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SHINE_GET_64
12/29/22 11:55:51 PM
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WiggumFan267 posted...
Kirby and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat or whatever its called
Kirby & the Amazing Mirror was a fun game

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SHINE_GET_64
12/30/22 12:08:47 AM
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Top 10 Favorite Games of 2022

#3. Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

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This is probably the game that has fluctuated the most on my list. I've had it as high as #1 and I've had it as low as #5 so let's just settle right in the middle here at #3. This is like the ultimate B-Game, what Ninja Team accomplished with such limited time and budget is quite frankly astounding. Chaos memes and goofy dialogue aside, at it's core this game is a Nioh clone (like I checked out Nioh after finishing this game and I was shocked how much of it is just lifted straight from that) that serves as a prequel to Final Fantasy 1 and gives Garland an origin story that he probably didn't need, but I'm happy it exists regardless. Every stage is inspired from an area in each of the 15 mainline Final Fantasy games and we even learn each FF game is its own pocket dimension controlled by higher beings called Lufenians who influence events to make them repeat over and over again Jack's lust to murder Chaos eventually makes him the Garland we all know in his quest to break this timeloop and eventually give way to the true Warriors of Light. Unlike Bayonetta 3, this games combat goes all in on making each weapon type feel like it's own game with deep movesets that are really use it or lose it. When the combat just clicks it feels really amazing, but step away for even a little while and you just kinda forget it all (something I've struggled with a bit when coming back for the DLCs). Those finishing moves where you just brutally murder Final Fantasy enemies never stops being entertaining, especially the cuter ones like Tonberrie sand Cactuars. You can nitpick things about it here and there, but it really felt like a game that was greater than the sum of its parts.

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SHINE_GET_64
12/30/22 12:33:59 AM
#55:


Top 10 Favorite Games of 2022

#2. Elden Ring

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I don't know what to say about Elden Ring that hasn't already been said by everyone else. It feels like the culmination of everything FromSoftware has been building towards since the very first King's Field. What really blew me away was thinking I had a grip on how big the game was and then realizing oh no this map is actually several times larger than this as it continuously expanded and zoomed out further and further....and that's not even counting the subterranean areas that also take up a large portion of the map just undocumented. Taking that elevator down to Nokron and seeing just this massive underground city for the first time was probably the moment of this game for me and made me realize what I was really in for. Much like Breath of the Wild I think this game raised the bar for what the design of an open world game could and should be. I played through the entire game at launch though and was able to Kamehameha sword my way through the entire game before they patched that so my build is probably useless now, but I'll still come back if they ever release a story expansion.

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SHINE_GET_64
12/30/22 12:48:03 AM
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Top 10 Favorite Games of 2022

#1. Xenoblade Chronicles 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7cJ8emNKKI

Much like Elden Ring, this feels like a culmination of everything Tetsuya Takahashi has been trying to accomplish since Xenogears. He finally got to tell a complete story and deliver a fully realized world for the first time in his career without his publisher screwing it up for him. Honestly the Kotaku review says all this better than I ever could so I implore you to read it because it's really good

https://kotaku.com/xenoblade-chronicles-3-review-switch-jrpg-takahashi-1849652958

All I'm going to add is while I think maybe the music is a bit weaker than past Xeno games, everything else was just such a huge improvement. The combat took the best pieces of Xenoblade 1 and 2 and mashed them together (as is the theme with everything about Xenoblade 3) while also introducing an entire class system that was seamless to get into (as someone who doesn't really like class systems in JRPGs), the world was filled with both new and familiar locales, Rex became a gigachad and got all his sword ladies pregnant and at the end Noah and Mio kissed and I had no choice but to shoot it up to number 1 at that point. THEY KISSED. Not even Shulk was able to pull that one off.


