Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to side Quest. This is our weekly
video game show. Here I get first, and it's just
me Dylan again here today for another solo dolo episode.
This should be a fun one. I'm calling this the
Game of the Year epilogue. Of course, last week's episode
was the Game of the Year episode, where myself Kirkland
did our Game of the Year list, along with Travis
and Taylor jumping in there with their version as well.
I had all sorts of fun conversations about all the
different game of the year thoughts, honorable mentions, things we
didn't get around to planing, all that kind of fun stuff.
And yeah, this week I want to do just a
little bit more and I'm gonna do something kind of crazy.
Maybe not, But in the last week's episode, I of
course had my top ten ranked games of the year.
I had a few honorable mentions. But in this episode,
I am gonna do my ranking of all forty nine
games that I played in the calendar year. So taking
that top ten, expanding it out, stretching it out to
every single game, every single new game I should say
that I played in the year. I'm also gonna do
my twenty twenty six top ten most anticipated games of
the Year. Now, next week's episode, we will be doing
the preview, so we're gonna go month to month and
talk about all this stuff that has announced, the release dates,
break down all that stuff. I think I'll have Travis
and Kirkland with me for that one. But yeah, in
this episode, I'm gonna declare my top ten most anticipated.
And then also one of the things I talked about
last week is that, you know, Kirby air Riders, I
had just played a couple days before we did our
Game of the Year episode. It was hard for me
to have too many thoughts on it, but I've played
a lot of it in the last week, So I'm
gonna talk about that as well, and I'll put that
on my top ten, or not on my top ten,
but on my top forty nine ranking. Of course you'll
see where that ended up being. So yeah, I think
we'll just kind of get right into it. Should be fun.
Som a little bit different today. So yeah, I'm gonna
start with my my list, my top forty nine list,
and what I'm gonna do for this is i gonna
start from the top. I'm gonna work my way down,
So different than the normal starting at ten, working our
way up, and so this is definitely supposed to be
a accompanying episode, like a bonus episode two last week's
last week's Game of the Year. I definitely recommend, in fact,
I'll be mad at you if you listen to this episode.
First go please check out the Game of the Year
episode and then come back. And this is kind of
like a nice, yeah, nice dessert. I should, I should
say to what that episode is. And the reason for
that is, I'm just gonna spoil my list right here
because I'm gonna kind of blast through the top ten
because I talked in a big way about all of those,
and then we'll spend more time on some of the
other ones later. So uh yeah, once again. Last week episode,
my top ten. Number one was Expedition thirty three, number
two Death Stranding two. Number three was Silk Song four,
Donkey Kong, Bonanza five, Mario Kart World six, Adam Fall seven,
Ballpit eight, Blueprints nine, Tony three plus four. Number ten
I put a vowed And so this is where I
want to kind of break down and slow down a
little bit here because, as per usual with my Game
of Your list, I always kind of break things down
into tiers, and I had a tier of pretty much
my ten eleven twelve are kind of all in the
same tier now. One of those is avowed. One of
those is Metal Garden, which I talked about last week,
and Kirby air Riders, and so I was kind of
had that same little tier going on last week as well,
but air Riders has changed a little bit just because
I've played a lot more of it in this last week.
And yeah, I kind of want to stop here and
just talk about this game for a while, like, you know,
a bit of a review, bit of an impression. So
it's early on in the list here, but I think
this is a good time to do that. And if
you're watching the YouTube version, I'm just gonna have some
footage from the direct plane, so you can check out
some of that if you want on the side. But yeah,
Kirby air Riders, I've played a ton of this game now,
I've you know, been traveling, been on some planes and
some airports, just sitting around Christmas. Christmas time sort of vibes,
and so I've just been playing a lot of different games,
which I'm excited to share in the next few weeks.
But Kirby Era is the one I wanted to talk
about here, and yeah, so this game. You know, I
never played the original, and after watching both of Sakarai's
directs that he did for this game, I was intrigued.
But it felt like, Okay, the price is maybe a
little a little steep for what this game is, and
I think so far, I've really enjoyed it, and I
think I'll get my money's worth over time because it
is a crazy expensive game, as all Switch two games
are at this point. But I think, yeah, the first
thing I want to highlight about this game is kind
of like in that same sort of Smash Bro's way,
there's just so much to do. There are so many
game modes that feel very different. There's a lot of
stuff to unlock. I love unlocking stuff. I think Sakarai
with Smash and things like that, has gotten It's just
so much fun to unlock all the content. You know,
some games it's like all you just want everything from
the get go, but this one, it's like such a
fun time to unlock every little thing, and there's even
like more of that in this game. It feels like,
compared to like Smash Ultimate, to some extent because in
Smash you don't not like, I don't think you onlock
stages anymore. I don't think you unlock items anymore, right,
Like it's just characters at this point in time, like
certain mode things. But yeah, in this game you often
unlock like absolutely everything. You start with so little, and
you kind of build up to everything you're gonna get
along the way so that you know, I'll get my
money's worth over time. But yeah, the main modes in
this game, of course, there's the air Ride mode, which
is the simple basic racing mode that's you know where
the camera's behind you and you're flying through these courses
in a very Mario Kart esque sort of way. But
I'll talk about the kind of distinctions later on. There's
top Ride racing, which is kind of an aerial view
and you can kind of pretty much see the whole
course in one camera shot, so it's pulled out. The
maps are much smaller, much less, much more simplified to
kind of less going through caves or going through crazy
paths and different realms, which some of these other maps do.
So that's fun as well. You know, you have City Trial,
which is a really cool one. So this is similar
to the original game had this as well, but yeah,
City Trial essentially you have five minutes you en up
to I think sixteen players on this giant map, so
one map, not really a race map, just kind of
an open area. There's a city area, there's some fields,
there's some underground caves, there's a volcano, there's like an
underground parking garage. There's like a crashed pirate ship, and
some water areas. There's things you can fly up to
in the sky way up above everything else. And you're
going around. You're collecting power ups, boot boosting up your character.
You're finding carts or machines. I should say the cars
and this game are called machines, so you're switching between machines,
upgrading those stats, finding things. There's events that will pop up,
whether that's just like a world event like that could
be something like a boss battle, which is kind of
fun when you have sixteen racers all coming in to
just destroy this giant you know, flying dragon or whatever
it is. A dinosaur I think is one of them
that can pop up. And then there's other things like
you might get like a mini race within that five
minute timer for people who like go to that part
of the map and sign up for the racequote unquote.
Then you do a little bonus race and then whoever
wins that get some nice rewards. So you go around
for a few minutes, and then after that five minute
timer is up and you can change the timer length
if you want longer shorter games. That's just the default.
After you do all that, you get sent into a
variety of minigames really just one, which is a criticism
I do want to throw against this. So after all
this racing, you've built up your stats. Maybe you're really
good at flying, but maybe you're kind of slow, so
you can maybe pick a minigame that'll help you, just
like that will be beneficial to you if you can
just fly really high. It doesn't matter if you're super fat,
super fast. Maybe you just have crazy speed and crazy boost.
Maybe you just want to go for a basic race.
