gamrConnect Presents: Their 1131 Greatest Games, as of 2021

[Mnementh]

Jaicee said:

1) Butterfly Soup
2) Gone Home
3) Knights and Bikes
4) Chop Suey
5) Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
6) Crypt of the NecroDancer
7) Cadence of Hyrule
8) Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
9) Papo & Yo
10) Kentucky Route Zero
11) ScourgeBringer
12) Death Stranding
13) It Takes Two <-- Seriously!! You know, the GOTY winner at The Game Awards?!
14) Gato Roboto
15) Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
16) Pony Island
17) Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
18) This War of Mine
19) Streets of Rage 4
20) The Artful Escape
21) The Shrouded Isle
22) That Dragon, Cancer
23) Deathloop <-- Yup, just me!
24) Mission: It's Complicated
25) There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension

Interesting that with Deathloop and Death Stranding two AAA games only got your vote. I kinda understand Death Stranding, as far as I see from the outside it is a game really standing against usual convention. But Deathloop seems very well be mainstream compatible. Maybe too much good AAA games, only so much could be voted.

6) Crypt of the NecroDancer
7) Cadence of Hyrule

I actually love these two games. But the reason they didn't make my list is simple: I am really, really bad at rhythm games. Still, in difference to platformers at which I suck as well, I enjoy the experience until I get stuck. And these two combine rhythm gaming with dungeon delver RPGs (like rogue - the namegiver of roguelikes - , nethack or more modern: Etrian Odyssey), which I like. The music in Crypt of the Necrodancer is so great. And achieving disco floor is so, so satisfying. I don't even care about better rewards, the disco floor is cool. The story is kinda cool to meet the rhythm theme, Cadence dying and getting her heart reanimated, so that she can only move to the beat of the animated heart.

Cadence of Hyrule combines it with Zelda, which I love. Zelda also matches the dungeon delving theme, it has great graphics and music was always something great in the Zelda series, having it remixed to match a rhythm game is great. I guess I could play it classically, to avoid my bad rhythm, but hitting the beat is also a lot of enjoyment, so that is lost.

5) Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams

I actually played it a bit. It has a great artstyle (or two of them) and cool game mechanics. But as I said before, I suck at platformers, and this frustrates me.

10) Kentucky Route Zero
15) Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
17) Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
18) This War of Mine

These are all on my "have to play"-list. But well, this list is long. And stress at work can actually suck my energy so much, that I only have enough for Netflix.

20) The Artful Escape

I never heard of it before the VGC GOTY awards. It looks kinda cool. I guess i add it to the evergrowing "have to play" list.