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Hot Wheels Unleashed

Very nice casual racing game. Vibrant visuals, creative tracks and cool vehicles. It can feel quite difficult in the beginning but once you've worked out the turning/boosting and have a decent car collection it gets much easier to consistently place 1st.

I don't know if it ranks #1, but Tunic really feels like a masterpiece. It's a Zelda clone on its surface, but it has so many really cool ideas of its own, and a sense of discovery that is just magical.

Mary skelter finale. I played it twice, once on switch and once on ps4 (platted it also) and its gameplay was super good i also love the characters despite the lackluster story

If you mean games I played for the first time: I like Xenoblade DE a lot.
A lack of post-game stuff to do and NG+ not letting me have all my characters for the full duration aside, I couldn't put this thing down. It was the closest I came to getting to play FFX for the first time again.
The fight system's pretty simplistic but it's fun customising your characters and seeing how busted you can make them. I liked playing as Reyn the most. There's definitely worse characters but I found everyone to be viable. There's an expert mode that lets you drop your level for both challenge and for higher rewards. There's a short epilogue with a tweaked battle system which is kinda novel.
I don't play a lot of JRPGs so I don't have much to compare the story to but I was engaged and I still keep my eyes open for topics about it so I can try and get answers to parts of it I still think about.
Cutscenes are skippable, load times are tolerable, music is actually great, there's lots of side quests and a bunch of them are collecting/fetch quests like you'd find in an MMO but in a kind of neat way, it's hard not to end up with a headstart on a bunch of them since each area is full of respawning items lying around.

If you mean any game I played in the last two years at all: You have to play Viewtiful Joe.
Here's what it is. You have time powers, fast and slow motion, fast for afterimages and setting yourself on fire for extra power, Slow for reading enemy attacks and hitting harder. There's a zoom ability but it's mainly there to compliment the other two. Enemies telegraph their attacks, you dodge them, then you go slow and while slowed the enemy gains a big purple target on them, you hit them and they go flying like a bowling ball and every other enemy on screen gains the big purple target of death. You have until the rest of your slow meter runs out or less if you'd like to run up to the rest and punt them into orbit too. There's 3 unlockable characters with gimmicks that appear simplistic but really factor in once you're familiar with the mechanics.
The character is just 10/10 fun to control. You can jump out of slides, cancel punches and kicks so the first to make impact will be a later part of the combo, Redhot Kick after landing a Redhot Kick and then zoom to get the powered up Redhot Kick, slow zoom kick is invincible, Voomerangs are really OP, you can throw a Shocking Pink out then mach speed Zoom kick it to catch fire and create afterimages without any enemies nearby. If you Ukemi after getting hit, the grading system will forgive you and still let you have a good rank. I'm a little torn on Viewtiful Forever but there's definitely use in stalling out nasty attacks by buying a few extra seconds of slow through it. The same way I describe having to open up enemies with dodges, Bosses are puzzle like unless you bought a lot of Voomerangs (At the expense of your score which doubles as points you spend at the shop for upgrades), there's a couple that push it like the final boss' first phase on Ultra V but I miss challenge and every time I start wondering if I even like video games anymore, I go play VJ1 and get my latest reminder that it's the new games who are wrong. The sequel is way up there too if you like the first.

the forgotten city

first person mystery/adventure game.

started out as a mod for skyrim but eventually became its own release. the premise is that you're a modern person who gets whisked back in time to a roman city and you have to find a way back to your own time. to say more would ruin the sense of discovery.

i've been looking for more games with the same sense of mystery as well as incredibly satisfying resolution but haven't come across any.

Amazing! Appreciate the recs!! Keep em coming!!

Death Stranding

It gets a lot of shade and memed to oblivion but its actually a really well made and unique game. Its also one that you cant just watch. Half the experience is playing it.

Its not walking simulator either. People like to use that as some negative that makes the game bad. But its so much more.

It has amazing visuals, a great soundtrack and some perfect casting. The story itself is very engrossing but very dense. It tackles topics and ideas I never thought a game could and creates a world where its not just kill this bad guy for loot or similar loop.

Its a game that, given the chance, can actually make you think and feel. Which to be fair, a lot of people probably dont want. For me personally it was very healing and helped me understand things in new ways.

You dont even have to play it on a high difficulty either. The journey is just as important as the story.