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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Day 205 of posting games I own. This time, Tenshi no Uta for PC Engine. In this RPG with a setting inspired by Celtic mythology, you set out to Cork Castle to get baptized and marry your mysterious orphan girlfriend, only for her to get kidnapped by demons hunting down people of celestial lineage.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Day 204 of posting games I own. This time, Oasis Road for Playstation. In a world heading toward ruin, where contact between cities has become scant, your caravan travels from town to town, collecting the seeds of knowledge along the eponymous trade route that once connected the major cities.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Day 203 of posting games I own. This time, Wild Arms for Playstation. Two drifters and a princess come together to save a wasteland planet that's trying to recover from a war with demons that's just restarted.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When I switch games, I have a bad habit of putting whatever I pull out of the console into the case of the game I'm about to put in. It results in these long chains of games that are all in the wrong case. Just finished unsnarling one that went nine games deep. Oops.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Day 202 of posting games I own. This time, Minton Keibu no Sousa File: Doukeshi Satsujin Jiken for Playstation. I picked this one up a while back after one look at the cover, because, really, what kind of joyless person looks at a title like "The Clown Murder Mystery" and doesn't say "I'm in"?

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Day 201 of posting games I own. This time, Forget me not -Palette- for Playstation. In this early example of a commercial release for an award-winning RPG Maker game, a psychologist is threatened into helping a blind girl on the other end of the phone recover her suppressed memories.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Day 200 of posting games I own. This time, Black/Matrix for Sega Saturn. In the time after the Genesis War, when Mephisto defeated the great evil deity God, on behalf of the great good deity Satan, a white-winged slave boy attempts to rescue his master who is imprisoned for the sin of loving him.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Day 199 of posting games I own. This time, (two copies of) Kamaitachi no Yoru for PS1. I bought these back before I was keeping a list, so when I saw the original release, with obi, for only a hundred yen, I didn't think too hard about whether or not I'd already bought a copy.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Day 198 of posting games I own. This time, Cat the Ripper for Sega Saturn Someone's been killing master detectives. You wake up next to the most recent victim without any memories. Soon, you're on the run from a couple of punk cops from Scotland Backyard, and enlist a detective to clear your name.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Day 197 of posting games I own. This time, Powers Kingdom for 3DO. The world has been overrun by the forces of Azrael, and you, a golem serving the goddess Erald, have to awaken your fellow golems and fight back. Extremely barebones plot, but there's some fun tactical RPG combat to be had here.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Day 196 of posting games I own. This time, Atelier Ryza DX for Switch. Been a while since I've played an Atelier, so I decided to give Ryza a try. The character designs and some of the camerawork were a bit hornier than I remember these games usually being, but the crafting's as addictive as ever.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Day 195 of posting games I own. This time, Toki wo Koeta Tegami for 3DO. My first game on the system. In 1945, two journalists with the Daily Casablanca investigate a friend who has disappeared, leaving behind a diary that asks them to stop her father's research from being used for the war effort.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Day 194 of posting games I own. This time, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim for Switch. I'd heard a lot of praise, and wanted to check this out for a while. Most the twists turned out to be ones I'd seen before (was pretty happy when it lifted one from a certain mecha OVA!), but it's very well presented.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Share a photo of your physical video game collection to scare a PlayStation executive. (It's time to admit I have a problem. That problem is that I need my wife to tidy up the junk room so I can put in another shelf.)

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Day 193 of posting games I own. This time, Tantei Jinguuji Saburo: Mikan no Rupo for Playstation. The Jinguuji series returns after having been dormant for a full console generation. It's an ambitious game, with four different playable investigators, and a whole lot of social commentary.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Day 192 of posting games I own. This time, Gnosia for Switch. I picked up a Switch 2 earlier this year, anticipating the price hikes, and while this single player sci-fi social deduction game with visual novel and RPG elements wasn't the first thing I played on it, it's the first I've finished.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Day 191 of posting games I own. This time, Theresia... -Dear Emile- for Nintendo DS. An amnesiac girl awakens in an underground facility filled with deadly traps. A breadcrumb trail of diary pages reveals the story of a pandemic, a massacre, and her over-possessive mother's involvement.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Decided to do one of these too. Restricted to things I own on Steam and have played at least a few hours of, with a bias toward the ones that had less reviews. 9games.pages.dev/s/fgftwrsj

