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Plants vs. Zombies
2009
Popcap will never release a Plants Vs Zombies game as good as this. It is so much fun. Really a shame it’s the peak of the franchise.
Spore
2008
Now the superior species, C0ckAndBallz, reigns the universe
Splatoon
2015
Racism for kids
Cities: Skylines
2015
I love to get on this game like maybe once a year for around a week, and then never play it again. Rinse repeat. Kinda like how I play Minecraft. It's just so satisfying to create your own city but I get so overwhelmed once I get 1m+ population, and give up.
I'm only 30 or so hours into the game, and I fucking love it. I absolutely adored Breath of the Wild, and with BotW, I felt the game just didn't have that certain spark that would make me think of it as a masterpiece. Tears of the Kingdom however, does have that unique sort of look and feel to it with its more focused look and less "generic" feel like BotW. The creativity is incredible, Bad Piggies-esc building is truly satisfying, and I love every second of it. Will update after I've gotten like half shrines and beaten the game, but I don't think my opinion of this game will lower anytime soon.
I have now beaten the game and gotten around half of the shrines in the game, and I have only loved everything more from now and the 30 hour mark I was previously at. The final boss was legitimately a good boss, not soulsborne dlc tier, but wasn't boring like calamity ganon and had some incredible visuals and music to boot. The depths is the only thing I sorta don't find all too fun, but I don't care as every other aspect of the game is so fucking good and great to just fuck around in this great world. The dungeons are legitimately visually distinct and provide cool puzzles to screw with, and overworld bosses also provide the unique feel with actual variety and not the same boss copy pasted 40 times across the world. I'm really glad all those things I had against BOTW were addressed, and really makes this game shine. I definitely believe this game will stick with me for a long while, and takes a spot in one of my favorite games.
The visuals are dragged through mayonaise, the combat is awkward, the RNG is cruel and the balance is buried 6 feet under. Making characters is cool, though, and so is the story.
I wish successful series were allowed to end once they reached a proper conclusion
"Hurry Mama, give me the booze."
This is my favorite Smash game, and arguably my favorite video game, as well as my first video game growing up as a kid. I was blown away and mesmerized by its gameplay, graphics, music and the amount of content the game features. Sure, competitively speaking, it isn't the best, but at the same time, I couldn't care less about it. Its slow-paced gameplay combined with its items are the best and a lot more enjoyable compared to any other Smash game that featured items and different kinds of mechanics. Matter of a fact, this is the ONLY Smash game where I enjoy playing items with on.
Everything about the Subspace Emissary (besides the Great Maze, what the heck Sakurai), was fantastic. I think every single character in the game had their fair share of spotlight and introduction brought into the story.
So yeah, overall, it's a 4.5/5 for me with this game, I'd recommend it to those that wish to play Smash Bros. casually, it's the best.
This is my favorite Smash game, and arguably my favorite video game, as well as my first video game growing up as a kid. I was blown away and mesmerized by its gameplay, graphics, music and the amount of content the game features. Sure, competitively speaking, it isn't the best, but at the same time, I couldn't care less about it. Its slow-paced gameplay combined with its items are the best and a lot more enjoyable compared to any other Smash game that featured items and different kinds of mechanics. Matter of a fact, this is the ONLY Smash game where I enjoy playing items with on.
Everything about the Subspace Emissary (besides the Great Maze, what the heck Sakurai), was fantastic. I think every single character in the game had their fair share of spotlight and introduction brought into the story.
So yeah, overall, it's a 4.5/5 for me with this game, I'd recommend it to those that wish to play Smash Bros. casually, it's the best.
Outer Wilds
2019
This review contains spoilers
TW // Loss, suicide
It's been almost a year since I lost my friend. His birthday was just this past friday, and it pained me to think he's no longer here to be present on the day that we always celebrated him, and now he can't experience that.
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Outer Wilds is a game about death. Our continued deaths by the hands of the Solar System and autopilot, to the death of everything we hold dear as we see it all fade away in that warm, cyan glow. As one goes through this genuinely curious, beautiful, and wonderous journey, they end up having to see it all be eviscerated for the canonical last time in the final moments of the game.