And then there's like other mini games like hitting certain targets,
riding on like these rails. There's battle ones where you
just destroy as many enemies as you can, kind of
sudden death battle type battle sort of things. And so
I really like this. I think there's a lot of
variety there. You can also just go in the city
Trial menu and play those mini games, which I've been
doing a lot of as well, because there's certain challenges
in them, so it's fun to kind of master them
by just playing them over and over again, and then
when you actually get them after a long city trial,
you can kind of be a little bit more expert
at them. And I love sid Trial. I like this map.
I like the idea. I loved when they had this mode,
the same mode in Smash four and the three D
S version they had a Smash Run, which is a
very similar thing. Go around a giant map, collect a
bunch of power ups, and then you get like some
like a race of the finish or a battle at
the end. And I think my really only major criticism here,
and it is kind of a major one, is that
I wish there's just a bit more settings to customize
the experience. And really the only thing I want actually
is that after that five minute timer, I wish you
just had the ability to make it so there was
more mini games, maybe like a best of three or
a first to win two separate mini games. That way
you would kind of have to be a little bit
more well rounded. You couldn't just win off of one
specific game mode and one character build style kind of thing,
and it would just add a bit more variety in
terms of like different play styles and not just having
to go for the same thing every time. And I
think it is also making a bit more rewarding because
it feels like you go around for five minutes, and
it's like it is five minutes, but it's like a
dense five minutes, like it feels like ten or fifteen
minutes sometimes, and then you go into this battle, which
can sometimes be like thirty seconds long, and so you
spend you spend all this time to build up to
this final thing, and then it's so quick that it's
just over. And so I just wish I could have
a little bit more customization there. You can extend the
time of city trial or shorten it, as I mentioned,
but you can't really change how many minigames are gonna
pop up at the end. And I like them. I
think they're all quite fun and different and varied. I
just wish there was a bit more customization there as
to how the final battle goes. But I still have
really enjoyed that. I think it's really really fun. It's
so different than the basic air riding mode. And then
on top of that, the other mode in there is
what is it called. It's called road Trip, and this
is kind of like a Smash Bros. Classic mode sort of.
There is like a map that you or you start
on level one and then you do like a bunch
of stuff. Maybe it takes like fifth Team minutes to
get through that level one. Then you go on level
two and then like the map kind of progresses that way,
and then with each end of those levels you have
multiple battles with n them, so you might do race.
You can kind of pick you have like three options,
so you can pick a race or a battle or
I don't know, hit the targets that kind of stuff,
and so you can kind of just pick ones based
on the reward they're gonna give. You can buy items
in a shop, you can switch between carts. I think
you can only play as Kirby in this mode. And
this is more of the story mode of the game.
As you're going through it, you're unlocking different cut scenes,
you're seeing cut scenes. There's a bit of a story unfolding.
I don't even really know. It's kind of just like classic.
There's a mcguffin and you gotta get the thing. Like
it's a pretty basic story, but it comes with of
course some fun CG cut scenes, which you know, if
you go back to like all the Smash trailers and
the Smash cut scenes, like, it's a very similar style
to that. So it's just very fun, over the top,
crazy cosmic scale. Of course, all this crazy stuff is
going on there, so that mode's fun as well. So
I think between those four, the two racing modes, City
Trial and the road Trip which has like a variety
of modes in it, there is a lot of rye
to be found here, and I think the best thing
that really ties it all together is just like Smash again,
there's tons, there's a huge challenge board, so each one
of these modes has its own challenge board, then there's
another one for online play specifically, and in those challenge boards,
they just pretty much give you incentives to I mean
a lot of them you'll just get accidentally just by
doing things, but then certain ones you might only get
if you're really trying to go for it. And so
it's something like on this target test map, get exactly
seventy points, or in this battle like destroy a racer
while you're shrunken down in their giant mode, which is
like a fun challenge and different like speed run challenges
for certain missions, and for all of these modes, you
get a ton of variety in there. When you're beating
those things you're unlocking like cosmetics to decorate your online
card or things you can do for your cart. You're
unlocking different machines, you're unlocking different racers, You're unlocking palette
swaps and color changes for your characters, and what else.
You're unlocking music tracks, you're unlocking maps, Yeah, racing maps.
OU's how you get a lot of those, And so
obviously that's how I go first, Like on the challenge map,
for anyone that you've crushed, that you've beaten, that you've accomplished,
the four adjacent tiles are also you can get a
hint at what they are to like how to unlock them.
And so usually if I see that the hint or
like or that the reward is gonna be unlocking a
level or a character, those are ones I've been like
rushing down first, but some of them are quite quite challenging,
but it just gives you a lot to do it
gives you a lot of different ways to play the game,
one of the downsides or not downsides, But like, I
feel like I've only experienced a certain amount of game
because I've only played a single player so far. Technically
I have played some online, but I haven't played like
a couch co op session with friends yet, and I
think that will be really fun. I'm excited to try
that out and just see how I feel about the
game because so far, like I do like the mechanics,
the racing. I think they've done a good job of
really really making it distinct from Mario Kart. I think
that's the main important part, not just because it came
out so close to a new Mario Kart game, but
because that is just kind of the quintessential Nintendo Kart racer,
and it's like, what are you gonna do? You got
to mix it up somehow, And I think this game like,
rather than drifting in that kind of slow, consistent way
that you do in Mario Kart, and this one, it's
like you're doing like kind of hairpin turns, flying around corners.
And I think one of the great things about this
game is just a variety from machines like Mario Kart.
You pick your different cards as a bunch of them.
You pick your wheels or umbrella or umbrella parachute thingy,
depending on which game you're playing. But really between the
characters and the carts, like most carts feel pretty much
the same, and then there's like the bikes and those
feel different. Those like turn out a higher radius. The
drifting is a little bit different, and so you kind
of have your two flavors there, your two styles. But
I feel like with Kirby, they've gone insane here. Like
the basic star machine is a pretty basic one, but
you have some that are based around more flying. You
have some that have really weird mechanics that you need
to like charge up in different ways. You have ones
that like transform like midway depending on if you like
wiggle the stick back and forth, you do a little
spin out and it switches the mode of it. You
have the one that can like only go in straight lines,
so you have to constantly adjust your straight line angles. There.
You have some that can bounce, some that slide really weird,
and some that totally go against that, like hairpin drifting
boosting mechanic that I just mentioned. A couple of minutes ago, Like,
you hit such crazy variety and it's really fun to
switch them up, and then depending on which racer you
use as well, like that changes things a lot as well,
because I think the main thing for me stats wise
that I've noticed between the characters is just their turn
radius is such a big factor in this game, since
there's so many tight turns. If you get like a big,
slow character who doesn't have a great turn radius and
you do a machine that doesn't turn super well, that
is rough, Like it is a super challenging thing. But
typically those are the carts or the machines I keep
calling the carts. Those are the machines that have like
more damage power. So if you're a big guy on
a big machine, it is very very satisfying to just
destroy everything in your path. But obviously you're not gonna
like race quite as well. I think that's another reason
I really like this game, And another big distinction. Of course,
Myroo KRT has items. You're hitting people's shells, bananas, all
that kind of fun stuff, but this game does feel
more like a car combat game vehicular combat game. Of course.
