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2022 Game of the Year

Need to play more:

Horizon Forbidden West

Would like to play:

Rogue Legacy 2, Sniper Elite 5, Cuphead DLC, AI nirvanA Intiative, The Quarry, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, Evil West, River City Girls 2

Best New Mode: Fortnite Zero Build

As someone who is not a big fan of battle royale games in general, I immediately bounced off Fortnite several years ago after realizing it had this whole weird building aspect. I gave it another try this year with the addition of zero build mode, and it turns out Fortnite is a pretty damn good game! The actual standard gameplay is fine, but all the goofy shit they constantly add to the game like the crossovers with completely random celebrities and characters from other IP really make it special.

Best mediocre AAA game: Dying Light 2

2022 really was the year of average, if not outright disappointing AAA games. Saints Row, Gotham Knights, some game about ghosts in Tokyo that I can't remember the name of. Dying Light 2 was a bit of a letdown for me considering how much I enjoyed the first one, but I did still play 60+ hours and finished the story, so I guess it was the best mediocre game of the year?

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  • Sifu makes me feel like some hellacious combination of John Wick and Batman. Just beating the shit out of dudes with a flurry of fists and random melee weapons. It's challenging in a nearly perfect way that makes each victory feel amazing. The art is fantastically stylish with each level having it's own distinct look and theme. It also sounds great, both with it's music and ambient noise. Oh, and it puts a twist on the ubiquitous rogue-like genre with a unique aging mechanic. In a year of many good but not great games, Sifu clearly stands out as the best of 2022.

  • Best walking simulator ever.

  • I really came around on this after initially being disappointed with the poor performance at launch and the realization that they ditched the superior combat mechanics from Sekiro only to go back to the standard old Souls style we've seen many times now. The more I played though, the more I realized this is one of the most incredible open worlds to explore in any video game. The double jumping horse that can be spawned any time in the open world was perhaps the star of the show. Sekiro is still From's best game, but Elden Ring is pretty great.

  • Any game that makes me feel like I could legitimately be a speed runner has to be one of the best designed games of the year.

  • Very much a straight sequel to God of War 2018, which turns out to be a pretty great thing. The pacing is weird and the boss fights don't feel quite as epic as the prequel, but this is still about as good as AAA gaming gets in 2022.

  • This is essentially Kirby Odyssey. It's also the first Kirby game that I played for more than an hour or so. Just a pleasant 3D platformer, at least until the end, when it gets kinda crazy and surprisingly challenging.

  • A cute little fox takes on the role of Link in this Zelda-like. The hook in Tunic is actually it's in game manual, which looks like it fell right out the NES era. As you collect more pages, it reveals important gameplay hints and strategies. It's incredibly well done, but the pathfinding and some of the puzzles are quite obtuse, which unfortunately became a bit frustrating in the latter half of the game.

  • A really stylish looking game in the mold of PS1 era Resident Evil / Silent Hill types. I might be too dumb to completely understand everything happening with the story, but the mystery combined with the solid classic RE style gameplay kept me riveted for a couple weeks until I saw the (real?) ending.

  • Imagine if DOOM was a rhythm game...
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