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this is gonna be entirely dedicated to the games i like! (and i need to use this url its been like 2 years) this is a personal tracker and doubles as a journal.. or vice versa? i will be discussing stuff about games and also involve me yapping abt other shit vaguely relevant to games. there will be some takes that you might not agree on but idc
Disclaimer.. im really bad at games and it will be very prominent

SPOILER WARNING for a lot of games as its updated, read the games list if you care about spoilers

what im currently playing: dmc3 and resident evil 4

6/29/26 i just finished up kh2, its a genuinely great game and THIS FRANCHISE IS TAKING OVER MY LIFE but like yeah the combat was soo much better than 1. embarrassingly enough it took me like a month and a week to finish it but lets not talk about that. I started 358/2 days!!! well i started it like 4 days ago but im already about at the halfway point and so far im actuallye enjoying it and its not AS tedious people make it out to be. mostly. It is repetitive, but its not hard, and im very glad i played it instead of watching the movie or else i wouldve missed out on a lot of the character building which i am enjoying a lot!! But GOD trying to emulate it is somehow harder than actually playing the game bc im playing it on a modded switch and dude installing shit on it is actually so hard i have no idea why installing homebrew on it is so difficult compared to the vita (on second thought, it makes sense) but yeah even tho it was a pain in the ass, at least i have it downloaded !!!!!

6/30/26 second post and its gonna be of me RANTING because I GENUINELY hate modding on the switch it is so difficult bc you could be researching for an hour on some homebrew app and find LITERALLY nothing and then circle back to the same 4 threads and forums just for it to be from 8 years ago or extremely vague. REDDITORS NEED TO STOP FUCKING VAGUEPOSTING WHEN IT COMES TO SHIT LIKE THIS LIKE PLS. i was trying to install retroarch earlier bc i wanted to use cheatcodes for 358/2 days but everywhere i was reading it was either a guide for android installation or the switch guides were extremely vague so i decided to move on and just try to download a cheat database for JUST melonds just for it to never be explained WHICH FILE YOU NEED FOR THE SWITCH. THERE IS LITERALLY NO GUIDE FOR IT WHAT ARE WE DOING. AM I STUPID??? and then i read somewhere else i need to download ANOTHER application just so melonds can read the cheat codes LIKE WTF IS THIS. i wasted an hour of my life. AND THEN I ACCIDENTALLY CLOSED 358/2 DAYS AND LOST AN HOUR OF PROGRESS. i think im stupid. this switxh modding shit is so hard. i just realized my first post also had me complaining about homebrew i think that says something. ok bye

6/30/26 part2 . I ALSO WANNA ADD I HATE HOW MUCH HOW PEOPLE ONLINE JUST DONT GIVE GUIDES. This doesnt even apply to JUST homebrew , Because sometimes you need some absurd application from online just for it to be very complicated, and discussed by people who NEVER ELABORATEEVER. Its even worse if you use macOS, (which i do) bc some things are either 1. not optimized for mac 2. 5x more complicated than it would be on windows or 3. not available for mac to begin with. and dont even get me started on apples shitty file management sustem because oh ym GOD. to even SWAP sd cards on a modded switch you literally cannot do it regularly because macos puts hidden files on your sd card since it puts junk files on your card, so if you were to transfer all that, it will give you corrupted data errors if you were to put it in your switch. LITERALLY WHAT THE FUCK. mac devices be good for ANYTHING but working on academics and art challenge GO. also, I dont think its the project/program creators fault but i will never understand why some github projects SPECIFICALLY homebrew stuff need terminal commands to be installed on macos.. im sure a lot of the people making these scripts PROBABLY dont have malicious intent but why does terminal need to be used!!! I doubt anything would happen but idk i just have a fear of the terminal app and the fact i dont trust pasting commands from online into the terminal probably shows of my technological illiteracy (this whole post probably does)
PS. I think maybe like 40% of what ive been complaining about would be fixed if i would just comment under forums but im not trying to do all that
PPS. i also used to own a windows laptop and tbh windows 11 deemed file explorer like 70% useless once you updated but for literally anything else that is more complicated on macos for no reason it is probably better than using finder on macos... ok bye im hungry
PPPS. realizing how much i miss having a journal

