This is a simple list to keep track of all the games I've played this year and to give my short thoughts on them all. Spoilers will be unmarked
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Finished 1/19 Finally played this classic and it absolutely holds up and met my high expectations after hearing how great the game was.
Finished 3/4 Played the remake this game is still fucking amazing.
Finished ? Story is done but I can see myself grinding out weapons and armor for hundreds of more hours especially when new dlc is out.
Finished 3/14 This game is the definition of average nothing really stood out to me. Also the final bosses Fergus/Deathshead were insanely easy and boring.
Finished 3/19 Fantastic game one of my favorite of all time, the characters and story are ridiculous and fun. I also love when developers play with little things in console like how you have phone conversations using the wiimote as a phone it's just a genius idea. Sylvia best girl
Finished 3/23 Suda 51 returns with another extremely stylish game with one of the weirdest premises for a story I've ever played. It begins with yourself as some kind of assassin or killer for hire killing monsters which later you learn were made into monsters because they were corrupted by dark moon powers? It twists and turns into a battle against a man named David whose goal is to conquer the world by actually literally physically stealing the earth moon and sun. The game ends with you learning you are related and fighting on THE MOON for control of the moon itself. Along the way you fight other wild bosses such as Alice in wonderland, a yakuza whose back tattoo comes to life like some kind of stand from jojo, and fucking evil thomas the tank engine it's a wild ride.
Finished 3/25 First off incredible soundtrack and black and white visuals are super well done. Gameplay wise the bosses were very fun and the idea of raking up points with unique kills sounds fun but got really repetitive when you realize there isn't enough variety in kills to make the levels fun. Story is alright at best not as crazy and branching as many Suda games but a city wide deathmatch is still a cool idea. Black Baron is the coolest Had to come back and edit this real quick Greg Proops being the announcer for a really strange and violent japanese game is super surreal
Finished 4/4 Beginning of the downfall of Paper Mario removal of most rpg elements dumbed down story and lackluster characters ruin this game. This game is also filled with filler bs just made to increase the length of the game lots of backtracking. Ch.6/7 were an absolute joke and a chore especially the end of ch.6 where you just walk for a min and a half to do a boss fight (which you have to do over again in dimentio's insanely dull tag game through unmemorable level locations).
Finished 5/5 Absolutely great game the main cast in this game is very strong and you feel very close to all of them as the game progresses (fuck teddie) especially the family unit of you nanako and dojima. A lot of the side s-links felt weaker in this game compared to 3 however. Changes to how dungeons work made them a lot easier which can be good and bad but my favorite change is an easy way to refill sp allowing you to finish a dungeon in 1 day. Also the most needed feature of p3 got added being full control of party members. Overall enjoyable experience.
Finished 5/10 Very fun co-op only a couple hours long but I honestly couldn't see it going for much longer. The story had a lot of shortcomings such as really awkward dialogue and some odd interactions which I can only chalk up too the writer not doing enough research seeing as he's not from the U.S; this doesn't distract much from the story besides it making some moments a lot more comedic rather than the serious tone it was trying to go for. However what is strong is the changing uses of splitscreen many different techniques are shown throughout the game some of which I hadn't seen before such as the switching off characters during the hospital sequence I thought all of that was really cool and hopefully some of this is used in their next game if they continue on this route. Finally the ending being a dramatic shift in the way the game is played is very fun a doesn't make it feel too competitive rather brings a satisfying end to the story, however I do wish there was some sort of secret/hidden ending that if enough checkpoints were reached allowed for a cooperative end.