Mario Kart has like the bat Battle mode that is
specifically in there, but I guess this just has like
a very distinct flavor from that. So I think it's
cool that not only does the battling feel very different
than Mario Kart, but also the racing feels very different.
So when you mix those two together, which is very
commonly in like city trial mode, that's when you're kind
of mixing all this stuff intig one big soup pot,
that's where things feel like a lot more varied. And yeah,
so I really like it. To me, this feels like
closer to F zero than it does Mario Kart one
because of the speed two. Because like even just when
you wiggle the stick back and forth, you like do
this like spinout attack, which you like bump into people,
which is exactly a mechanic in F zero as well.
I don't know if that was in the original Kirby
Air Ride, but I like that this feels like, yeah,
we're not really getting new of Zero's. We got zero
ninety nine of course in the Switch era, but it's
been a while since we've had like a truly fresh
new one. This has a very different flavor and a
very different tone, of course, But I do think, uh,
and well, I'm just looking at the video actually for
the direct and I have not seen what this is
showing me right here. I don't know where this is.
I've got to figure out where this is. I gotta do.
I gotta see what that mode is. I haven't seen
what that is. But yeah, anyway, just I feel like
I really like z Or I grew up with that,
did not grow with Kurby Air Ride, and this feels
like something that's a bit more akin to that. And yeah,
the car combat of it all I really like as well,
Like it's been a while since we've even got like
Twisted Metal or anything like that, and so this to
be a bit more like that is fun to have,
like giant boss battles that you're doing mid a race,
or just certain battles where you have to fight other racers.
Especially what happens a lot in the road Trip mode
is you'll be having like a boss fight against like
a Shadow DDD or something like that, and that's really
fun to figure out all that stuff. So yeah, I
think the varieties there all. The challenge board is great
for variety as well. I do wonder though, what the
long term prospects of this game are going to be,
like for me, I don't know how often this is
going to be in the rotation once I'm past this
like honeymoon period in the first month where I'm trying
to crush as much of the challenge board as I can.
I feel like, once I get all the racers, once
I get all the maps, I don't know how much
I'll come back to it. Whereas like Mario Karts always
want to all boot up and yeah, I'll definitely play
it when I have some friends over it. I don't
know if I don't know if my friends are gonna
want to play this game, they just might want to
do Kart because it's more straightforward. It makes more sense.
This game is a bit. This game's like extremely ADHD core.
I feel like it's like the way I would describe it,
and it's like a lot like when I was first
playing getting used to it. It's weird, like you don't
hit an accelerate button. You just move by default, and
then you just have like the drift button or like
the boost button, So it takes a lot of getting
used to it. It's very different. It's very weird, and
you know, it's just like Smash. Of course, you can
change the difficulty of the CPUs. You can use easier
carts or sorry, easier machines or more difficult to maneuver machines.
You can find your character that's for you. I'm really
liking well pretty much all of them, like in different positions,
Like I like the Starman guy if I have to
do like some sort of flying thing, but Bandana waddle
Dy is my guy. I love that guy so much
so he's been one of my go tos. He was
just using. Kirby's is always great. Meda and I love
them of course. So then just like Mario Kart World,
I like that this game also has all the freaks
in there, all the weirdo Kirby characters that you never
even realize how to name before, but they're in here
as playable characters. A little mushroom, there's like these two balls,
like then there's twins, whatever's going on there. So it's
very very strange, very goofy, but feels very fitting in
that way. So yeah, I'm really enjoying the game so far.
Once again, getting back to like where it fits on
the top ten, I feel like I could put this
at ten, but it's kind of even with about I'm
pretty happy. I'll just keep about at ten and keep
this at eleven and it might climb up over time.
But like I said, I feel like it. It has
a certain place, and it's really fun right now. It's
a good, like somewhat mindless game at times, and I
can focus more if I want to, maybe when I've
done a much more multiplayers when it climb up, But
I don't think it'll climb past ten a mile overall rankings.
That's where I'm fine to just leave it where it
is right now. And it's like a very strong honor
Will mention. And it feels like it's very coded for me,
just because once again it's Sacrai and his team, and
so it's very it feels very much likes like the
menus feel very Smash Bros. The icons, level amp of
your characters, some of the customization stuff, like all of
it feels very much like that. The challenge board, so
it's very much speaking to me as like a massive
Smash Bros. Fan, And so I feel like there's maybe
a bit of bias there. I don't know. I don't
know if that's accurate. And then I think the other
thing I wanted to touch on is customization I think
is really cool in this game, and you unlock. Another
thing you're unlock is hats. You can buy hats or
find them on the board somewhere, put hats on all
the different characters, give them their looks. Some characters, I
don't know if all of them, but some of them,
especially Kirby and like the main ones, have different costumes.
A lot of those costumes and even like the sprites
they use in this game are just ripped rate from
Smash like this, exact same costumes. So I really like
the look of that. Obviously that's very coded for me specifically,
but it makes me wonder what the next Smash game
is going to look like in terms of customization. Makes
me wonder if we're going to have more because you
can also customize your carts here, like adding custom colors
where you want decals, things like that. I would love
if we got something like that in Smash for or
the next not Smash four, I guess Smash for the
Switch too, I'll call it that. I would love if
we saw something like that where we could pick custom colors,
more hat options, or like changing out their costumes in
a more detailed way. Where instead of just like here
are eight default costumes, which you know, they do a
good job of making those have some nice variety to them.
There's even a couple of colors in here that like
Kirby doesn't have in Smash Ultimate. And now I'm like, oh,
I definitely want those to get carried over. And DDD
has a cool, weird version like the shadowy d I
was talking about. I would love if that was a
costume in the next Smash game. And I mean, I
think the next Smash game, assuming sack Right and this
team make it, will have a lot of things that
kind of carry over from this because I feel like
if you look at Sacri's career, like he worked on
Kirby before Smash and then obviously Kirby became became kind
of like one of the main mascots and was in
the first Smash game of course, and then then he
went in did Melee. Then after that he did Kirby
Air Ride the first time, and I think worked on
like another Kirby game or two, and then we saw
in the next Smash game that's when he added d
D D mena Night, so two more Kirby characters, and
then after that we go into Sakarai making let me
think about this the timeline, I think, yeah, and then
and then Brawl he is wearing kid a Chris was
at or Pitt was added from kid a Chris. And
then after that game, before Smash four, Sakarai worked on
the next kid Akris game, and then we saw on
Smash four there was Palatina and dark Pit added, and
like a bunch of maps and a bunch of assist
trophies and stuff from kid Ikris. So I feel like
whatever game he works on rape before a Smash Bros. Game,
if he does, there's like a ton of things that
he brings in from that, which makes sense because those
are the things he's very passionate about. And so I
guarantee we'll get like a Kirby Arad like city trial
map that you can do. I hope it means we
finally get like Bandan and Wattle DF wanted him and
Smash for a while. I think that would be really cool.
More assist trophies for sure, maybe something to do with
a machine like maybe that could be part of what's
his name Bendan and Wattle these move set or something.