9games.pages.dev

もっと広めたいSteamゲーム9選 / 9 Steam Games I Want to Spread

同時に自分に合ったゲームも見つかる / Find games that suit you, too.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Headed down to Tokyo for the 5th/6th, which should put me in town just in time for the reopening of BEEP in Akiba. Didn't plan it that way, but I'll definitely have to stop in.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Day 190 of posting games I own. This time, Tantei Jinguji Saburo Early Collection for PS1. This includes the first four Jinguji Saburo games along with some additional materials and a useful HELP! function that provides hints for some of the points where it's easy to get stuck in the games.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Day 189 of posting games I own. This time, Ojousama Sousamou for PC-FX. As an aspiring phantom thief, you steal priceless treasures and then sell them for chump change to buy overpriced breaking and entering gear from the real thief in this story, the owner of the thief shop.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Day 188 of posting games I own. This time, Heracles no Eikou IV: Kamigami Kara no Okurimono for Super Famicom. The fourth Glory of Heracles starts out with an amnesiac dog who discovers he's actually the immortal ghost of one of the last survivors of Atlantis and sets out to get his body back.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Currently at 5/12 done for my 12for12. Also, after an afternoon spent searching Akiba for a copy of Theresia, and buying entirely too much other stuff while wandering through half a dozen shops to find it, I now have copies of everything.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Day 187 of posting games I own. This time, Slime Morimori Dragon Quest 2: Daisensha to Shippo-dan for Nintendo DS. The Tail Gang are back, and they've kidnapped yet another slime's entire village. It's time to save our family and friends again, this time with giant tanks.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Day 186 of posting games I own. This time, Neues for Playstation. In this raising sim/novel game, the unsociable Sius, who works in forestry management, finds a bio-android girl who has been promised by a goat-unicorn in her dreams that the next time she awakens she will become human.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Day 185 of posting games I own. This time, Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon for Game Boy Color. Two babies with a dark past, and possibly headed for a dark future, fall from the heavens and are adopted by you, the player, in this sequel to the first Tales game.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Day 184 of posting games I own. This time, Sonic Mega Collection for Gamecube. I picked this up semi-recently for for my 12for12. Was definitely more affordable than a Mega Drive copy of Ristar, but, uh, my poor aching thumb informs me the Gamecube controller d-pad was not built for this.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Day 183 of posting games I own. This time, Fuuraiki for Playstation. A young photojournalist wanders Hokkaido with a bike inherited from someone he was very close to, meeting locals and fellow travelers in a story about the meetings and partings we have on our journey through life.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Day 182 of posting games I own. This time, Shining Soul for Gameboy Advance. This is a Diablo-like action RPG with minimal plot, set a thousand years before Shining Force. It's mind-numbingly simple, and (mostly) easy, but it's not badly put together.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Day 181 of posting games I own. This time, 46-okunen Monogatari for Super Famicom. In this action RPG from Enix, which has some recognizably Dragon Quest-y music at times, you evolve from a fish to a human and stop some aliens from messing with evolution.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Day 180 of posting games I own. This time, Heracles no Eikou III: Kamigami no Chinmoku for Super Famicom. In this third Glory of Heracles game, a group of immortal amnesiacs travel to discover who they once were, cavalierly throwing themselves off of tall buildings to impress people along the way.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Day 179 of posting games I own. This time, Heracles no Eikou II: Titan no Metsubou for Famicom. The second game in the Glory of Heracles series throws out much of the style of the first entry to become a more traditional Dragon Quest 2 clone while retaining the Greco-Roman setting.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Day 178 of posting games I own. This time, Indra no Hikari for Famicom. In this RPG, the ancestor's of humanity came to Planet Ival with the god Ban on his skyship long ago, but then Ban's power source, the Light of Indra, was stolen by monsters and the god fell asleep. It's time to wake him up.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Day 177 of posting games I own. This time, Boundary Gate: Daughter of Kingdom for PC-FX. It's a short DRPG, clocking in at 10-11 hours. A mercenary heads to a country with strangely advanced technology that's supposedly hiring, but ends up acting as a bodyguard for a girl looking for her sister.