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The Wild Idol - Last Chance (written by Kim Jongwan) lyrics & translation
The Wild Idol Last Chance The Wild Idol Part 5 (211216)
Lyrics ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ Last chance ๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ์
๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ด๋๊ฐ ๋๋ Now Iโm ready to go ์ด ๋ง์ง๋ง์ด ์๋ก์ด ์์์ด ๋๋ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ง๊ธ์ด์ง ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ Last chance ์ฃผ๋จน์ ๊ฝ ์ฅ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ด๋๊ฐ ๋๋ Now Iโm ready to go ์ง์ ์ด๋ ์ด ๋ถํ๋ ํ์์ด ๋๋ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ง๊ธ์ด์ง Hey ์ฌ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐํ ์ ์ ์์์ง๋ง ์์งํ ๋งํ๋ฉด ๊ฝค ๋ง์ด ํ๋ค๊ธด ํด ๋ต๋ตํด ๋์ด ์์ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ํ๊ฒฐ๊ฐ์ด ๋ฏธ๋ก ์์ ํค๋งค์ด๋ค ๋ ๊ทธ๋๋ ๋ค์ ์จ ํ๋ฒ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๊ณ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ๋ ๋ ํ๋ฒ ๋ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ๋ค ํผ์์ ๋จ๋ชฐ๋ ๋๋ฌผ์ ์ผ์ผ๋ด๋ ํฌ๊ธฐ ๋ฐ์ ์ ํด ๋งค ์๊ฐ ์ ๋ถ๋ฅผ ๊ฑธ์ด ๋ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ Last chance ๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ์
๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ด๋๊ฐ ๋๋ Now Iโm ready to go ์ด ๋ง์ง๋ง์ด ์๋ก์ด ์์์ด ๋๋ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ง๊ธ์ด์ง ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ Last chance ์ฃผ๋จน์ ๊ฝ ์ฅ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ด๋๊ฐ ๋๋ Now Iโm ready to go ์ง์ ์ด๋ ์ด ๋ถํ๋ ํ์์ด ๋๋ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ง๊ธ์ด์ง Ay ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ฌ๋ฅํ๋ Iโm a killer Ay ํฑ ๋์ ์ฅ๊ฐ ๋๋ ๋ ๋ชฉ ์ง๋ฌ ๋ง์ง๋ง์ ๋ค์์ด ๋ง์ง๋ง๋ผ ์ฝ์ด uh I canโt stop ๊ฐํ ๋ ์ก์๋ ์ ์๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ชฉ ์กํ ๋ done uh ๋น์ดํ๊ฒ ๋๋ง์น๊ธฐ๋ณด๋จ yeah ์น์ดํ๊ฒ ๋ถ๋ชํ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ด style yeah ๋๋ ์๋ ํ๊ณ ๋ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ํ๊ฑธ์ ๋ ๋ด๋์๋ ๊ณ ์ํ ์ ๋ง ์ ํ์ธ๋ง ๋ถ์์ง ๋ฏ ์น๋ ํ์ด๋ฉ ์์ ๋๋ last counting ๋ฐ๋ฅ๋ถํฐ ์ฐ๊ณ bounding ํ ๋ฐ์ง ํ ๋ฐ์ง ๋ ์์ผ๋ก ๋์๊ฐ What should I do ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑธ ๊ฑธ๊ณ ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑธ ๊ฑธ์ด ์ด๋ฒ์ด ๋ง์ง๋ง ํ ๋ฒ์ Chance ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ Last chance ๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ์
๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ด๋๊ฐ ๋๋ Now Iโm ready to go ์ด ๋ง์ง๋ง์ด ์๋ก์ด ์์์ด ๋๋ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ง๊ธ์ด์ง ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ Last chance ์ฃผ๋จน์ ๊ฝ ์ฅ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ด๋๊ฐ ๋๋ Now Iโm ready to go ์ง์ ์ด๋ ์ด ๋ถํ๋ ํ์์ด ๋๋ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ง๊ธ์ด์ง ๋งค์ผ ํผ์ด๋๋ค ๊ณ ํต ์์ ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ ์ข์ ์ ์น์ด๋จน๊ณ ์๋ผ๋๋ค ์ผ๋ง๊ฐ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์๊ด์๋ค ์ด๋ป๊ฒ๋ ๋ ํ๋ฒ ๋ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ๋ค ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ Last chance ๋ ์ด๋ฅผ ์
