Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026There is MAD Breakdown (2004) DNA in Ace Combat 8. I refuse to believe that there isn't a connection between Coster and Derrick, the main character from Breakdown lol The first-person cutscenes, highly detailed cheeseburgers, pressing "X" to shake hands constantly, and the physicality of it all 🤯 000
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve is just too powerful. 021
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ace Combat 8 gave me two full body chills and I'm only 3 missions in. It's perfect. 000
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm around 70% through Marvel's (Insomniac's) Wolverine and I've been thinking a lot about MK: Shaolin Monks and how wild it is that NetherRealm Studios hasn't made a sequel or new game in that vein since. Wolverine's tructure and flow would suit it perfectly. Someone get on that shit! 001
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026When you're playing a Trails game and the story progresses just a tiny bit so now every NPC has new flavor dialogue that you can't NOT read. I must make all the dialogue bubbles above each person's head turn gray, even though I'll immediately forget what each NPC said the second I'm done reading 🫠 040
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I'm so behind on writing about games for my blog this year. I've had 2-3 posts in-progress for nearly half the year and I just can't find the words for certain games I've played/finished. I'm still hoping I find time to write and share some thoughts, but it's been an off year for me. 121
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026So far, I think The Blood of Dawnwalker is doing what Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden did for me, but in a much more fulfilling way. I liked a lot of things about Banishers but it's a rough game with a lot of issues. That's not to say Dawnwalker is perfect or anything, but it's pretty damn good. 010
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I like Splatoon Raiders, but the music is definitely odd. At times, the ambient level tracks sound so dissonant and strange, like something you'd hear in Earthbound. When you engage with enemies, the music changes dynamically and sounds like wet farts though lol youtu.be/yT8v8iBXCvw?...youtu.beIce Island (Ambient) - Splatoon Raiders [OST]YouTube video by RezyMania 020
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Eternal Anima being a Basiscape/Sakimoto joint has me all 👀 000
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hoping I wake up to the reveal of Sin & Punishment 3 and Wario World 2 developed by a newly revived Treasure. Also, the Nintendo Direct ends with a Wave Race remake with a story mode and cutscenes akin to what Velan Studios did with Star Fox. That's all I got 😴 120
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think the thing that excites me most about the OOT remake is the change to how jumps work. I was a bit disappointed to see that it was going to be a mostly faithful/1:1 reimagining, but freely jumping opens up a lot of possibilities for changes to the dungeon/area layouts, etc. 100
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I'm not sure where I'll land with the Kyoto town hub structure and overall game flow in Onimusha: Way of the Sword, but god damn does it have the best sword action combat I've ever experienced. The amount of unique animations, etc. It's easily my new favorite parry game haha 230
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I tried that FF Resonance demo... The UI feels mobile adjacent and just looks ugly (why do the command descriptions cover other commands in the list!?) Rain is also the most stock-ass MC I've seen in a minute and the dialogue reads like an RPG Maker FF tribute game. I don't know man. 220
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Absolutely howling, as they say, at the capitalization of the word "Beds" in Angeline Era 😂 But yes, I agree, a "Bed" is a very important person, place or thing. 000
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026If The Blood of Dawnwalker is as close as we're going to get to a modern-day Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen, I might find it difficult to resist its fangs (pun intended). 040
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I completed those DK challenges a few weeks ago but I hope Nintendo doesn't do this again going forward, not without making changes first. I never would have thought Nintendo would approach "Achievements" with this degree of FOMO. The boss rush and final rehearsal with no skills was brutal btw! 010
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I was hoping the new Onimusha had a CGI intro by Robot but I'm guessing that's very unlikely. Those PS2 era intros were legendary, almost key features, I'd argue. I'm looking forward to Way of the Sword but an incredible CGI opening (even though the in-game graphics are fine) would have been 🤌 020
