Since my birthday PC upgrade, I now have enough power to be able to run Xenia (Canary), the Xbox 360 emulator. I actually do have an Xbox 360, but it's been in my dad's room for years and it's so caked with dust and cigarette ash that it actually smelled a little worrying just turning it on to make backups of my games. Xenia can just run games you backup from your Xbox 360 to a USB device, including games from disc, so that's really cool! Plus there's 60 FPS patches for a good number of games, including the ones I wanted to play.
Most of my 360 games have PC ports, but there's a few that don't that I wanted to play again. Sonic Unleashed, NIER, and... Splatterhouse, as in the reboot. I couldn't find my NIER copy anywhere, unfortunately. I remember my Dad playing it and saying he liked it, but where he put it after that is a mystery.
Sonic Unleashed is a game I still really love. The Hedgehog Engine, the graphics engine for the game, still looks fantastic today. It's a shock that Sega never used it for anything besides Sonic games. Getting good at the daytime stages is a thrill even if Sonic's really slippery at times in this entry. This game got a lot of flak on release for the Werehog stages, and if you know me by now you probably know that I'm about to say that I think they're not bad. Once you unlock other moves the Werehog stages are pretty fun. The worst thing you can say about them is honestly that there's better beat-em-ups contemporary with it. This was also the peak of Jason Griffith's Sonic portrayal, even though he recorded all of his lines in this game while he had strep throat. What a trooper!
I'll talk about Splatterhouse another time. It's not a terrible game but it's definitely a game you can tell struggled in development.