MeltedJoystick Video Game Blog 01/2025

New Year’s Backlog Ablutions 2025

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/05/25 at 02:01 PM CT

The results of the last year’s New Year’s Backlog Ablutions are in! Sadly, we couldn’t keep our Perfect Streak going into a third year, as Erstwhile Matt – this initial instigator of this entire sorry display – failed utterly, completing only one of his three chosen games and, furthermore, failing to submit a review for that game. Even though Nick was still in a quantum state with his third (and worst) game, he managed to submit a review on the last possible day, in spite of dealing with his 4th official bout with COVID-19.

Since Matt was a Loser this year, he was obligated to buy each of the rest of us a game from our wishlists. To mix up the formula a bit – since we seem to do that every year – Nick proposed that Matt’s Penalty Games should automatically become picks for the rest of us.

To reiterate the rules: We all have one year to play three specific backlogged games that we’ve chosen for ourselves in advance. Included within those three games must be …



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