Ninja Gaiden 2 Black - a great game made even better.

Call of Juarez: The Cartel - picked it up digitally for less than < R30. Not even worth that TBH.

The Darkness II - replay. Played it twice (NG+) plus nearly all of the Vendetta campaign. Not sure how I finished Vendetta campaign previously, maybe I missed something this time around otherwise stupidly hard final level. Still terrific, Would like a third game as teased at the end.

RoboCop Rogue City
15hours.
Great Robocop game!
Peter Weller voices Robo, & all the actors likenesses are there!
Takes place between the second & third movie.
FPS, but you also do some leg work around the precent & city hub.
Bit buggy though.

Alan Wake Remastered
Played this twice on the 360, & now on the PS5.
Looks better, but way too many crashes on the PS5
Still a great game, The Signal & The Writer DLCs included.
No American Nightmare.

Indiana Jones and The Great Circle (PS5)

Just as much fun the second time around, especially as I knew which quests/fieldwork activities were worth pursuing (and ignored the many collectibles that do little beyond detract from pacing). Still find the game unexpectedly simple and fun, with the environments, puzzles, and storytelling holding it all together. It also never stops feeling, looking, and sounding like an Indy film.

Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy 2025 (Xbox Series X)

Although I played and enjoyed the Syberia games, I only briefly this spiritual predecessor on PC and had few memories of it. The remake proved unexpectedly great, with updated visuals, expanded areas and puzzles, and way smoother controls. That said, it's still a screen-to-screen-style point-and-click adventure. I think I enjoyed it most as a break from traditional action games and the new player-assists mean you never get stumped and kill the story pacing.

System Shock Remake (Xbox Series X)

Loved this on PC in 2023 but enjoyed it even more on XSX as the console ports are excellent (even the last-gen Xbox One/PS4 ports are a clean dynamic 1080/30). Took Nightdive ages and several restarts but it keeps everything great about System Shock and transforms it into a slick FPS/immersive-sim hybrid. The flexible difficulty settings are also a great addition, while a v1.2 patch last year smooths out the gameplay even more for newcomers. If you've never plays them but enjoyed Bioshock 1/2 or Prey 2017, this is a must.

Wolfenstein 2 second time around. Depending on who you believe it took 27.5 hours (game stats) or 30.5 hours (Xbox stats). Didn't bother with side missions or looking for collectibles.

DLC - first time playing Freedom Chronicles. 0 was terrible, did a poor job selling the season pass. Gunslinger Joe was just a version of my BJ with unmodded guns. I did however enjoy the other two. Great dialogue from Captain Wilkes and Claudia Black voiced Agent Silent Death. Less than 1% of players started DLC and half didn't finish.

Never bothered with killing the ubercommanders previously. It was locked behind a stupid puzzle game and needed a lot of enigma cards to finish. A quick YT tutorial showed puzzle game was piss easy just poorly explained and a couple of enigma card farming areas later I cleared the board and unlocked the secret bunker. only 2.5% players got this far.

Would play a third installment but only Old Blood again from these three games.

Like A dragon: Infinite wealth
My wealth was not infinite...
Game was fun, as usual, but really suffers from bloat. Dondoko island was a wasted opportunity
I will probably go back and poke at it again, but done for now

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 - Amazing game with a great twist on turn based combat that I hope more developers delve into. One of the best games I've played in years, absolute masterpiece.

Alan wake 2
Fantastic!!
Looks stunning & works 100%! No issues on my PS5 playthrough.
The Night Springs episodes are even better. More action, main game is very slow paced.
All the main characters from previous Remedy games show up in some form.
The dodge mechanic is still rubbish, like the first game.
& the games ends on a cliffhanger. You have to play a new game plus called The Final Draft, to get the true ending.
First play though took me 25hours. When my backlog has grown smaller, I will give it another go.

DOOM: The Dark Ages - Balls to thine walls.

Spiderman 2
27hours 100% complete.
Easy platinum as well.
Great story! The whole game builds toward Venom. With Kraven starting things off. Lizard was the best boss fight. Venom looks awesome!!!
Love how they drop feed you the missions & collectables.
They don't just drop everything at the beginning. & you feel super overwhelmed by all the icons on the map "cough" AC "cough".
Played on performance mode. Game ran very smoothly. Switched to quality mode when I was done, & a notable difference in the frame rate. Game looks good either way.
Not perfect. Some graphical glitches, mostly in missions.
They teased Carnage AGAIN! Spiderman 3?

FEAR 3 - terrible replay. Played and finished as Point Man. Zero interest in a replay as the brother. Couple of difficulty spikes annoyed rather than challenged.

Couple of Hidden object games:
Chronicles of Magic: Divided Kingdom - solid
Agent Walker: Secret Journey - subpar

Faces of Illusion: The Twin Phantoms - Artifex Mundi's last console hidden object game. Apparently they have lost interest in this genre. Seemingly halfway through this game what with it's two uncharacteristic unpatched game breaking bugs.

Wolfenstein Youngblood - I enjoyed it especially once levelled up. Terrible boss fight. Side missions were often more interesting than the main campaign. Treasure Hunt a decent free add on. I suspect mainly to give the rubbish god key a purpose. 7/10