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It is a game that I would not have played if not for the series it is in, and I would have already abandoned it if I didn’t have a sacred duty as the guardian of Final Fantasy culture. But I’ve been slacking on it because "Final Fantasy XV" feels like work. I promise at some point I’ll get back to "Final Fantasy XV" and play enough to gather together a review. "Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse" is a derivative cash-in sequel, but it puts a very dark spin on the already dark storyline of the previous game. The god you prayed to, the one that didn’t answer those prayers. But I give it a pass because 1) "Shin Megami Tensei IV" is the single best game on the 3DS and it turns out I actually did want to play another fifty hours of it, unlike "Bravely Default". So in utter hypocrisy, here's "Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse" which is just more "Shin Megami Tensei IV". These expansion pack titles deserve no place on a Top 10. I loved the first one, but I had no stomach to just play that game again as a sequel. I didn't even finish "Bravely Second" in the end. "Bravely Second" was more "Bravely Default", "Fire Emblem Fates" was more "Awakening", "Pokemon Moon" was more Pokemon… I hate to say it, but JRPGs were kinda boring this year. A lot of the problem is that most of the JRPGs I played this year felt like retreads of earlier games. If it were slightly harder this would have been 2016’s 2D answer to "Dark Souls"… besides "Salt and Sanctuary", of course.Ģ016 was a banner year for JRPGs, but only two made it on the final Top 10 list. It’s too short, and the bosses are just a tiny bit too easy. But there is just a tad too little game in "Hyper Light Drifter". This is one of the best looking pixel-art games I’ve ever seen. Most of the story is told through the scenery, which is stunning. You play as a man dying of some kind of tuberculosis in the ruins of the world after a vauge "Evangelion"-esque apocalypse. It is its own grim kind of weird action game. However, "Hyper Light Drifter" is good enough to stand on its own outside the Zelda comparisons.
Yet the game really doesn’t have much in the way of characters and its puzzles are non-existent. You have your top-down action, your exploration, and your world-building. "Hyper Light Drifter" scratches just about a third of that Legend of Zelda itch. We haven’t had a 2D Zelda game in a while. So without further ado, here the games of 2016 that I'm glad ate my time: By the end you realize there really isn't. I'm just one person, there seems to be an infinity of time at the beginning of year. (You'll notice, AAA open world games failed to make this list entirely.) But I also missed things I wanted to play, like "Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE", "Firewatch", "Superhot", "Dragon Quest Builders", "Oxenfree", "The Witness", and who knows, maybe "Titanfall 2" could have surprised me. "Mirror's Edge" is a classic, "Mirror's Edge: Retaliation" has been turned into the standard open world game that everything else is now. Life is short, nobody has time to waste on regurgitation like "Far Cry: Primal". So many of the big budget games this year looked utterly boring, so I ignored them. Now that said, I couldn't play everything.
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I really wanted in 2016 to try to see the full width and breath of what the gaming industry had to offer, both big and small. I spent the summer playing dirty western first person shooters. I took his advise to heart and spent the winter playing a filthy Polack gaijin RPG in "The Witcher 3". At the beginning of this year Yahtzee wrote in his Extra Punctuation column that gamers should get out of their comfort zones in 2016. If it wasn’t some Japanese RPG or "Putt-Putt", I was probably not going to try it. I knew exactly what kinds of games I wanted to play and didn’t want to break too far out of that box. Until 2016 I just never had the money or the time to play as many games as I could. I’ve never written a Top 10 Video Game List before.
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