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While I was trying to stick to my retro game playing, my friend was still deep into Dishonored 2. As an assassin, he had lots of bodies to hide and it was funny to watch him fill up bathtubs and decorative ponds with them. Kind of gruesome but the physics of throwing a whole body around in this game is pretty funny. 

Monster Sanctuary:

While I was waiting for the Silent Hill HD Collection to install, I installed this much smaller file size game and got really hooked on it long past the time when Silent Hill was ready.

This is a 2D, pixel-art RPG with some platforming. It's similar to Pokemon, I think. You fight monsters, gain their eggs, and hatch them for yourself and add them to your party. You can then equip and level them. Battles are three on three in a turn-based style. It's sort of my favorite type of game. It has exploration, turn-based battles, and stat management.

I developed a strategy with my three monsters. You can keep many more, and if one gets knocked out, your reserves will appear. I eventually kept six and gave the rest back to the stronghold where they add to an army there.

I was cruising pretty well through the game when enemies started keying in on my best monster. This really annoyed me and I stopped to play Silent Hill 2. Awesome game, though. 

Silent Hill 2:

Oh the mist. I struggled with the tank-like movement controls, very dark environments, lack of prompts to tell you what is interactive, and, of course, the mist. I very much love the atmosphere in these Silent Hill games, though, so I kept at it. I eventually got to the town of Silent Hill, discovered some clues and entered an apartment building. There I got stuck in a very dark room with nothing but a shopping cart. Nothing was interactive and all the doors locked after I entered. I was at a loss. One day, I'll look up a walkthrough and see what I missed. 

Doom Eternal:

While waiting for KOTOR to install, I played this. There is a new hoard mode I wanted to play but the game suggested I finish the campaign first, so I went at it again. However, I got to those platforming moments and just couldn't take it. Why am I swinging from poles and bursting through the air in a FPS game, Doom no less? I expect continual action but I have to stop and repeat a jump five times before I get it. No thanks. It was fun for a while though. Boy, this game is gorific. 

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic:

I played from the beginning again and got to the part where you have to don sith guard armor and find some papers to allow you to enter the lower levels of the city. I had to stop before finding the documents you need. I forget just how I got them last time. I hope I can figure it out next time. I would like to finish it this time.