LogFAQs > #932441517

Now that I'm halfway through, a couple of things. First, I feel like such an idiot, because I probably curated this list over the last 4 months or so, and yet in the last week, I wound up discovering THREE 2010 games that I forgot to include. I already mentioned Unwound Future, but I'm going to cover these two now as well. It's too late to put them on the list, but oh well!

Oops I Fucked Up #1



Years of release: 2010 (Wii), 2019 (3DS)
Beaten?: Yes
Should've ranked: In the 70's or 80's

I just knew there was going to be at least one DS or Wii game that escaped my notice! For 3DS, PC, etc I have activity metrics and such to help me not miss anything, but I don't have anything like that for DS and Wii games, and it's really easy for me to forget which ones count for this decade and which ones don't. Unfortunately, this one actually DID come out in 2010, even though it feels like it was a year or two before that.

I love Kirby's Epic Yarn. I don't think there's any Kirby games on my decade list, sadly, but Kirby is still a great series nontheless; the games are just plain fun, even if they're not meant to be uber-challenging. Epic Yarn really is in a cuteness class of its own though - I love the yarn style and the adorable piano soundtrack. I like the gameplay too - this is one of the rare Kirby games that lacks copy powers and while I wouldn't say the game is better off for it, there's something nice about this being kind of a return to Kirby sucking things up (or in this case, grabbing them with yarn) and throwing them at enemies.

Oops I Fucked Up #2



Years of release: 2009 (DS, Japan), 2010 (DS, NA), 2017 (PC/PS4/Vita)
Beaten?: Yes
Should've ranked: In the 40's

Oh god, what a fucking idiot. I facepalmed so hard when I realized this game came out in 2010 in my country; I had always had this marked down as a 2009 game, aka not a game of this decade, but that was only in Japan. I can't write it off as a 2009 game, because there is another game on this list coming up that has a 2009 Japanese release date, so I just plain fucked up. I could've combined it with VLR as "The Nonary Games" later on my list (spoilers, VLR made the cut in my top 50, that should be really plainly obvious though) but the two games are too different and distinct for that to make any sense. This should absolutely be on my games of the decade list but I failed to account for it for some reason.

999 is great. I played it pretty much solely on the recommendation of Board 8, after they didn't steer me wrong with Phoenix Wright; you guys didn't steer me wrong here either. For all of its pseudo-philosophical bullshit and absolutely bizarre plot and sometimes frustrating gameplay mechanics, 999 is definitely one hell of a ride, a visual novel mystery experience unlike anything I've previously experienced, and I was hooked from beginning to end. There's a lot of great moments in this one that are worth the price of admission.