Gaming Chronicles

A blog dedicated to my gaming journey

[russgames101]

2026 gaming journey 🎮

Happy New Years~ 👋🏻

I’m planning to be frugal with my games this year and focus more on my backlog. Maybe replay some. I will still post my thoughts on the games I play and link them in this pinned post.

Have a good day, everyone~ 💜

Stray (Jan)

Marvel's Midnight Suns (Jan)

Mafia 3 (Jan)

Fire Emblem Awakening (Feb)

Figment 2: Creed Valley (Mar)

The Last of Us Part II (Mar)

Cat Quest II (Mar)

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands (Mar)

Minute of Islands (Apr)

Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Apr)

The Plucky Squire (May)

Assassin’s Creed II (May)

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (May)

Assassin’s Creed Revelations (May)

Pokemon Emerald Seaglass (June)

Assassin’s Creed Mirage (June)

Planet Alpha (June)

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2026 Game #17: Planet Alpha

I bought this game a while ago, thinking that it was some sort of planet sim game, but I was pleasantly surprised to find out it’s just a chill platforming game where you somehow control the planet’s day & night cycle 😃✌🏻

I love the beautiful environment, the alien flora & fauna - even the robot enemies lol

The stealth mechanic, the momentum-based platforming, the intriguing puzzles and mysteries…they all make up what Planet Alpha is for me.

A chill and short game - perfect to play in between big ones. Definitely worth a try 👍🏻

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2026 Game #16: Asssassin’s Creed Mirage

I definitely appreciate more of Mirage after going through Ezio’s trilogy. But they should have kept in the walk and talk feature - saves me time from losing the NPC in the crowd 😅

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2026 Game #15: Pokemon Emerald Seaglass

It was nice to be back in Hoenn but I do not miss the surfing parts lol

Maybe playing semi-blind up until the final gym was fine, but I really should have prepared more for the Elite Four. Let’s just say, I should not have sold my revives 🙃

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2026 Game #14: Assassin’s Creed Revelations

Overall, it’s nice to be playing an AC game again. Except that by the end of Revelations, I got that AC fatigue seeping in 😅

Brotherhood is the standout for me in this trilogy - an upgrade from the first game but still kept things simple.

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2026 Game #13: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

The city renovations, recruiting assassins and taking down enemy towers were the most fun activities for me. It is with great reluctance that I sent my recruits on one last mission before I close the game 🫡

(Also a bit pissed that one recruit died in story mission 😭)

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2026 Game #12: Assassin’s Creed II

It’s been so good to play an AC game again 🥰 I finally get to experience Ezio’s story, but I’ll take time for diving into the other 2 games in the trilogy 🫡

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2026 Game #11: The Plucky Squire

This started off as baby’s first platforming and quickly became more and more complex later on. I both love and hate that 😅😂

Happy to note that you can skip the minigames if you can’t be bothered with them. Big plus! 💜

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2026 Game #10: Dragon Age: The Veilguard

It does feel like a farewell game from the Dragon Age team and they truly went out with a bang!

I’m not a big fan of the combat but I was very engaged with the story. So if I ever replay, I would go for the easiest difficulty lol

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2026 Game #9: Minute of Islands

This is a beautifully gross game with all the cartoon gores and meat-eating seagulls - it is strange yet thoughtful.

Everyone should try it at least once 👍🏻

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2026 Game #8: Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands

I honestly had a lot of fun in this game even though at times I felt it went on for too long. I learned once again that I don’t have to do every side quest - just enough to not be underleveled when fighting the Big Bad lol

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2026 Game #7: Cat Quest II

This cute cat-dog RPG is one of those games that can force me to grind 😂 no penalties for overleveling; I’m just lazy af LOL

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2026 Game #6: The Last of Us Part II

I’m a gameplay girlie first so I’m not gonna comment much about gameplay; this is a narrative first game after all.

I honestly like Abby a lot more than Ellie in this game in terms of storyline. At least some people survived 😃👍🏻

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2026 Game #5: Figment 2: Creed Valley

It started off so slow, so I wasn’t sure I would be able to finish it but I guess I was in the mood for an action puzzle game so I finally did 😂

“All work and no play creates chaos in the mind” is what I came up with once the game wraps up. Take note everyone 💜

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2026 Game #4: Fire Emblem Awakening

I did not expect to dive back into Fire Emblem and had an urge to resume my Awakening pt, but I started a brand new one instead and fell in love with the series all over again. 10/10 would go through the stress again 🫡😂

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2026 Game #3: Mafia III

This is a replay along with first time experiencing the DLCs. It was a lot 🙂

Nevertheless, I had fun running around building an empire, esp jamming to the music lol

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2026 Game #2: Marvel's Midnight Suns

I did not expect to fight Dracula in the DLCs but that was a very nice surprise. Love the new addition of heroes, but I couldn't use them a lot since I played on NG+ and everyone else is already so OP lol

But, still had fun replaying with my Light Hunter 🫡