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Asobo Studio at it again with their impeccable art direction and impressive visuals. The Plague Tale games are so damn good and Resonance has not disappointed so far. 000
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I circled back to GoW Sons of Sparta recently and finished it out of morbid curiosity... woof! What a mess. I can't believe the entire game was framed around a search for a kid. The boss battles were atrocious and one of the in-game Feats is bugged for me. I truly don't understand why this was made. 010
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Crisol is one of my favorite games of the year, even with all of its rough edges, it was a love letter to old-school Resident Evil games (and RE4). It was cheap at launch and the devs were clearly punching above their weight. So depressing. This industry continues to feel beyond repair. 012
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I love Xeno games and Xenosaga dearly. MOMO is cool and all that jazz but they seriously didn't fix the field skill nonsense in the definitive edition of XC2? 😩 010
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Made the connection that these underground ruins in Splatoon Raiders are more or less the caves from Pikmin 2 and I don't know how to feel about that lol 020
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Am I the only person on this earth playing Aphelion? I can't help myself with all the not-so-great to good Don't Nod games that aren't Life is Strange. Give me Remember Me, Banishers, Jusant and whatever this is lol 100
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Why was The Sheep Detectives so fucking good 😭 330
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I finally finished vanilla Ys X. It only took me 3 years and 70 hours on Nightmare difficulty lol this game has a lot of issues but damn, Falcom sure knows how to reel me in towards the end. This series needs a reset, though. I don't think Ys should be as long as a Legend of Heores game. 030
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Just got back from visiting Chicago properly for the first time. I tagged along for my husband's library conference and got to hear LeVar Burton Speak! I saw "The Bean" and ate an Italian beef sandwich, which I sacrilegiously assembled to be as close to a Philly cheesesteak as possible lol 180
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The Xbox version of Control should have had an original Xbox as an Altered Item, hooked up to a Magnavox TV in a sealed room of the Panopticon in the Oldest House. If you turn it on, you blink out of existence. 010
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I've been on a Ys kick lately. I started Ys Memoire: Revelations in Celceta during my flight yesterday and it served as a reminder that some of the more recent Ys games are missing the intro field/dungeon title card flybys. These are so essential imo, the cloud shadows and everything ugh 😫 130
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Hear me out; get Velan Studios to remake Wave Race 64 now and have them make a cinematic campaign with melodramatic cutscenes between the jet ski racers. Dave Mariner (USA) starting some beef between Miles Jeter (Canada) lol If that's the only way we can get Wave Race back, I'll take it! 010
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I think Prisoner has my all-time favorite chorus in any Dance Gavin Dance song. All the band drama aside and nothing against the new clean vocalist, I really do miss Tillian's range and voice in general (yes, I'm aware of his solo project but it's not the same!) youtu.be/Df-fm-MSMqI?...youtu.beDance Gavin Dance - Prisoner (Official Music Video)YouTube video by riserecords 000
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026From a week or so ago; I saw Between the Buried and Me for the umpteenth time. This was the second time at the Ace of Spades in Sacramento though. Fallujah and Imperial Triumphant opened. It's always fun to observe and live vicariously through the youth running in circles in the pit lol 030
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026This is my pride song of 2026. If this played at a bear event poolside or at a club, I'd lose my mind lol happy pride. youtu.be/rNDwpO1toCQ?...youtu.bePolyphia - CAN YOU FEEL IT (Official Music Video)YouTube video by Polyphia 120
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Now that I've played through both Hollow Knight: Silksong and Mina the Hollower, I'm hoping one of the next "big deal" indie games is going to be The Big Catch. I don't think it's on anyone's radar yet (particularly because the dev is being very quiet about it), but I think it's going to be special. 020
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I've been replaying DK64 on NSO for the first time since I was a teenager and I'm pretty sure this wannabe SM64 slide objective with the beetle added like 5 years of wear and tear on my new-ish N64 controller in a single night lol I eventually got it but god damn! 220
