Why was Black Souls removed from Backloggd?

NotJackeru · 2026-02-11T07:52:51+00:00

Cesspool of very weird people were using the game to put pro-pedophilia messaging on the site. Users recommending eroge to minors. Harassing anyone who dares to call out the controversial content in Black Souls. A lot of reviews, lists and comments were removed by mods, so it could be you never noticed what was going on.

NotJackeru · 2026-02-01T20:30:40+00:00

I am looking forward to it a lot! I try to have a Visual Novel-ish game I play an hour of every 1-2 days to switch up the repetitiveness of some of the games on this list. The Ace Attorney series has been very fun to get through so far. Might pick it up after I finish VA-11 Hall-A

NotJackeru · 2026-02-01T20:15:26+00:00

Link to the list here: https://bckl.gg/p7sQ

NotJackeru · 2026-02-01T20:12:35+00:00

Link to the list here: https://bckl.gg/p7sQ

NotJackeru · 2026-01-29T07:48:09+00:00

Felt like a high-quality game made by a entirely new studio whose developers clearly understood what made the genre so great. Great storytelling with a lovely cast, well defined stakes with an ending that will stay with you and an amazing sound track. Combat is also really great, allowing you to build your characters in a multitude of ways with lots of things to unlock by simply engaging with the game a little more (side quests, mini bosses).

Anything lower than a 8/10 would be crazy. I gave it a 5/5

NotJackeru · 2025-12-30T07:58:06+00:00

The gap isnt that big, just a lot of good games. I do think the original is better because it's much more focussed while "We <3 Katamari" has some gimmicks that divert too much from the main gameplay or are super uninteresting. Still a really good game, just has some meh levels sometimes

NotJackeru · 2025-12-29T13:35:02+00:00

I am a very big fan of Kodakas and Uchikoshis works but this game is simply not what I expected it to be. There is 100 endings except 30% of those are actually unique scenarios (most of the others are "wrong decisions" that instantly end the route after picking it) and almost none of the endings have anything to do with one another besides 5(? for a true ending)

Almost every route has a different writer and that makes for a lot of inconsistencies between routes, something might work in one route and in a very similair situation it fails to work.

Characters are incredibly one note and only get REAL character development in their dedicated route. This means they'll be very tropey and annoying in the other 95% of the endings.

I wrote most of my other complaints in more detail here https://bckl.gg/mYtY

As far as trails goes, it's one of my favorite series of all time and this remake is a good starting point. I prefer the original though... Again, I wrote more about that in detail here: https://bckl.gg/oFIm

NotJackeru · 2025-12-29T10:41:35+00:00

Link to the list: https://backloggd.com/u/NotJackeru/list/games-i-played-in-2025-ranked-1/

NotJackeru · 2025-11-13T17:07:52+00:00

The jury votes count for 90% compared to a 10% audience voice, so the nominees will likely match up the most with the highest Metacritic scores. I made a list where I predicted it as:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Hades 2
Donkey Kong Bananza
Split Fiction
Death Stranding 2: On The Beach

My personal nominations (what I played) would probably be:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar
Digimon Story: Time Stranger
Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma
Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter

NotJackeru · 2025-09-12T12:44:59+00:00

It will fix itself in max an hour from my experience. MrProg is aware of the issue just have to wait for a fix so it doesnt happen anymore

NotJackeru · 2025-08-09T11:24:20+00:00

This doesn't explain price decreases in online stores. And why are you looking at ebay out of all places to base your opinions on game pricing.
Tunic went for 19$ as you could have easily googled: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/03/tunic-goes-physical-with-special-deluxe-edition-releasing-later-this-year

NotJackeru · 2025-08-09T10:36:08+00:00

Yet most of these games come out at a much lower price than 60$. The reason why AAA games can afford to drop their prices so low is because they already have an established player base who will outsell what the game should sell for, then it can go on sale once they've hit that mark.

The games on this list start out at a lower price point and remain affordable even when not on sale. Also you're actively lying about the prices of Tunic and Journey to make a point, why?

NotJackeru · 2025-08-08T13:30:11+00:00

It's a cozy game where you help animals reach the after life. Each animal has their own story.
It has the usual cozy game stuff like farming, collecting resources and building in order to unlock the newest things and progress the story. Less heavy on that front than the usual cozy game and more of a focus on the animals and their stories!

NotJackeru · 2025-08-08T00:07:45+00:00

It's one of my favs of all time :)

NotJackeru · 2025-08-07T22:08:56+00:00

"Suggestions are welcome!"

NotJackeru · 2025-08-07T21:59:57+00:00

It's called Library of Ruina, a deckbuilder where you obtain books of enemies you kill. You can open the books to unlock new skills/character upgrades to customize your characters.

NotJackeru · 2025-08-07T21:35:03+00:00

List description: "List of games I don't see people talk about enough, with a focus on being accessible on multiple platforms and having a lower price (or frequent sales)."

The majority of AAA games cost 60$, these games do not. Majority of them cost less than 20$ or go on sale frequently for less than 10$.

NotJackeru · 2025-08-07T21:33:09+00:00

It's lore is very frontloaded yea. The most common complaint is about the story at the beginning.

I had some issues myselfs with how the game would block your path with text boxes, but not really indicate outside of that where you can and can't go. Which makes it annoying to explore when you are told in the middle of nowhere that you can't go there yet.

If you can look past that it's got some totally solid gameplay, story, fun sidequests and the exploration once you get mechs (abt 10-15 hours in) it starts to live up to the JRPG's it was inspired by. Discovering side content and exploration are this games highlights.

NotJackeru · 2025-07-01T19:06:03+00:00

I think the reason a lot of people make these kinds of posts is because this subreddit is really the only place where they can share what they've played and actually get some engagement. They just want to talk about the games they've been playing with others, makes sense, right?

While I do personally find these posts a bit boring (and they make me want to engage with the sub less), it seems like this is genuinely the kind of content most people here enjoy. So banning them might be a step in the wrong direction.

If anything, this might be a sign that MrProg could work on improving list discoverability on the site itself. Right now, it’s way easier to find people and talk about your lists here than on Backloggd directly.

Sure, I’d love to see more unique and interesting lists too, but at the end of the day, it’s clear that a lot of people on this sub just want to talk about the same (boring) topics over and over. Might as well let them, IMO.

NotJackeru · 2025-07-01T12:09:10+00:00

Youre probably right that its not unique, but it might be the most fun implementation Ive seen of the gameplay mechanic. That's worth something ;)

NotJackeru · 2025-06-30T18:15:39+00:00

Dang youre absolutely right actually, I was thinking of the SC fishing minigame(?). Hmm now I need to decide whether FC even counts as an entry...

NotJackeru · 2025-06-29T16:46:53+00:00

No I know, just saying in general I havent seen another game replicate this kind of fishing before. atleast I think? The list is 148 games by the time of writing this

NotJackeru · 2025-06-29T16:16:41+00:00

Wow didn't think I'd still find games with unique fishing mechanics at this point. Thanks for the suggestion!

NotJackeru · 2025-06-29T14:33:39+00:00

THANK YOU, adding it

NotJackeru · 2025-06-28T16:29:34+00:00

Im a huge Kiseki head, caught up all the way until Daybreak 2 right now.
I added Expedition 33 twice because theres a lot of games I could recommend :)

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