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WE HAVE A WINNER

Everyone, a big round of applause for the Holy Moonlight Sword!

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Game of the Year 2016: The Very Good Games

Don't call it a top ten! Well...you can think of this as basically the bottom part of my top ten, except without the numbers, the ordering, or the hard limit on how many games I can talk about. I guess I don't care much about the difference between what's #6 and what's #7. I do care about ranking the very best, though, so if you are into lists my top three is coming soon!

Titanfall 2

The existence of Titanfall 2 is miraculous: it's the smoothest first-person movement of all time alongside a painstaking single player campaign. The combination of flavors that fill its gameplay is like peanut butter and chocolate: you alternate from frantic sprinting, wallrunning, and double-jumping, into a massive robot with hefty movement, powerful weaponry, and cooldown-based decision making. It's designed throughout for tiny moments of bliss: flinging yourself from building to building, launching hundreds of rockets from your Titan, narrow escapes, and outplaying your enemies through planning and execution.

After my massive falling out with Halo, I didn't think I'd ever feel the same about a competitive FPS, but holy god was I ever wrong. I've already hit the level cap twice and have zero intention of slowing down. There's been talk that it's been underperforming in sales, which is tragic, because from where I'm sitting this is one of the best first person shooters ever.

Pokemon Sun / Moon

As a lifelong Pokemon fan, I think it's fair for me to say that it's been a long time since Pokemon has been this good. While it has its issues (hello reinforcements, hello new Pokemon being rare), the things that I loved about Sun and Moon are far more prevalent. The Alolan Pokemon designs are universally great, the characters are surprisingly well-expressed, and exploring Alola felt like a true escape from the tension and hatred rearing its head this year.

My favorite thing about Sun and Moon, though, is easily the villains. There's Gladion, the coolest rival in the whole series. There's Team Skull, the most hilarious villains to show up in a game since Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon. And then there's [pretend that a spoilery name is written here], the craziest anime-nonsense supervillain of 2016.

If you've been sleeping on Pokemon for a while, make this your road back in.

Mystic Messenger

Mystic Messenger is an otome dating sim that invades your life. From a mechanical perspective, there's not much going on - you sit in chat rooms, make dialog choices, and respond to text messages from a group of young, stylish anime guys (and one girl!). The twist to all of this is so obvious that it makes you wonder why it hasn't been attempted in the genre before: everything happens in real time. Certain characters are more active late at night, others early in the morning, and if you want to win them over, you'll have to find a way to make real-world time for them.

Getting fake texts from fake game characters honestly felt like magic. Mystic Messenger perfectly captures the sense of pleasant surprise I feel when I get text messages from real people. For a few weeks, it was almost like I had a brand new group of friends to hang out with online all day. It's especially exciting to see this kind of innovation come from a mobile game, too. Mystic Messenger is a non-conventional game made for an atypical video game audience, and developer Cheritz killed it.

Oxenfree

I'm kind of a sucker for supernatural thrillers, so Oxenfree had me hooked early on with its intriguing setting, soft visuals, and believable vocal performances. What ended up standing out to me, though, wasn't even the plot, it was just the game's many ordinary conversations. It's an adventure game about five teenagers going camping, so there's a good amount of chatter between characters of varying levels of friendship. You participate in conversations by making dialog choices, but Oxenfree differentiates itself by emphasizing when you push a button. Your character immediately starts talking after you make a choice, even if that forces you to cut someone else off. Sometimes when the pressure's on, you might not be able to decide what to say in the appropriate time, and other characters will react to your silence. Along with some exceptional writing, this highly flexible system props up each character and makes them feel authentic.

At around 5 or 6 hours it's not an especially long game, but it held my attention strongly enough that I nearly finished it in in a single night. Given how many games I tend to juggle, that has to count for something!

Salt & Sanctuary

Is it possible to screw up a combination of Dark Souls and Castlevania? I'm sure with time someone will find a way to prove me wrong, but with Salt & Sanctuary as my only evidence, it seems like the perfect recipe. I played the entire game alongside my brother, and I couldn't recommend the experience more to co-op players. Between platforming puzzles, vast 2D exploration, and Souls-style bosses, there's a wholesome variety to all of the game's challenges. And unlike the Souls series, I feel that S&S is short enough and provides enough build diversity that it's both practical and rewarding to play through more than once.

World of Final Fantasy

If I had an award for "Best Localization," World of Final Fantasy would take it hand over fist. This game's writing is so well-done, its voice acting so well-delivered, that it managed to make me laugh out loud with the words "what the honk."

WoFF is an addictive, briskly paced RPG with more than just nods to classic Final Fantasy, but some strong characters of its own, too. Main leads Lann & Reynn are legitimately funny together - I don't make a habit of expecting much from Tetsuya Nomura Teenagers™, but their chemistry turns a solid monster collecting RPG into a great game all its own.

Doom

I didn't think I would be convinced to play an extremely violent, gorey game about demon massacre (I'm kinda' squeamish, to be honest), but Doom was just that good. It's been pretty much a decade since an FPS has been anything other than a gun-toting romp through set pieces, and while Doom is certainly romp-worthy, its gameplay is a different type of beast. The intentional balance of low HP and high movement speed forces you out from behind cover and into the fray. This "never stop moving, never stop shooting" ethos works incredibly well with the game's vast arsenal and numerous weapon mods. Doom takes all the right lessons from both classic shooters and modern shooters alike and turns them into a path forward for an often stagnant genre.

Ratchet & Clank

There's something pure in R&C that felt so noticeably absent from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Games were so overwhelmingly serious back then! Even games like Portal that focused on comedy had to work so hard in a narrative sense to make those ends meet. Ratchet, though, just is what it is. You run and you jump across platforms, and you feel satisfied. You shoot the guys, you club a box with your wrench, and an explosion of gears and screws pour out. That's all there is to it, and that's all I really needed.

