here’s mine, presented here before anyone else, wow. it won’t go to other places until the art that my friend Kiak is making is finished so enjoy the sneak peak
what’s yours??
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the title isn’t an accident it’s another bit sorry everything is a bit always
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damn thank u for the reminder that I need to play Arco
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Is Astliba one of those Goop Games?
It is The goop game
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i think i posted mine on here somewhere but:
- 1000xRESIST
- MOUTHWASHING
- WEBFISHING
- HARDCODED
- Dragon Age: The Veilguard
didn’t play/beat a whole lot of games this year but. would like to play more this upcoming year!
Oh I almost forgot about this. I did put some thought into it at least and it is… way harder than I initially thought it would be to put everything in order. I think I do at least have a top 3 (Xenosaga 3, Outer Wilds, Baten Kaitos, in descending order), and maybe a bottom 3 (Symphony of the Night, Paper Mario, Torna the Golden Country, also descending), but I played a lot of games this year and a covered a lot more ground, genre-wise, than I did last year. Did I enjoy The Legend of Dragoon more than Clock Tower? I think so. Do I think Clock Tower is a better game, and one I’m more likely to come back to or recommend to others? Absolutely yes. How does Vampire Survivors, a junk food game that’s remarkably well constructed on almost every level, with surprise secrets that kept me invested for nearly a hundred hours compare to Future Redeemed, a much shorter experience that worked so well for me partly because it was a capstone on a story that I’d become very very invested in over the past few years? Where the hell does Soul of Sovereignty Prelude fit on this list, a VN that’s, well… a prelude, to a longer story that’s still being worked on. Decisions decisions…
aw man I love Torna. F
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: this year broadly is kind of a blur so im dragging up our steam replay to remember what we even played this year
- Rainworld: Downpour: rainworld enjoyer, etc etc, but genuinely it was a lot of fun to play. Technically it’s fanfiction with an absurdly high production value, but the story and gameplay additions felt like something rainworld badly needed to some extent, and the QoL additions make the game absurdly more accessible without making it less of itself, which i love
- Cobalt Core: excellent introduction to roguelike deckbuilders as a genre that also made me cry a whole bunch and is shockingly plural if you like reading plurality into anything it even remotely fits into (i do); also it’s really pretty and the music fucks severely and Riggs is the best character (mechanically and as a character)
- Nine Sols: tbh i thought this’d be higher? It’s an amazing game, really excellent platformer and the combat feels so good to get right. It took a while to properly sell me, but honestly the art direction, story, and Shuanshuan were enough to keep going. Dont think we got properly hooked til the third boss though so points off for that (but also thats just a me problem)
- Balatro: fun, goofy, idk man. Its fun and goofy and nice to jam a run for like 20-30 minutes and drop it for a week, not much else to say
- Tactical Breach Wizards: it’d probs be higher if i Finished it but “XCOM-as-puzzle-game” is a lot of fun turns out. The dialogue gets a bit too snarky sometimes and the writing leans a bit heavily on a couple of repeat gags but it never felt like it wasnt taking its own premise seriously and the gameplay was genuinely a lot of fun and had some neat twists in the optional level. We did find an infinite combo at one point though, so take that as you will
Edit: forgot some honorable mentions
- Webfishing: lots of fun, will never play it alone
- MH: Rise: lots of fun, will never play it alone
- Lethal Company: lots of fun, will never play it alone (i’m noticing a pattern…)
- Signalis: genuinely forgot we played this, even after seeing it on steam replay. this isn’t a slight on the game, it was good iirc, just. oops. lmao
- The Werecleaner: ridiculously cute, very silly, probably less fun than Tactical Breach Wizards
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Shuanshuan true mvp of nine sols
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I’ve got a few problems with Torna, but the two biggest are that forcing you to 100% it to beat it absolutely destroys the pacing to such an extent that I had to just watch the final boss on youtube, because if I tried to push through it I was gonna hate it outright, and it felt less like an interesting look at a corner of the world and a collection of characters that didn’t get the chance to shine in the base game, and more like a history lesson interspersed equally with fun character beats and absolutely unnecessary moments that drastically weaken the impact of some of the best parts of the first two acts of the base game
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fair points. a deal of it for me was that I VASTLY prefer the tone of XC1 to XC2, so after being super disappointed by 2, Torna felt like more of a return to form. it made me care a lot more about Hikari than I did from the base game. also the soundtrack bops
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