https://backloggd.com/u/dogs/list/games-i-beat-more-than-once-fsr/
kinda-sorta ranked based on how ‘worthwhile’(?) i think playing more than once was. idk.
i truly-ruly have no idea why i played tomb raider 2013 all the way through twice. it was the first time i’d ever played that kind of prestige triple-A type game – and up until writing this i thought it was maybe the only time i’d played one of those, but then i remembered that i’ve also played the last of us – but like… why? i couldn’t tell you.
there’s a few things on here which make total sense like the hobbit, which is just a game i had as a kid so i played it because what else was i supposed to do? ffcc is sorta the same except i only beat it when i was older (once solo when i was 18 and once two-player when i was like 20?). same with pokegold: once as a kid and once as an adult. ffcc i actually like, the others mostly just have sentimental value.
dear esther and proteus are kinda funny. they were my first walking sims and i think i played both of them all the way through a double-digit number of times. once i found out that you can just search “walking sim” on the internet i was off to the races (connor sherlock games would be on here loads if they like,,, had endings), but at the time this was all i had.
hld is similar cos it was my first action-y zelda-y(?) thing, and it offered a dickhead hard mode where you only have two pips of health (which, honestly, i think is better than the standard 4/5/whatever the default is), so i played that mode after i beat it the first time. idk how i feel about hld really.
ghost in the shell is just really cool and short and the best.
deidia is another early walking-sim type thing that i latched onto. it’s neat and short and has crazy graphics.
it’s also funny the games which get left out of a list like this: monhun 4U (for me?) i played for like 600+ hours (christ) but only the once. same with all the monhuns actually cos like… why would you start over? maybe i could argue that i beat generations/cross twice – once on threeds and once on switch – but like idk it’s not in the spirit of the list imo.
shumps are also not on here for the same reason; it just doesn’t really make sense. how does one ‘beat’ a shump? how does one ‘beat’ learning an instrument? i’m not writing rules for what can and can’t be included in your own list, just what i chose to include/exclude in order to clarify my results.
similarly, i realised while making this that there’s a subsection of games that i’ve beaten once but booted many times subsequently without actually beating them again. like, nu wolfenstein i’ve played almost all the way through like 3 times, same with rondo of blood, penny’s big breakaway, bloodborne (i honestly can’t remember if i’ve beaten bloodborne more than once, i don’t think so), and of course basically all the other games i had as a kid like star fox assault or luigi’s mansion.
perhaps a slightly more interesting spin-off list is games that i am sure i will beat again. like, some of the above apply for sure (can’t imagine i won’t beat nu wolf, rondo, or pbb again at some point in my life), but also there are a bunch of rpgs which i feel fairly confident i’ll want to play through again many years hence like ff15, drag dog, demon’s souls, or pan drag sag, as well as a buncha short stuff like ico, jumping flash, bulk slash, or sky odyssey.
anyway i’m far adrift now.
what have you finished more than once? was it worth it? will you do it again? what calls you back?