Backlog Burndown
Backlog Burndown #29 – The Last Mission
Greetings Backloggers! Backlog progress severely stalled out over the summer, and I’ve once again been wracking up more free games to play than I’ve been finishing. The main backlog highlight of Fall has been the completion of a roughly three-and-a-half-year project to play through all of the games in the Star Wars: X-Wing series!
Backlog Burndown 28 – Forza Horizon
Greetings Backloggers! It’s been quite a while since I’ve managed to finish a game of the backlog, and the numbers really show it. Let me tell you, game conventions and summer sports are great fun, but play havoc with the game completion list. But hey, I did finally finish something, mostly while waiting for The Crew 2 to unlock and download back in June.
Backlog Burndown 27- Christmas in March?
Greetings Backloggers! Hooray, another Backlog, and it didn’t take me five months this time! That said, I also picked a Christmas game with a theme that made perfect sense when I started it during Christmas break, but significantly less sense finishing it in March. The game in question being Winged Cloud’s Christmas themed visual novel Sakura Santa.
Backlog Burndown #26 – Mine(crafting) The Backlog
Greetings Backloggers! Whoa boy, it has been a while since the last one of these, hasn’t it? Packing up the operation and moving to a new long-term location didn’t do good things for backlog progress. On the other hand, the best thing about digital game libraries, be they on Steam, GoG, Origin, Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, or Nintendo Store is that they’re phenomenally easy to move! The same ca...[Read More]
Backlog Burndown #25 – Army Gals
Greetings Backloggers! After saving most of Earth’s chicks last week as Duke Nukem, the perfect follow-on would be a visual novel about being lost in the forest with three beautiful girls, right? These delinquents need saving, both from their various situations, and from the woods, so there’s commonality there. Okay, maybe Dharker Studio’s Army Gals wasn’t the most logical palette cleanser from Du...[Read More]
Backlog Burndown #24: Duke Nukem Forever and Ever
Greetings Backloggers! Welcome back from summer vacation. The Burndown spent the summer trying to get a tan, and then a lot more of the summer hiding away from the evil glowing sky orb while recovering from sunburns inflicted upon its poor, pale body. At least I had time to finish a few games!
Backlog Burndown #23 – X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter
Greetings Backloggers! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Summer vacation has hit hard, and with it, backlog progress has largely ground to a halt. There is one game that I’ve finally finished, however, and that would be the late ’90s classic Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter – Balance of Power!
Backlog Burndown #22 – Highschool Possession
Greetings Backloggers! While I struggle through thirty-five year old shareware classics, this week I also took on one of Dharker Studio’s Visual Novels. Highschool Possession is one of their earlier titles released in 2015, and has been in my backlog since February 2016.
Backlog Burndown #21 – Invisible Knight
Greetings Backloggers! A new month always means new freebies from various game services; to keep pace, I needed to finish three games this week to compensate for April’s Games With Gold offering. Appropriate then, that first up would be another Games With Gold acquisition: 2014 top down brawler Knight Squad.
Backlog Burndown #20 – Flicky Bird
Greetings Backloggers! Nearly thirty years before Flappy Bird tapped its way onto phones and tablets around the world, a different semi-flightless bird bounded her way through the world’s arcades. Starring a blue bird named Flicky trying to rescue her chicks from the predations of cats and lizards, the eponymous game would be ported to a number of systems including the SEGA Genesis.
Backlog Burndown #19 – Kansei
Greetings Backloggers! This week I covered another Visual Novel, Kansei. The sequel to Jisei, Kansei picks up the story of our mysterious protagonist the day after the end of the previous game.
Backlog Burndown #18 – Invisible Zero
Greetings Backloggers! Thanks to some timely support from the team at Vysoko Anime Productions, I was able to resume and complete Invisible Apartment Zero this week! Huge props to them for diagnosing my game crash and giving me a workaround after seeing my post on the Steam community forums.