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I recall that game having a fascinating combat system involving blood accrual. Curious to see what you think.

I played Half-Life: Source not too long ago, and only played Portal and Portal 2 as an "adult". Shortly after playing Half-Life Source, I also played Opposing Force, Blue Shift, Half-Life 2, Episode 1 and Episode 2. Of those, the only ones I had not played previously were Blue Shift and Episode 2, all others I played (or even finished) before... and it was definitely nice to replay them. I also do not have the time to replay games, to be honest, and yet I am doing exactly that with Resident Evil, Resident Evil Zero, and some others...

I guess my "what do I replay" choices come from: do I feel like I have enough memories of this game I played as a child to do my own "mature" review of it? If yes, no need to replay, if no, I replay the game.

Also, for some games, as someone who is also interested in the history of videogames, I would like to see "where the game comes from". I played Jedi Academy in my youth, but never played Dark Forces, Jedi Knight and Jedi Outcast. I really wanna play those games now, and then replay Jedi Academy, and see how that changes (or does not change) my liking of the game. I have actually a lot of these projects in mind: just like you are going for some PlayStation goodness, so do I wanna experience some "famous" franchises in "chronological order". Resident Evil is the obvious one, but I also wanna go for Megaman, Shin Megami Tensei, Dragon Quest, Ratchet & Clank, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc....

I will never do all of them, but I certainly will not get bored in my life anytime soon.

I am going through Resident Evil Zero now, just arrived at the Training Facility, and after that I will probably either play Resident Evil 4 directly, or do a Super Mario Galaxy 2 intermission. I will see. I feel very motivated to also go through those Mario games I did not play, because I really wanna try out Super Mario Bros. Wonder. But since Mario and Resident Evil share the same console, and I really dislike the whole disc swapping thingy, I tend to only ever play one game on one piece of hardware, PC excluded, because most games are digital... for all the good and bad that brings with it...

I also think, they will probably not remake Resident Evil Code Veronica. I mean, they just skipped it with RE4 after RE3, so... maybe they will at some point, but not now. Or maybe a side-team or something. Who knows. CapCom is really hard to read these days...

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Oh, yeah, Castlevania is another one of those series that I really want to tackle. I only played Castlevania for the N64 and I have to say, I really like that game. Sure, it lost a bit of freshness over the years, but it is a solid platform game. Probably not what a lot of people expected, and very different from other games in the series, but I really had my fair share or scary fun with it.

Next game in the series I wanna try... and I am a bit afraid of it... is Castlevania II... probably with save states... and cheats... just to try it...

By the way, talking once again about Rare, I just finished Grunty's Revenge and Nuts & Bolts recently. Did you play them? If yes, what were your thoughts about them?

Happy Donkey Kong Day! I’m celebrating by exploring the place where the Kongs and Mario got their start! [Link]