So I think it would be really cool. And I
hope we get a bunch of fun goofy Kirby air
Rider stuff in the next Smash game in one way
or another. And I hope, I hope, I hope it
means that we get another tempt at Smash Run, because
of course that's kind of lost in time now a
little bit on the Smash Smash four only specifically the
three DS didn't get carried over to Smash Ultimate. I
really like that mode. I do think maybe the struggle
is like, how do you do at split screen? But
I think, you know, people have such big TVs these
days generally speaking, that I feel like, you know, do
split screen to that it can work. So I hope
we get like another attempt at that. I would love
to see it. So yeah, really loving Kirby air Riders.
Super fun game. Excited to play it with some more
friends or whip it on the different gig for streams
that we do and all that find of fun stuff.
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Week's game of The year, episodes SO i can skip
mosey on past those number thirteen is WHERE i Put
Marvel Cosmic, invasion WHICH i think the only REASON i
haven't played it more of this last week is because
i've it has been fiendishly Devouring kirby Air. Riders that's
been my go to game this last. Week BUT i
Love Cosmic. INVISION i do want to get one hundred
percent of the stuff and it go back through all the.
Levels there's like certain objectives in each of. THEM i
really like this. GAME i hope it gets SOME. DLC
i would love to get a few more, characters a
couple more, levels a couple more boss fights in. There
it's just such a fun beat them up and like
just it's not my, genre As i've mentioned, before but
this team is just so good at making. Them and,
YEAH i love the art, STYLE i love the character.
Roster super fun. Time so, YEAH i definitely recommend that.
ONE i feel LIKE i haven't really seen much chatter
about it BECAUSE i feel like it came out just
came out like the same day or whatever As Metroid
prime for so people do, that or came around The Game,
awards came out like right around The game of The year,
time where a lot of outlets aren't really doing like
more reviews or checking out new. Games they're kind of
just focusing on the game of the year, Stuff SO
i feel like it maybe slipped under the radar a little.
Bit BUT i, think you, know it's a fun one
to play for the holidays, too looking for something co
op to play with The i'm sure kids would love
it as, well so check it. Out Marvel Cosmic. Invasion
really like that game number, Fourteen so, yeah on my
top ten. List AS i mentioned last, week there are
certain things like remaster's remakes THAT i kind of took
off my. LIST i just kind of would rather have,
new fresh things in. Here but this is my ranking
of all forty nine GAMES i played this year new,
Games so everything's on, here and this is WHERE i
put The sea Of STARS Dlc throws of The watchmaker
is what it's, Called AND i really loved this deal.
C IT'S i, mean It's sea Of stars was my
game that year in twenty twenty, three so it's just
more of. That BUT i do think this added like
a new character that has like a really interesting move,
set added a COUPLE i, guess nothing really too new
in terms of, mechanics but just really great boss, fights
really fun, areas some really really well designed puzzles that
were quite. Tricky so, yeah it did a really good
job of just expanding what that base game, was AND
i think it was, free so, like, heck, yeah that's
the best. Way also added some more wheels, gameplay so
shout outs to. That and THEN i, guess as for the,
TIER i should say this that we'll go with. This
so from Thirteen Marvel Colsspick invasion all the way up
to my spot twenty one on my list is kind
of like a pretty even, tear so a lot of
things rate in that kind of honorable mention. Territory so
all these next ones somewhat, interchangeable BUT i am happy
with the Order i've gone with. Today number fifteen is
Where i've put is This Seat. Taken it's the puzzle
game that came OUT i think over the. Summer it's
in the one of the Side quest. EPISODES i think
in the title of the episode if you want to
hear more about. It but just a really, cute simple
puzzle game took me like four to five hours to,
beat really, fun really cute art, style clever. MECHANIC i
would play more of this if they made a. SEQUEL
i really, like what's going on? HERE a very goofy
game made me laugh, Maybe and you, know it actually
tells a touching story, too which is kind of. Funny,
MAYBE i don't. Know touching maybe is a strong, word
BUT i. DID i thought it. WAS i thought it
was a very cute story that it tells with at
least like the main. Character so not SOMETHING i expected
WHEN i saw the first trailer for that. Game so
the fact that it was able to do all these
different things is is quite. Impressive so really fun game
is the seat Taken number sixteen is WHERE i Put Monochrome,
heights which is the TWO d platform made by a
good friend Of Min. Patrick it's just it's a great freaking,
platform really interesting. Mechanic the core mechanic of the game
is that there are pretty much anything in the, world including,
you is two colors black and. White and so if
your character is on like white, mode, wherever you can
like stand on black, platforms and then when you switch
it's the. Opposite so if you switch to them, black
then you can stand on white. Platforms and so it
starts out pretty. Basic you, know you maybe do a
little bit platforming on some black, platforms switch over to,
white and then you do some platform in. There but
then you, know in the later, worlds it gets crazy
of like you just got to constantly switch back and.
Forth so you're doing not only difficult like hard, platforming
but you also have to get that timing down and
like maybe you have to jump through an obstacle that
would normally kill, you but obviously if you switch to
the color that it, is you can just like phase
right through it and pass right. By and then it's
just any like that core concept there sounds, cool sounds,
interesting and then it's just that idea is kind of
stretched to every possible way you could think of to
use it different with different like individual level kind of
mechanics that change things, up new, obstacles you're having a,
face tighter, timings all that kind of fun. Stuff it's
a really great. Game check it, out super fun TWO
d platform if you're into challenging. Platformers number. SEVENTEEN i
HAVE siv, seven, which, yeah AS i mentioned last, week
like this one could climb up the, List it could be,
higher could have been my number. Ten, HONESTLY i really
really enjoyed my time with. It but, yeah it's a
very buggy, game feels very early, access so to, me
it almost feels like you're kind of just barely squeaking
out as like an official game that came out this,
year you. Know it feels like a bit a bit
of a cheat, code you. Know so this is definitely
a GAME i Think i'll put sink a lot of
hours into over the, years But i've just kind of
taken my time with it, now waiting for more patches
to come, out maybe some more. Content we'll see how
expensive all that stuff. Is but, YEAH i do really
enjoy the. GAME i think it's really well. Designed it's
a beautiful, game, cool interesting new. Mechanics definitely a step
up from six for, me not quite as good as,
five BUT i really ENJOY siv, seven number Eighteen Sniper Elite,
Resistance so, yeah shout outs To Rebellion. Games of, course
they Have Adam fall at number six on my, list
and they also Have Sniper, elite which is in this
nice honorable mention Tier Sniper Lely. Resistance, honestly nothing too
new mechanically from, it like there's a new, CHARACTER i,
Guess so if you're into, That i'm sure for the
lower heads Of Sniper. Elite they like, that but for,
me it's just more levels that are well, designed good
stealth action hybrid gameplay always. FUN i always have a
good time With Sniper, league except for the first one
is a little little, jankie but it's kind of. Old
so OTHERWISE i really love this, series and this is
a nice. Addition it was a shorter one's but it
still gave me like a good ten HOURS i think of.