๋ฌผ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ด๋๊ฐ ๋๋ Now Iโm ready to go ์ด ๋ง์ง๋ง์ด ์๋ก์ด ์์์ด ๋๋ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ง๊ธ์ด์ง ๋ชจ๋ ๊ฒ Last chance ์ฃผ๋จน์ ๊ฝ ์ฅ๊ณ ๊ทธ๊ฒ ์ด๋๊ฐ ๋๋ Now Iโm ready to go ์ง์ ์ด๋ ์ด ๋ถํ๋ ํ์์ด ๋๋ ๊ทธ ์๊ฐ์ด ๊ทธ๊ฒ ๋ฐ๋ก ์ง๊ธ์ด์ง Iโm ready to go Iโm ready to go Translation The last chance for everything I clench my jaw; wherever it may lead, now Iโm ready to go The moment when this ending becomes a new beginning has come The last chance for everything I clench my fist; wherever it may lead, now Iโm ready to go The moment when this darkness becomes a flaming sun has come Hey, I never thought it would be easy, but honestly, Iโm struggling a lot Frustrated, feel like thereโs no end to this Still wandering this maze as ever Even so, I catch my breath again to run once again, whatever it takes Even if I must hold back tears in secret, I will never give up Iโll risk everything in every moment The last chance for everything I clench my jaw; wherever it may lead, now Iโm ready to go The moment when this ending becomes a new beginning has come The last chance for everything I clench my fist; wherever it may lead, now Iโm ready to go The moment when this darkness becomes a flaming sun has come Ay, Iโm a killer hunting for a chance Ay, I shout out till my chin cramps up Turn โthe endโ on its head till it reads โdonโt stop meโ I canโt stop, though you dare hold me back, sleepโs got you by the ankle, youโre done Rather than despicably running away, facing it fiercely is my style The time it takes to make nonsense excuses, Iโd rather put into taking another step Howling in the stillness Pounding like Iโll break Last counting starting now Bounding starting from the bottom I move forward one step at a time What should I do? I risk everything again and again for this one last chance The last chance for everything I clench my jaw; wherever it may lead, now Iโm ready to go The moment when this ending becomes a new beginning has come The last chance for everything I clench my fist; wherever it may lead, now Iโm ready to go The moment when this darkness becomes a flaming sun has come I bloom in torment every day, grow from chewing up this despair It doesnโt matter how long it takes I run once again, whatever it takes The last chance for everything I clench my jaw; wherever it may lead, now Iโm ready to go The moment when this ending becomes a new beginning has come The last chance for everything I clench my fist; wherever it may lead, now Iโm ready to go The moment when this darkness becomes a flaming sun has come Iโm ready to go Iโm ready to go
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A guy who just wake up from a coma -> what did i miss?
Pomefiore was the last plot i follow before real life made me forget about our silly boys. How bad has the plot become now for our gang? Also who is that Gojo looking guy?
anon, I am so sorry and I mean this in the best way, but I do think episode 5 is the absolute funniest place to have stopped following Twst because shit starts escalating SO fast after that. episode 6 literally starts with a secret government shadow agency breaking down our doors and kidnapping students. zero to a million instantly.
and like...that's not even the zaniest thing so far? Ortho's hacked into the collective human unconscious. there's time travel (sort of). "Crowley might be Malleus' long-lost father" is a serious theory. if you'd told me any of this back pre-episode 6, I would have asked for the link to this unbelievable but highly intriguing fanfic.
