Category: 2022

As I’ve grown up, time has become more and more precious to me and, while I do play plenty of games that are considerably long, I’ve grown in appreciation for games that are short, hence my frequent use of HowLongToBeat.com. I’ve spoken before about the ideal video game length but I thought it would be interesting to recommend some games that I would consider to be fantastic while, simultaneously, being quick and short to play.

The first game that I would like to bring attention to is a delightful puzzle game called Path of Giants. I got this game as part of Humble Choice and am incredibly glad to have had the opportunity to play it now. You play as three explorers who are searching for treasure and must control each explorer to traverse puzzles. I wouldn’t regard the game as being particularly hard but there are a few puzzles that will take some particular effort to figure out. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the puzzles themselves, the pleasant graphics and the soundtrack and, despite encountering a couple of bugs, I ended up 100 percenting this game which only took me about four hours.

As you may have surmised from my various articles covering the topic of video games, I absolutely adore video games and I now count them as one of my primary hobbies along with anime, manga, Western animation and horror films. I recently wrote about some of the first anime and manga that I ever watched/read and thought it would be interesting to take a look at my history with video games and how I grew to love them.

From my earliest memories, I can remember that we had a computer in the house and there were several games that I ended up playing on there. In particular, the two games that I have the most vivid memories of playing were Sesame Street: Numbers which was an educational Sesame Street video game and Commander Keen which was a platformer that, despite playing a lot, I never got too far in. At this point in my life, I enjoyed the games that I was given by my parents but I wasn’t capable of deciding why I liked these games.

If you’ve been consistently reading my blog, you’ve probably figured out that I’m quite passionate about the medium of video games. Across my lifespan it’s entirely possible that I’ve played close to 1000 video games across numerous platforms. However, even having played so many games, there are still plenty of important video games that I’ve yet to play. Taking that into account, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at a few examples, what’s prevented me from playing them and whether I believe I’ll get the opportunity to play them in the near future.

Despite owning a Nintendo 64, a GameCube, a Wii, a Game Boy, a Game Boy Advance and a Nintendo DS, I’ve actually played very little from Nintendo’s gaming catalogue with the only examples of Nintendo franchises that I remember actively playing and seeking out being Pokémon and Fire Emblem. Later in my life, I grew interested in platformers and, of course, I started to think about the many Nintendo platformers such as Super Mario 64, Metroid, the Donkey Kong games etc. I’ve also thought on occasion about the Zelda games and how, while I do have a copy of The Wind Waker, I’ve never completed one. Since my move to PC, my options for playing Nintendo games have become quite limited and while I could emulate Wind Waker on PC using my own personal copy, I’ve decided to focus on my many other games to play instead. It also seems quite unlikely that we’ll see Nintendo release their games on PC in the near future so, possibly excluding Wind Waker, I think my chances of being able to play these important games are quite low.