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Wind Waker is an important game in my life. For my late older sibling, it's the series peak. I loved watching them play Wind Waker, and in turn trying it out myself. Returning to the game post their passing has been bitter sweet, but it's helped me realize that Wind Waker, while not perfect, is just so appealing.
Yeah, maybe the game overall is too easy. Maybe the dungeons are just okay with the exception of two, and yeah this game has you meander all over the place towards the end. But honestly, none of that really matters as much. The game is extremely charming and funny. The world is a bliss to explore, thanks to the beautiful artstyle and fun sailing. The combat is flashy and great at making you feel awesome. It tells an amazingly heartwarming story, and I love how Link's first and foremost worry isn't saving the world, it's his sister. Family is everything, and in a world where family can be fractured in just a second, I'm happy Wind Waker is here to show everything will be okay.
Yeah, maybe the game overall is too easy. Maybe the dungeons are just okay with the exception of two, and yeah this game has you meander all over the place towards the end. But honestly, none of that really matters as much. The game is extremely charming and funny. The world is a bliss to explore, thanks to the beautiful artstyle and fun sailing. The combat is flashy and great at making you feel awesome. It tells an amazingly heartwarming story, and I love how Link's first and foremost worry isn't saving the world, it's his sister. Family is everything, and in a world where family can be fractured in just a second, I'm happy Wind Waker is here to show everything will be okay.
2009
if Killzone was a kid who had one of those small Lego sets that lets you make a tree and a four wheeler for a man and a monkey, Killzone 2 is that same kid getting a space shuttle set and using it to make a solar system of awesomeness. Nothing compares to that kid, not even your SpongeBob set.
2004
Killzone was never going to meet the demand. Going against the likes of Halo 2 would kill most, let alone alongside Half-Life 2 and DOOM 3. The fact that it became a series afterwards is a miracle. Even more surprising is that, despite some pretty harsh difficulty spikes and some clunk, Killzone is actually damn good.
2021
if F.E.A.R., Super Hot, and Max Payne concocted together, and made a game that was so short but enticingly sweet, Severed Steel is exactly that game
2022
souls games can bite my cock for all I care, but this is the best of the bunch
Shadow Fall is a FPS campaign at it's pure basics: short, but sweet with a lot of exciting setpieces. However, under that is also an shockingly well done take on the VSA/Helghast fight, becoming, surprisingly, the most anti-war entry in the series. Add on tight gameplay and jaw dropping presentation, and this has now become one of my favorites in the series, second only to Killzone 2.
2011
While not as good as the game prior, especially story wise, Killzone 3 still finds way to improve and advance the series into a great trilogy. Some of the back to back set pieces here are incredible, it continues the trend of Killzone looking better than any game of its time, and I very much enjoyed the more aggressive gameplay compared to the prior entries. I totally see why some people say this is the series peak.
2023
The original Resident Evil 4 is, in my opinion, the best game ever made. Just a perfect game in my mind. When I say that, somehow, these guys were able to improve even on that masterpiece, that should sound alarms. RE4 Remake has some of the best combat I've ever played, makes changes that keep every moment fresh, yet familiar, and looks insane to boot. A must play in every way, even if it does lose a bit of the camp I latched onto hard from the original.
2021
I bought a PS5 for this game, I'd sure fucking hope it was good
The Callisto Protocol is amazing, GOTY worthy even, until the last two chapters completely destroy it. Story is decent, game looks incredible, and it even plays extremely well, but the difficulty, at least before the major animation quickening patch, is god awfully unfair, and the boss fights are plain ol bad. Decent first going that desperately needs a sequel.
some of the most fun I've had all year is this game's multiplayer. I don't think COD has ever felt this good, looked this smooth, and also given this much good substance in such little time. The campaign is quite a good ride too, definitely better than MW2019(though Cold War CLEARS it), but if you're a sucker for FPS games like me, MWII 2022 is one to try out. Sucks that Warzone 2 is ass tho
2022
easily the most fun of the asymmetrical multiplayer horror game genre that won't go the fuck away in recent years, for the lone fact that the servers are fucking reasonable.
also it's pretty fun
also it's pretty fun
despite the horrendous advertising, Guardians of the Galaxy is one of the most heartfelt, sincere games of the generation so far, It's exciting, fun, and the story is easily one of the best of its ilk. A sequel may very well never happen, but I still have hope.
in a time where it feels increasingly harder to feel okay about life, Metroid Prime Remastered makes me feel human. Alive even. it's a perfect remaster of one of the greatest games of all time, and I've been loving every second.
Ocarina of Time feels like a fluke, it's so good. Zelda has always been good leading up to it, but Ocarina is so confident in itself. It know it's the shit, and it's right. Near perfection in video gaming, and it and Mario 64 showed that, even with mistakes in console design, Nintendo can still make classic after classic with ease.