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Day 176 of posting games I own. This time, Seiken Densetsu 3 for Super Famicom. The third game in the Mana series thoroughly polishes the combat system introduced by the second game while introducing multiple protagonists to choose from for added replayability.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Day 175 of posting games I own. This time, Noobow for Gameboy. In this puzzle adventure game, Noobow the adorable yellow blob wakes up on an island and helps a series of animals (and also Santa Claus) with their problems while trying to get home.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Day 85 of posting random games I own. This time, Refrain Love for Sega Saturn. Haven't gotten around to playing this one yet, but the limited edition comes with this nifty heart-shaped CD, so it seemed like a good choice for Valentine's Day.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Day 174 of posting games I own. This time, God Medicine: Fantasy Sekai no Tanjo for Game Boy. Three kids waiting for the new RPG Phantom to release happen across the game's dying heroes who've been defeated by the demon lord they chased to the real world. Now the kids have to inherit their souls.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Day 173 of posting games I own. This time, Seiken Densetsu 2/Secret of Mana for SFC. The second game in the Mana series does a lot to grow from a Zelda-inspired Final Fantasy spin-off into more of its own thing. The label on my copy is, uh, a bit more distressed than I'd probably buy nowadays.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Threw together a final image in paint. Please try not to cringe too hard at my non-existent image editing skills. :p Games on the top row I already have copies of. Games on the bottom row I still need to hunt down, but should be able to find. Thanks again to everyone who offered suggestions.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Hitting Akiba to pick up stuff later today, and still have a few slots left to fill in this. Thanks everyone who's made recommendations so far.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Still looking for about half a 12for12's worth of games. Probably headed out game shopping tomorrow so if you've got suggestions/recommendations to make me play, now's a good time! Titles with a JP release that I can pick up preferred. Ideally PS2 era or older, but I can be flexible.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Eh, sure it's still January. I'll try doing one of these. Interested to see what folks I know on here will want to put on my plate. Looking for retro recommendations. I'll be trying to pick up physical copies of anything I don't have, so, uh, nothing that's going to run me over 10,000 yen, please.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Day 172 of posting games I own. This time, Seiken Densetsu for Gameboy. The Final Fantasy action RPG spin-off that spawned the Mana series. You escape from slavery as a gladiator only to get chucked off a waterfall after you overhear the evil shadow knight's plan to get his on the Mana tree.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Day 171 of posting games I own. This time, Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru for Gameboy. I was aware of this one mostly because of Richard's cameo in Link's Awakening. It's a cute little action RPG where you switch between human/frog/snake forms to handle enemies/traversal.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Day 170 of posting games I own. This time, Selection/The Sword of Hope for Gameboy. The second RPG released for the original GB. The exploration seems inspired by Kemco's earlier work porting Shadowgate, and it has some interesting mechanics. It's a bit grindy in places, but I rather enjoyed it.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Taking stock of what's in each system in my office at the start of 2026. FC: Indra no Hikari SFC: Zelda: Kamigami no Triforce PC Engine: Tengai Makyo 2 PC-FX: Last Imperial Prince Mega Drive: Shining Force II Saturn: Cat the Ripper Dreamcast: Kuon no Kizuna PS2: Fuuraiki (PS1) Wii U: Forever Blue 2

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Day 169 of posting games I own. This time, Parasite Eve for PS1. Aya's Christmas Eve date is ruined when the lead actress of the play she's attending sets the audience on fire and declares this is the day when mitochondria will be liberated from the tyranny of the nucleus.

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Iriliane @iriliane.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Day 168 of posting games I own. This time, Tsuihou Senkyo for PS Vita. Twelve people are gathered in an abandoned theme park to democratically decide which two among them will be the last survivors of humanity. When the main character's little sister is voted first to die, he swears revenge.

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