Gameplay so shout outs To rebellion for a nice one
two Punch this year number Nineteen Rogue prince Of, persia
which is a game THAT i have a lot of thoughts.
ABOUT i really enjoy a lot of what this game is.
DOING i think that from the roguelike, perspective like the
weapon variety and the upgrade variety that you can get
with your character really really. Fun the combat is really,
good AND i don't normally like TWO d combat systems like,
this but this one really worked for me. Somehow the
movement feels really, good of chaining together wall runs and
flinging around on poles and you, know running up in
sideways and every which way you can possibly, imagine really really.
COOL i like the structure of the story and how
you have different objectives taking you to different zones and
you can kind of choose them depending on the. Run
boss fights were well, designed so everything about it sounds
great and you might, think why is in this? Higher for,
me the downside was the level. DESIGN i think, really
when you get down to the individual, levels it's always
still fun to move around them and do the fighting
and all, that but, really at the end of the,
DAY i think you end up seeing the same structures
over and over. Again things start to feel very, formulaic and,
yeah just like the variet falls, out which is definitely
something you. Need you, know you can have one like
like an ibinding Of, isaac which maybe the level design
isn't super amazing every single, time but like the variety
is just there with so many crazy items and, combinations
or you're gonna have the game Like, spounky which it
really doesn't have like a ton of huge variety in
the level, design but it just feels so damn good
and there's just like little tweaks here there that make
it fresh every single, time even if it is like
using certain chunks and templates and stuff like. That BUT
i Think Road princes Of persia is lacking that in
terms of the roguelike nature of. It so after about
like eight ten, HOURS i THINK i was ready to,
dip even though there were still a lot of THINGS
i wanted to figure out and, see but it just
ended up being a lot of doing the same thing
over and over. Again and runs are pretty, long, Honestly
like even in the eight ten, HOURS i don't know
how many runs that, is like maybe twelve to fifteen or.
Something maybe maybe a bit more than, that but it's
just it's a pretty slow paced. Game SO i think
if you don't have as much, variety you need the
game to be quicker or. Something so just the tweaking
of it wasn't quite there for me for to be
a top tier, game BUT i did really enjoy. It
next up is kind of a one two punch. Here
at TWENTY i Put oblivion at twenty, ONE i PUT pvz. Replanted,
honestly these, games like quality, wise probably could fit in
the top ten in terms of how MUCH i like these,
games but they do feel like pretty close to the
original remakes, remasters you. Know oblivion is mostly just an
updated visual look to it with a couple quality of
life changes AND pvz has like a couple of new
things to, it but mostly it's just nice to have
it on The. Switch but these are two of my
favorite games of all, time so you, know they still
squeak into that top twenty zone pretty. Easily so, yeah
showed up to those two. GAMES i think that's the
ending of this TIER i, have and then we bumped
down a little bit with this next, tier but it's
still a tier of games THAT i really, enjoyed and
maybe IF i had spent more time with or, finished
they could have climbed. UP i think that's kind of
a good way to describe. IT i haven't beat any
of these games, yet but my next number twenty two
on my list Is Split, fiction WHICH i did try
to finish this. Game AS i mentioned last, WEEK i
had some issues with The switch version and being able
to play. ONLINE i do like this, game BUT i
just don't Think i'm on that tier with everyone else
in terms of loving. IT i think for me it's
a bit too, linear a bit more, streamlined WHICH i,
think you, know it makes sense for a co op
game when you're having to coordinate two, people it probably makes,
sense but to, me it just felt like maybe not
quite as fun to explore as it could have, been
BUT i mean really, fun really, creative really distinct. Areas
stories not very. GOOD i don't really care much for
the characters or any of that sort of, stuff but
it is just it's a fun. Time it's a, fun
well made co op. Game and whatever the next one,
IS i will probably pick it up and play it as.
Well they're Just Hayes. Light they're just crushing over. There
this next one is another weird. One and for any
very eagle eared, listeners you might have noticed that last
WEEK i SAID i had forty eight games, played but
this WEEK i have forty nine games. Played there is
another game other than Kirber Air riders That i've played
in the last few, days and that Is, peak which for
now since the twenty. Three but, honestly that number feels
kind of. Meaningless i'm not gonna, Lie i'm gonna you,
know make my own lists sound invalid. Here but here's the. Thing.
PEAK i finally played it two days. AGO i only
played one session is maybe like an, hour hour and a.
HALF i really enjoyed my time with it in that
amount of. TIME i mean IT'S i expected for the
genre and what the game looked like and the. TRAILERS
i expected to be like a, janky goofy little thing
you do with your, friends and then honestly seeing it
like really high up on a lot of The game
of The year lists or being you, know best multiplayer.
NOMINEE i think at The Game, AWARDS i was, Like,
okay maybe there's something more to, this maybe it's not
just simple friend. Game and even just that one pretty
short short SESSION i, DID i was really impressed with
a lot of the stuff that was going. ON i,
mean obviously it's a very silly game makes you laugh a,
lot which you know is always harder thing for games to.
Do but the variety of, items just the fun climbing,
mechanics the good teamwork, mechanics the chaos that can, happen
and just like the variety of the WORLD i found
really good as. Well and SO i need a lot
more time with. IT i will play a lot more
time with. It it's not like one of these GAMES
i just do one session and then move, On LIKE
i do want to play it, MORE i just haven't
had time to do that. Yet so this number feels
AS i mentioned kind of. MEANINGLESS i expect this one
to climb up into that next tier and it could
be in the top, ten who. KNOWS i feel like
it could get as high AS i think all the
way up to. Six my list is pretty you, know pretty.
Agile SO i feel like it could climb into the
top ten for sure When i've spent more time with.
It SO i feel bad putting it at this. Low
to be, HONEST i feel like it does deserve to be.
Higher BUT i gotta be honest to WHAT I i
gotta be honest to, myself and right NOW i just
haven't played enough of. It and then number twenty, FOUR
i have a very similar game to, It and this
one's called co Op Kaiju Horror, cooking which is another,
zany goofy silly co op game to play with your.
Friends and this. One the premise is that you are
kind of these four. Chefs you are out. Here there's
like a giant. Catapult you can do your cooking out
here near this, cataple you, know cooking things, up chopping them.
Up maybe you put them in the mortal and pestle
mortar and pestle and crushing them. Up put all these
things incotable and fling them out A kaiju and try
and satisfy the kaijus that it leaves you alone and
doesn't kill you in the. Party and then in between,
that parts of your co op team are going into this.
Dungeon you, know you're finding, items you're fighting, Enemies you're
trying to just get different food items that the kaiju will.
Like you've got to bring them out and then do
the cooking and send it. Off it's a fun. GAME
i really. Enjoyed it's a really really janky. Game it
feels a little, unpolished actually quite, unpolished BUT i have
had a lot of fun with. It so for, me
even Though i've Barely i've played it more Than, peak
it still felt Like peak deserved to be higher than
it just because of like the quality of life and
the just general quality of the product. Overall BUT i
do really enjoy this. GAME i like that it And
peak are kind of right next to each other in my.
