1. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
2. Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
3. Persona 3 Reload
TTYD is close behind Persona, but I thought I'd give it to Persona considering I beat TTYD back on the Gamecube, and Reload did a lot more to improve the original P3.
I didn't play much new this year tbh, mostly because of a handful of games that kept me occupied for a great amount of time.
1. Sonic X Shadow Generations
2. Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered
3. Echoes of Wisdom
I had a feeling that the top 2 would be my top 2 back in January but Sonic took the lead because Tomb Raider 3 has some issues, like the puzzles in London are really obnoxious.
1. Sonic X Shadow Generations
2. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
3. Penny's Big Breakaway
Honorable mention goes to the Castlevania Dominus Collection because it is basically just a compilation, but it's a damn good one with a fantastic selection of games.
1. Unicorn Overlord
2. Balatro
3. Echoes of Wisdom
There have been other good games, but they're the ones that got played to death. Metaphor might eventually figure too, but I'll probably be into next year before I can find the time to give it a proper go. Blame Altus for releasing four excellent RPGs in one year that are all huge.
Honorable mention to Penny's Big Breakaway, Prince of Persia, Path of the Teal Lotus, and Mario Party. This was a good P year (I haven't bought them yet but Paper Mario, Plucky Squire, and Pepper Grinder are all very high on my wishlist.)
@FishyS A perfectly palatable year for us passionate players to patiently (yet persistently) wait through this painful (albeit peaceful) period of time, 'til the palpable paramount moment when us passive people finally play even more perfectly pleasant and plucky games on the next playable (and portable) platform. (Before you ask, yes I googled p adjectives. XD)
My top 2 are:
1. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
2. Mario & Luigi: Brothership
I didn’t do top 3 because those are the only 2 games I got from the 2024 lineup at this point. Both excellent games and would alone make this year strong for gaming (in my opinion). I haven’t quite beat Brothership yet but it is awesome so far!
A NintendoLife user that could talk about Kirby, Pikmin, or Mario RPGs for hours without getting bored!
Unfortunately I don't play a ton of brand new games so the only 2024 games I've played are World of Goo 2 and the Splatoon 3 DLC.
Puzzle games also just get disrespected too much btw, no chance that would get a category. World of Goo 2 is too samey a sequel to deserve a full GOTY contender (though the original was the best game released in 2008, period), but I do wish it got some recognition.
@FishyS Haha living dangerously... I am looking forward to TGA genuinely though. If not taken too seriously, and applying a 'grain of salt' mentality to some of the results, I actually think the whole show is a pretty fun time - props to Geoff for keeping it alive
Tsukihime -A piece of bluegrass moon-
Unicorn Overlord
Ys X Nordics
...but suggesting Ys X is a bit dubious. It isn't as good as Ys VII, Ys VIII, or Ys IX. I'd rate Ys X as an 8/10. And even though there are probably a hundred or more games rated higher in aggregate score, I simply haven't played any of those yet.
Switch Physical Collection - 1,350 games (as of December 2nd, 2024)
Favorite Quote: "Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age the child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies." -Edna St. Vincent Millay
@Magician Personally I am not sure YS 8 will ever be topped - performs great on Switch also. The whole island/base building was really well implemented I thought. A nice balance of combat and 'RPG admin' IMO. I've not played Unicorn (yet) but here its really excellent... nice picks!
I'd think that we're at the point in the Switch's lifetime where running at all is going to be considered great performance. See also: Stray.
That said, I'd think it great that it's still getting these ports. Not everyone's hung up on graphical fidelity and frame rate, and they're still usually feature complete. For practically any previous Nintendo console, third party publishers would have given up several years back, but it's clearly a platform with far longer legs than they've ever had.
This will be my last year watching The Game Awards. I have recently watched a video about the topic and its 100% accurate, in terms that the nominations are quite biased, specially with Nintendo games being isolated into "family games", when in my point of view Super Mario Bros. Wonder was more than worthy to be part of GOTY but it wasn't due to recent nominations being what I like to call "interactive movies". Yes, I know Tears of the Kingdom and Metroid Dread were GOTY nominated games but also shows that the jury considers Nintendo too childish to compete as there are so many recent Nintendo games worth to compete in the many categories the show has.
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