also, episode 7 gave us (and then immediately took away ๐) the best character in the whole story:
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#there are better and very comprehensive summaries out there so i'm not gonna get into it with any seriousness#(genuinely a LOT has happened)#but let's recap very quickly#episodes 1-5: our friends' RA is a huge asshole! jack's sports idol is trying to cheat at the big game! who will win the talent show!#i sure hope no one turns into a monster and tries to kill us!#episode 6: a shadowy government organization has stolen our friends (and cat) to experiment on#idia throws himself into hell and then tries to destroy the world. we punch ortho so hard he grows a soul.#episode 7: malleus has an existential crisis and traps everyone in an eternal dreamworld#extended diasomnia backstory flashbacks reveal that silver is a cursed prince and lilia wanted to be the filling in a royal sandwich#somehow sebek is the most normal character and that's the real twist right there#every new chapter is its own wild fever dream and i'm so here for it#as for this gojo fellow#i had to google him because i am unfamiliar. but i believe you are referring to our dear friend scully (skully?) j graves#from that time we got sucked into a magic book (again) and then he got mad at us for being fake halloween fans#also he wouldn't stop kissing our hand. who says there's no smooches in twst.
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โ Maki (&TEAM) lockscreens
like/reblog | @lockwithluv
donโt repost our work or claim it as yours
#and team#maki#jpop idol#jpop#hybe#wallpaper#kpop#kpop aesthetic#kpop boys#kpop idols#kpopedit#andteam#&team#kpop bg#run wild#deerhunter#go in blind#lockscreens#lunรฉ
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Hwang In-ho rides a motorcycle pass it on
#you know i'm right#squid game#hwang in ho#hwang inho#the front man#squid game front man#front man#Gi-hun would begrudgingly think it was cool as FUCK#remember how he idolized nerd-ass Sang-woo?#imagine if he encountered ex cop anarchist In-ho in the wild#๐#idk i just think in-ho is gu-hun's type#maybe it's the shipper brainrot#457#inhun#ginho
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the new idol radio host is kinda cute...
bonus kitty ver:
#the boyz#sunwoo#kim sunwoo#tbz#tbzinc#*ambiv.gif#useroro#userhaknew#melontrack#hibiebear#rosieblr#oorieri#higabi#uservince#tuserchrissy#ninisdarlings#been meaning to make this set since the first episode aired but i swear he's already hosted a dozen of them since#i literally did not realize how often idol radio airs each week it's wild#anyways i can't wait for the comeback yalllll IT'S TBZ CB SEASON AGAIN ALREADY RAAAAAAAA
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Theyโre watching Ratatouille ๐๐ฅ
#Niki probably went buck-wild for this movie#niki shiina#rinne amagi#ensemble stars#enstars#ratatouille#digital art#sketch#crazy:b#idol game#ใใใใใถใในใฟใผใบ#ใใในใฟ
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Doodles of my fan-princess, the Rockstar. Instead of escaping the cabin she wants you to join her band. You get her if you walk down the stairs and start beatboxing
#slay the princess#stp#art#stp nightmare#stp adversary#stp prisoner#stp damsel#stp burned grey#the long quiet#i have another fan princess who is more 'serious' but maybe another day also she only possibly exists as a R&G reference#the sad thing about making fan princesses is knowing you can never top clown princess gamer princess or cowboy princess#i think her accompanying voice is either a) voice of the Stan#(only communicates via princess fancams)#b) voice of the connoisseur#(he's like an obnoxious rock purist dudebro who definitely does NOT secretly like the princess' music)#or c) voice of the soundcloud rapper#(he speaks in verse and wants to join the band to help further his career (and for the company))#(voice of the groupie was considered but dismissed for being too similar to smitten)#pls ignore how garbage the shading on tlq's body is i think drawing these made my carpal tunnel come back#also considering an idol group fan princess who functions as like a hivemind#like if stranger was a little dumber#actually we don't really have a hivemind princess do we? Stranger sort of almost was one#and in Wild *you* are the hivemind#i drew tlq way too small here so im deciding Rockstar is one of the BIG princesses#also for the classic Princess Spookiness^tm I'm deciding that her sunglasses are actually her eyes#or she doesn't have eyes underneath#pick your poison
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Seeing ppl talking about and wishing for a skz comeback within the next month between the end of the latam concerts and the start of the jp concerts is really frying my brain rn
#this is why i will never believe the average kpop fan actually cares about their fave idols health and well being#bc have they not been touring for months. doing skzcodes still. ate giant hiptape and now the mixtape.#how are you already expecting more i hope after these mexican concerts they have a good 2 or 3 weeks off to reset their body clocks & rest#wild to me how so many ppl need new things all the time as well like do u never get overwhelmed with all this stuff all the time#ignore my typos im on mobile and cant fix tags lmao
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On Your Toes
Request: Hi (* ยด โฝ ` *) I hope you are still accepting spin the wheel requests. I got , fan and idol as a prompt. If you aren't too busy at the moment, can you please write a story for Adrian Tepes x Idol!reader? Like he pretends to dislike her music but finds her voice soothing, secretly admires her and... loves her. ๐ซฃ๐
AN: Thanks for requesting! This is slightly different from you request but I seriously had to write it to escape my writer's block (partially due to Love and Deep Space wrecking my life) Also ik Ballerino is Italian but can we roll with this please because danseurs sounds mad pretentious.
