Stats for how many each person got correct for my list:

Mnementh - 17
Darashiva - 13
Landale_Star - 6
axumblade - 3
Platina - 3
Flilix - 2
killeryoshis - 2
S. Peelman - 2
Marth - 1
Barkley - 1



Congrats to Mnementh for getting the most right!

#2: This game contains gaming's greatest plot-twist ever conceived.
Hint 2: I am the bad guy?!

Yes,well, I am, obviously, just very good at everything.

Thanks. Funny enough you were the best guesser for my games (with also seventeen correctly guessed games).... with Darashiva also in second. Here are the final results. Congrats to everyone getting things right. A special shout out to Peh, who managed to solve my last unguessed game, Pandoras Tower on #3 (which you missed in multiple tries).

Before I go to my TOP 3, here a short list of the games, which didn't make the cut this year. Thirteen titles left my TOP 50 compared to last year, to make space for thirteen new ones. Let's be clear about this: I think all of these games are great, but the priority changes, so they are shuffeld out of the TOP 50.

As you can see, a lot of games I played on WiiU and were at the lower end of my TOP50 got pushed out. This list includes 7 games on WiiU, 3 on Wii, 2 on DOS and one each for Linux and PS3. The newcomers aren't all new, but result of reshuffling, but many of the new titles are on Switch. Of the 13 titles replacing the above, I played 7 on Switch, 3 on WiiU, 2 on DOS and one on each Wii and Linux. Both lists contain a title I played on multiple platforms.

For decades small, but significant changes were happening. The list of outgoing titles contains my only two 80s titles, one from the 90s, three from the 00s and seven from the 10s. The new titles contain two from the 90s, one from the 00s and the remaining ten are all from the 10s, so increasing my recency bias in the list.

For the creators, I have slightly less Nintendo in my new list, four go out, two new come in. Here you see a LucasArts game leaving. Capcom stays stable as one Monster Hunter title is replaced with another in my list. My new list has a one title more for each NIS and Atlus, and two new more for Ubisoft and Square.

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And no, #2 is not that easy , and both Splatoon games have already appeared on my list.

#2 The Legend of Zelda: A link between worlds. 

Pandora's Tower is such a beautiful game. The mood is dark and somber. You are tasked to get master flesh, so that the women you love is freed from the curse of the beast. So you venture into these strange towers, long abandoned and slay the master beasts, majestic creatures, to gain their flesh. All the while the story is unfolded slowly in notes, flashbacks and stuff like that. That is both, the story of the two lovers and the story of what happened in these towers.

Your not only tasked to get the flesh, but also to nurture your relationship with Elena. This is rewarded in cut-scenes of her joy and general changing the interior of the observatory in which you settled down as your base.

Then was the setting of the game. Alone seeing these towers hanging on giant chains over an endless deep abyss and the story told that these chains holding the world together as without it the abyss would widen and break the world apart.

This game was one of the Project rainfall games, games which had difficulties to release in the US, although they already had an european release and localization. Far to few people played this game, so I wish this game (as the other Project Rainfall games Xenoblade Chronicles and The Last Story) would get a HD-remaster, preferably on Switch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6-_-FDR8ZU

Correct!!

I pretty much love everything about this game. It invented a new art-style, perfected the already good battle system from the Bravely Default series, added path actions and other stuff that made the characters usable outside of battles. It has gorgeous music.

This game is a RPG dream come true. It says a lot, that I rate it above the always top-notch RPGs from Atlus in my list. It is as much fun figuring out the weaknesses to break the defenses and invest all my Boost Points into big attacks after the defenses are down as it is to find out the weaknesses to chain attacks in TMS#FE. Going around the cities and learn everything about it's inhabitants and draw connections between them to form a full picture about this community and more background informations about the quests I do for them, it's just delicious.

It is not simply a throwback in old times, as Octopath Traveler does way more than was possible in the years past. It is different: for Octopath Traveler the developers visited past games and looked what made them great. They took that, build upon it and added as much new technology and techniques they could make without losing what was right about the past games. Many say this is a game that could've been on NES or SNES, but in all actuality it would've blown the minds of players in that era. This is not a nostalgia-trip, it is taking the greatness of the past to a new level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w8ymgECGgM