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Game of the Year
Best First Playthrough 2021
LISA may have come out in 2014 but I was extremely late to this one but I can't think of a game that I played this year that stuck with me quite as strongly as LISA did. It's dark, its funny, its challenging, its got crows that are save points that explode when you use them, what more could you possibly want? Also the soundtrack fucking SLAPS. The game is like, 7 pounds on Steam so go buy it
Biggest Liar
This game was a massive piece of shit with its uninteresting story and completely idiotic lead character but the worst offence this game pulls is telling you that repeated deaths will result in a deleted save game. Well guess what? That's not true. The dev team had to lie to you to create a sense of tension because the game is so poorly written and poorly made that it can't do it by itself. Fuck this game
Biggest Dissapointment
I was pretty interested in Everhood when I first saw it. It's very clearly trying to do an Undertale but the rhythm game based combat looked like something that was right up my alley. Playing it was also pretty promising at first too but it's trying so hard to be deep (like Undertale) and mysteries (like Yume Nikki et al) and instead just comes off as pretentious crap. The soundtrack was good and there are some really strong moments but overall the game felt like a total slog. If games that have their heads shoved so far up their own arse that they can use their own skulls as periscopes appeal to you, then maybe you'll like it, but I shall not be doing a repeat playthrough of this one in a hurry
Pleasantest Surprise
So if you look through the Twitter thread you'll notice that this game isn't on there because I'm stupid and forgot to add it to the list when I beat it. I guess that makes its title in this article also rather appropriate.
I got this game for free off the Epic Game Store and wasn't expecting a lot from it and granted, it's not really anything special. It's a sort of generic hairy dad game with the hairy dad replaced with a teenage girl and the voice acting is a bit weird but it' rather pleasing visually and I found myself getting pretty attatched to the characters by the end. Also the game climaxes with you having an all out rat war with the catholic church and that's pretty cool. Not a masterpiece by any stretch but I was expecting a pile of stinky poop garbage and got something pretty playable that I kept wanting to go back to until I beat it and I'm genuinely happy its getting a sequel.
Worst Game
I played through many a stinker. Benbo Quest, Summer of 58, Slender the Arrival, The Tape and a bunch more but none of them were quite as putrid and as unplayable as Bendy and the Ink Machine. An uninteresting, unscary, slow, boring and buggy mess of a game that did nothing but waste my time and piss me off to no end. Don't buy this, dont play it even if you get it for free, it's an absolute disgrace to the horror genre and the people who put this out into the world should be ashamed of themselves for creating something so irredeemably vile
Well that's it, that's all I can be bothered to write about this late at night. I'm now going to wrap up under my sheets and play GOTY Shin Megami Tensei 5 until I fall asleep.
Happy New Year everyone!
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