I'm playing another run of chronotrigger right now. played it on SNES (natively, believe it or not!), Playstation, mobile, pc, Nintendo DS, it's just a fun game with characters I like.
My current meta is to make it to the first time you can travel with the gate key, grind in 65M BC until I've got full screen magic attacks, then happily cruise through most of the rest of the game spamming attacks I have no business having. Later on I get charm and use double charm to get all kinds of nice goodies, finish up all the quests and lavos never saw it coming. Usually by the time I hit lavos I'll have gone through all 3 black omens.
omg I know. Charming those two headed snakes over and over again and by the time you get to lavos it's like "oh, nevermind but maybe the stonger boss after lavos....?"
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and Illusion of Gaia, both for SNES.
Two of my favourite games growing up, still have both complete in their boxes. Have bought and sold a lot of games over the years but these two were just something special that I could never get rid of and I still play em almost yearly.
Mario Party and Bomberman are the go-to's anytime me and my out-of-state friends meet up, I would see them at specific fighting game tournaments every year but I've fallen out of FGs so I don't know if they keep it going.
Also not quite tradition but every couple years I replay Xenoblade 1. Just did my 4th playthrough last year.
Every system I have had had Tetris on it, even my old flip phone. It’s not as good a phone game as you’d think. I still greatly prefer to play it with a proper controller.
Every Christmas I sit down and play the same map Christmas map in Viscera Cleanup Detail.
As for playing tradition. I will always fall back on Tyrian 2000, which I have dubbed as the best use of 15 megabytes you can use. It's a top down shmup from the way back that has a lot of gameplay, plenty of awesome weapons, secrets, and a decent mobile port.
Around Christmas it's always Quake. Brings me back to my favorite Christmas memories. It was 1996 and playing that on my HP with Intel I processor was magical after playing Wolf3D with PC speaker sounds.
I like to replay Pokemon Emerald version sometimes! It's fun to make up new challenges in one of the first games I played of the franchise. Those sprites and music are like a mental health cleanser for me
Every year I try to revisit some game from yesteryear that I played as a youngster
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1-4, Final Fantasy X, Halo 1, Oblivion, Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey 98', Tekken Tag Tournament, and WCW vs NWO: World Tour are some of my go-tos!
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