7/14/26 it has been a WHILE since ive edited this but i have aLOT to say. i managed to finish 358/2 days in around/under 2 weeks a while ago on the 4th, and it is genuinely a great game despite its technical limitations. Like yeah the gameplay was annoying but i genuinely recommend ppl to play this game instead of watching the cutscene movie in 1.5+2.5 final mix because you miss out on SO . MUCH. theres a reason as to why roxas is considered a better written protaganist than sora by most. soras a great protag and i love him, but roxas is so introspective as a character in comparison to sora. this is not to say sora is shallow as a character because he isn't at all, but roxas hit a lot closer to home for me and its probably like that for most. he is just such a tragic character, and the whole game, roxas is asking "who am i"? and questioning the people around him. seeing him grow as a person is probably the greatest part of this game. you see him taking on from axel, and projecting it onto xion which is pretty cute. but, you also see roxas constantly question what exactly is a nobody, why is that what defines him? is that really where it ends? hes a nobody with no heart, but he'll get one once kingdom hearts is finished? you see him gain more autonomy over the course of the game as he starts to make decisions for himself in a place where hes constantly used and lied to by most of the people around him. it also hits even harder when you eventually figure out roxas's whole story is him defying what the organization reduced him to. the entire time hes told "you're a nobody, you wield the keyblade, you must help to complete the kingdom hearts, and that is what you are." and eventually figuring out that nobodys not really being able to have hearts (im not actually sure yet since i havent played bbs but im also 95% sure this is the case) wasnt actually true and a huge ploy for them to finish kingdom hearts for xemnas without ever actually knowing what it truly does.. idk i just find it beautiful that roxas, who just randomly manifested into the world, doesnt know anything or how he even got here, is told who he is by others, eventually built his identity and found out who he is and made the choice for himself to leave the organization... ugh this game just broke my heart. i also relate to roxas a lot, and i find it a lot of other people do. hes someone whos always left in the dark about everything, ignored by others around him, questioning what his purpose really is, and second-guessing himself constantly. hes just a really relatable character and it made days hit a lot closer to home for me. its not the same as only watching the movie, and i genuinely cant believe some people dont touch this game because its outdated, i also just hate it when people do that in general. But yeah, 358/2 days is a great game and i could say so much more about it but im not the best at putting my thoughts into words.
edit, also:, i think roxas's relatability as a character is another way i think nomura made roxas feel so human to defy the definition the organization members gave him. and i think the fact the player, (or me personally) can actively relate to and empathize with roxas is itself proof of the game succeeding in making him feel human despite the organization insisting that nobodies cant feel because they dont have hearts. Its almost meta--the organization says roxas cant truly feel, yet the game makes you genuinely empathize with roxas, therefore actively undermining the organizations claims. just thought that was cool. nomura is a genius, and roxas is the probably one of the most emotionally authentic character in the series.
on another note, since im pretty sure nobodies can in fact have hearts/feel, you start to question the organizations philosophies and their whole structure sort of falls apart. u also kind of realize the organization is lowkey just assholes to be assholes. theyre not doing it cuz "they're emotionless" theyre deadass just evil /hj
that being said though, it also shows roxas wasn't the only one lied to here. some(maybe even most) of the organization members arent evil to be evil, theyve just been manipulated into the only way of living theyve ever learnt. it also sort of leads back to defying the definition the organization is constantly insisting on about nobodies. take axel for example, throughout days he grows genuine emotional attachments to roxas and xion and not every single one of his decisions are cold and calculated, showing that he isnt incapable of feeling, and id say a lot of the characters even besides axel subtly challenge the idea that nobodies are emotionally empty, and it starts to become a recurring irony in the game, since.. almost every member insists on not having emotions, while behaving in pretty emotional ways. i wasn't actively thinking it, but once i started looking back on it, it starts to become really noticable irony. this is part of why days is so interesting to me--the organization keeps repeating an ideology while every character actively contradicts it through their own actions. this shit is so meta i swear and this is exactly why i insist on kh fans to actually play 358/2 days.. you'd never get this much out of just the movie.
its genuinely such a beautiful game, and despite finishing it recently its left such a huge impact on me. for kh fans its great if you actually care about the lore of this series, or just greatly written games in general. also i liked about this game is that it didnt hand all of this to me, i started to realize it after i finished the game.. i love games that make you wonder about the characters and story, and leave stuff up to interpretation as you play, because its games like those that leave an impact on you for a while after you finish it. to think this is a rated everyone disney game released on the ds!! this is honestly homage to nomuras amazing writing i love him

PS. i was listening to circa survive during this i got a little emotional
PPS. sorry if this is messy i would add more but i need to sleep its 3am
PPPS. BRUH I WAS LITERALY WRITING THE EDIT NOTE AND I ACCIDSNTALLY REFRESHED AND I WAS SO LOCKED IN PLSSS ugh. i had a lot more to write that lowkey completely blanked my mind so sorry if this is kinda bland now
PPPPS. oh dear its 4:30. also realizing the edit note has more integrity than the actual entry? #OhShit
PPPPPS. This is all my own personal intepretation cuz i havent finished all the kh games yet some of this .PROBABLY isnt lore accurate. and thats ok. Nothing erong with theorizing about a game u like. i havent poured my heart out this hard about a series in writing since i liked evangelion 5 years ago im literally crying thinking about this game

games ive finished/like (most of them at least)

kingdom hearts 1 and 2
persona 4
persona 3 and 5... like ive finished them but i do not care about them as much as 4. except for 3 i quite like 3
red dead redemption 2
the last of us part1 and 2
danganronpa 2
final fantasy 7 (the original tho, if u talk about the remakes to me i will have no idea what youre talking about)
ff15, it was honestly kinda meh i dont rlly care for it but i did finish it
gta 5
detroit: become human
8:11
dispatch
358/2 days
more to be added soon im sorry about the ratio of unfinished games to finished its awful

games ive already started but need to finish (it never ends)

dmc3
birth by sleep
bayonetta 2
persona 2
crisis core (im genuinely 2 hours away from finishing it and ive been holding it off for months oh my god)
the walking dead
twewy
rdr1 (same thing as crisis core)
danganronpa 1 (Its been 6years oh my god i finished danganronpa2 3 times before i even got to chapter 4 in dr1 ever since i got it in 2020. im sorry i didnt know what game continuity was 6 years ago)
final fantasy 16
ace attorney
omori
resident evil 4

games i need to start or wanna play at least

the legend of zelda: breath of the wild
yakuza 0
final fantasy 10
metal gear solid 1,2 and 3
metaphor refantazio
pokemon sword/shield
theres sooo much more i cant name off the to p of my head aorry #WLARPS

yes i know more than half of these are like 30+ hours pls chill on me i know i got enough games to last me TWO lifetimes at this point