One of my favorite games I've never finished. Beautifully idiosyncratic entry in the series, detailed world, engaging experience. Hard to pick up and put down due to the idiosyncratic combat which is the reason I haven't finished it, but I don't exceptionally care because I like it!

PLAY HOLLOW KNIGHT

Intensely challenging but with minimal punishment for failure - a real "nailed it" design for making the absurd platforming difficulty accessible. Picking my way through the B-sides and able to do it at my own pace without ever feeling frustrated.

Amazing worldbuilding, design, environments, exploration. You can see Breath of the Wild's DNA running all through the world design. The soundtrack is a BANGER.

Bring a tolerance of a flubbed main story dismount and a magnifying glass for the UI :)

The enviroments and design are a huge flex, it plays on some of my FAVORITE dumb JRPG tropes, and I love a game where you can go after superbosses without spending 3712 hours doing gear prep. The combat feels GREAT once you get it.

Tighter art direction on the non-main-story Blades and non-gacha ways to get them. That soured the game significantly.

GAME OF THE YEAR.

Seriously though it gave me 4 hours of complete unexpected joy. Different and delightful.

I sat down to come up with the "best Zelda game" and although I could come up with arguments for many this is definitely the most influential one.

Also I suck at ZOOTR and it still slaps.

Enjoyable game with lots of nice QOL improvements.

Best FARM out of any farming sim!

I literally do not care about any of the characters just let me build a pretty farm.

The right game for right now.

Pet that Eevee.

Challenge level zero, happiness level high, actually enjoyed hunting for Pokemon. Don't feel the need to REplay but happy I played.

I must have borrowed this game like 5 times from the Family Video and it had no QOL and I was obsessed with the unattainable church lady like the useless bisexual I grew up to be but it was my first farming sim love. Bless.

I played this for the first time as an adult and it's still special. The difficulty level is inconsistent throughout the game, which is the main thing that makes it challenging to a modern player, but overall still unique and charming.

Man Golden Sun was a great series I wish they'd made a third one.

Hand strain warning - literally put me in a thumb brace!

Shame, my MH-loving friends seemed to enjoy it...