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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.