Games in a box?
What is this, 1997?!
If pushed, Id describe my 2024 gaming habits as eclectic, but that would actually be a lie.
All my favourite games for the year are actually very similar: they are all the best.
But like, the best and most creative Remedy shit.
Im being cagey here to avoid spoilers, but I wroteabout this more here.
just play Alan Wake 2.
It is indie on a triple A budget and it feels like something that shouldnt be allowed to exist.
The Chaos Dwarf expansion was a great one, but this one here just felt so celebratory.
Oh, and Franz got himself some powerful new abilities too, making the Festus/Khazrak/Vlad/Drycha superbowl significantly more manageable.
But if it was a party, it was a reserved one.
But Rebirth is a complete rager.
Cloud is scanning photos of his arse on the photocopier.
Barret is arm wrestling Cait Sith and Cid at the same time.
Yuffie is honking fat lines of ground-up materia off the beak of a chocobo.
I am a mark forFinal Fantasy 7in many ways.
I cannot hear even the opening notes of half the songs on the soundtrack without welling up.
But Rebirth reminded me that the developers likely feel exactly the same way I do.
But as a complete game, its one of the most lavish and charming RPGs Ive ever played.
I havent smiled so much in years.
