AlphaMarathon 2021

I'm just going to copy and paste my rules from last year because I'm lazy.


1. Skip articles like "a" or "the" in regards to title. For example, The Adventures of Lolo would fall under A, and A Girls Fabric Face falls under G.

2. Only reviews submitted at this website in 2021 count. No offsite reviews, no linking to older reviews.

3. Reposted reviews do not count unless they were significantly overhauled. Your old GameFAQs reviews, for instance, only count if you significantly reworked them. You can also delete your older reviews here, vastly rewrite them and resub them.

4. Only reviews linked in this article count toward you final score. No one is going to go through your list of submitted reviews and update your post here for you, so you'll need to maintain it yourself.

5. If a title starts with a non-alphabetic or non-numeric character, then file it under the first alphabetic or numeric character that appears in name. For instance, .hack Part 3: Outbreak would count as an H game.


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EmP: 26
Joe: 19
Dagoss: 12

I swear I did not intend to get one of the hard entries out of the way first. I just happened to play a bad # game and it worked out that way.


1406 (PC)
Adventures in the Magic Kingdom (NES)
Bonbon (PC)
Cathedral (Switch)
DreadOut (PC)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Hearthfire (PS3)
God's Basement (PC)
Hades (Switch)
Kio's Adventure (PC)
Locked-in syndrome (PC)
Mad Father Remake (PC)
Nakawak (PC)
Oakwood (PC)
Pang Adventures (PC)
Reknum (Switch)
Spirit Roots (Switch)
Tamashii (PC)
Wasteland Angel (PC)
You Deserve (PC)

Question: for imports, what counts as the title? For example, if I played Rockman Soul Eraser instead of Megaman Extreme (essentially the same game in different regions), does that count as an R game or an M game?

A: America's Test Kitchen: Let's Get Cooking
B: Balloon Kid (GB)
C: Cave Noire (GB)
D: Dragon Warrior Monsters (GB/GBC)
F: Final Fantasy Legend
K: Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (GB)
L: Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS)
O: Octopath Traveller (Switch)
P: Phantasy Star (Switch)
R: Rockman World II (GB)
S: Super Mario 64 DS(DS)
W: Wizardry Empire

I always lean towards the version I'm playing in the instance that there's differing names across regions.

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27/27

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A: American Patriots: The Swamp Fox
B: Beard in the Mirror
C: CuYo // Chronicle of Innsmouth: Mountains of Madness // Chronicles of cyperpunk
D: DiRT 5 // Dungeon of Nahulbeuk
E: Edge of Eternity
F: Forgotten Trace
G: Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition
H: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
I: Insanium
J: Juggler's Tale
K: Kathy Rain
L: Loop Hero // Lost Words
M: Mysterious Realms RPG
N: Narita Boy
O: Outpost 13
P: Planet Alpha
Q: qomp
R: Road 96
S: Sarawak // San Goku Shi IV // Saint Kotar
T: Tokyo Xanadu eX+
U: Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen
V: Voyage
W: World Series Baseball
X: Xanada Next
Y: Yakuza Kiwami 2
Z: Ziggurat 2

Done. Barely, but done.

I'd like to encourage someone else to start AlphaMarathon 2022, if they feel like it. I can't promise that I'll be able to consistently update it. Hell, I forgot about 2021's only until recently.

No worries; I'll take it.

Ha! I wasn't even close. Half my reviews were overlaps. I'm probably not going to try this in 2022. I don't produce enough reviews to come close in this contest.

Overlaps are the true enemy for this thing. You have to expect them for the common letters like S, but it's the buggers like H and D that sneak up on you.

I came up with this nonsense way back when as a reason to make me play games I otherwise would have never interacted with at all. I've found some real gems because of this but I've found just as many mediocre or outright bad games as well.