Here are all of Brainscraps’ Impressions, Reviews, and Game Love pieces, sorted alphabetically by title. Also featured here are my annual Roundups and Selections, the first two of which have been migrated over to this site, sans comments. Game-related non-games (books, soundtracks, etc.) are marked with an asterisk (*).
Please note that not all titles mentioned on this blog are found here, nor are all of the posts where one is mentioned (such as in Game Progress entries). To find other mentions of games, please use the search bar to your right.
Gaming Roundups – Micro-reviews of all the games I played during a given year
2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011
Gaming Selections – Mini-reviews of my top ten games played during a given year. My replacement for the old Roundups.
2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2010-2019 (top three games only)
2020 • 2021 • 2022
Manga Selections – More top ten mini-reviews, this time of manga. This feature runs every two years.
2016 • 2018 • 2020 • 2022
Game Impressions – Entries written about games while playing them
• Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
• Doom Eternal
• Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
• Etrian Odyssey
• Forza Motorsport 2
• Halo: Combat Evolved
• Pokemon Ruby
• Retro Game Challenge
• Sonic Colors
Mini-impressions:
• Surviving Mars, SINoALICE, and Yakuza 0
Game Reviews – Entries written about games after they’ve been beaten
• Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
• Bravely Default
• Brütal Legend
• Chrono Cross
• Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride
• Final Fantasy
• Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo’s Dungeon
• Half-Life 2 (including Lost Coast, Episode One, and Episode Two)
• Halo 2
• The Legend of Zelda
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story
• NieR:Automata
• Okami
• Paper Mario: Sticker Star
• Persona 5
• Pinky:st Kira Kira * Music Hour and Music Night
• Plants vs. Zombies
• Radiata Stories
• Rogue Galaxy
• Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny
• Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love
• Secret of Mana
• Shantae: Risky’s Revenge – Director’s Cut
• Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga (both parts)
• Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
• Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
• Steins;Gate
• Super Paper Mario
• Tales of Legendia
• Tales of Legendia (postgame content)
• Touhou Genso Wanderer Reloaded and Touhou Fuujinroku: Mountain of Faith
• Tropico 3
• Valkyria Chronicles
• Ys: The Ark of Napishtim
Mini-Reviews:
• Eternal Sonata, Audiosurf, and Torchlight
• Rune Factory 3, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, and Portal 2
• Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, Cherry Tree High Comedy Club, and Hammerwatch
• Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked, Ikachan, Deadlight, and The Maw
• Undertale, Doom, planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~, and Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
• Knights of Pen and Paper +1 Edition, Angel Express, and I and Me
• Shovel Knight, Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue, My Nintendo Picross: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Shadow Complex Remastered, and Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo
• Dungeons 3 and Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People
• 100ft Robot Golf, Pac-Man 256, and Shin Megami Tensei IV
• Project X Zone and Little King’s Story
Manga Reviews
• Someday’s Dreamers, Aquarium, Bus Gamer, and Mad Love Chase (all complete)
• The Promised Neverland, Spirit Circle, Plum Crazy! Tales of a Tiger-Striped Cat, and My Brother’s Husband (all vol. 1 or vol. 1 omnibus ed.)
Anime Reviews
• Rebuild of Evangelion (first three movies)
Game Love – The name says it all
• Final Fantasy VIII Original Soundtrack *
• Pikmin (New Play Control! version)
• StarCraft
• Startopia
• We ♥ Katamari