different too. After every big cut scene, my partner and I got to fill each other in on the completely different aspects of the story that we'd both just seen, and it made for a remarkably tense and satisfying narrative conclusion for a puzzle game.
That separation naturally plays into the puzzle design too, and this game ends up having some really solid puzzle design as a result. The actual mechanics are pretty straightforward. Yeah, you can run and jump, but all you actually *need* to do is move, interact with stuff, and communicate with your co-op buddy. Just about all puzzles in the game relate in some way to doing something together, usually regarding missing information for one or both of you. Luckily, the two of you have walkie talkies to chat with each other with, and just like real walkie talkies, you can't hear the other person if you've got the button held down (though you can thankfully see on a little indicator if they're also trying to talk at the moment). Even with just those simple pieces, though, they manage to make some really well-designed puzzles! Not all of them are winners (a couple have one person sitting around bored too much while the other person does kinda everything, and a couple are also so timing-based that they make for very fiddly solutions with any kind of internet latency you'd have to be dealing with), but by and large, they're really good brain teasers. They manage to do a really good job of making figuring out the actual puzzle solution (or even what you're solving in the first place X3) just as fun as figuring out how to communicate all that to your buddy X3. The two halves are honestly SO different that you could easily play through this game with your roles switched and have a great time all over again with just how unique the experience is as you play both halves (something my partner and I are really seriously considering!), and that's not something you can say for most puzzle games!
The aesthetics of the game are very modern 3D indie game. Lots of well made 3D environments that are well put together with a few bits of graphical weirdness here and there. The art style doesn't try to over complicate things, and they do a fine job of having an art style that both has some character to it as well as doesn't get in the way of the puzzle presentation. The audio is also good, with VERY hammy, campy voice acting and some good, mood-setting music for when you're on a time limit and the pressure is really on.
Verdict: Highly Recommended. I'm really happy I got to end this year of gaming with such a bang. It of course helps that my partner is so wonderful (and we both love puzzles), but this is genuinely a really great puzzle game if you've got anyone in your life who likes puzzles too. It's not a very technically demanding game in terms of reflexes or fast movements, so even if someone is only marginally familiar with how to use a modern controller, they should have no serious issue playing along with a more experienced player. The demand to communicate clearly isn't always easy to deal with, and this very well might test your patience from time to time as a result, but if you and a buddy are puzzle lovers and willing to face the challenge together, than this will make for some awesome and memorable weekend fun for the two of you~ ^w^
I identify everyone via avatar, so if you change your avatar, I genuinely might completely forget who you are. -- Me
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alienjesus
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Re: Games Beaten 2025
It's time for my end of 2025 summary post. This year I beat 58 games, which you can see listed here:
Games beaten 2025 stats:
Total games beaten: 58
Format
Physical games beaten: 53
Digital games beaten: 5
Handheld games beaten: 42
Console games beaten: 16
Nothing super unexpected here. I actually beat more digital titles than normal! Handheld took the bulk of my completions but it's a bit misleading - I count Switch as handheld, but I played some Switch games on my TV this year too.
Consoles:
Breakdown by console gen:
Gen 3: 0
Gen 4: 8
Gen 5: 1
Gen 6: 1
Gen 7: 0
Gen 8: 39
Gen 9: 9
Games beaten by console:
SNES: 7
Gamecube: 1
Switch: 36
Switch 2: 6
PS1: 1
PS4: 2
PS5: 3
PSVR: 1
Neo Geo: 1
I went into this year with the specific goal to make a dent in my Switch backlog, which I feel like I mostly achieved - over 50% of my games beaten were on Switch. There's still a lot to go, but I'd like to try and get some more variety in next year.
Breakdown by genre:
2D Platformer: 11
3D Platformer: 2
Action Adventure: 4
Adventure: 12
Flight combat: 2
Beat em up/hack & slash: 1
Light gun: 1
Metroidvania: 2
Open world: 1
Party: 3
Puzzle: 1
Racing: 3
RPG: 4
Run n Gun: 1
Shmup: 2
Sports: 1
Strategy: 4
As usual, platformers dominated my genre numbers, with a fairly even smattering of games beaten across other genres. It's a misleading picture though, as the RPGs and Strategy games here probably commanded a much larger proportion of my time over all.
