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I would love to see Born from a Wish. I may have seen the ending cutscene like 10 years ago, but I never played it. For how much I know about Silent Hill 2, it would be fun to actually know what that thing is.

As they say in Silent Hill, "Let's a-go"

In the words of Carly Rae Jepsen: “Oh yeah a sword!”

Catching up on this series, but yes, please play Silent Hill 2.

Thanks for writing this. It feels like there's so much anime there's plenty of stuff I'm not familiar with, so always like reading other people's favorites.

Laid-Back Camp 2 is great. Really enjoyed that season.

I really enjoyed these deliberations. Jeff was a good facilitator and everybody had solid moments calling out games they loved. Some really interesting and surprising picks all around.

It's nice to have a return to form between the 2020 and 2021 deliberations. These last couple GOTYs were a lot manageable compared to one of those years where the overall deliberations were 16 or 17 hours long. In years past, I would load up a previous GOTY discussion while driving cross country for the holidays. Some just got too long, I'm not sure I will ever revisit them. Really appreciate the pace and format of these discussions.

The overall GOTY pick seemed to just happen. It felt similar to how Tetris Effect won back in 2018. Back then, it felt like the two main camps were God of War and Red Dead Redemption II, both had their detractors, and a less divisive game won. Sort of felt like the same thing happened here. For a moment, I thought Chicory was going to get cut, but people weren't really talking about it while they were hyping up other games like Monster Hunter Rise and Guardians of the Galaxy to make sure they made the cut.

Cool to see the mods represented alongside the staff and guest lists.

Thanks for the review Jeff. Would be interested in hearing more about what Jeff thinks about all of this. Do reviews have a place at Giant Bomb? Should they be replaced with some other critical writing? Will they stay the same, but just be inherently a weird thing?

They’ve been infrequent over the years and the podcast or Quick Look can tell you just as much if not more than some reviews, but at the same time sitting down and read through Jeff talk about all this stuff was nice.

Ben, we thank you for your service. (For the third time?)

For the show name, I am fine with Voicemail Dump Truck. Alternatively, I would be down with that being called The Exit Flu.