Wanted to click amazing, but accidentally hit under it. Can't change it now lol.

But as someone who does 99% of their gaming on Switch, it was an amazing year. I still haven't gotten to many titles, and I likely won't be able to get everything that looked interesting to me.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is game of the year, with Kirby and the Forgotten Land a runner up. Both phenomenal.

Fire Emblem Warriors was (gameplay wise) great.
Bayonetta 3 is in the backlog, and my eyes are still on Pokemon Legends Arceus, Switch Sports, Splatoon 3, Triangle Strategy, Live A Live. Too many great looking titles, so little time. Not even getting into most third party ports, which Switch had a banger year of.

Been an amazing year on Switch. Xenoblade 3, Bayo 3, Splatoon 3, Kirby, Triangle Strategy, and I'm enjoying the Mario Kart 8 expansions. Plus, the Switch got a lot of admittedly late, but very good ports. I'm playing No Man's Sky on the thing, and it runs much better than I had any right to expect. If Fire Emblem had been just 3 weeks earlier, it would have been even sweeter.

My general sentiment. 

Sincerely, Xenoblade 3 takes the cake. Just the fact that we only knew of this game existence since last February until it released in a matter of few months was incredible but the game was just pure Monolith Soft bliss and I couldn't be more happy to play the game during a few months.

I'm gonna also give a good shoutout to Kirby and the Forgotten Land cuz HAL truly came close of a perfect first 3D platformer experience.

Also, Live A Live remake is my low-key underdog experience this year.

So in the end, how was this year of gaming ? I actually played less games than last year, but the ones I played this year ... I bleeded them so it's difficult to not say that this was a great year for me imo

I can't crack a joke now, huh? Also, what's the point in calling me out for "putting others down to sweeten my own experience," when you do the exact same thing for gamers that like story driven, blockbuster titles, trying to punctuate it by claiming that Xbox has a breath of fresh experiences that PlayStation seemingly lacks. You even accuse me of only getting highs from putting others down. Quite frankly, you should take your own advice, instead of trying to marginalize my gaming experience, or even make assumptions about what I enjoy and why I enjoy them. 

As for my 2022 year in gaming, since you think I'm missing out on so much variety because I don't have an Xbox, I got a PlayStation 5 just a few months ago. I played and beat three games that released in 2022: HFW, Stray, and God of War Ragnarok, all phenomenal experiences. There's also games that came out in prior years that I finally got into this year: Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart, Metro Exodus, Concrete Genie, Returnal, Astro's Playroom, Super Bomberman R, Jurassic World Evolution, NBA 2K22. A handful of these games also utilize haptic feedback and adaptive triggers very well, on top of the fast loading, and variety of performance modes. 

Nintendo didn't release Advanced Wars. This is unacceptable.

 It was pretty good. On Switch I got House of the Dead Remake. Xenoblade 3. Bayonetta 3 and some other good stuff. I was able to get a PS5 and already have a small collection of physical games. I like Stranger in Paradise a lot. The Ascent is an amazing game. Evil West and Gungrave Gore were nice surpises but Soultice hit me out of nowhere. Berserk meets DMC something I have asked for for several years! Also personally I got some Saturn/DC shmups I been after a long time. A TG16 mech beat em up been after a long time. 2 good and affordable clone systems for Genesis/SNES. A new gaming laptop. I didn't mention every game but overall been a pretty great year for me.

I wanna say it was a great year because Kirby, Tunic, Neon White, Signalis, Xenoblade 3, Splatoon 3, Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Bayonetta 3, Elden Ring, God of War Ragnarok, and the Sunbreak expansion to Rise.

...but honestly, I just haven't played most of those games, despite owning them or being interested in them. So I'll have to get to them at a later time and decide. Kirby was excellent, though. And Splatoon 3 might just be the game to get me into Splatoon.

Not really, technical wise it is terrible, but everybody agree on the fact that its story and gameplay are the best in the series for a while

Elden Ring was a high point this year, game of the year easily and exceeded my expectations. Some great indies launched like Tunic, Stray, PowerWash Simulator, A Plague Tale: Requiem and one of my favourites indies (Gris) got a release on Xbox so that was an easy (3rd) purchase. Persona 5 releasing on Game Pass let me really dive into it to see if I liked it without regretting a purchase if I didn’t and actually followed it through to a full 1000G. Finished a few games that I’ve wanted to revisit for years now like Alice Madness Returns and I finally finished a Dragon Age Trilogy replay that I’d been planning years ago too. Plan to play High On Life next which looks great.

Overall rating - 7/10