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SHINE_GET_64
12/30/22 12:50:19 AM
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Top 10 Favorite Games of 2022
1. Xenoblade Chronicles 3
2. Elden Ring
3. Strange of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
4. Tunic
5. Live A Live
6. Sonic Frontiers
7. Bayonetta 3
8. Kirby and the Forgotten Land
9. Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration
10. God of War: Ragnarok
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Honorable Mentions
  • Horizon Forbidden West
  • Neon White
  • Stray
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
  • Windjammers 2


Top 5 Old Games of 2022
1. The Legend of Heroes: Trails From Zero
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
3. Alan Wake: Remastered
4. Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition
5. Tactics Ogre Reborn

Top 5 Games of 2022 I wish I played
1. Pokemon Legends Arceus
2. Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII Reunion
3. Vampire Survivors
4. Soul Hackers 2
5. Star Ocean: The Divine Force

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MacArrowny
12/30/22 12:59:44 AM
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LaL not even a top 5 JRPG of 2022 imo

Some good games on the list though. Vampire Survivors is a gooder from your "wish" list.

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WiggumFan267
12/30/22 1:25:25 AM
#59:


3. of wigs

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

it's the first game again.... BUT ITS NOT (or is it?)
i dont like talking about this game without spoiling too much but def play this one (again?) if you liked the original even a little.

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SHINE_GET_64
12/30/22 1:28:13 AM
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it's okay Giant Bomb told me all about it

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WiggumFan267
12/30/22 1:28:58 AM
#61:


numba 2

Rogue Legacy 2

love it. I still need to "beat" it. But its so much fun, I can grind in this game forever.

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WiggumFan267
12/30/22 1:30:48 AM
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1.

Elden Ring

easy

Best Soulsborne game. such a sprawling world, so much to explore. so many bosses. so much choice. wow.

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WiggumFan267
12/30/22 1:33:23 AM
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1. Elden Ring
2. Rogue Legacy 2
3. Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
4. Return to Monkey Island
5. Kirby and the Forgotten Land
6. Stray
7. Jackbox Party Pack 9
8. Inscryption
9. TMNT: Shredder's Revenge
10. Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
11. Sonic Frontiers
12. Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Reunion
13. Case of the Golden Idol
14. Soundfall
15. Multiversus
16. The Looker
17. LEGO Star Wars: Skywalker Saga
18. MLB The Show 22
19. My Name is Mayo 3
20. Arcadegeddon
21. Pokemon Legends: Arceus
22. Final Fantasy Origins: Stranger of Paradise

my top 5....3 old games since i think i only played 3 re-releases
1. Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition
2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection
3. Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium

Top 5 2022 I wish i played:
1. Triangle Strategy
2. RPG Time: The Legend of Wright
3. Horizon: Forbidden West (I didn't play enough to form a real opinion yet)
4. God of War: Ragnarok
5. Shovel Knight Dig (for Switch)

DLCs:
1-Cuphead DLC
2-Bugsnax DLC
3-Hitman 3 DLC

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most_games_r_ok
12/30/22 2:13:04 AM
#64:


Xenoblade Chronicles 3 number one spot huh

As someone who never had a chance to play xenoanything, are the games actually connected from Gears/Saga or not?

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SHINE_GET_64
12/30/22 2:47:02 AM
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They have similar themes but they're not directly related

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andylt
12/30/22 10:58:25 AM
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Was pretty proud of solving the final puzzle of the golden path at the top of the snow mountain though I drew out that entire thing in MS Paint and was surprised what I was doing actually worked!

Same lol. Tunic is great!
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Great write-ups! I'm eager to play LaL, though your FFO write-up reconfirmed for me that I am probably too unskilled to manage that game's combat (the demo already confirmed it but I'd been tempted since).

I request a SHINE Xenogames ranking

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SHINE_GET_64
12/30/22 11:09:05 AM
#67:


Blade 1 still has that special place in my heart so I'm still putting it number 1 even though 3 is pretty much equal with it due to the other improvements

Xenoblade
Xenoblade 3
Xenogears
Xenosaga 3
Xenoblade 2
Xenoblade X
Xenosaga 1
Xenosaga 2

Note I still haven't played Torna, but it sounds like it's a mild improvement over XB2?

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colliding
12/30/22 12:21:19 PM
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good list

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most_games_r_ok
12/30/22 1:09:37 PM
#69:


SHINE_GET_64 posted...
They have similar themes but they're not directly related
Good to know. Didn't realize the list of xeno games was so large either

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MacArrowny
12/31/22 6:29:26 PM
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andylt posted...
Great write-ups! I'm eager to play LaL, though your FFO write-up reconfirmed for me that I am probably too unskilled to manage that game's combat (the demo already confirmed it but I'd been tempted since).
It's not a very hard game. Much easier than From games.

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