Question Wednesday #2: Therapy Games

[moon_hotel]

Sorry I missed last week, it completely slipped my mind! I'm setting myself reminders to keep up on QWednesdays though. 

This week's icebreaker is kind of a your-mileage-may-vary question, but here goes: do you have any "therapy games?" That is, are there any games/genres that you like to curl up with when you're feeling down, or help you burn off stress? And, as always, what are you playing right now?

Comments

[chocomarsh]

I do this too! I find difficult games relaxing because of the way I have to think patiently and rationally about them. Honestly, I even prefer less pleasant hard games when I'm feeling down; ones that are "too fair" like Battle Garegga just make me upset that I'm not giving them my best.

I've enjoyed Metal Storm, Castlevania I, Gradius III for SNES, Bucky O'Hare, and (in the past (oh god)) a handful of Super Mario World & Super Metroid ROM hacks.

[softchassis]

I remember spending a week or two grinding through that Super Mario Bros Frustration (Super Mario Bros. Forever I think is its real name) romhack once. I got nearly to the end of the first level!