Hey there, Owlboys and Sega Hard Girls, to another December of catch-up fun with Go! Go! GOTY! 2016 Edition. A holiday custom as sacred as the yule log or the Santa hat avatar, I spend the first few weeks of every December collecting together and playing through any remaining 2016 games I own but had yet to begin for last-minute GOTY list additions. This Go! Go! GOTY! will feature a particularly slim selection - since buying a PS4 last December, I've been focused on plumbing its back-catalog this year - but I think I have enough here and on the GOTY list already that the top ten won't end up being a complete embarrassment. If I run out of material too quickly, I have some "bonus" episode refreshers for a few games I wanted to revisit before passing any manner of hierarchical judgement on them.

As with last year's Go! Go! GOTY! and the one before that, there are a few rules I observe during this daily series:

• I'll try to finish every game I start, unless they really don't agree with me or they aren't the sort of games with completion states.
• After three consecutive days spent on one game I'll move onto the next, regardless of the former's completion status. I'll keep working on those as I play through the others, but unless something drastically changes in the late-game I'll have no doubt said everything I needed to after three updates.
• The cut-off this year will be the 18th of December, though I'll probably work my way through the stack I have here long before then. After that, it's awards time.

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