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When I lost my friend, I only contemplated sending myself to him as well, making plans to leave one day myself. I didn't understand or see a future that I could live without him. I turned to games, as I had no strength to keep myself up and just wanted to escape. I had this game downloaded, and I played it continuously, escaping in this so so curious world from the reality of the life I didn't want to accept. I got to the end of the game, and talked to Gabbro.
"It’s the kind of thing that makes you glad you stopped and smelled the pine trees along the way, you know?"
I broke down crying, remembering the things, the time, the people, that I've lost, knowing that really their ends didn't determine their impact, but the smell of the pine trees that I've experienced had with them was their worth, and reminiscing on those great times.
"I learned a lot, by the end of everything. The past is past, now, but that's… you know, that's okay! It's never really gone completely. The future is always built on the past, even if we won't get to see it."
These people may not be able to see the future that we are now living in, but their effects on me will never vanish. I continue to remember all of these things in the reality that I am living in, and know that there will always be something to remember and cherish.
"All that remains is to collapse the innumerable possibilities before us."
All that remains is to keep living. Keep living in this tough reality, embracing the past, and building the future. I am alive. I am here. I carry on the memories of those that I've lost, and so they won't really ever truly be lost.
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Outer Wilds, as much as it is about death, is a game about life. The Hearthians and the Nomai foster a loving and curious enviroment, drives out that innate curiosity to keep moving and bringing this love to this life. Outer Wilds wants you to be positive even in the face of losing it all, and rather just sit down by a campfire, and hold those times close to us, playing the music and remembering that fragrance of those pine trees like how it was when they were here. Outer Wilds helped me live. It helped me cope. There is no higher praise I can give any piece of media. I miss my friend so, so much, but because of this game, I can hold him so close and keep him in my loving memory forever.
Thank you, Outer Wilds, and Happy Birthday, my great friend. Thank you.
It's been almost a year since I lost my friend. His birthday was just this past friday, and it pained me to think he's no longer here to be present on the day that we always celebrated him, and now he can't experience that.
--
Outer Wilds is a game about death. Our continued deaths by the hands of the Solar System and autopilot, to the death of everything we hold dear as we see it all fade away in that warm, cyan glow. As one goes through this genuinely curious, beautiful, and wonderous journey, they end up having to see it all be eviscerated for the canonical last time in the final moments of the game.
--
When I lost my friend, I only contemplated sending myself to him as well, making plans to leave one day myself. I didn't understand or see a future that I could live without him. I turned to games, as I had no strength to keep myself up and just wanted to escape. I had this game downloaded, and I played it continuously, escaping in this so so curious world from the reality of the life I didn't want to accept. I got to the end of the game, and talked to Gabbro.
"It’s the kind of thing that makes you glad you stopped and smelled the pine trees along the way, you know?"
I broke down crying, remembering the things, the time, the people, that I've lost, knowing that really their ends didn't determine their impact, but the smell of the pine trees that I've experienced had with them was their worth, and reminiscing on those great times.
"I learned a lot, by the end of everything. The past is past, now, but that's… you know, that's okay! It's never really gone completely. The future is always built on the past, even if we won't get to see it."
These people may not be able to see the future that we are now living in, but their effects on me will never vanish. I continue to remember all of these things in the reality that I am living in, and know that there will always be something to remember and cherish.
"All that remains is to collapse the innumerable possibilities before us."
All that remains is to keep living. Keep living in this tough reality, embracing the past, and building the future. I am alive. I am here. I carry on the memories of those that I've lost, and so they won't really ever truly be lost.
--
Outer Wilds, as much as it is about death, is a game about life. The Hearthians and the Nomai foster a loving and curious enviroment, drives out that innate curiosity to keep moving and bringing this love to this life. Outer Wilds wants you to be positive even in the face of losing it all, and rather just sit down by a campfire, and hold those times close to us, playing the music and remembering that fragrance of those pine trees like how it was when they were here. Outer Wilds helped me live. It helped me cope. There is no higher praise I can give any piece of media. I miss my friend so, so much, but because of this game, I can hold him so close and keep him in my loving memory forever.
Thank you, Outer Wilds, and Happy Birthday, my great friend. Thank you.