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After a few years of BaD iOS games I knew I wanted a new theme for Blog-a-Day. Then I discovered that Capcom Classics Collection Remixed for the PSP has 20 games, exactly. PERFECT. So that's what we'll be doing, playing through the games alphabetically, just as they're listed in the collection's menu. Here we go!

Games Beaten

2017 continued the blurry trend of recent years in flying by, and I continued my trend of attempting to play cool games, so let's talk about it. First up are all the games I beat this year and then how many I bought or somehow acquired (don't worry, I don't list those specifically). Be sure to stick around for the Golden Hippo Awards after that!

Games Beaten

Games Beaten

Games Beaten

Every year I try to play a scary game in October for Halloween. I don't always make it but I've been playing F.E.A.R. the last two nights. When the opening screens were splashing through before the title screen, I saw that the game has a 2006 copyright. I can't believe it's that old! The 360 had been out only a year and the PS3 was just launching and the game, well, looks like it came from that era. It looks like a really nice PS2 game that got up rezzed for the new consoles. Graphics have come a long way in 11 years! Plus it's mired in the typical grays, browns, and rust of the time. While the shooting is perfectly adequate, it's nothing special. But let me tell you, the sound design hasn't aged a bit. I'm playing with headphones and the use of ambient sounds and creepy music cues really do wonders for creating the atmosphere. So far it hasn't been a very scary game—though there have been a couple of really good jump scares—but it has been quite unsettling. I'm looking forward to see how the story plays out.

Games Beaten

I'm not able to play as many iOS games as I used to but every now and then something pulls me in. Missile Cards, at first, did not. It is basically a turned-based card-based take on Missile Command. There is a deck of cards and four open card spots. A new card flips over every turn and moves down the conveyor towards being reshuffled back into the deck or going into play. Attack cards (guns, missiles, lasers, etc.) do the former if you don't pull them into your available arsenal (you have four slots of your own) and hazard cards (mostly meteors and missiles) do the latter. When a hazard enters play, it enters the top of the play area. At the bottom of the screen is your base and sub-bases. You job is to use your attack cards to keep your base from being obliterated. The weapons and hazards have numeric values and you have to meet or exceed the hazard with your weapon to destroy it, though you can whittle a hazard down with multiple weapons if necessary. (There are a few more wrinkles but that's the gist.)

Games Beaten