[Event] The PokeCommunity Game-Along VI: Return of the Gaming

I just finished my 100% run of Minish Cap! It's the first time I've played it in years and I think it's a really interesting Zelda that feels completely unique if you decide to 100% it. Kinstone Fusion is a really interesting idea for a Zelda game and it means a lot of different things for the 100% run, like needing to know what points/people of interest you need to fuse with for specific things (like having a heart piece linked to any random Red Kinstone fusion, or six specific spots being required to finish the Goron Quest for the fourth bottle and needing to know what those are), and the entire game seems to throw huge quantities of rupees and mysterious shells at you on top of rewards for Kinstone fusion that made the hunt for all figurines very interesting, I had plenty of leftover rupees to exchange at the shop for shells by the end of it.
I think 100% Minish Cap was a really fun and interesting way to play a Zelda game, and it definitely slots into that kind of feeling I have for a game where I'm really glad I got to do it once in my life, but I can't see any reason I'd want to go and do it again. The game in general is just really good though, and it was especially neat picking up on a lot of its inspiration from Zelda 1.
 
Spent some of my afternoon and evening (yay day off) playing Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, and beat it! Was a fun enough experience, and clearly has a bunch of alternate paths and secrets about (figured out some of them). Some little bits of clunkiness, but I got all the characters and the ending from that. Wonder how much it all informs me on the main game I have for Bloodstained, haha.
 
I finally finished Zelda 2: Adventures of Link today. I did it ***deathless*** as well, through an unknown number of savestates LOL. I recall enjoying it a lot more the last time I played it, but didn't have a bad time or anything.
 
Done with my hacker/mantis blades playthrough with Cyberpunk 2077! Meet my Hacker n' Slasher V:

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I finished Link to the Past yesterday. I had a great time with it, though there wasn't that much new to me in the game because I've played several other 2D Zeldas, especially The Minish Cap which is quite similar to it in gameplay. It was also on the easier side, as far as Zelda games go. The items in here were quite fun to use. A lot of them were magical, and it was interesting to play a Link that's much more of a spellcaster than in other games in the series.
 
FINALLY finished Dynasty Warriors 5, oh my god!!!! There isn't much in the way of specific credits when you finish all scenarios, so here is a screenshot of my completion of Zuo Ci's Musou Mode. He is the last character you unlock.

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I picked this because I remember it being fairly quick... how very very very foolish of me. I've spent all month playing this, racking up this many hours:

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It has been... a journey for sure! Overall it was enjoyable, but there was a LOT of frustrating moments. Definitely making sure I pick something nice and chill for May!
 

May: Unfinished Business

Somewhere, in the deep and dusty depths of the unyielding abyss that is your gaming backlog, it lurks. It watches you from the darkness, looming just out of reach. Its mere existence taunts you, reminding you of your shortcomings and failures. It is bleak reminder of your human fragility... or you just forgot about it because you have responsibilities and stuff.

This month, you must play a game that you have started before but never finished. Ongoing live service games with no conclusion don't count.

 
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Oh you're spoiling me with this one! Despite my best efforts there's a good chunk of games that fall under this category for me. At first I would've loved to pick Final Fantasy IX but I'm not entirely sure I'll have the time for it between an ongoing Archipelago and some real-world stuff going on. And then I remembered I bought one game so long ago that I was really excited for, but quickly put it down after I just felt I wasn't in the mood to play the genre. So for this month it'll be Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze!
 
I'll be going with "The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince". I started it a few years ago now and it was pretty fun, but I randomly just stopped playing it for whatever reason. This'll be a good chance to finish it.
 
Probably going with Pizza Tower! I started it early this year but then dropped for other games this challenge and XCX Definitive Edition. Some of those games would also qualify for this month's theme, but there you go!.
 
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This is a fun theme. There is one game that has been haunting me for the last 10 years - Ori and the Blind Forest. I played it for about an hour on release, but then something else got released and I dropped it to play the other game. Then, about 7 years ago, I played it again, but dropped it after about an hour in because of something else got released. And this January, I started it yet again, only to drop it in favour of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. The problem is, I returned to it last week and I'm almost done with it. So I can't pick it as my game.

But, there is another! Little Inferno is a small indie game released back in 2012. I played it on release for a little bit, but never finished it. I bought it few days ago on Switch, so that will be my game for this month.
 
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