by mento
They should call these the Snoring Twenties, because I'm finding fewer and fewer reasons to get out of bed every morning. One of those reasons is video games, however, and with the recent handful of strong years for releases at least my backlog is as hale and hearty as always. If we're going to spend another twelve months indoors evading Microscopic Koosh Balls of Death it's for the best that I've got a stockpile of interactive delights on hand. All they need to do now is invent video games that can double as toilet paper. Besides Balan Wonderworld.
We're sticking with our "Run BWC" format, because it's like that and that's the way it is:
To befit what will no doubt be this year's ongoing theme transmitted over from last year, each item on the list will be given a Greek letter that corresponds to its priority status: Alpha (A) being the highest priority and Epsilon (E) being the lowest.
(Be sure to check out last year's List of Shame to see how I did! (Spoiler: I did OK!))
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[B] Priority: Alpha. Not holding my breath for any sales though. Nintendo's not exactly the most generous developer out there. As soon as they start emulating Wii games the Switch Online price will go up yet again, and all they'll have for the first three months is P.T. Boredom's Carnival Games and Wipe My Ass Simulator '09.
[B] Priority: Beta. I have a Tales game in reserve so I can wait a little longer for the newest entry to dip in price, but it's another like Psychonauts 2 where I feel like many more people are talking about the game than I ever would've expected. It's encouraging. Very encouraging.
[B] Priority: Gamma. Currently the third most pressing Soulslike in my backlog. Anime vampires. I'm curious if that means their personalities change depending on which blood type they just drank.
[B] Priority: Gamma. On the one hand it's Dragon Quest but on the other it's Musou, so while I'm a little hesitant to get started on it I remembered having a fine enough time with the first Dragon Quest Heroes some years ago. I played two Dragon Quest games in 2021 though so I might have my fill of grinning slimes, at least for the first half of this year.
[B] Priority: Gamma. Another beefy CRPG though one I only own on PC. I managed to get through the Obsidian IE throwbacks just fine on this ailing laptop, but it's still a gamble I'm worried to take. However, since there's been another, even better Pathfinder game released in the meantime I'm more anxious than ever to get caught up.
[B] Priority: Gamma. I picked Xillia 2 up just recently because copies of this PS3 Tales have been relatively sparse ever since it was mysteriously removed from the European PSN store. Bamco aren't the biggest fans of making their tentpole anime RPGs accessible, even after the surprise mainstream success of Arise. Well, I own it now, and I'll want to polish off any remaining PS3 games I can before it's time to pack that curvy customer away.
[B] Priority: Delta. Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited to play the continuing adventures of Detective Man Who is So Handsome His Talent Agency is Afraid of Hackers Putting Him in SFM Porn, or Yagami for short, but Yakuza 7 is probably going to take the one slot I reserve per year for a Yakuza playthrough. I can beat up all those highschoolers some other time.
[B] Priority: Delta. Sometimes I sweep up JRPGs in sales just because they're super cheap without having any clear notion when I'll find the time to play them. I've been curious about the latter-era Shining games for a while - their localizations dried up shortly after the Genesis and Saturn generations - but I'm not exactly short on 50+ hour RPGs here.
[B] Priority: Delta. I've heard the single-player campaign is great. Many times, in fact. Yet I'm never in a mood for an FPS for some reason. There's just very little that interests me from the genre's mostly online-only offerings that I've grown apathetic with the whole 360 no-scope biz. (Also it's been so long since I FPS'd that these days I'm probably more of a 360 no-hope, if you will.)
[B] Priority: Epsilon. I feel like I make the same promise every year to finish off the few 3DS games I've got lying around and then never do. My 3DS runs out of charge the moment it notices it's out of its cradle, like an infant that can't remember why it was crying, so I probably should get a move on if I ever want to play these holdovers.
