As I have sort of a tradition for I'll end my list by posting my Highlights of the Year (or technically since I started my list last year, since my number 1 was actually one I played at the end of last year), this used to be focused games that didn't make my list, but since I made a full Top 100 and wrote about most of these already I'm just gonna list those ones and throw in one last highlight I managed to sneak in in December.
- Final Fantasy VII Remake
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Clair Obscur
- Deltarune (Chapter 3 & 4)
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Alan Wake II
- Astro Bot & Playroom
- Hollow Knight: Silksong
- Stray
- OneShot
- Super Mario Wonder
- Attack on Titan 2
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Kingdom Hearts is super flawed and super fun. This is essentially my second time diving into the series, I played 1-2 in short succession years ago and now I've played Birth by Sleep, Dream Drop Distance, A Fragmentary Passage and am in the middle of Kingdom Hearts 3 all within a month plus some loose change and I think I'm enjoying the series a lot more now despite playing the less highly praised entries. The thing is if you go into Kingdom Hearts with a logical sort of reviewer mentality (with I technically am) it's incredibly easy to find flaws, the story is literally Nomura throwing darts at a plot board for one, but I think every fan of Sisney films who've played these games wanted to like them and it's really not that hard to do so if you just take the flaws for what they are and enjoy the positive parts, cause the positive parts are huge, these games are so fun and they have (you guessed it) heart. I'm getting a faint Tales of vibe from them, only I'm sailing the seas with Jack Sparrow instead of starting from scratch with an original game world. And sure, those worlds are definitely a lot deeper but… Jack Sparrow. I suspect at least one of these games will probably make my list next year even if the competition is getting fierce, at the very least the last two entries are much better than people give them credit for.
With that my list is fully complete and I wanna thank everyone who participated this year, especially those that kept the Discussion Thread alive. The jury's still out on when the results will be ready but we'll make sure to get them to you at some point!
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