Jet Force Gemini

Astonishingly, this can played to this day.

You wouldn't believe how often I've gotten Jet Force Gemini's title wrong because of a certain other Jet Something Something game from the past. It's safe to say that I'm much more familiar with that than I am with this Rare title for the Nintendo 64, and I've barely skated and spraypainted at the same time in video gaming as a whole, so we're talking next to zero knowledge - just the way I like it.

Jet Force Gemini follows the story of some space police or something as they attempt to thwart the galactic spread of insects. Giant, weapon-wielding insects. Insects as big as bears. Bigger, even. This is serious business.

Final Fantasy VIII

Kept you waiting, huh?

Blimey, it's been a long time since I've been sat down in front of a blank blog canvas like this. Life, as it was always going to, got in the way a little bit, but I now find myself mostly settled and ready to crack on with the rest of the 1001 list, and the return title is quite the entry.

Hot off the heels of the insanely popular Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII stretches out a little (a design choice I would much rather look at than the animated potatoes of FF7), taking us to a world that's a little more familiar to that of our own - save for the introduction seeing students taking a final exam in the middle of an active military conflict, I suppose.

It was one of the first games I watched a Let's Play of, back in the day, and I watched it because I hadn't played it even further back in the day when it came out. Let's see how far I can get, and whether I'll be distracted by mini-games.