I SCORE 145 GAMES I REVIEWED! | Backlog Battle 

i love how you’re overall positive about all the games you’ve played

Just got about 15 new games added to my backlog from this video alone 😂

Honestly that's impressive to go back and score ur work

Orbalology is a great channel! Love this look back 😊

Awesome video! Emily should be getting calls for voiceover work after this video haha.

I really liked this video, but I wanna mention that one of the things I enjoy about your reviews is that you DON'T give the games a number rating. With how complex a lot of games are, I just think it's unfair and borderline impossible to give a game a number score (especially when we live in a world where a 5/10 is considered bad when it SHOULD be an average score. That being said, really happy to see that you gave Atelier Sophie 2 a 10/10. One of my favorite games of all time and I'm glad to see it get the praise it deserves :D

Even you said so but the Cold Steel 4 score you gave I could just feel the vitriol haha! Im not there yet with Cold Steel but soon. This was fun to watch and is a great indication of everything youve accomplished on this channel and with gaming in general. I was very happy to hear your scores for Soul Hackers 2 and CryMachina. Thanks for doing this Alex!

Congrats on the 7 years, that's truly amazing. This video highlights what's so special about your channel (and probably why it's lasted for so long), big positive energy from start to finish!

I just finished the first Octopath Traveler and when I heard you rate it 7 after giving its sequel 10/10, it gives me a hint (also high expectation) of how much better OT2 🤔 And you're right about how score can change, Alex, congrats on anniversary 🎉

Congratulations, brother. You deserve your growth and love that I’ve been here since the beginning. You’re the man

Congrats on 7 years! Recent subscriber, love your channel. I want to check out more of those reviews now.

excellent video and fantastic production haha. love it!

Congratulations. I didn't know this Channel but the variety of games and this rating challenge are impressive. From a new suscriber 😊

I'm so glad this video came together! Very fun to watch and hit me right in the nostalgia too. A couple of the games you mentioned have been on my backlog for too long but now I feel like I've got to play them! (Monster Hunter Stories 2, Cold Steel 3)

I love that I’m playing through a chunk of these/have finished a lot of them too. Well done

Easily one of our fave YT vids ever. What a pleasure. Thank you, Alex!

Congrats on your 7th anniversary and what a cool and unique video to celebrate that! Emily did a great job as well!

This was fun to watch. Much love to you and Orbalology

This was fun to watch during the premiere, even though I only caught half of it live. Time to watch the first half now!

loved this video and your reviews as ever! here are my reviews of the games I've also played. I did include a .5 system. Rain Code: 8/8.5 Trails from Zero: 7.5 Astral Chain: 8 (never finished this game) Odin Sphere Leifthrasir: 10 Harvestella: 6.5 (never finished) 13 Sentinels: 10 Ys VIII Lacrimosa of Dana: 8 Persona 5 Royal: 9 Voice of Cards Forsaken Maiden: 8.5 Fire Emblem Engage: 7.5 Monster Hunter World: objectively this is a 10 but it's so not for me lol Atelier Ryza 2: 9 Octopath Traveler II: 9.5 Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes: 7.5/8 Scarlet Nexus: 8.5/9 Rhapsody Marl Kingdom Chronicles: 8.5 Persona 5 Strikers: 7.5 Voice of Cards Isle Dragon Roars: 8.5 Sakuna Of Rice and Ruin: 8 Trails of Cold Steel 4: 7 Tactics Ogre Reborn: 7 (never finished) Grimgrimoire OnceMore: 6 Sea of Stars: 6 Trinity Trigger: 6 Star Ocean Second Story R: 9/9.5 Pokemon Legends Arceus: 7 Triangle Strategy: 9.5 Eiyuden Hundred Heroes: I just started but I am feeling 8-9 Atelier Ryza 1: 8 Ys IX Monstrum Nox: 9 Atelier Ayesha: 9 Unicorn Overlord: 9.5 Octopath Traveler: 6.5 Monster Hunter Stories 2: 8.5 Nayuta Boundless Trails: 8 Chained Echoes: 10 Xenoblade 3: agree entirely, game is a 9 but with the DLC it's a 10. maybe even an 11 haha FF7 Rebirth: 6.5 (not finished yet) Atelier Ryza 3: 9 (not finished yet) Cold Steel 3: 7 Atelier Sophie 2: also only just started this one but so far, woof. I'll be nice and say 7 Eiyuden Rising: also a 9 :)

Congratulations on 7 years

Party game: Drink every time Alex says 8

That's really great work! I have a lot of these in my backlog of over 1000 games. Good to see which I'll be taking more of my time to enjoy, lol! Happy gaming everyone!

