Oh boy, do I have Things To Say about Dragon Quest VIII, Hollow Knight, and whatever else I've been playing recently. I've been positively buried in games over the past few months and it's a real shame that I haven't taken the time to really comment on any of it. I think it might be time to do a brief retrospective. And man do I dig those. Full disclosure: I chronicled every single game I finished in 2017. I did this on Backloggery as usual but I also kept a list going on GameFAQs with a reasonably detailed comment on each of the games. However, I never published it, on this blog or anywhere else. The plan was to pen a retrospective resembling the ones I'd done on this blog in 2014 and 2015, but it never quite materialized. I'd whipped out Photoshop and started crafting images for the list, but the amount of work it was going to require was discouraging and nothing ever came of it.
Maybe it's time to be a little less ambitious here. Let's just talk about it. Yeah? Does that sound good? I think the main problem is that in 2018 I barely documented anything I played at all. Sure, I have detailed notes on all the 2017 games, but for 2018 I just have Backloggery--so I'm going to be racking my brains. But that's fine. I could stand to dust out the cobwebs anyhow.
Instead of crafting a massive document chronicling two years worth of games, I think I might just be revisiting them a few at a time. I guess on some days this could mean maybe I only talk about one game if I have a lot to say, but in other cases it could be several if the games were shorter or if they weren't very much worth talking about in the first place. I think it'll be an interesting exercise, because traditionally my memory has been pretty terrible. It's part of why I started a blogging project in the first place! My thoughts seem to evaporate so shortly after they materialize. We'll see just how many things I can remember about some of these games.
From what I can glean from my Backloggery, it looks like I finished anywhere from 40 to 50 games in 2017. Episodic games skew the number a little bit depending on whether or not you'd want to count them as separate. 2018 dipped down a tad with about 38, but considering I was averaging about 30 per year beforehand, it's clear that I have a lot of games to talk about. It's insane to me that I've fallen off the wagon to such an extent that I've played this many games and haven't taken the time to write about any of them. It used to be one of my favorite things to do and I'm excited to be getting back to it.
I feel like I need a new domain name. Never dug the generic BlogSpot domain. I'll have to think on that one.
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