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Cursed to Golf
13 hours playtime
8 of 13 achievements
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Toaster Jam
82 minutes playtime
21 of 21 achievements
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Crime Boss: Rockay City
39 hours playtime
30 of 45 achievements
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BlazBlue Entropy Effect
8 hours playtime
21 of 43 achievements
August - December 2025!!
Wow… it’s been that long. I bought an apartment. It has been a very stressful and busy few months, so very little or no gaming most of this period.
August - I played Cursed to Golf and Toaster Jam
September - I played Crime Boss: Rockay City and Dorfromantik
October - I played nothing
November - I played nothing
December - I played My Time at Sandrock, Crime Boss: Rockay City, BlazBlue Entropy Effect, Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut, and Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
Not many assassinations, but let’s do a brief report to try and get back on track.
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Cursed to Golf
I played a demo of this during a NextFest event, a while back, I think. It made a good impression, so I had my eye on it. Can't remember if it was a sale or a bundle, but picked it up cheap somewhere.
Pretty old skool, basic golf game. The 'cursed' aspect and cards adds a little extra to it, but at its core, it's a basic golf game. Pretty fun and didn't take too long to beat.Toaster Jam
Very simple. One of those games that only costs $1-2 but is good for a bit of mindless fun. Simple enough to be a mobile game, to be honest, but fine for an hour.
Crime Boss: Roackay City
Lots of famous faces in this, but they don't add much to the game. On paper, I bet this looked great. Kind of Payday, with more of a fleshed-out single-player experience. It didn't impress though. It all felt a bit... hollow, somehow. The single-player game felt very repetitive and grindy, and this carried over to the multi-player game in some respects (based on the little time I played in multi-player). I don't think the enemy AI was very good either. I mean, I still put almost 39 hours into it, but it was more of a routine, and there was an element of 'mindless escapism' at a time when real life was pretty stressful. So, it served a purpose, but I wouldn't recommend it. Still plenty of gettable achievements, but I doubt I'd ever get them all.
BlazBlue Entropy Effect
I can't really decide how I feel about this. I like it, but I don't love it, and I'm not sure why. It looks good. It plays well. I didn't really follow the story, but I think that's my lack of attention more than anything. I've 'beaten' the game in that I have beaten the final boss, but I think there may be some kind of 'true ending' of some kind. Also plenty more achievements to get. This is one I may return to, but I'm marking it as beaten for now.
Backlog Additions
I added quite a few games at the start of January before writing this, which makes calculating my end-of-year stats (below) a bit difficult now. Focusing just on titles, I added these games in the Aug-Dec period - Leaf it Alone, Marsupilami: Hoobadventure, Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip, Lil Gator Game, SteamWorld Heist II, and Everholm.
Progress in 2025
I update the numbers in the ‘stats’ section of my profile a bit more regularly (most of the time), but try and post my end-of-year stats around this time. I added 6 games to my account in January before writing this post. Removing them doesn’t change my BLAEO percentages at all, but it makes me feel a little better! No real change, but at least I didn’t add a lot of games to my library.
Beginning of 2025 - 450 games
Beginning of 2026 - 463 games
Congratulations on buying the apartment! Best of luck.
How has it been living in Japan for so long? I visited it two years ago and loved it, but due to what is commonly said about the work culture there (and hard language) I can’t imagine how it is to actually live there being a foreigner.
The language is the biggest hurdle. I should be much better than I actually am after living here this long, but I’m not the greatest at languages and don’t study consistently enough. There’s a lot more English than when I first arrived though (in Tokyo at least), and advances in tech help a lot.
I guess the other biggest hurdle is that, unlike other countries, if you look non-Japanese then you’ll always be seen as an ‘outsider’ and treated as such.
Everything else, I think I’ve adapted to and it seems normal to me. Being in a different culture keeps things interesting and makes you think, even when you’re doing everyday things. I like that aspect.
I’ve heard of some of those issues but it’s always good to know more about them by someone who experienced it.
Glad to know you’re still enjoying it! :)