Genre: Idol/Ballet au
Pairing(s): Alucard x GN Reader
Summary: You were the rat when Adrian became Hans-Peter in The Nutcracker. The infamous mirror on the wall when he played Prince Charming. Yorick to his brooding Hamlet. The clapping monkey to his moping Phantom of the Opera.
"I'm sure 14-year-olds love your so called 'art'," Adrian says, rolling his eyes with a huff as he leans back against the windowsill. "Is it worth leaving years of hard work?"
Crouching in front of him, you rest his feet on your thigh and begin unlacing the bloodied pointe shoe, which clings stubbornly to the oozing callouses on his skin.
"You forgot your ointment again?" You sigh, already reaching for the travel-sized tube you always carry. That habit has never left you, from the past to now.
With gentle hands, you apply the cool gel to his raw soles. Above you, Adrian sucks in a sharp breath, his toes curling at the sudden sting of relief.
"I missed you." You stand up after wrapping his feet in bandages and pulling on mismatched warm socks, socks he never had a complete pair of. "And I worry too. Now that Iโm here, I know I have a good reason to fret." Your gaze lingers on his sunken cheeks.
"I do not require your pity!" Adrian huffs, turning his back to you. "Go back to your glamorous life. Aren't you above ballet now? Too good for it?" His words cut deep into your heart.
It has been three years. Three long years since he refused to answer your calls, moved out of the home you once shared, leaving behind nothing but a lonely ring.
He, who is in the lyrics of your every song, the muse for your art, he has left you. Or perhaps, you pushed him away.
Eighteen years ago, at the age of seven, you first met him. In that ballet class, when you both let go of your weary parentsโ hands and walked into a room where you became the best of friends.
It was no less than a wedding pyre, where your blood, sweat, and endless hours bound you both into something more.
Adrian loved ballet. His feet never faltered, his arms refused to tremble, even in the swiftest lifts. He was most beautiful in his dance.
You, on the other hand, could never find solid ground beneath your feet while lost in staring at him.
To some extent, you enjoyed the sway of music that came in waves. You relished the closeness it offered, the bond it allowed between you and your friend.
Music, you loved. Just as Adrian loved ballet. Music taught you how to love.
From the scrawled notes on your notebook covers to your cheap GarageBand subscription, you loved losing yourself to the sounds of the world around you.
But all that had to wait, tucked away in the tiny pockets of your time, the ones spared beyond ballet.
You loved music, but you loved him more.
For years, you did.
You were the rat when Adrian became Hans-Peter in The Nutcracker. The infamous mirror on the wall when he played Prince Charming. Yorick to his brooding Hamlet. The clapping monkey to his moping Phantom of the Opera.
You grasped at pieces, but all that remained were shadows. Ballet was never your calling.
It was the old SoundCloud rap that thrust you into the shoes that were made for you.
From a small re-release, to album deals, to company contracts, your world pulled you closer.
And no matter how hard you tried to cling to the ballet studio, your heart reached for the keys of your keyboard.
Productions rarely ever kept you, and with a distracted mind, roles slipped through your fingers.
Weeks later, Adrian found himself alone on the stage. Broken from the reverie of his practice, he searched for you. Backstage. The costume room. The tech booth.
