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@atheistpreacher: I just watched Haibane for the first time a couple years ago, after having thoroughly enjoyed Lain, and it's great. In fact, I just re-watched it with some friends the other month and they loved it as well. Absolutely quaint, just a very quiet, warm anime that I think does a pretty good job of handling fairly heavy topics in a way that's mostly very subtle and understated.

I've meant to watch Texhnolyze too, but just haven't gotten around to it. I'm fairly willing to give anything attached to ABe at least a chance.

Wouldn't counting "this century" as "anything in the past 100 years" just be "what are the 20 best anime"? With that in mind, it seems more fitting to do a top 20 of the 21st century so far.

A top 10 to the best of my memory:

10. Death Note | 9. Azumanga Daioh | 8. Pop Team Epic | 7. Little Witch Academia | 6. Eizouken

5. Yuru Camp | 4. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood | 3. Nichijou | 2. Mob Psycho 100 | 1. Haibane Renmei

I'm generally fine no matter how the GB crew land on a game, because nothing's for everyone so on, so forth. That said, I do wish someone on crew had gotten just a bit further in The Missing: J.J. Macfield etc. etc., if only so it could have gotten some more in-depth discussion during that year's GotY "games recap" thing.

To my memory, it sounded like one or two of them had gotten about an hour away from where the game really starts to tip its hand, and everything from that point on feels like such vital context for what the game is and why it's intriguing beyond a kinda clever mechanic and an auteur's oversight. I don't imagine it would have done much better in GotY had the added context been there (2018 was a stacked year and even I'm not sure if I love the game), but it was a bit sad to see the game's discussion boil down to "it's a clever mechanic and beyond that I unfortunately just haven't seen enough to say."

On a reverse note, I'm not one for fighting games at all, but I'm glad that the crew (especially Ben and Jason, to my memory), took a brief shining to Them's Fightin' Herds. It was neat seeing them push aside "oh it's the pony game" and get into it for a bit, especially the practice streams Ben did.

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-Damn the Man, Save the Music and Glitter Hearts

These two are table-top RPG systems, rather than video games. Someone went through adding missing games from the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality, and evidently these got mixed in.

-Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle and Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Chapter II: "Broken Wings"

These two are duplicates of Nina Aquila: Legal Eagle, Season One, which covers chapters I, II, and III.

-#hasicontent

Duplicate of #hasicontent.

-AIdol

Duplicate of AIdol

-Omrganaut

Misspelled duplicate of Omeganaut.

Rename

-Aldol -> AIdol (it's currently "A-lowercase L-dol", it should be "A-capital i-dol")

-Fish Fly Forever -> Fish Fly Fever

-Virtual Blinds -> Virtua Blinds

-Arch-P-G -> Argh-P-G

Typos.

-Deirdra Kiai Productions -> Squinkifer Productions

Name change, as visible on the Dominique Pamplemousse Steam page.

-Radical Solitaire -> Super Radical Solitaire

Original release superseded by new version.

@franzlska: I don't think Balan Wonderworld* needs help anymore, now that I've given it a body section, concepts, characters, and credits. In fact, I would dare say it could now fit under quality pages. I certainly can't think of anything else to put in there.

Other quality pages: Steam, Terraria (both fairly fleshed out even before I updated them recently), Club Penguin (I've tried to flesh it out as much as a game like this can be), Advance Wars

Interesting things: Virus Installed with Game

Could use some help: Virus Installed with Game

As a kid I would often try my hardest to wring as many hours out of games as possible, especially if I liked them, replaying them/going for achievements/just plain messing around to my heart's content. That said, even at the time I usually just played what I was interested in rather than specifically thinking "Wow! This game is 200 hours I can play it forever!" or some similar idea.

Especially nowadays, the longer the game the less likely I am to actually play it. I still don't go for the idea of needing [x] many hours out of a game, and actively steer away from series that I perceive as "long for sheer length's sake", even if I still turn around and dump a hundred hours into something completely random. But at the same time, a lot of the more time-expectant games that have caught my eye end up sitting in my Steam library for months before I bother to open them, and even then I'll sometimes start them, get a ways in, and never finish them despite enjoying myself.

I think there's something to be said for games that take their time because they have somewhere to go with it, but in the past few years a lot of my favorite experiences with games have been more "bite-sized" games no longer than five hours to play through. I feel like a good percentage of games could benefit from redirecting themself towards a more compact experience like that, if it weren't currently difficult because of how games are tangled up in weird player expectations of "time per dollar" and the marketing traditions of the past that make some people view headlines like "500 hours long" as exciting instead of terrifying.

Cheers as always.

-Rename Brave Bubble Dragon 2 -> Bubble Hero 2 (Keep original as alias)

The original title might translate out to Brave Bubble Dragon, but the in-game logo of the English version calls it Bubble Hero 2.

-Rename The Wilting of Amaranth -> The Wilting Amaranth

-Add aliases Dr. Cat and Felorin to David Shapiro

Aliases used by Shapiro at various points, most notably as a map easter egg in Caverns of Freitag and among the furry community as a developer on Furcadia.

-Add alias Maddy Makes Games to Extremely OK Games.

Revision of the old name, as visible on Maddy Thorson's website.

-Add alias Muhammad Avdol to Muhammad Abdul

Alternate spelling.

-Add alias Kisima Ingitchuna to Never Alone (game) and Never Alone (franchise)

Original language title.

-Add alias Mars of Destruction to Hametsu no Mars

Unofficial but commonly-used title translation.

-Add alias Yo-Kai Watch PuniPuni to Yo-Kai Watch Wibble Wobble.

Japanese title.

Delete

-Yo-Kai Watch PuniPnui

Duplicate of Yo-Kai Watch Wibble Wobble.

-Sunrider Academy

Duplicate of Sunrider Academy.

-fabel ii

My best guess is this was meant to refer to Fable II.

-Seaweed (object)

Duplicate of Seaweed (concept)

-Self Explanatory Title

Duplicate of Titular Gameplay

-Combat Royale (?)

What's the wiki stance on Roblox games having their own entries?

I managed to get my yearly recap/GotY done before New Year's, for once.

FRANZlSKA's 2021 Reflection and GotY

@juulcat: Not at all! The actual text of your comment still had the game names, and the images were still present under each game's images section, so it wasn't too much of an issue.