![]() ![]() They actually did it! I was as down on this concept as anyone, I think, but the Final Fantasy VII Remake mostly captured the spirit of the original, and the added content, while sometimes tedious, mostly helps pad out what was originally a two-hour segment from the original game into a fully fledged, 30+ hour modern JRPG experience. Still, if you’ve got a good friend and three or four hours to kill, I highly recommend it. Starring Midsommar’s Will Poulter, it works in ways it shouldn’t and doesn’t work in ways it should (optimization is a big problem for these games). ![]() Sort of a choose-your-own-adventure horror, Little Hope is an anthology sequel to 2019’s Man of Medan, and if you played that, you know what you’re in for: a two-player visual novel-style game where the game actively tries to trick the players by showing them both different things ( Medan famously can get one player to kill another by making them appear like a demonic ghost on the other player’s screen). This is a very difficult game to describe. The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope (Supermassive Games) ![]() Shame that the impending release of MLB The Show on Microsoft’s big box might end up erasing this game and its predecessors from history, because they’re very good games.Ĩ. It’s easily the best baseball game ever released on the Xbox One, and fits so neatly into the NBA Street-shaped void in my heart. Everyone looks goofy and has names like Rip Dingers, Nacho Crisp and Keg Gutterson, while also having a fairly robust franchise, player creator and pitching system to fall back on. With their third entry, Metalhead has fully settled into that wonderful middle ground between arcade and simulation that sports games simply don’t try for anymore. Super Mega Baseball 3 (Metalhead Software Inc.) Despite some performance issues and the constant, nagging reminders that you cannot actually go everywhere and climb on everything, Calamity is a solid enough stopgap for Zelda fans until we finally get some more news on that sequel.ĩ. If you’re a fan of all three, then you’re writing this paragraph right now and you already bought and finished this game in the 35 or so hours it took. There are a lot of those, and they’re always fun to listen to. If you’re a fan of the sound design and assorted menu noises from BOTW? Yeah sure, play it. Did you ever wonder if those ruins near Castle Town in Breath of the Wild were actually supposed to be Lon Lon Ranch? Well, wonder no longer. Despite taking place in (spoilers) an alternate timeline from the original game, there are a lot of fun revelations and actually mildly interesting story beats to dig into. If you’re a fan of musou games, sure, it’s probably the most challenging and intricate fighting system they’ve ever made (which isn’t saying much). ![]() I can’t earnestly recommend Age of Calamity (I’m not calling it AoC, for obvious reasons) to everyone. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Omega Force) Honorable Mention to Valorant, Maneater, Genshin Impact, Spelunky 2, Paper Mario: The Origami King. So I didn’t do one of these last year, opting instead to again bite off more than I could chew thematically by doing a best of the decade thing, but it wasn’t for a lack of good games (for the record, my top 10 would have been Outer Wilds, Link’s Awakening HD, Control, Star Wars Fallen Order, Afterparty, The Outer Worlds, Void Bastards, Man of Medan, RICO, and Apex Legends).ĭespite all the delays and cancellations and console launch dryness, this year still produced some gems of its own. There’s everything else, and then there’s Hades. ![]()
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