You were gone.
And then he saw the script.
Your name wasnโt there.
You had left him. Alone. Lost in his dance.
And he hadnโt even noticed.
Was he to blame? Had he kept you from your passion?
Wrath. Hurt. Guilt. Heartbreak. They flooded him all at once.
That day, for the first time, his feet ached. Not from exhaustion, not from relentless training, but from something deeper. Never before had he cared about pain over his dance. Yet, in that moment, it hurt more than anything.
So he left. Just as you had. Without a word, he walked awayโfrom your home, your ring, everything.
He abandoned you.
He refused to love this version of you. He refused to be the one left behind. So he left first.
This was your penance, and his.
Never again did his feet tire. Never again did his smile falter. He poured himself into his craft, drowning in movement, in rhythm, in perfection.
But who could resist a sirenโs call?
Even as he spun through daring choreography, even as he lost himself in dance, his ears could not escape your music.
That brash, loud, jarring music, the very thing that had torn you apart.
Songs that were all about him. Words that glided with melody like his body through motion.
He knew how much it meant to you.
Music, to you, was what ballet had become to him.
And much to his dismay, he understood that far too well.
After all these years, after countless lovers taken just to spite you, he had not expected this.
For the idol so many cherished to kneel beside him as you once did. For you to be so gentle, so familiar in your every action.
For you to still carry the ointment, the one none of the dancers could afford. You had bought it for him back then, and you hadnโt stopped now.
He had not expected you to ignore all the hurt and continue loving him.
It was unfair. Unbearably cruel. To be so good to him.
His heart protested, curling in on itself at the sight.
He let you slip warm socks over his feet, trying his damnedest to hold back the tears.
But you were his friend. His adorable rat. His beloved.
How could he have wronged you? When he knew the answer too well.
The thing about love is that it cannot be held back. It cannot be unfelt.
Like a stubborn stream of water, it finds a way, seeping through the cracks of even the hardest heart.
And after all these years, it had never ceased to exist.
#castlevania#alucard#alucard x reader#adrian tepes x reader#tropevania event#idol au#ballet au#hopeful ending#childhood friends to lovers to enemies to lovers?#wild aah tags
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Imagine your canon Warden, Hawke, Inquisitor and Rook and their respective LI on a quadruple date - how will it go?
#there was a post about it going around but I can't find it anymore ๐ญ#so I made a new one because I want to see all your awful quadruple date headcanons#don't ask me what happened in 2014 I still don't know#anders really is the golden retriever to messed up murderer with glowing eyes pipeline#alistair x cousland#handers#solavellan#rookanis#alistair theirin#anders#solas#lucanis dellamorte#dragon age#dragon age origins#dragon age 2#dragon age inquisition#dragon age the veilguard#datv#I think there would be a wild discussion about demons and possession and mages and freedom#and amidst of it a poor puppy boy trying to get out#I feel like solas and anders would actually get along quite well though???#surprisingly#not sure how spite and justice would feel about each other this could go both ways#maybe anders and alistair would have to hold lucanis down at some point because he just straight up goes for solas' throat#my warden hawke inquisitor and rook would just excuse themselves and have a drink together because no way they're dealing with that mess#there would be some reservations because queen warden commander is intimidating af but she's nice and a badass sooo...#marian is smitten and lowkey trying to flirt her up#and rook would try to get to know lavellan really awkwardly because she's his idol#he would be overall very nervous because he gets flustered around powerful women and all three of them in one room#oh boy he's sweating
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Qi Fengge fucked up his family so badly that I want a sequel just to see the childhood days of the Qi Fengge disciples. How did he not notice that he was fucking up with Tan Yuanchun so much that the entire mountain would be thrown into chaos because of it. How is Yu Ai so indecisive and easily influenced when his other siblings aren't. Why the fuck are Gu Hengbo and Yuan Ying so disconnected from Qi Fengge that they view Shen Qiao as an older brother/father figure. Why was Shen Qiao both the middle child and the favorite somehow. Everything is wrong with them.
