What was the last game you finished?

I have beaten SMB 3 3 times, Star Fox twice, and I played through Breath of the Wild again in the last couple of months. I'm kind of in a rut right now. I don't really have a game that I'm looking forward to, so I'm replaying the old ones.

Man, I'm officially jealous. I want to start finishing those games myself. I haven't even finished Zero yet. I have been leaving them for later because I know they are very good.

I played a little bit of Zero and was hooked, I think I got distracted because I had some shootings to do back then, but I have no excuses now, specially since I have them all. I think I'm going to start Zero again from the beginning instead of just catching up where I left off.

How long did that took? I remember the original game had a reputation for being quite long.

According to that they are basically extending the game 5 times, that's really impressive. So if the original game was roughly 100 hours, the Remake series is likely 500 hours. Man, that sounds like a lot of work for the developers. I'm pretty sure those guys are working overtime.

What did you think of the ending?  I'm not sure if I like the alternative timeline direction.

Played through Shadow Complex Remastered on the PS4 in two sittings. I had the urge for a Metroidvania, and this is a decent short one I remembered hearing about a few times over the years. The modern setting seemed kind of unusual, and the story wasn't anything to write home about, but I enjoyed it.

Tokyo Xanadu ex+ for PS4

This was kind of a weird one...

It is an enhanced port of a PS Vita game, so I'm not going to knock the visuals.  On the Vita, they'd be comparable to some of the better action RPGs like Tales of Hearts.  Sound is also fine, with a lot of the dungeons featuring cool, other-worldly tracks. I can't complain about the price either, since I think I picked this up for around $8 CDN on a PSN sale.

Tokyo Xanadu uses the same engine Falcom uses for the Trails of Cold Steel games, so it looks comparable to those, but it seems like such a strange hybrid of other things...Visually it looks a lot like Trails of Cold Steel, except set in a modern fictional suburb of Tokyo.  Taken away from the fantasy setting and into a more familiar one, it makes the place seem a bit strangely under-populated.

The interface and some of the character mechanics are also very similar to the Trails games' Orbal system, with gems fitted into a device for various character bonuses, though it lacks the ones Trails uses for spells.

Unlike Trails though, mechanically the game is a fairly simple action RPG, a lot closer to the more recent Ys games, but with a behind-the shoulder camera perspective in the dungeons. Characters have a few attacks to choose from, and some different elemental affinities. You can take up to 3 characters into a dungeon and toggle between them...

This works well in the Ys games I've played, but not so well here.  It might be the different camera angle, but the dungeons seem like just a series of mostly empty, interconnected hallways.  The background visuals change, which is nice as they are a LOT of dungeons, but they still end up feeling mostly the same, and I definitely though of them as tedious towards the end.

Plot-wise, the game owes a lot to the Persona series, with a similar 'teens in modern Japan drawn into supernatural happenings', but I didn't find the game to be as stylish as those titles, and I didn't find the characters or story anywhere near as compelling.

So yeah, sort of feels like Falcom squished together parts of Trails, Ys, and Persona...and came up with something not nearly as good as any of its inspirations. It isn't bad, but I'd rate it as a C+/B- sort of game.  Passable, but reminds me of similar things that I like a lot more.