After thinking about what my favourite games are for about three years, which required looking individually at every game I've ever played, I came to the gradual and sudden realisation that Yume Nikki is the most powerful experience I have ever had with a video game. No other game has established such a profound emotional connection to me, or evoked the emotions I felt when I experienced it. No other piece of art, in any medium, has been able to make me feel the way I did when I played this. There will never be a best game of all time, but Yume Nikki is one of few games in this medium I sincerely regard as a masterpiece. Thinking about this game makes me love video games; I hope that, one day, I will find another game that I can suddenly realise I love so completely as I do this one.