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Enderal: Forgotten Stories (PC)

Not even close. No contest. This is my game played of the year. It's so beautiful. It doesn't do Skyrim justice. It turns everything into this awesome little adventure. And the themes. God. I knew where it was going and I wasn't ready for the end still. I haven't felt like this since playing Iconoclasts but that game didn't take itself seriously much and this one just pulled existentialism completely straight. Also kinda funny since I had just played Mass Effect. Seeing as that game's ultimate plot mirrors this one---ancient inevitable beings who exist outside our understanding, manipulating the entire world in order to bring about their self-annihilation, only to do it all over again.

There's alot I wanna say about this game and I might've made this post too early as I'm fresh out of the post-game funk. So maybe I'll come up with a decent writeup in the future. All I can say is, this game lingered for awhile in a manner who's themes are similar to the game itself. It was like Spec-Ops: The Line where the only to win was to not play at all. But unlike that game, it was all over in 15-ish levels. This one took its time. Set things up. The well-writteness of it, as well as the voice acting really sold things. Sold everything. God, this game.

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