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  New review! 397 - Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (PSP, 1993, Konami) This week, Ellie treads once more through the haunted halls of Dracula's castle in Rondo of Blood! https://thealmightybacklog.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/castlevania-rondo-of-blood/ #gaming #videogames #retro #retroGaming #blog #writing #review

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  Having a frankly joyous time chilling out and replaying Hollow Knight as a way of christening my new laptop. If you're one of the handful of folk who haven't played it yet, it truly is one of the best metroidvanias ever made.

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  Road work ahead? Well yeah I sure hope it does! showing my age there with memes from ye olde vine #videogames #gaming #thelastofus

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  2026 gaming backlog 36 - Golden Sun: The Lost Age (GBA) Despite its reputation, I found Golden Sun 2 a bit of a slog. Excellent core mechanics, but really bland writing and long, dull dungeons. A white whale game for me, but one I'll never replay I think. #videogames #gaming #rpg

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  Dad's funeral in an hour. Feeling pretty rough. Give your folks, or your friends, or whatever beings matter the most to you, a really good hug and tell them you love them for me today

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  2026 gaming backlog #20 - Sheepo (PC) A perfectly adequate tiny metroidvania with a focus on platforming. Personally felt like the nondescript environments and lack of combat let it down a bit, but he transformation mechanic is sweet and creative. #gaming #videogames #indiegame #metroidvania

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  Gaming backlog #21 - Mika and the Witch's Mountain (PC) A cozy, adorable adventure-platformer game where you play a trainee witch delivering stuff to an idyllic mountain community. Short, sweet, lots to explore - the woolly flight is my only bugbear really. Reminds me a lot of A Short Hike. #gaming #videogames #indiegame

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  As ever, if you prefer, you can listen to this review on YouTube and / or RSS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVKIb0H8A2c https://rss.com/podcasts/the-almighty-backlog/2789213/ #podcast #youtube

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  @jerbear@kind.social hah, no, this is the reprint of The One Ring. It is credited to Dan Frazier but his agent confirmed he only did the background and the art of the ring itself has been copied by WotC from one of the old prints of The One Ring, flipped and muddied up in photoshop and then slapped back onto one of the upcoming Hobbit set's boxtopper reprints. So not only is this really obvious hack job being attributed to Frazier, but it's also not crediting the artist of the Ring art a...

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  I also need to spend a bit of time messing with my thumbnails for the audio versions of my reviews I think. I don't care about making them "YouTube friendly", but RSS specifically offers a smaller, square space for thumbnails so I need to be more efficient with the information on it 🤔🤔

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  You can listen to this review on RSS and YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5QKNQSIYi0 https://rss.com/podcasts/the-almighty-backlog/2809024/ #podcast #youtube

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  I also finished listening to every Alestorm and Gloryhammer album and considered doing a tierlist for them but every category would just be: "Remember that time Chris Bowes was a massive racist who had a game with his band to sleep w/ fans of different ethnicities as part of a touring checklist"

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  Don't have any pithy commentary about WotC's latest blunder re: TOR art. Suffice it to say that I have not bought sealed product for a very long time now other than the occasional EDH precon, when I do I buy them from secondary market sources, I buy singles, and I proxy aggressively. I love the game of Magic, I really do. But I engage with it strictly only on my terms now. I don't mind contributing as little as possible to Hasbro's bottom line. #magicthegatherin...

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  Gotta pick my grand company in FF14, they're all a bit unappealing 🤣 wishy-washy forest people, war economy: the city-state, or yarr harr murder pirates 😅 #ffxiv

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  We have welcomed a new member into our family - Murphy! He's a 6 month old dachshund pup, and super friendly and sweet ♥️

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  As far as mail days go, I'd call this decent

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  Now my cards have arrived, spent a bit of time modifying the TMNT precon with some more Turtles cards, so it's ready to roll for some B2 games 😁 Opted for Leo up top so I can randomly flip a Partner every game rather than the crazy value of Heroes in a Half Shell. #magicthegathering #mtg #edh #tmnt https://moxfield.com/decks/aK0wxriLfEWFWNKj-5v30g

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  Ok, so I'm just in the last main case in Ace Attorney: Spirits of Justice and it's pulled perhaps the most baller move in the entire franchise - and it's only the first day of trial in it! Getting massive "end of AA3" vibes from this one, it's absolutely awesome 😁 #videogames #gaming

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  2026 gaming backlog #19 - Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice (PS4) An excellent finale to the Apollo Justice games - he really came on as a character in the 2nd game and this one caps it off very well. I can see why it has mixed reviews, but I always enjoy AA's brand of fantasy anime law. #videogames #gaming

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  @Artemis201@mstdn.social Heck yeah LOVE some wonderful kitties! They're all so cuteeeeeeeeeeee :blobcat_aww:

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  You can also listen to this review on RSS and YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kagYlaV1HiE https://rss.com/podcasts/the-almighty-backlog/2754799/

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  If anyone does have any recs, the stuff I have watched before: - About 7 Ghibli films - K-On - Cowboy Bebop - Neon Genesis Evangelion - Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - Elfen Lied - One Punch Man S1 - some bits of Dragon Ball Z and Pokemon? I think that's genuinely it, and most of those were about a decade ago. So, I'm open to pretty much anything to try. #anime

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  Only taken me 47.5 hours but I've finally gotten through Orange Stake and unlocked every deck in Balatro! Phew, that's been fun but a heck of a slog 😅 😮‍💨 #balatro #videogames #gaming

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  🏳️‍⚧️ Happy #TransDayOfVisibility ! 🏳️‍⚧️ I spent my day getting spoken down to by insecure cis people 🙃 You can cheer me up by giving my words about videogames a quick read, and if you feel like buying me a pizza, there's even a cheeky donate button as well :3 https://thealmightybacklog.wordpress.com/ #TDOV

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  New review! 380 - Gato Roboto (PC, 2019, Doinksoft / Devolver Digital) This week, Ellie explores an alien planet as, uh, a kitten in a mechsuit?! Video games are rad, y'all. https://thealmightybacklog.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/gato-roboto/ #gaming #videogames #indiegame #review #blog #writing #metroidvania

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  2026 gaming backlog 15 - Outpacked (PC) A sweet and short puzzle game around packing stuff into cases, but with increasingly hard to fulfil logic requirements defining where things can go. There's even an adorable story that plays out over it! #gaming #videogames #indiegame

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  Been enjoying Mobile Suit Gundam! This moment in Ep. 6 has been my favourite filmic bit so far; the contrast between Amuro, the successful Gundam pilot, retiring to his room alone and in massive emotional distress, and Char weaving plot after plot even in defeat is really well done. #anime #gundam

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  2026 gaming backlog #11 - Gradius (NES) Also crossed off Gradius today! I've really found myself enjoying shmups recently, and this is one of the all-time classics. A foundational part of the genre, and still a tough but fun challenge. #gaming #videogames #retrogaming #nes

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  @GlitchGhost It's very Star Wars-y for sure! I'm sure that's not accidental, I imagine the OT was a huge influence on the shmup genre in the 80s

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  2026 gaming backlog #12 - Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES) One of the many NES sequels that shook things up dramatically compared to its predecessor. Interesting, but I don't think I could really say it hits the heights of SMB1 by any stretch. #gaming #videogames #retrogaming #NES #Mario