If the Xbox 360 and PS3 era proved games could accomplish more than just fun, then Ratchet and Clank is a game that proves that plain and simple fun is a goal still worth pursuing.

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Coolest Souls Boss Weapon Competition

Rules/Guidelines:

-There will be a first round, where the 112 weapons selected will participate in 14 free-for-alls, each with 8 weapons.

-Afterwards will start the bracket phase.

-The weapons with the most votes (no matter how small the difference with the runner-up) will go to the next round.

-This only includes weapons that you gain by fighting bosses (so, boss souls weapons, weapons actually dropped by the bosses, tail weapons, and in Bloodborne’s case, weapons that you can buy after getting a boss’ badge.

-Demon’s Souls weapons are not included, solely because I haven’t played the game. Don’t even mention Sekiro.

-I did not include shields or spells.

-You can do propaganda for whichever weapon you want, but don’t diss other weapons.

-I will not be doing propaganda, myself.

-Have fun!

First Round

1.-

-Watcher Greatsword

-Bone Scythe

-Farron Greatsword

-Roaring Halberd

-Curved Dragon Greatsword

-Wrathful Axe

-Butcher’s Knife

-Winged Greathorn

X

2.-

-Fume Sword

-Great Lord Greatsword

-Sacred Relic Sword

-Dragonslayer Greatbow

-Hand of Malenia

-Chariot Lance

-Lothric’s Holy Sword

-Golem Axe

X

3.-

-King’s Ultra Greatsword

-Moonlight Greatsword

-Marika’s Hammer

-Starscourge Greatsword

-Sacred Chime Hammer

-Spotted Whip

-Dragonslayer Spear

-Storm Curved Sword

X

4.-

-Tin Darkmoon Catalyst

-Dragon Bone Fist

-Twin Princes’ Greatsword

-Old King’s Great Hammer

-Gael’s Greatsword

-Demon’s Scar

-Chime of Want

-Ruler’s Sword

X

5.-

-Axe of Godrick

-Loyce Greatsword

-Wolnir’s Holy Sword

-Carian Regal Scepter

-Blasphemous Blade

-Gargoyle Tail Axe

-Manus Catalyst

-Priscilla’s Dagger

X

6.-

-Kos Parasite

-Warped Sword

-Rose of Ariandel

-Aged Smelter Sword

-Spider’s Silk

-Yorgh’s Spear

-Dragonrider Twinblade

-Ivory King Ultra Greatsword

X

7.-

-Dancer’s Enchanted Swords

-Dragon King’s Cragblade

-Giant’s Red Braid

-Lifehunt Scythe

-Dragon King Greatsword

-Greatsword of Judgement

-Barbed Club

-Mytha’s Bent Blade

X

8.-

-Lion Greatbow

-Ivory Straight Sword

-Axe of Godfrey

-Scythe of Want

-Smough’s Hammer

-Crypt Blacksword

-Morgott’s Cursed Sword

-Giant Stone Axe

X

9.-

-Firelink Greatsword

-Bow of Want

-Iron King Hammer

-Dragonrider Bow

-Thorned Greatsword

-Frayed Blade

-Vordt’s Great Hammer

-Gundyr’s Halberd

X

10.-

-Burial Blade

-Valorheart

-Dragonslayer Swordspear

-Moonlight Butterfly Horn

-Maliketh’s Black Blade

-Lorian’s Greatsword

-Drakewing Ultra Greatsword

-Greatsword of Artorias

X

11.-

-Grafted Dragon

-Abyss Greatsword

-Cleric’s Candlestick

-Quelaag’s Furysword

-Mohgwyn’s Sacred Spear

-Dragonrider’s Halberd

-Darkmoon Bow

-Dragonslayer Greataxe

X

12.-

-Gargoyle Bident

-Holy Moonlight Sword

-Arced Sword

-Bewitched Alonne Sword

-Pursuer’s Ultra Greatsword

-Hollowslayer Greatsword

-Defender Greatsword

-Fume Ultra Greatsword

X

13.-

-Darkmoon Longbow

-Guardian Tail

-Cursed Greatsword of Artorias

-Crystal Sage’s Rapier

-Yhorm’s Great Machete

-Profaned Greatsword

-Bastard’s Stars

-Repeating Crossbow

X

14.-

-Spider Fang

-Smelter Sword

-Spitfire Spear

-Arstor’s Spear

-Chaos Blade

-Lost Sinner’s Sword

-Friede’s Great Scythe

-Obsidian Greatsword

X

Round 1.5

1.-

-Bastard’s Stars

-Cursed Greatsword of Artorias

X

2.-

-Twin Princes’ Greatsword

-Gael’s Greatsword

X

Second Round

1.-

-Burial Blade

-Friede's Great Scythe

X

2.-

-Morgott's Cursed Sword

-Firelink Greatsword

X

3.-

-Cursed Greatsword of Artorias

-Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear

X

4.-

-Hand of Malenia

-Gael's Greatsword

X

5.-

-Kos Parasite

-Blasphemous Blade

X

6.-

-Dancer's Enchanted Swords

-Moonlight Greatsword

X

7.-

-Farron Greatsword

-Holy Moonlight Sword

X

Third Round

1.-

-Burial Blade

-Morgott’s Cursed Sword

X

2.-

-Cursed Greatsword of Artorias

-Holy Moonlight Sword

X

3.-

-Kos Parasite

-Dancer’s Enchanted Swords

-Hand of Malenia

X

FINAL ROUND

-Burial Blade

-Holy Moonlight Sword

-Kos Parasite

X

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