by jacksukeru
A variation of my old list but a little more vague.
I won't list stuff I've finished long ago but am now replaying, like the first two Oddworld games, or stuff I played last year that I kept playing. I will however post stuff that I spend a lot of time playing during the year, regardless of if it's a new or an old game.
Still, consider it a Game of the Year candidate list.
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Maybe 50 hours into this, finishing every minute thing, haven't put a lot of time into it lately but am hoping I'll be able to finish it by the end of the year.
A pretty fun and challenging skill-based platformer. It looks really good and sounds pretty good, unfortunately some of its controls, especially when you are trying to do some wall or roof running, can be a little frustrating. I've put a good chunk of hours into it but am starting to feel done with it.
Puzzle platformer, looks and sounds really good. With the work put into the animations, and with there even being some voice in there it feels kinda off that it isn't an action-platformer. Also it's short, with not a lot of levels, and every level is timed to encourage speed runs. Kinda fun but nothing special.
Started playing it a little bit. from what I've previously heard it looks like an improvement of the base game, however you can still tell what era it is from, from looking at the level design and animations. As a game it does a few interesting and novel things, like mixing first and third person, but also has enough control and camera issues to be frustrating. The world and story setup however is proving more than enough to keep me going, at least for now.
Boy was it disappointing to learn at the end of it all that I had actually spent my time with, not one or two, but a total of eight different people. All without noticing all the switches. Or maybe I just ran past them at the very beginning and then actually stuck together with someone. What a mystery. Either way it was a nice experience in the same vein as Flower, just without a majority of the frustration the controls of that game caused.
Not Finished yet. It's pretty cool, though the combat can feel clunky, and even if that's by design I'm not sure that it was just any good of an idea to have it that way to begin with. But yeah, it's super unique and pretty engaging, I'd be a shame if I didn't finish it. Started over after I lost my save and am halfway through...again.
Controls. Sometimes they suck, sometimes they work just fine. The scope of the game was really beyond what I had imagined though, both in the lenght of the game and in its story. Speaking of story, it's pretty out there and frankly takes a detour from what is supposed to be the main plot a few too many times for my liking, but with that said, it also has a good share of awesome moments, likeable characters and some decent laughs. I consider it overall a success, the only question that now remains is where does it go from here?
It had been a while since I played the first game. This one had some worthwhile content in its single player but most of it felt like filler. I was ok with that, for the most part, and had fun mashing my way through the game unlocking all the characters. It's pretty and it's pretty shallow, but not so shallow that you can't have fun with it. To its credit they've added a few systems and otherwise balanced the characters since I played the series last, but it still felt like this was the real first "cash in" of this particular series. Nevertheless I do hope that the sure to be sequel goes out of its way to add a bunch of lesser characters, now that the majority of the important roster is there.
Short but pretty game. Fight bosses in open arenas with a lot of cannon fodder enemies around. Pick any of the 5 bosses in any order you want, then Mega Man their powers. It gets kind of hard as I've yet to finish it on Normal difficulty, and it also has a weird Continue system, but for the price I think there's a lot to it. Also, again, very pretty.
Well made for what it is, kinda easy in co-op, at least the first 2 difficulties. Story is dumb, villains are dumber, otherwise good varied fun.