#thousand autumns#it's wild that we get like. no elaboration abt tan yuanchuns issues#we can assume that shen qiao n qi fengge r pretty similar bcs thats one of the reasons qi fengge made sq his heir or smth#and everyone comes to view sq as an extension/second coming of qi fengge#so if that were the case then either qfg just rlly sucked as a dad or sq's disciples r going to lose their shit once he dies#maybe it's another way sq is different from qfg?#and yu ai. man. grow a spine#all your other siblings figure out what they want and immediately act to claim it#whyd u wait until someone else gave u the green light to move#and sq where the fuck were you#oh wait yeah busy raising ur two younger siblings#and idolizing the guy who started this mess#qi fengge no 1 narrative haunter
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forgot he's always been able to do that
#xdinary heroes#junhan#han hyeongjun#i say โalwaysโ but it's actually been since he got teary having a staring contest with gunil#and then they realised he could cry on command#kinda wild he genuinely cries the least out of everyone but he can do. that#and i think that's neat#rae's gonna hate me for this one hehe#i spent so long trying to find the full video for the last one because that's a clip from twt but i just couldn't#actually didn't know about the weekly idol one but stumbled upon it during the search so hey bonus#i am very tired now oh my god#chewyvids
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Games I played in Winter 2024-2025
Tunic - The best game I've played in a long, long time. If you like zelda games, do not read reviews or look up a synopsis. Buy this and play it. Fear the eyes of the far shore.
Animal Well - THIS is how you make a metroid-vania. I'm still reeling at how goddamn good this is. Just the densest concentration of puzzles and exploration, sick art style, perfect and thicc like a pound cake.
Book of Hours - buuhhh, what to even say. I don't even know if I like this game. It's like a mosquito bite that I just want to keep scratching. It has taught me a new definition of insanity. Playing this makes me feel the same way I felt when I first started playing Civ 5.
Hollow Knight - Danny DeVito "I get it" meme, I see why people are so tied up in knots about Silksong. if I were 14 again and couldn't afford to buy games, I'd want this the most out of everything on this list, just for the depth and challenge.
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye - It finally felt like it had been long enough since Tohru died for me to revisit this game, but I still thought about him the entire time. Nothing has really come close to how good the base game is, and this DLC captures 95% of that magic. The only flaw is how it's meant to slot into the main game rather than stand alone, so for someone like me who was just revisiting it to play the DLC, the ending didn't entirely work for me. Still, I get what they did and how they did it, and they made the right choice. I dreamt a happy dream about this game the night after I started playing it, and beat it the next morning.
Chants of Sennaar - This game was made for me, specifically. I wish the last couple levels were much longer, but partly because I just wanted to be in this world more. I really hope the creators of this do more with this style, and damn I wish there were more linguistics-based games out there. Banger soundtrack too.
Crypt Custodian - I had middling hopes for this one. The art style is cutesy, the movement is floaty, and the story seems silly right off the bat. I could not have been more wrong about everything. The combat is so crisp and reactive. It's a wonderful balance between forgiving enough that I never felt like I was being cheated, but difficult enough that I never one-shot a boss or even beat one without taking a hit. The world is vaster than I imagined it could be for a game of this scale, but fast travel is easy to come by. Even in my initial playthrough I never felt like I was being railroaded or having to backtrack and comb through areas again and again to figure out what my next step would be. Instead of a New Game+ or something there's a built in randomizer. Why is this the first game I've ever played that thought of this! Lastly, the story isn't really a story like a linear game would have. Each zone is an illustration of each of the characters, and they all fit together to paint a picture of what the afterlife is for our pets and other wild animals. An absolute masterpiece.
Yoku's Island Express - What if a metroid-vania was a tropical-themed pinball table? So cute and innovative, a delightful little 10-hour adventure that never felt like a slog or back-track city. One of the funniest sequel-bait endings ever; I hope they make one!
Talos Principle 2 DLCs - Another game specifically made for me. DLC 1 felt like a great little happy ending tying up the loose ends from the main story. DLC 2 was such a fun chill island vacation, felt like a victory lap. DLC 3 has some of the hardest individual puzzles I've ever experienced in a video game, but I'm proud to say I beat every last one without any outside help. If you think you can get down with Portal but with the humor swapped out with philosophy, this is that game.
