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True, lotta good Katamari out there. Ooh picking a favorite song is especially hard, I might go with Beautiful Katamari's song "Unity", actually. First time I heard it it was the WORST song I ever heard in my life, but it grew on me. That was my "get home from work song" for a while this year.

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#20 TUNIC

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Every criticism against Tunic is valid. But c'mon, the instruction manual ROCKS.

You keep finding pages of the game's manual, over the course of the entire game, and the manual is an outrageously cute throwback to early 90s game manuals, with full artistic maps of sections of the game, hints and story, etc. It's probably my favorite innovation I've ever seen in this action/adventure genre.

AND the manual synergizes well with the excellent mysterious nature of the game: there is no exposition (thank GOD), you're simply dropped in the LTTP-style overworld and you play. You don't know the story, what objects and items do, etc. But slowly, the manual fills in these blanks, and your sense of wonder is replaced with Aha satisfaction!

If you are vulnerable to video game nostalgia (as I extremely am), Tunic will absolutely make you feel like a kid again.

The game could be higher on the list, but I think some of the endgame puzzling feels a little unfair, and, many aspects of the endgame are a little unsatisfying/disappointing (e.g. the endings).

BEST LEVEL: Weird flex but I liked the Frog's Domain a lot. Just a cute little dungeon, love the frogs, and their mysterious culture.