by asylumrunner
In an effort to clear my backlog, I have set out to play and beat 24 games in 2019 (that's two a month). Ideally, these will all be games I already own, and games I will be playing/beating for the first time, in order to maximize the backlog-cutting-ness.
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The first game I completed in 2019 was XCOM: Enemy Unknown with the Enemy Within expansion. Extremely good game, had me playing for hours on end into the night, although I wish the last third was a little bit harder, and I wish the last ~3 or so missions were harder in a fairer way then "screw it these guys just have, like, a bunch of health". Lookin' at you, Sectopods.
This game is the perfect length for sitting down for an evening and feeling really sad in the end. Fantastic game and level design used to hammer home an incredible story. Absolutely lovely, had me tearing up by the end.
Hey, y'know what, it's a decent attempt at the Crackdown formula. This game is fun, but I wish there was more to it. I feel like in the ~8 years since 2, so much could have been done to improve this formula and really bring it to new heights, and instead they made "Just A Pretty Alright Crackdown Game". Not necessarily complaining, but the unreached potential of this game hurts.
There are some points where the clunky controls and bad checkpointing made me fuming with rage, but I think this game's idea and its message are so beautiful that it won me over in the end. A wonderful example of the way games can be used to immerse someone in an experience that is not their own.
This is technically a replay for me, but what are you gonna do, call the video game cops? This is a fantastic game, and the Dishonored series remains one of my favorites. I wish the Pacifist route required more thought than it does, and the plot and writing can fall flat, but this is such a fantastic game all around I have a hard time doing anything but loving it to death. I have a Mark of the Outsider tattoo for a reason.
What a profoundly, sublimely stupid video game. It lacks the weird Third Act lull that Bayonetta 1 has, and as a result feels like it's going 60 miles an hour through its entire runtime. The story makes ... a moderate amount of sense? Frankly, for this series, I'll take it. The combat is sublime, the enemy design is fantastic, all in all this game is absolutely wonderful.
You cannot convince me that Titanfall 2 is not the best first person shooter ever made. The campaign is short, but full of nothing but highs. The multiplayer is fantastic, and, obviously, the movement in this game feels sublime. 10/10
An excellent chapter in an excellent series. The substories in this one are a little weak compared to the ones in Zero, buoyed by the incredible joy to be had in the Majima Everywhere encounters. Majima's absence as a second playable character is felt, as Kamurocho is left feeling a smidge stale by the end, but the game is still a masterclass of the genre.
This game is *viscerally unpleasant* in almost every regard, from the brown and green color palette to the slow, creeping horror, to the horrible way characters' faces sort of drift on their skull. A short, but extremely good dip into a horrible place.
The first time I played Bastion on PC I bounced off of it hard. I picked it up on Switch, on a hunch that maybe it was the M+K control scheme I disagreed with, and that hunch was correct. While the combat isn't the most interesting in the world, the world, the characters, the story, and the fantastic sound design (including superb narration by Logan Cunningham, as well as the first of many of Darren Korb and Ashley Lynn Barrett's fantastic soundtracks) make this game deserving of its place in the stars.