July 2026

Little Problems: It was harder than what I was expecting. I thought it was okay but I don’t think I like this type of puzzle. My brain really struggled figuring out and remembering who did what. The cats were cute though. 6/10.

Arcade Spirits: Also just kind of okay. I didn’t vibe with the humor but I did like most of the characters. I had very low expectations with the voice acting but it wasn’t as cringe as I was expecting. It was actually pretty good. The routes I did were QueenBee, Ashley, and Naomi, though I can’t rank them because I feel like they were all relatively the same quality. 7/10.

Starpoint Gemini 2: I liked the gameplay loop, but I think forcing myself to beat the campaign made me dislike the game a little bit. I did not care about the story at all, I actually stopped paying attention to it. If I didn’t make myself beat the campaign, I think I’d have stopped at 10 hours in and have a better experience. I just felt very underpowered in the story quests even though I thought I had the best ship/equipment I could get for my rank. There were also a lot of times where you have to fight multiple enemies in a row, and when you die, you start from the nearest station you were in, fly back to the mission area, wait for the long unskippable dialogues to end, and fight again. So it also just felt tedious to do. The free roam was more fun because combat actually felt balanced and more fair. Either way it’s a 6/10.

Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale: One of the more unique Hosted Games/Choice of Games because it’s a British comedy instead of yet another fantasy drama. While it’s well-written, the story just feel incomplete. It’s supposed to be a trilogy but the second game is taking way too long to be released. I mean this one was released in Nov 2020 and we’re only getting the sequel in Dec 2026 and it won’t even be the full game, just 1/3rd of it (apparently the second game was too long so the author has to slowly release the rest). There’s a lot of replayability but the story as a whole is just lacking at the moment. I’d still give this an 8/10 but honestly, just check out the author’s other game set in the same universe called Tally Ho which is actually a complete story. I’d recommend waiting for this one to be fully released (though that might be in 2030 minimum lol).

Our World is Ended: The art, voice acting, characters, and OST (for my fellow VOCALOID fans, 164 made the vocal songs in the game) are great and it felt like a very well-polished visual novel. The story itself is mediocre though and the dialogues felt repetitive at times. The humor wasn’t the best either. I didn’t really find most of the “jokes” funny. It’s just perverted for the sake of being perverted. There was also a lot of anime bullshit that might be hard to ignore if you’re not used to ignoring them. But the characters were really fun and they definitely made this game better than it should be.

I was initially planning on giving this an 8 because I really enjoyed the characters but I think Tatiana’s route disgusted me too much and also the secret route (Reina) and just that character’s ending in general disappointed me. I did their route last because I thought it’d be the game’s true ending in the sense that we could save them but no, it’s more of a bad ending and even the end screen says so (“Our World is bad end”). I really enjoyed the early to middle point but I think the later parts and the endings were too underwhelming and disappointing so I’m giving this a 5/10.

Route rankings: Natsumi >>>>> Asano = Yuno > Iruka > Owari >>>>> Tatiana = Secret Route.

• Arcade Spirits
  

  12 hours playtime

  15 of 21 achievements

• Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale
  

  27 hours playtime

  62 of 62 achievements

• Little Problems
  

  4 hours playtime

  24 of 24 achievements

• Our World Is Ended.
  

  120 hours playtime

  40 of 40 achievements

• Starpoint Gemini 2
  

  22 hours playtime

  28 of 52 achievements

Goals for August 2026

I didn’t manage to beat most of the games I had planned for this month because OWiE took too much of my time. I’m really glad to be done with that VN. Anyhoo, I’m dropping the RE4R 100% idea for now. I joined Play or Pay last month and I want to start beating my picked games. I’m not sure if I have the time for 100%ing RE4R. I still want to 100% Pentiment though. Danganronpa 2 and Wantless are probably going to take me multiple months before beating again, similar to OWiE and SG2.

• Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
  

  31 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
  

  5 hours playtime

  0 of 47 achievements

• Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™
  

  5 hours playtime

  2 of 74 achievements

• Pentiment
  

  20 hours playtime

  23 of 41 achievements

• Penumbra: Overture
  

  52 minutes playtime

  no achievements

• Resident Evil 4
  

  15 hours playtime

  14 of 46 achievements

• Spirit of the North
  

  6 hours playtime

  4 of 24 achievements

• Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven
  

  58 hours playtime

  30 of 63 achievements

• Wantless
  

  3 hours playtime

  1 of 38 achievements