Thats an impressive catalog of reviews you have there

Alex, great idea for a video. Just low-stakes rating, felt like chatting on the couch with a friend, the numbers don't really matter. This was really fun for me. I watched the video playing it like a "Guess the Score!" game, because your tastes and mine overlap a lot, and as a longtime subscriber I've figured out where we differ. Believe it or not, I correctly guessed your score OVER 50% of the time, and for all but around 10-12 games, I was either correct or only one point off. For the games I was two off (and in one case it was even more, I forget which game!), it was always one of those games where you hesitated and gave 10 seconds of context to explain your score. Very interesting. Couple of other comments: - I don't feel like you "gave out 10's like candy"... For me 10 doesn't mean "perfect", it means "must-play, classic-tier, among the best (or reviewer's favorite) in the genre". On your channel, you mostly choose to review games that interest you, so of course the games will skew good. That's also why you should feel fine that so many games ended up 8's and 9's here. Think how many scores lower than 5 or 6 you would give if you reviewed a bunch of bad games, or games that don't interest you. - btw, in answer to your rhetorical challenge, I did in fact "play Loop8 truly" 😅, and it's a 7 for me. I enjoyed several of the aspects that frustrated you. I may have even gotten tetchy in the comments section of your review for that game ... Sorry about that! Sometimes I get defensive about games I like, even when they're a 7 LOL... Happy 7 years! Here's to 7 more (if you have the time & energy😉)!

Love the video. Some really great games that I must get around to too. Always love to hear people playing the vita and 3ds

Happy channel-versary! I admit, I don't think I could append scores to the games I pl, but this was a fun way to celebrate everything that brought you here!

Love it! Good call to score it based on how you feel today.

Congratulations on 7 years, Alex🎉. Btw Crossbell duology is truly a masterpiece

I still need to buy and play some of these one day I’ll beat my backlog 😅 I recently beat god of war ragnarok and man what a good game the 120 fps mode was awesome when you master the combat and get into it it feels really good dodging and blocking

> channel called backlog battle > video added more games to my backlog Not complaining haha great stuff

My scores: Trials of Mana Remake (only by the demo) - 6 Ys VII: Lacrimosa of Dana - 9 Live A Live (only by the demo) - 6 The Diofield Chronicle (only by the demo) - 4 Octopath Traveler II - 10 Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars (only by the demo) - 6 Tactics Ogre Reborn - 7 Sea of Stars - 8 Star Ocean The Second Story R (only by the demo and having played The Second Evolution) - 9 Triangle Strategy - 9 Crystal Story: Dawn of Dusk (only by the demo) - 4 Shin Megami Tensei V - 8 Unicorn Overlord - 8 Octopath Traveler - 10 Tales of Arise - 7

thanks for the great video, Alex and Emily! is there a spreadsheet with all of these games / the scores? i love docs like that

congrats on 7 years alex!!!

this was some really good work by you both! i liked your scores because some of them are the same as mine tbh. even the ones i disagree with i can see why. we all have different tastes and thats ok.

I totally agree, score changes after new games comes out. Also with patches, update and dlc. I'm glad you put Sophie 2 above all other, to me sophie 2 is the best perfected Atelier game. No amount of Ryza will change my mind. Same with monster hunter stories 1/2 (i played the first full on my phone! I never play full games on my phoned except auto battle gachas so it says a lot). The 2nd one is even better, i plan to patinium on ps5 when they comes out soon! I'm mega hyped.

Congratulations for your anniversary

Cool stuff, if I didn't have backlog of my own I'd certainly note some of them down 💪🏻

Amazing job scoring all the games 🎉 the last statement rings true for me as well^^

Legit I didn't have one complaint about your scorings. Well played sir.

XBC 3 a "9", sacrilege! New to channel great content man.