Mind and then at twenty, five this is closing out
this little tier here Is Squeak Cross Squeak Cross. Home
Squeak home is the full title of that. Game it's
a fun. Game it's a Pit cross hybrid with a,
town not a, town like a house building, game kind
of animal crossing e picture like grid, base putting furniture.
Down so you're solving pitt cross puzzles that give you
items to put in this little house that a cute
little rat lives, in so you give them different. Stuff simple,
game but really. CUTE i just like making houses and.
Games another one That i've been playing over the. Holidays
i'll probably talk about in the next couple of weeks
on Side quest That i've been. Enjoying this game's cute.
THOUGH i like pitcross puzzles, enough and so that's WHY
i haven't like finished this game yet by any. Means
it's like IT'S i just slowly want to chip away at,
it and SO i have really enjoyed. It it's a
very cute, Game, Okay and then we go into this
tight next tier and, HONESTLY i Think i'm gonna dump
everything in here in this one next. Tier this is
from twenty six all the way up to forty, nine
so all closing out the, list like twenty three games.
HERE a lot of these Games i've only played a bit.
Of MAYBE i played a. Demo maybe it was on
Game pass AND i played it for a couple hours
and then. Dipped MAYBE i played it for a few
hours and just didn't really enjoy. It they all kind
of fall into that tier in one way or, Another
and so, honestly these GAMES i do want to put
a little asterisk on them of, like you could make
an argument THAT i haven't given them a fair, shake
but you, know there's only so many hours in the.
Day there's only so many hours in my entire, life
AND i got to spend time doing things THAT i like.
Doing and for all these, games after playing for some
amount of, TIME i was, like, yeah, cool interesting or,
otherwise AND i just kind of want to move on
to something. Else and so that's where kind of all
of these. Fall but they are still ordered roughly from
how MUCH i enjoyed them to dislike them in this
amount of time THAT i spent with. Them number twenty
six is a real WORLD i really like this, game,
actually AND i do want to spend more time with.
It the ISSUE i have with this one is truly
just the release, date and WHEN i played, IT i
THINK i talked about this in the game of their
episode last week OF i was just extremely burnt out
of any video games at all in Like october Into
november Into december and this. Game SO i played a
bit of it in that period of, time AND i
just it was. COOL i like the, MECHANICS i like
the race mechanics felt, GOOD i like the art. STYLE
i just was it was not the mood for me
at that point in. Time SO i definitely got to
give this one another shake at some point in. Time
deliver At All costs is a really cool. GAME i
recommend this. One it's a strange, game really good, graphics
and like it's almost like A Simpsons hitt And. Run
it's like a top down. Camera a camera's a bit
different than A hint And, run but like you can
just drive around make. Havoc every building is destructible in this,
game so it's just fun as like a physics simulator
to just smash through buildings and see them topple upon each.
Other it feels like a bit LIKE gta in that
way as. Well i've had a fun time with. It
it just honestly does not run great on MY, pc
so it's like a little bit, slow chugs at, times
and there's a lot of loading, screens which is another
thing that took me out of the world at, times
BUT i think that makes sense if you have just
that level of detail of. Destructibility so, Yeah deliver At
all costs a cool game THAT i think SOMEDAY i
will play more of and enjoy quite a. LOT i
don't know IF i have much of an opinion on
like the story or the quests and things like, that
but in terms of just crashing into, stuff LIKE i
had a good couple hours messing around with this, One
Lonely mountain Snow riders one That i'm maybe disappointed to
have this. LOW i, MEAN i really Loved Lonely Mountains,
downhill the mountain biking version of, this where this is
a skiing. Game, honestly if this game had, snowboarding it
might have been a lot higher for me BECAUSE i
am a snowboarder. Myself but, YEAH i don't, KNOW i
think it's, okay just didn't really do much for. ME
i THINK i Loved Downhill Lonely Mountain. Downhill this one
just didn't really click in the same. Way something about the,
physics the, mechanics perhaps maybe even the art style and,
variety and just feeling of skiing versus. Bikes But, yeah
it's a decent, game it just was not for. Me sort.
Of The sea might be the only game in this.
Category this is that twenty nine That i've actually. Beaten
it's a pretty short, game is like two hours or,
something kind of a journey like. Game same team or
at least partially the same. TEAM i don't. KNOW i,
mean KIRKLE i did a review and go back and
check that. OUT i just didn't really feel much of
anything playing this. GAME i think early ON i quite
liked it in terms of just the the skiing sort
like like. Snowboarding speaking of, snowboarding snowboarding on a sword
through sand dunes sounds like the coolest thing. Ever BUT
i think gameplay, wise there just isn't much going on.
There puzzles aren't really that. Interesting the trick system this
is kind of just. Whatever so it just feels a lacking.
SUBSTANCE i suppose nice looking game, though for. Sure number
THREE i Have Monster trained. TWO i don't. KNOW i
played a bit of. THIS i quite liked The Monster train,
one not my favorite roguelike of all time by any,
means BUT i thought it was a cool, game and
two just felt like the exact, same WHICH i think
for a lot of people that's just what they. Wanted
they just wanted More Monster, train a couple of new,
classes new, cards all that kind of new, bosses that.
Stuff but for, ME i GUESS i maybe wanted something
to be more fresh and different Like Monster. TRAIN i
don't know IF i ever beat a run of, it
BUT i definitely played it for quite a few, hours
and this ONE i just after a couple, RUNS i was, like,
Yeah i'm, OKAY i don't THINK i need to play
more of. This thirty ONE i Have, keeper which is
The Double find game from this year where you are
the weird lighthouse walking. AROUND i DON'T i don't have
a ton of experience With Double find as a, studio
AND i do want to go check Out psychoonauts about
those games seem like my cup of. Tea keeper wasn't o.
THOUGH i don't. Know it just didn't really do much for.
ME i didn't really care much for the. Puzzles it
was quite slow and sluggish. Gameplay so, YEAH i don't
THINK i have much to say About. Keeper thirty. TWO
i HAVE rv there, yet which honestly probably should be
higher than some of these other, games BUT i Think
i've docking it down because it is a really janky.
Game so this is kind of similar To peak or
co Op Kaiju Horror, cooking similar game just co op
goofy co op friend, Game Proximity. CHAT i feel like this.
GAME i don't know what the when it came, out
BUT i THINK i think it was Like peak came
out that was really, success AND i feel like this
team kind of just quickly put together the quickest version
Of peak they possibly could to put On steam and
try and get some, traction WHICH i think works for
them BECAUSE i and many of my friends bought it
and a lot of other people. Did BUT i think
it needs more, polish and hopefully they stick with it
and keep working on it because it is a fun.
GAME i would like to play more of. It but
it's just like like your cruising around in AN rv
with your friends and if you get like a bump
in the, road like you'll just clip through the walls
and fly out of THE, rv which feels like that shouldn't.
Happen it feels like the game should work. Properly it
just feels like it was a bit Too it was
a little pooped, out you, know it was a little
janky for my, liking SO i will probably play it
more with some. Friends but, YEAH i THINK i docked
at points just because it feels like it was maybe
put out there to catch onto a trend rather than
to put out like an actually well made. Game if
that makes, Sense and if that's too savage for me to,
Say i'm sorry if any of the developers are listening to.
