Since there was also a break for the Spring, I thought I would mark the original sixteen blogs and the five since my return, plus one more as the season finale, as Season 1, which will have links following, accompanied by mini recaps of each game.
Before I get started though, I want to make sure to thank Zepwich for the awesome overhaul of my avatar, signature, thumbnail, and blog header. They're awesome, and I'm really grateful to Zep. She and everybody over at the Signature Request Thread do good work, and you should check them out if you need help with yours.
Now, on to the episodes.
1.1 - Spider-Man 2: The pilot blog. It had a lot of issues, and was still very much a learning experience, but still turned out a decent review of the game. Very little storytelling about that game, which was added later in the series.
1.2 - Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber: Again, no story about my attachment to the game, but brought in the history of a game. And sadly, it wasn't until just now that I noticed that misspelled Caliber throughout the blog. Great strategy RPG though.
1.3 - Age of Mythology: Another RTS that I loved. This included my first experiments with video as part of my blog, something I wish I remembered how to do when I was writing my Kingdom Hearts reviews of late.
1.4 - Super Mario Brothers 3: Specifically, it's Game Boy Advance port, Super Mario Brothers Advance 4, but my feelings as the best version of the game. Really poor review on the game itself though, as I assumed readers to know the game due to its legacy.
1.5 - Secret Weapons Over Normandy: Yet another experimental blog. In this one, I was using a historical fictional game, and as such, I decided to use a quote. I have not done this since, as it really didn't make much sense for any other game, however, if I do one where it does...I may think about it again.
1.6 - Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon: A game that was entirely unplanned, but had me laughing so hard after playing it that I needed to remind the world of it's epicness. The music videos from the game attached are worth the watch if you've never played it or seen them. They kick ass.
1.7 - Goldeneye 64: The only blog I really haven't been happy with the results, and realized that I really needed to add a personal story to the segment rather than just tell about it afterwards due to my failure to really capture the feel of the game.
1.8 - Pokemon Silver: This is when it really came together for me...which is really no surprise, as I'd just spent 15 hours speed gaming through it. Like Mystical Ninja, I'd played it just before reviewing it, but with Pokemon, I really started giving the reasons it was one of my favorite from all the memories I had of it.
I then took a week break from My Favorite Games, which I still regret, for the Birthday Top Tens. I don't think I've hit such a high note yet, though I still try.
The Halo Mini-Series
1.9 - Halo Series Introduction and Halo Novels: Written two and a half hours after my 21st birthday drinking binge...so...WARNING...SUPER RAMBLE! As such, alternate forms of media didn't really make an appearance, but got really in depth with my personal introduction into the series. It also started the series the Halo min-series experiment, which inspired the Kingdom Hearts one down the road.
1.10 - Halo: Combat Evolved: What ended up more my strange introduction to the original Xbox and Halo: Combat Evolved eventually fell into the same trap as SMB 3, in that I assumed readers to have a good knowledge of the game and the series in general. Though, the story behind it, I think is still pretty interesting.
1.11 - Halo 2: What was originally planned as to being part of the same review as Halo 3 quickly became something more as I realized that I wasn't getting much viewer feedback on material for Part V of the series, which I still find sad. Hopefully, if I try something like it again...I will.
1.12 - Halo 3: Really went all out with this review, and in my opinion is one of the better ones...however, I didn't get any comments, which was really sad. Maybe this will get it a second look.
1.13 - Halo's Effect on the Universe/Series Wrap Up: A review focusing on Red vs. Blue and Halo Machinima, Halo Legends, and Xbox Live that was set up as the conclusion of the Halo Series.
1.14 - Castlevania/Haunted Castle: Like my first and second Halo reviews, this was more about my unorthodox introduction to the series through the arcade port than actually about the game itself. However, I do believe that I gave it a fair review overall.
1.15 - The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX: The only game I've ever played to death gives it a place as near the top of the list in my favorite games (the top ten list will be launched when all ten get posted, though so far, there's only three on the list, so it could be a while yet). I spend a little too much time going over the differences between the original and the remake, though pretty in depth for a game I love so.
1.16 - Metroid: Zero Mission: My favorite Metroid game, bar none, and possibly the best remake of a game out there not counting FFIV. This was also my last review in the series before the break.
And then I went on it, and forgot how to do everything. I switched to Google Chrome too somewhere in there, something I'm trying to remedy presently. Life went crazy for me, but it let me get in a lot of good gameplaying.
1.17 - Star Fox 64: This one was really formulaic, and I don't believe I really gave it my all, relying much more on pictures to tell the story this time, sadly.
1.18 - Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams: The first review that I became too focused on what I like about the game. The following three suffered, much to my chagrin, of the same thing. I hope to change that with the finale. Although, Maria was worth it.
The Kingdom Hearts Mini-Series
1.19 - Kingdom Hearts: Instead of getting really in depth with my personal story with the game, which was kinda cool (played it all night with my best friends brother all night when I was 16, and it inspired my love of JRPG's today), I really focused too much on the story of this game. Also, the formatting is unfixable for some reason...I hope to be able to change it soon, though not sure if I'll get to yet.
1.20 - Kingdom Hearts: Re: Chain of Memories: The reason I started playing these games during my sabbatical, though, the review suffered the same issues as it's predecessor, and revealed how many fangirls write and draw slash out there...it's scary.
1.21 - Kingdom Hearts 2: Wrapped up the Kingdom Hearts series as I've played it. Still suffered from the same issues, that I promise won't be present in the season finale, but did a good job of concluding the series in my opinion.
So that's season 1 so far...it will conclude tomorrow with number 22, the fourth in my top ten games of all time. Can you guess what it is? If so, I'll give you a shout out in it.
-Sara
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