Total games beaten: 58
Format
Physical games beaten: 53
Digital games beaten: 5
Handheld games beaten: 42
Console games beaten: 16
Nothing super unexpected here. I actually beat more digital titles than normal! Handheld took the bulk of my completions but it's a bit misleading - I count Switch as handheld, but I played some Switch games on my TV this year too.
Consoles:
Breakdown by console gen:
Gen 3: 0
Gen 4: 8
Gen 5: 1
Gen 6: 1
Gen 7: 0
Gen 8: 39
Gen 9: 9
Games beaten by console:
SNES: 7
Gamecube: 1
Switch: 36
Switch 2: 6
PS1: 1
PS4: 2
PS5: 3
PSVR: 1
Neo Geo: 1
I went into this year with the specific goal to make a dent in my Switch backlog, which I feel like I mostly achieved - over 50% of my games beaten were on Switch. There's still a lot to go, but I'd like to try and get some more variety in next year.
Breakdown by genre:
2D Platformer: 11
3D Platformer: 2
Action Adventure: 4
Adventure: 12
Flight combat: 2
Beat em up/hack & slash: 1
Light gun: 1
Metroidvania: 2
Open world: 1
Party: 3
Puzzle: 1
Racing: 3
RPG: 4
Run n Gun: 1
Shmup: 2
Sports: 1
Strategy: 4
As usual, platformers dominated my genre numbers, with a fairly even smattering of games beaten across other genres. It's a misleading picture though, as the RPGs and Strategy games here probably commanded a much larger proportion of my time over all.
Last edited by alienjesus on Wed Dec 31, 2025 2:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Games Beaten 2025
I'm hoping to beat Crash Bandicoot: Warped (the N. Sane Trilogy version) before the end of the year.
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alienjesus
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Re: Games Beaten 2025
I'm doign something a bit different for my top 10 this year. Almost half of the games I finished this year were remakes, remasters or just straight up revisits of games I've beaten previously. A lot of these a great games though and wouldnt have taken up a lot of my top 10, which feels a bit unfair. So I'm splitting the list into 2 - the top 10 new to me games of the year, and then the top 10 revisited games I played after.
No honourable mentions this time - if I'm honest, it's not the strongest year in terms of games beaten in general. Most games were good, but many of them don't quite feel worthy of their top 10 status and wouldnt have made the list in other years:
AJ's top 10 newly played games of 2025
AJ's top 10 remakes, remasters and replays of 2025
No honourable mentions this time - if I'm honest, it's not the strongest year in terms of games beaten in general. Most games were good, but many of them don't quite feel worthy of their top 10 status and wouldnt have made the list in other years:
AJ's top 10 newly played games of 2025
AJ's top 10 remakes, remasters and replays of 2025
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PartridgeSenpai
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Re: Games Beaten 2025
Looking back at all the games I played this year, it was kinda daunting to do a summary of them XD. A big goal of the last chunk of this year was breaking 2021's record of 130 games beaten, and that quickly became the mission of the past few months despite all the long RPGs I'd played earlier in the year X3. I made it in the end with 141 total games beaten, but hot damn do I not expect to ever beat that number 
I'm not gonna do a big write up for each one (as the reviews already exist), but I already did top and bottom 10 lists for them, so I thought I'd at least share those here~
Pidge's Bottom 10 Games Played in 2025:
The top ten games I enjoyed the least this year (It was really hard picking an order for these)
Pidge's Top 10 Games Played in 2025:
The top ten games I enjoyed the MOST this year
It's been a heck of a year for both good and bad things and good and bad things, but here's hoping this next year will be even better than the last one~
I'm not gonna do a big write up for each one (as the reviews already exist), but I already did top and bottom 10 lists for them, so I thought I'd at least share those here~
Pidge's Bottom 10 Games Played in 2025:
The top ten games I enjoyed the least this year (It was really hard picking an order for these)
The top ten games I enjoyed the MOST this year
I identify everyone via avatar, so if you change your avatar, I genuinely might completely forget who you are. -- Me
Re: Games Beaten 2025
I pulled this from Backloggery because I don't remember it in great detail anymore:
I had written a bit about it in an old thread too, but it was mostly the same thing:
RobertAugustdeMeijer wrote: ↑Wed Dec 31, 2025 8:08 am Ranger X is great, but is it better than Cybernator?
And those graphics, damn. Not only the pixel art, but the background effects!
For me it's not even close. Ranger X runs away with it in a landslide. I don't particularly like the Assault Suit games, though. Found Leynos 2 and Gun Hazard to both be chore-like games, too.
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