This number thirty, THREE i Have, rematch really cool, game
really well made soccer game from the team that Made.
Seafu it's, just you, know a certain, genre certain specific
niches and. Subgenres i'm not gonna play this Over Rock,
league you. KNOW i played a few. GAMES i do
like the. MECHANICS i think it's cool and. Interesting but
If i'm gonna play this, GAME i would one hundred
percent of the time go Play Rocket league. Instead SO
i can't really play in the game for. That that's
that's more of a me. Thing but, yeah it's, cool
it's well, made it's well. DONE i enjoyed a few
matches THAT i played with. It thirty FOUR i Have
south Of, midnight WHICH i played for a couple. Hours
love theird, style like the, MUSIC i like a lot
of what it's doing here in terms of the style
and the vibe of. IT i just thought the gameplay
was really. Boring the traversal mechanics as well as the
combat just didn't feel very good to, me SO i
didn't stick with. It thirty five. HOURS i Have Assassin's Creed,
shadows WHICH i don't. KNOW i played a few hours of.
It it's. Fine i'm not a really Big Assassin's creed.
GUY i gotta go back and play some of those
original ones for the sake Of taylor on the podcast
and see what those games are all. About but this
one just didn't really do the trick for. Me AND
i didn't even pick Up Yo. Tai SO i don't.
THINK i think MAYBE i just wasn't vibing this kind
of open, world huge open world checklisty game this. Year
maybe that's what it. Was next up thirty SIX I
Doomed Dark. AGES i don't. KNOW i just did not
like this. GAME i didn't like the new mechanics of
the shield dashing and all that kind of. Stuff the
slower kind of funking around gameplay just didn't really work for.
ME i didn't find it to be very fun so,
Yeah doom thirty, six thirty. SEVEN i have a weird
small game called A Fall, structure which is kind of
like a platforming game where you just kind of go
down from platform to. Platform it's fun for a little.
BIT i think it's free On, steam so you, know
you can go check it out if you. Want it's,
okay it's you, know something to do for an, hour
but didn't really click with me beyond that to a.
T it was cool indie. GAME i feel like as
a really well well done. Story great way to implement
a story like this using like what is commonly seen
as like a video game glitch to tell like a
story of like a character with the. Disability really cute.
GAME i JUST i didn't really care much for the
game plan, unfortunately SO i didn't get super duper far into.
It and another one that is probably probably shouldn't even
be on this, list to be, honest but it is.
Anyway It's Monster Hunter wild's at thirty. NINE i played
like the demo for this on, PlayStation AND i don't,
Know i'm not really a monster hunter. GUY i know
a couple hours is not enough time to determine if
a Monster hunter game is. Good it's not really my. Genre,
HONESTLY i do want to eventually fall in love with
one of these. Games i've tried a couple of them,
now but The wilds demo didn't do the trick for.
Me number FORTY i Have, tempopo which this GAME i
was really disappointed. In, actually this is a puzzle game
from the team that, made or at least partially the
team that Made oh My, GOD i can't remember the
name of it right, now the game where you put
items in a house THAT i really, like and it's Called.
UNPACKING i Love. Unpacking great game wasn't my top ten
of that given, year and this is the next game
from at least part part of that. Team but it
just seemed like a really, basic like almost like mobile
game puzzle, game AND i don't, KNOW i DIDN'T i
didn't like really anything about. THIS i didn't find the
puzzles that, interesting didn't like the art, STYLE i didn't
like the music that, much which is disappointing BECAUSE i
loved everything About. Unpacking SO i don't. Know hopefully this
was more of like a smaller side thing than like
their next big. Project but, Yeah i'm still excited for
what that team makes, next but it's definitely no. Unpacking
and then number forty one and forty two is WHERE
i have Both Ninja guide and Two black And You
guide in four the character action things like this not
they're Not dylan. GAMES i tried both of them because
they were on Game, pass but you, know it's just
not really my nice, thing. Unfortunately number forty THREE i Have,
roadcraft which is one of these like simulator driving driving
games where you gotta drive through mud and like hitch
on to, stuff and it's very simi in that. Way you,
know it was fun for a little, bit but didn't
really stick with. It Eternal. Strands this is probably the
weakest ARGUMENT i have here IS i barely played this.
Game i've maybe played like a half an hour of
this on Game, pass So i'm just gonna just weak past.
That it probably deserves to be. Higher forty Five Wu
Chang Fallen feathers was A soul's late game that came.
Out it was. DECENT i played it for a little,
bit first couple areas and it was, okay but you,
know it didn't really stick with. Me forty SIX Fbc
firebreak just, weird strange game from the team that made.
Control but it seems LIKE i don't know what their
goal with this, was BUT i DON'T i don't. KNOW
i don't know what to say about. It it's a
it's a game that. Exists forty Seven dinkham is a
kind of goofy animal, crossing the survival y kind of.
GAME i played a bit of. It it was a
little little jank. YE i suppose it just wasn't really my.
CuPy i didn't really like the art style, much so
it didn't stick with. Me forty Eight Spray Paint. SIMULATOR
i don't Know powerwashed, sim Spray paint. SIM i JUST
i don't THINK i get these. GAMES i, guess you,
know some people like calming. Games for, ME i feel,
like hold the triggers down so much and it like
gives me like carpal tunnel and it's not calming for.
Me so not a fan of. That and then this
one forty nine my last Game Fire Emblem. SHADOWS i
just kind of thought it would be funny to put
a Fire molom game the last on a yearly. RANKING
i don't. KNOW i don't think they were trying that
hard when they made this. Game And i'm very excited
for The Fire Emblum next, year maybe that'll be my number,
one and maybe we'll go From fire And bloom my
least favorite game of the, year to the next year
it be my. Favorite that would be. CRAZY i don't
think are as much to say about this. Game it's
just kind of. Weird it doesn't even really feel like fire,
emblem but technically it kind of. Is so there's my
there's my, list and you know, What i'm sticking to.
It other than like, PEAK i feel like deserves a
little more time And i'd probably climb that. Up but as,
always like with my last couple of game of the,
YEARS i Think i've retracted things or made changes in
the months. Afterwards these things, Happen these things are. Fluid
but as of right, now which is you, Know december
thirtieth of twenty twenty, five that's that's my. List that's
every Game i've, played every new Game i've played in
twenty twenty five. Ranked hope you guys enjoyed. That let
me know if you, DID i might do that more
or in the coming, years and let's see what is
last last year is my of course my ranking and
my anticipated. Ranking but let's do the last ad break
and then we'll be right back to do. That, okay
so twenty twenty six is right around the. Corner i'm
not going to go to in depth on this. List
this is going to be a bit, quicker but, ESSENTIALLY
i just wanted to share my top ten most anticipated
games of the, year And i've ordered it, too BECAUSE
i just love ranking things so, much so why not
do one more last ranking for the, Year and so,
yeah these are these ARE i tried to keep this
with games that had actual release, dates or things that had,
windows or things that are have a twenty twenty six
labeled on them at the very. LEAST i wanted this
to be like tangible games THAT i feel LIKE i
have a really good chance of actually coming out this.