Case of the Golden Idol - Absolutely blew me away, such a cool way of telling a story. Like, what if Where's Waldo committed a murder and you had to figure out not only how and why he did it, but also the occupation and favorite food of the victim's niece. Very Obra-Dinn: dark, funny, and precise. It's a little weird though, I played a bit of the demo of the sequel and it felt like diminishing returns, but I'm optimistic I'll enjoy it once I get around to buying the full version.
Balatro - Honestly the soundtrack is the biggest selling point, which is weird to say but what they do with it is kind of incredible. I get why it was the year's hottest new thang, and I totally got sucked into it for a good long while. At the end of the day it doesn't replace STS for me, though. Too mathy at higher levels, not vibes-based enough to jump in and have a fun run. I wish I had bought this for my phone instead of on Steam.
Celeste - Best, snappiest, and most precise platformer since super meat boy. An 8-way controller is a must though, I got so mad at my x-bone controller so many times that I stopped playing halfway through the B-sides, but that's not really the game's fault.
Transistor - Still my favorite Supergiant story after all these years. A tragedy for the ages. No other game does what this does with combat and encouraging you to switch up your gameplay. I spent hours in the Sandbox just trying out different combos and options. I think some reviews at the time disliked gating story elements behind your gameplay choices but in my opinion that's the point. The game isn't that hard and you don't need to play in a style you dislike for very long. Oh, and get the Sea Monster at Junction Jan's.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps - Not as good as the first one, but damn near close. A little more combat-focused, a little less platformy and movement-based. Much fewer escape-sequences, which is a huge relief, and I loved the new central hub. Felt like they had a really good thing going on with the first one that just needed some cleaning up and polishing, but they wanted it to be more like hollow knight or something and went too far in their tuning.
The Forgotten City - Kinda like if the Talos Principle and Outer Wilds had a lil baby. A little short but nailing the true ending is pretty satisfying. The less said about it the better, to keep its secrets, but it's essentially one big time-loop puzzle that's solved through talking to people and exploring this little Roman town. Absolutely loved the implementation of Galerius giving you the option of not having to redo things you've already unlocked or allowing you to go back and do things a different way. Like, for instance, one of the people is poisoned and dying, and you have the antidote. At the beginning of each loop you can give Galerius the antidote to give to her, run over and give it to her yourself, or let her die. The best part is, each of these three choices has a real impact on what happens that day, and what dialogue and information is unlocked.
Chicory - Lovely little adventure, good puzzles, top notch exploration, sick-ass boss encounters. I can't imagine how annoying it would be if you were only playing on controller without a mouse, though. Cute furry world where everyone is named after food. I was named pierogies.
Death's Door - Absolutely killer worldbuiilding and soundtrack, the vibes are almost completely perfect, and for the most part I loved the unique boss encounters. There are many weird or untuned things that bugged me, though, like getting completely stun-locked in corners and the weapons and upgrades being largely unnoticeable. The Gemsbok just did a video on this game, and it made me realize my biggest problem with the game. Past the first time you see each zone there is no sense of adventure. You walk (or mash the roll button) through a zone, clear out all the enemies, and find there's nothing to discover other than collectibles only accessible via a power you'll get later on. Literally only 1 of these 24 collectibles have a puzzle attached to it (and that being the only real puzzle in the game), so it felt like half my playthrough was spent roaming around The Overgrown Ruins looking for one more secret to check off my to-do list.
Myst - A classic for a reason, there was a ton in here that I forgot about. Very rough around the edges but that's like its whole thing y'know.
Hyper Light Drifter - One of those games that introduced the whole genre of Metroidvanias to me. So glad I revisited it and finally beat the last boss after 8 years. It's funny how much smaller it is than I remember, but the qol is on the money and the combat is as tight as it ever was. Just a fantastic game that I'd rate way higher if I wasn't already familiar with it.
Night in the Woods * So, this isn't really a game I guess, more of an interactive novel. If I didn't relate to the main character so much I think I'd be more gung-ho to dive further into it but it just makes me depressed. lol.
