A list of games I have played a significant amount of in the year 2016. What designates "significant?" Whatever I want it to be!
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An exceptionally charming, decently funny little deconstruction of 8/16-bit RPGs (and video games as a whole) that is worth taking a look at even despite the vocal, rabid fanbase hyping it up as the bestest thing ever.
A decently fun 2D XCOM-lite, even if it doesn't quite give me what I want out of turn-based tactical murder simulators.
Now that it's out of Early Access, I've been giving this one a try. It has a fantastic sense of style and a decently sadistic sense of difficulty. However, it might just be a little too grindy for my tastes.
Kingdom Hearts is a fairly clunky action RPG that manages to be more than the sum of its parts mostly via how effin' weird it is. I also played like 20 minutes of Chain of Memories and was like "Nope, I'm good"
Playing on Classic mode because story mode is for punks. It's still an Etrian Odyssey game.
In contrast to its predecessor, Kingdom Hearts II is a much better video game, though it's also where the series' infamously convoluted plot comes into clear focus.
To the surprise of absolutely no one, I like this new Fire Emblem game. Conquest is fantastic, Birthright is okay, Revelation is mediocre.
A 2D Dark Souls-like that really, really, really wants to be like Dark Souls. It mostly succeeds, but doesn't really reach the heights of the games it pays homage to.
In anticipation of the hot new pre-sequel expansion pack, I've decided to play through Baldur's Gate again. I'm using the Enhanced Edition for the first time, and you'll probably hear what I think of the new content.
The third Dark Souls game (and the 5th Souls game) is pretty great. They also shouldn't make another one of these for a while.
