#25 - Super Mario Odyssey?

#18 - Horizon Zero Dawn?

#16 - Horizon Forbidden West?

Yep, that's the one. A reference to Cappy of course.

Yes, correct on both.

#26

Change YoY: =    My Rating: 9.3 / 10

Very few video game series have ever climbed up in my estimation as quickly as The Legend of Heroes did after I first discovered it. I played Trails in the Sky 2015, the sequel the following year, and then the first two Trails of Cold Steel games in 2017, and at that point the only series I held in higher regard than it were Final Fantasy and Dark Souls. Now, the issue here is that this is now the third time I'm talking about a Trails game, and I've still have four more to go after this, and trying to come up with new and interesting ways to say "I really like this one" is getting a bit difficult, especially since these games have a shared continuous storyline that spans the entire series, characters that play a role in much of it, and a battle system that retains it basic foundations throughout. Essentially, the reasons why one of these games is great, are the exact same for why another one of them is. Even putting them in any specific order within the series itself can be very difficult, as it is in essence a single extensive narrative that runs through nearly a dozen games at this point.

I guess the one thing I can say about Trails of Cold Steel, is that it was basically the game that cemented the series' place in my mind as something truly great. As mentioned above, I had previously played the first two Trails in the Sky games and loved them, but this was the game that showed the franchise could keep the quality high beyond the confines of that one sub-series. It could introduce new characters and settings and make me care about them just as much as the ones I already knew, a trend that has continued ever since with each new installment I've played. Almost no other franchise has ever held up this well across so many different titles for such an extended period of time, for me personally at the very least.

Clues for upcoming games:

30 - Famous for the ghost bomb kart.

29 - A lot of fun was had with local co-op on checking each other in this game.

28 - Proximity mines. Proximity mines everywhere!

27 - Neo tanks everywhere!

26 - One of the hardest games I've ever beaten. Dealt with depression, but in a ridiculously artful world.

25 - Teal'c actor was in this game, the first one.

Man, I just keep missing days here.

#22 - Willst thou get the girl, or play like one?
#21 - The previous game's penultimate "boss" is this game's final "boss". Well, not including all the post-game stuff after it, at least.

#28 - Minesweeper? xD

#26 - Celeste?

#25 - God of War.

You got 26 and 25 correct at least!

Sounds it could be Goldeneye

Well, these ones were guessed quicker than I expected. Just one game left for now.

#20

-Glory to Mankind

-The final ending to the game involved fighting your way through the closing credits

#19 Final Fantasy VII

-The main protagonist is essentially an unreliable narrator, thought it's not really his fault

#18 Horizon Zero Dawn

-Humanity was wiped out around a thousand years ago

#17 Final Fantasy VI

-Warring Triad

#16 Horizon Forbidden West

-An option for the main character to engage in a romantic relationship in this game's DLC made some silly people very angry