Year of, course anything can get delayed and kicked some of,
these you, KNOW gta six could get kicked again out
of twenty twenty six for. Example who knows what's going
to happen, There but, YEAH i tried to keep it to.
THAT i think maybe the one honorable mention for me
here Is. FABLE i just DON'T i don't know if
that's coming out next. YEAR i think it's supposed to
And i'm sure we'll find out more about it at
The Xbox Developer. Direct but, also you, know we haven't
seen a lot of gameplay. Yet we've seen just a
tiny bit in trailers that feels like it could have been.
DOCTORED i don't know how true that even was to.
Reality you, know it's from a team that has made
racing games for like twenty, years and SO i just
don't know what this game is going to. Be, LIKE
i want to see more of, it BUT I i.
Am i'm excited for, it BUT i just couldn't quite
put it in top, ten but it was very close
number ten on my on my, LIST i have A,
witchbrook which is a kind of hair like a top
down isometric art style pixel Art Harry potter type co
op game where you're at a wizarding. School you can go,
in jump in with your, friends and, YEAH i don't,
know you probably do, combat you probably go to, classes
you probably ride around, broomsticks you probably talk to people
and have a fun. Time it just it seems like
one of those kind of chill games where you can
kind of do a little bit of everything in this
kind of small compact. World looks very very, cute AND
i think the multiplayer angle to it seems. Great so,
yeah it kind of looks like A hogwarts, legacy but
just with a kind of a different art style and
then adding co op in. There SO i am very
excited for this, game but we're looking forward to it
for a couple of. Years it is supposed to come
out next, year AND i think it'll be a fun
co op game to play with some. Friends so shout
outs To. Witchbrook number nine is WHERE i Have, ontoast
which is the next horror game from the team that
has Made amnesia that Did, soma and this one does
feel like more in That soma realm of, things a
more sci fi instead of The amnesia. Thing BUT i
really liked that Last amnesia. GAME i just Bought soma on,
sale and DID i buy The amnesia. COLLECTION i might.
Have it was super, CHEAP i, Think but, Yeah i'm
planning to play a couple more of their games in
the next few. Months. Here it's Definitely SOMA i got
to play Before, ONTOS i, think and me And kirklin
talked about doing a retrospective of, that Which i'm looking forward.
To but, YEAH i really Liked. Amnesia The. Bunker SO
i think these guys are really good spot for horror
games in terms of making things that are pretty, compact you,
know a nice six to eight hour like run time
kind of. Thing good, concepts good, scares but really good,
mechanics a little bit of like an immersive sim energy
to them as. Well so looking forward to ON. Tos
number eight is WHERE i have Super Meat boy THREE.
D i Love Superman. Boys it's one of my favorite
platforms for, sure AND i like THREE d. Platforms this
seems like the best of both. WORLDS i love the
art style of this very. Much looking forward to this.
Game i'm sure it's just gonna be really hard but
a lot of. Fun so, yeah looking forward to. That number,
SEVEN i Have Fire Emblem Fortunes. Weave so, yeah from
last place twenty twenty five to maybe at least in
my top seven most anticipated next. Year, YEAH i don't.
Know there's some things about the trailers that we got
for this game that aren't speaking to me in terms
of like the art style and characters and things like.
That BUT i think some of the mechanics of the
new classes and things like that could be. Interesting, truly
don't know too much about this game, yet BUT i
am quite excited for. It it's Been, Yeah engage was
a bit of a downturn for me in series after
a high Of Three. Houses so, yeah hopefully this one's
like a return to. Form AND i think this one
is probably from The Three houses, team Whereas, ENGAGE i
believe it was like a different sub team that Makes
fire And bloom. Games so very much looking forward to.
That number. SIX i Have Black Frost The Long dark. Two.
YEAH i really love the First Long. Dark really cool,
game interesting and cool survival game in the Northern canadian.
LANDSCAPE i think the biggest selling point for me with
the sequel is co op similar to Like witchbrook or
whatever it. Is BUT i just think that this could
be really. Fun, WELL i, mean one survival game is
a co op go together Like Peanut butter And Jelly.
Amber you, know a good close friend of mine still
Plays Long dark every once in a. While we're always
like so many times IF i just Watched amber Play
Long dark for hours because it's not a multiplayer, game
and So i'm just very excited to jump in and
play actual co op of that. GAME i think it
will be really really fun to divvy up tasks explore the,
world and even if it's just the exact same game
but multiplayer and like a little bit of just a
new map to get used, to that is ALL i
could ask, for so very. Much looking forward to that.
One number Five Mina The, hollower WHICH i played the
demo for and really, enjoyed and it just barely got
kicked out of this. Year and since there was a
demo and it was close to coming out twenty twenty,
FIVE i feel like this probably is still coming out
this This, YEAH i guess twenty twenty. Six it doesn't
have a date now, officially it's just you, know to be,
determined BUT i think it is probably coming, out and
it'll be great Shovel night team making like A zeele delay.
Game what more could you ask? For number FOUR i
Have Resident Evil. Requiem. Yeah i've been talking a lot
About Resident evil last couple of, years and this game looks,
cool especially with the game, boards you, Know leon being in,
there some of that fun stuff like the setting of the.
Game i'm sure it's gonna be a great. Time so
looking forward to that. One number Three Marvel's. Wolverine you,
KNOW i love me X, men love me Some Insomniac
games love me some superhero games in. General this game
is going to be. Great i'm sure of. It so,
yeah much looking forward to. That number, TWO i Have
double seven First. Light Obviously i'm a Hit man. Sick
oh play so Much. Hitman uh still even ntil like,
this you, know last couple of WEEKS i have been
playing some More, hitman infinitely replayable game for. ME i
don't know If double seven is gonna be going for
that in terms of huge replayability on these levels they've
they've said as, much but we'll see what the actual
structure is like in the. Game but, YEAH i JUST
i can't wait to see what they are gonna do.
Here with a little more cinematic the, story a little
bit more actiony, gameplay a little bit more, maneuverability maneuverability
with your. CHARACTER i think that like that could go
a long, way the fun tech things like. THAT i
feel like this game is gonna be just a hoot
of a, Time so very much looking forward to. That
and then number, ONE i do HAVE gt six because you,
know highly, anticipated long. Awaited, uh it's just it's gonna
be a fun, game even if it's not as good
as five or, four, Whatever it's still gonna be like
a super duper fun, game tons of, content gonna spend
so much time with, it especially the online as. Well so,
yeah no shocker, there BUT gt six being my number,
One so, yeah those are just my top. Ten but
there was a lot of things THAT i cut from
here that we're close and we'll talk about a lot
of those next week on next week's preview. Episode but,
yeah this is a fun, episode you, know the game
of your epilogue a fun. Idea hopefully You i'll like
this hearing What i'm most anticipating next year Some kirby
Air riders talk all that good. Stuff let me know
what you are most anticipated or most looking forward to
of games coming out in twenty twenty, six and it'll
be another fun year of Side quest as per. Usual
thank you all for, listening and you know, WHAT i
will see you again next. Time, byebye