Toki Tori 2+ * Make no mistake, this is a full-ass adventure game, on par in terms of scale with HLD, Ori, and Yoku. The wild thing is that it presents itself as some sort of phone game or a Block Dude. Truly bizarre and devilishly challenging, but unfortunately once the world becomes open I lost track of my objective and didn't want to slog through the esoteric overworld and backtracking to hunt down a hidden path I missed 5 hours ago. Some day I'll find a guide and wrap this up.
Myst 3 - Coming off of the mind-bending difficulty that is riven, this felt like a day at a theme park. Great puzzles, totally immersive and inventive worlds, short and sweet, if a little silly at times.
Peglin - What if slay the spire was a Peggle? It can be fun and a challenge, but so, so annoying when one bad bounce that was out of your control ruins the whole run. I guess STS has that too, when your deck gets a bad shuffle and there's nothing you can do, but it feels like it happens way more often on the pegs. Also, a lot of the bosses can be totally steamrolled without too much thought, which is a little bit of a letdown since it doesn't really matter what your build looks like. As long as you keep in mind how you're going to beat a couple bosses like the painter and dragon, any other boss just doesn't matter.
Dredge - VERY fun fishing game, honestly doesn't even need the cthulu stuff. Doesn't overstay its welcome, and the ending is satisfying and earned. The most fun I had was just the first 3-5 hours rolling around, making money and upgrading my boat. There was a point where it felt more like a slog than a fun time, but I pushed through it and realized it wasn't that big of a push. Still, that's not exactly what you want.
The Sexy Brutale * It sells itself as a grand time-loop puzzle thing in the vein of Forbidden City or Outer Wilds, but it really isn't. Yes, everything takes place in one big mansion, but there's no exploration to be had here. Now, I'm a little further than halfway, solved 5/8 of the main story missions, and I can say that decisively because each of the cases is in a discreet wing of the mansion that is only unlocked once you've solved the previous one. It is intensely linear in a way I was not expecting. Don't get me wrong, it's lovingly crafted, and each puzzle feels unique, creative, and rewarding to solve. But between the checklist vibe of the progression gating, the rocky and sometimes clumsy controls, and repetitive animations, the game largely falls flat. Swing and a miss.
Little Inferno - Cute and fun, a neat little 2-hour experience. There are some surprisingly deep themes that poke in every once in a while, but ultimately it's little more than a bedtime story. A small mark against it, apparently I had already played and beaten this years ago when it came out and had no memory of it whatsoever.
Cave Story+ - Oddly enough another comparison to super meat boy in this list, it looks and feels like exactly what it is, a flash game that somehow got developed into a full-ass game. Surprisingly good though! I did not care for a lot of the humor that felt very lolrandom reference-based, but i guess that was just that era.
Vision Soft Reset * I got stuck on a difficult platforming section directly followed by a very tough fight, and gave up after maybe 30 attempts. Maybe I'll go back to it some day? The time travel aspect a very cool concept, and well implemented, but the game just feels a little too rough around the edges and flash-y. I really wanted to like this game more, but I think it's for someone else.
A Short Hike - Short is correct. A busy little furry island to chill out in for a few hours. Good dialogue and characters. Don't try to just beat the game, that's not the point. Do all the sidequests and talk to everyone, and take your time.
Dorfromantik - If they made A Quiet Year into a video game it would be this. Extremely chill, way too chill for me, but I could imagine how someone would get super into this.
Minit - If this was a free flash game it would be one of the best. I beat it in 1, maybe 2 hours, and had some fun, but I'm glad I got it off of Epic's giveaway
Played but not Beat:
Darkest Dungeon - I might dive into this for real some time, feels more punishing than XCOM but I like the combat setup and basic gameplay loop. I worry that there will be a point that the game becomes unwinnable or soft-locked, and I won't realize it and waste a ton of time.
Snakebird - Actually just a phone game, but cute and devious puzzle design a la Baba Is You. might never boot this up again unless I'm desperate.
Up Next:
Myst 4
Undertale
Enter the Gungeon
Kentucky Route Zero
(*) Asterisks indicate that I didn't finish the game.
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