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026No 3D Mario still? Underwhelming Zelda OOT teaser? Xenoblade with a more high school style setting? 😫 I'm not trying to be a debbie downer here (I'm genuinely excited and looking forward to a lot of things) but geezzz. Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen finallly, though (which I'll play on PS5 lol). 020
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026That Nintendo Direct wasn't for me. It felt more like a Partner Direct? Sooo many ports and games I'll play (or have already played) on PS5 instead. I guess it was exciting for someone who primarily (or only) plays stuff on Nintendo platforms, but I was expecting more 1st party reveals. Oh well. 020
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I need someone to rip/isolate the music from this trailer ASAP. It looks kind of incredible, but probably a ways off still? I saw some rumblings about the trailer/key art using genAI? Big ugh if that's true. youtu.be/4aVoaSixc0E?...youtu.beStellar Blade: Blood Rain - Official Reveal Trailer | IGN Summer of GamingYouTube video by IGN 000
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Still processing all the announcements from the past few days... gen ATLAS is easily one of my most anticipated games. This project still looks a little rough (the frame rate in some shots lol I guess it wouldn't be an Ueda game without those issues) but I need it. youtu.be/0qiis8lUZDc?...youtu.begen ATLAS Reveal Trailer | Summer Game Fest 2026 [English Version]YouTube video by genDESIGN 130
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Yoshi and the Mysterious Book has some incredible level design. World 3 & 5 have been my highlights so far, but almost all of it is the Good-Shit™. There are hundreds of "Discoveries", which feel like the distillation of in-game achievements or traditional collect-a-thon objectives. I love it. 130
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I'm a 3D platformer aficionado (sometimes a snob) and Bubsy 4D simply sucks ass. It feels like a Demon Turf/Tides mod. The level design is super questionable; big empty levels with strange enemy placements and long stretches of nothingness. I don't get it. 120
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Missed this trend during my Marathon-induced social media blackout. My brother and I shared a collection growing-up, so between the two of us, these were likely among our #first5imports Gunner's Heaven King's Field I King's Field Additional I & II Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere Shadow Tower: Abyss 020
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I almost fell asleep during a cutscene in that The Adventures of Elliot demo lol I don't quite see the Alundra comparisons (it's def more Final Fantasy Adventure?) but it's my kind of game for sure. The dialogue and story set-up/scenario just seems so 😴 though. 121
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026The new Yoshi game is pretty chill and fun. Reminds me of Wario Land 2/3, where you don't take damage and it's more cause and effect. The OST is so boring, though. It's my biggest disappointment so far. Good-Feel games just don't feel right without Tomoya Tomita. Some stages don't even have music 😫 210
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I can't believe it's over. I put well over a decade of my life into this game. 4000+ hours, so many memories, good and bad. This game kept me sane and was my social escape in 2020. I hope Bungie can figure it all out. I love Marathon, but it's not for everyone. Time to move on. 040
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Spoiler alert for my 2026 GOTY post (which probably won't be posted until February of 2027)... I don't think anything beats Pragmata when it comes to my "Favorite WARNING Screen" game this year. They're EVERYWHERE lol 120
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026I like Marathon A LOT. Hours logged are probably slightly skewed (since I've left the game running while sitting in the lobby for a bit), but I finally got the Platinum after 200+ hours along with 4 Titles along the way. I'll have a million things to say about it at some point... 110
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026My thoughts and impressions on Day of the Devs 2026 as a first-time attendee. I spoke with a few of the developers and got a chance to play Queen's Domain, Tire Boy, Kiln and more... unexpectedgames.blog/2026/04/06/d...unexpectedgames.blogDay of the Devs 2026 – My Impressions as a First-Time AttendeeMy thoughts and impressions on Day of the Devs 2026 as a first-time attendee. I spoke with a few of the developers and got a chance to play Queen’s Domain, Tire Boy, Kiln and more… 120
Matty 🐻 🏳️🌈 @unexpectedenemy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026I somehow made it to 40 today. I do miss hearing from my dad. I know he's rolling in his grave, considering the state of things here and abroad. And yes, I'm still just a kid at heart. I haven't been able to move on from ice cream cake with those little crunchies at the bottom since I was a kid ha 350