Your game of the decade (2010-2019)

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Super Mario Galaxy 2. Controls perfectly, excellent level design, and constant novelty. It's amazing how many fun and unique ways they find to utilize Mario's fairly basic move set. Whenever I think of replaying a game in my collection, there's always that feeling of "yeah but do I really want to go through *that* part again? Nothing like that in Galaxy 2 (besides like the two fluzzard levels). Good to the last drop. I deal with depression and sometimes I really don't find joy in doing anything, and when that happens I'll often pop in Mario Galaxy 1 or 2.

Also, Kid Icarus Uprising. There are relatively few games that you can say really aren't like anything else. This is one of them. Would love a sequel with more effort put into the multiplayer modes.

Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword- If someone asks me what my favorite Zelda game is, it's generally the last one I played, which is Skyward Sword at the moment. And with all the BOTW in here, I had to give Skyward Sword some love. BOTW does a lot of things incredibly well. The overworld and the sense of freedom and discovery, the things that Skyward Sword is pretty weak in. But in terms of the dungeons, boss battles, combat, and Link's arsenal (areas where BOTW is not as strong), Skyward Sword is the best in the series. If a future Zelda game can put those pieces together, it could be the best game of all time.

Spider-man- As one of the only two games I've ever bothered to get all of the achievements for, I feel obligated to mention this one. A big part of my enjoyment is due to my predisposition as a huge Spider-man fan, but that's kind of the point of it. To make you feel like your favorite hero. Arkham City is probably a better game objectively, but I want to be Spider-man, not Batman.

Smash Bros Ulitmate- The best iteration of one of my favorite franchises. So many characters that are all fun to use. Overstuffed with content. The music alone is enough for it to qualify.

Mass Effect 2 would be in the running. A great cast of characters, and a great middle chapter to a story... It's just that knowing how it's going to end makes me not really want to play through it anymore. Such a same how it all fell apart in literally the last fifteen minutes of the trilogy.