Really cool video. Was a Nice list of games. Got some Nice tips for games! :)

sir! i subscribed as soon as you gave chained echoes a 10! and sea of stars at 7 sounds right to me, there was lots to like but it wasn't for me as i went into it STRAIGHT from echoes

Ayesha is my favorite Atelier game I’ve played so far and one of my top 5 games in general, so we disagree on that one. What makes a 7 for me is usually the feeling “I enjoyed it, but it didn’t/probably won’t stick with me.”

Star Ocean 2 R - 9 Nothing much to talk about when The OG is pretty good and add more content The sprite could redone it if they have more money Play On Pc recommended The switch loading is slow from my perspective Divine Force - 6 Text is comically small Characters not that interesting Needs a good Pc to run well Megami Tensei V - 7 when launch 6 now for obvious reason Unicorn Overlord - 7 Nice 2d gameplay is fine Dont need too much strategy when you got super units Octopath Series - 9 Switch version is pretty blurry Play on other platforms for higher Resolution Just some takes on some games Not listing everything Good video keep up the good work

I can agree to a lot of ratings. But Sea of Stars is a clear 10, at the samel level with Chained Echoes Xenoblade 3 with DLC is a clear 10 (as you have already suggested Star Ocean Second Story R is more like a 9 than a 10 for me.

Love the scores for Elden Ring, Monster Hunter World, Yakuza ones, Pokemon Legends Arceus My personal scores: Elden Ring: 10, MHW/I: 10, LAD8: 9, LAD7: 9, Kiwami 2: 8, Legends Arceus: 9

I'll speak of games I played. Trails of Cold Steel 3 was more enjoyable to me than 4, and Zero compared to Azure so we agree on that. Team Asano, Triangle Strategy is a 10, Can't speak on Octopath cause I've only played the demos for 1&2. My only gripe was how you rated Ys 9 but I get that most people view the game as a step down but I don't see it. And while I do have Yakuza 0-6 in my steam library, I've only played 0 and still trying to beat that. Chained Echoes, Unicorn Overlord, 13 Sentinels are masterpieces thought I'll give you that.

I actually appreciate that you never gave the games scores in your reviews. Just what you liked or didn't like. The idea of scoring or rating games is just so arbitrary to me. It also suggests that there is some metric to which everyone agrees on. Which obviously isn't the case. Nevertheless, this was a fun video. I tried to anticipate your scores and had about a 70% success rate.

I spent most of this video trying to figure out who other than Tifa is in the video thumbnail. I had absolutely zero success figuring out who or what game!

Watching this on my way to work. Someone needs to go through it and put all of the 10s below for me 😂

Atelier sophie 2 is a 10 for me too!

I feel you score games too high. I WISH there were that many games out there that I'd give a 9 or higher. I still enjoyed the video and thanks :)

What the game with a 32 in the thumbnail? I recognise it but cant place it 😅

Wich game id the 85 on the thumbnail?

You didn't review 3 houses?! It is so good

Trails of cold steel 4 give it a 7 is a controversial take lol but respectful.

On a scale of 7 to 10 lol.

I need the sources of the thumbnail girls

Love this idea and it’s cool to see scores after being separated from a game for a while. I don’t really like the way our scoring system works as a whole though. Industry average seems like a 7 which leaves only 3 numbers to indicate how good a game is. I would love to see average be a 4 and that leaves more room to describe a game. That would also help break up the congestion of a lot of the 8s and 9s

I don't really think there were too many 10s, but it was a very high average clustered around 7-8-9. But that actually makes sense if you think about it - I'm guessing you don't review games if you don't beat them, and if you don't like them you probably don't finish them. Or if you do, you probably don't care enough to make a review. Haven't played half of these or more. It's clear you enjoy gaming, and that's great. And to be honest, there's nothing I well and truly disagree with. Everything I played that you enjoyed, I also enjoyed. Maybe to different degrees, but still. Probably would've hated FF7 Rebirth though. Won't ever play it myself. Remake is the worst game I can remember ever beating, 1/10 for the graphics, everything else was awful. Given that, I see no reason to try the sequel.

My biggest agree moment Sis vs sis 5 My biggest disagree moment Fairy tail as a 6 I would put fairy tail as a 8

Thanks Alex! Cool idea. The video title is a bit misleading though, it implies you would be giving your reviews a review.

I disagree with all but Chained Echoes 😅

Littlewood a 7?? Unsub. Kidding! I understand moving away from a number review when opinions can change over time. It would have been cool to see what your score was at the time of the initial review in addition to what your current rating is.