My GOTY in this year filled to the brim with the best games of all time. I say this about a lot of things but god genuinely there wasnt a single minute of this game where I didnt think that it wasnt a pure work of genius.

I went through their backcatalog VERY fast but never have I trusted a developer/writer combo more than Remedy and Sam Lake.

Also as a Finnish person i just outright cannot state just how fucking amazing was it to see a work of fiction of this scope celebrate being Finnish as brazenly as Alan Wake 2. The entire game was filled with a bunch of scenery, jokes and memoribilia that could have been taken right from a small Finnish town with a major cabin population.

This game is just a pure masterpiece of wonder that's worth playing every single game that lead up to it.

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Fate/Samurai Remnant is overall a very great game with a couple of pretty glaring flaws.

The story of this game was a very fun return to the "proper" Holy Grail War format that the franchise had not really used (Excluding FGO's Paper Moon chapter from earlier in the year) in ages. The way the game splits into a couple of different “routes” near the end also felt very reminiscent of Stay Night which was the best thing it could have been. Some parts of the story were unfortunately seemingly left open for DLC, but the package that's there is easily compelling enough to play the game without waiting for those.

The characters are all really great. Iori and Saber are just an incredibly charismatic duo to follow through the game and the way the NG+ exclusive ending caps off their story felt very cathartic. All of the other masters were also very endearing and I’m glad the game managed to show their side as well.

My biggest issue with the game though is its gameplay. The boss “break bars” are far too annoying to deal with and every single fight feels like a drag. The normal enemies and the more “musoulike” gameplay was very fun but most story bosses lost some of their oomph due to the super long time to beat them. It also did not help that the game required another playthrough to reach the 2 endings you didn't achieve on your first playthrough.

Kondo's trick proves to once again be unbeatable with what's probably Falcom's most polished game to date.

Every single second of this game is the most insane fast paced fun. All the other times they reinvented the gameplay system the first entry felt very weak to me but X busted through the door with full power and full fun. Only real issue gameplaywise i had was boss healthbars felt a bit too inflated at times.

The exploration in this game is probably the best part about it. Just cruising through areas with the hoverboard or using the hook for swinging simply filled me with unmeasurable joy.

The story is also very great for what it tries to do. There wasnt a time where I felt bored or thought it was meaningless and there was a good amount of great moments for all of the main characters sprinkled into it. The "cast of misfits" that you collect during your adventure wasnt as unique as IX's but it was still a fun ensemble nonetheless especially with the main group.

The side content is basically the exactly same as VIII and IX so I dont have much to comment on that.

The presentation for the game is very good for the limits that it got burdened by from being on the Switch aswell. None of the areas looked ugly. The music was also very good for being a modern Falcom OST. Every single area and event theme was basically perfect with the few weaker tracks being mainly boss ones.

TLDR: I absolutely loved this game and i cant wait to see where they go next with Ys or whatever other non Kiseki title they are working on

The Perfect Bad Game

This game truly manages to take everything corny about Persona's dating system and turns them into something thats not exactly that good but just charming with how funny and stupid it is.

The gameplay is pretty much the most medicore action combat of all time but i wont blame this game for that as its developed by basically a single person.

Absolutely the best aspect of this game is that I spent basically the entire runtime laughing my ass off. If you try taking this game seriously you will not like it but if you consider the game as a massive ironic joke it turns into the greatest thing ever written

I dont think i would recommend this game to anyone but at the same time its so funny that I think people should see it for themselves