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Games were not a priority in 2020. They never are a priority but they are a thing usually to make time for. My relationship with games this year was a real roller-coaster so I've laid out what my year looked like to hopefully provide some needed context. I put these thoughts in spoiler blocks so that you can skip them if you'd like. I had a really hard time after finishing my last big JRPG of t...
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Game : MiHoYo 's Genshin Impact Release Month : September. Quick Look : Here . Started : 18/12. Completed : ???. I'll preface this final entry in this year's Go! Go! GOTY! with two facts that everyone who's booted up this game on a whim already knows: Genshin Impact is both a lot , and it is far from finished . That isn't to say that it's filled with bugs or is terribly unstable (though it can...
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Warning: SPOILERS for pretty much every Christopher Nolan movie. Including Tenet . Let no one say that Christopher Nolan is devoid of ambition. A man who loses his memory every few minutes, his story told in reverse. A professional thief who not only breaks into his target's dreams, but creates those dreams for them to inhabit as well. An astronaut who saves the Earth by communicating with his...
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Game : Size Five 's Lair of the Clockwork God Release Month : February. Quick Look : N/A. Started : 16/12. Completed : 17/12. I've had quite a bit of drama with this one: first I had to disqualify it from this feature because I couldn't get the PC version to run properly, tossing a mea culpa in the "Welcome to Go! Go! GOTY!" type staging area linked at the bottom there, and then it suddenly dro...
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Getting away from it all was probably the biggest goal of the year for some of us. Although, unlike these poor stranded guys, the option to return was something I had. Coming up with top ten lists, especially only looking over games of the last twelve months, has been tough for me the last few years as my time and budget to keep up with all the things I’d like to becomes less available to do so...
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Game : Vanripper 's Helltaker Release Month : May. Quick Look : N/A. Started : 15/12. Completed : 15/12. There was a small stir on the gaming zones of the social media a few months back where everyone was suddenly getting thirsty for demon girls. It soon became apparent that the culprit at the center of it all was a freeware Steam game named Helltaker, following a similar set of circumstances t...
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2020 has concluded (finally…) and it’s time to take a look at its best Korean songs. This year’s list came together with surprising ease, despite how many times I thought over the last twelve months “man, there aren’t really any amazing bangers for this year yet.” Nearly every song on the list was on my tentative playlist within a day or two after hearing it. When it came time to refine and ord...
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Another year of Japanese music has concluded! My list for this year took a weird journey. I’ve been adding stuff to a tentative playlist all year in order to keep up with things I liked and have an easy way to listen to them again and again. This list looked very different before December. As I started the refinement process, I ended up throwing out a good chunk of stuff I thought was a lock an...
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Game : Atmos Games 's Neversong Release Month : May*. Quick Look : N/A. Started : 14/12. Completed : 14/12. In the Devil's Kiss review , the second in this year's season of Go! Go! GOTY!, I talked about how veteran game parodiérs Dan Marshall and Ben Ward based their follow-up game Lair of the Clockwork God - temporarily removed from my itinerary, but recently added back in - on the premise tha...
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Oh, hey, it’s December again. Which means it’s time for one of my favorite annual traditions, where I look back at my favorite video game music of the year. And regardless of everything else 2020 threw at us, allow me to make a bold claim: there was a lot of great video game music in 2020. Not just high quality, enjoyable music, but also music spanning all sorts of styles, genres, and game type...
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Game : Bytten Studio 's Lenna's Inception Release Month : January. Quick Look : N/A. Started : 12/12. Completed : 12/12. I feel like whenever I talk about an Indie action-adventure game clearly and purposefully built on the framework of the Legend of Zelda , I always gravitate towards my pet theory that every Indie Zelda-like emphasizes or de-emphasizes portions of the trinity, or triforce if y...
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Being shut in for these past nine months has been awful, but video games have been somewhat of a solace. Animal Crossing: New Horizons - I bought this game because a friend was interesting in playing it, but Patricia took a real liking to it. This has been the go-to game for the two of us. It's been great that we can "play house" while our real house is a mess, and just relax and spend time tog...
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Game : Kaizen Game Works 's Paradise Killer Release Month : September. Quick Look : N/A. Started : 10/12. Completed : 11/12. In my bad habits, I sometimes lead my reviews with something noncommittal and inconsequential like "this game was not what I expected"; I feel like such a sentiment would be too much of a facile understatement when it comes to Kaizen Game Works's Paradise Killer, however,...
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Heyo it’s ya favorite argentinian anime "expert" here with my first real blog post :D! 2020 has been a “little bit weird” with the rona and stuff but that didn't stop anime from happening (it mostly delayed some). So here is a quick list of all the openings that came out this hell year and I liked them! in no particular order. (sorry for my bad english in advance) In/Spectre - Mononoke In The F...
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Game : HAL Laboratory 's Part Time UFO Release Month : October. Quick Look : N/A. Started : 8/12. Completed : 9/12. Yeah, I'm technically breaking the rules again: Part Time UFO originally released on Android devices in 2017. However, this year saw its debut on a video game platform (the Switch) so it - along with Assemble With Care from earlier in this feature - qualifies for this year's GOTY,...
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Game : Mediatonic 's Murder by Numbers Release Month : March. Quick Look : N/A. Started : 5/12. Completed : 8/12. My first serious Go! Go! GOTY! contender for the GOTY list, if not the top spot, Murder by Numbers by Mediatonic is a delightful merger of picross puzzle games and a '90s-set detective procedural visual novel made in a Japanese style, specifically modelled after the likes of the Ace...
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Jordan Hass is a writer, podcaster and sometimes meme master on the Twitter Dot Com and the Award Winning Podcast, Fun Time Calls . He has no other projects going on as of the time of this recording (December 7th, 2020) I have no idea what to expect with this year's game of the year choices. I honestly expect the same stuff year after year. "OH THIS YEAR SUCKED SO MUCH, MAYBE NEXT YEAR WILL GET...
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Note: The following article contains major spoilers for Ape Out. "The tiger, He destroyed his cage, Yes, YES, The tiger is out." -Nael (Age 6), They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket If films are something witnessed, then games are something performed; we can define the play in any one game by the nature of our performance on its stage. Most popular performance relies on an entertainer reciting...
