StarcrossedSouls streams of thoughts reviews

If you told me in 2022  we would be getting sequels to two of my favorite cult classic games that nobody asked for but me I wouldn't have believed you. But sure enough, Soul Hackers 2 and Gungrave G.O.R.E. released in the same year. Two flawed games that most people will probably forget about, but I will hold near and dear to my heart in spite of their flaws. Soul Hackers 2 is such a weird game, even I, a huge fan of the original game am very puzzled by the fact that this game exists at all and exists in the state that it does. For context, the Shin Megami Tensei series of JRPGs has been going on since their first adaptation from the novels in the very early 90s. The Devil Summoner games were a spin-off of the mainline SMT games and Soul Hackers was one of the entries in that series. So Soul Hackers 2 is a sequel to a spin-off OF a spin-off and was released 25 years after the game it draws it's namesake from and 10 years after the 3DS port of it, which was the way that most peo...

Happy New Year everyone! For the first time ever I was intentionally given New Years day off as a holiday from work which is really nice. Being that I am really ahead on other creative projects I decided to use this time to knock some games out of the backlog and complete some shorter titles and go ahead and get them finished. It's very nice to just have a day to simply relax, do nothing and play games when you feel like your time off is very finite and you spend a lot of time being very hard on yourself about productivity on your days off. Michelle and I uploaded our year end video on the channel recently and got some very nice feedback from our friends and viewers who watched it. It was a lot of fun to discuss with friends and celebrate our experiences and the media that resonated with us in 2023. Recapping my list of completed games from 2023 I realized that there were only 4 titles that were newly completed out of the backlog, Halo Infinite, Samurai Warriors, Yomawari: Lost in ...