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GOTY 2018

flame on.

non 2018: rabi-ribi astonishingly good. tokyo xanadu ex+ a worse, direct action version of cold steel. god of war ascension merely surprisingly good. yakuza kiwami fairly boring. valkyria revolution extremely bad. la mulana ex v. good.

2018: chasm had good loot and good magic. mothergunship I wish was much more than tower of guns, but it wasn't. vc4 has merit but it's no vc2. darksiders 3 still doesn't deliver on the ds1 ending and its dark souls isn't as good as 1's zelda/2's openworld+loot. nnk2 v. boring. dead cells abysmal (aggressive scaling/weapon balance+flat unlock structure). dq11 mostly boring. som 2018 is an amazing remake to a kind of bad game (6+ takes of "The king is waiting for you in the throne room").

2019: utawarerumono T_T. 13 sentinels a. sekiro could be good maybe.

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God of War

1. God of War

well made third person action rpg with cosmetics. talent perks are a good new thing and the stuff they stuck on gems is dumb and great.

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

2. Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

good series run.

Rainbow Skies

3. Rainbow Skies

speed as frequency. caster nukes encouraged. cosmetic armor. long, lots of side content. framework mechanically powerful if a bit inconsistent/clownshoes.

Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs

4. Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs

budget/buggy/sluggish/speed as priority rather than frequency/extremely small party size, but fun. enough good characters, but a frustrating amount of good npcs.

Yakuza Kiwami 2

5. Yakuza Kiwami 2

new maps would've presumably had less of an impact if I'd played 6 first, but weird series run. 0 was really good.

Hollow Knight

6. Hollow Knight

good and fun but slaughtered by expectations. for as good as pogoing is the double jump feels terrible.

Monster Hunter: World

7. Monster Hunter: World

well made third person action rpg with cosmetics, but slowness got grating after a while.

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon

8. Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon

cool, fun, short.

Gensokyo Defenders

9. Gensokyo Defenders

the most held together by string and music is eh, but lots of characters and a few of them are p. fun to play.

Timespinner

10. Timespinner

order of ecclesia was a good game. charitably assuming some of those story implications were not intentional.