End of the year means end of the decade.
Honorable Mentions: Witcher III, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Skyrim, Devil May Cry 5, The Wolf Among Us
10. Zero Time Dilemma (2016)
- When you take the best of VLR and condense it to a more manageable game you got one of the top 10 games of the decade.
9. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
- One of the most memorable beginning and ending sequences for any game ever. Kojima had a touch that no one can replicate.
8. Persona 5 (2016)
- Even when the story drags to hell all the time for no reason the boss fights still feel legit. Akechi fight was the best boss fight in the Persona series akin to the Demi-Fiend boss fight. It took all the usables I had to barely beat him.
7. Digimon World Next Order (2016)
- Digimon World 1 on PS1 is one of my favourite and most nostalgic games (along with 2003 from Digimon). Turn that into a current gen game with remastered soundtrack and +1 digimon to care for and I'm in there.
6. Telltale's The Walking Dead (2012)
- This game was so good that when I got to the momma's dinner party I told about that shit to my friend and he's been playing this junk series for like 4 years even after I dropped out.
5. Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (2013)
- I used to GRIND the Professor Layton games. Although Unwound Future (2008) has the best written story in the series, I hold Azran Legacy at a pretty high level despite its rushed ending because of its worldbuilding and use of more main characters than the previous games as well as the fact that the game starts the same way the other games in the series end with grand stuff happening right off the bat. It's a good game to end the second trilogy with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtgquM4JKR0
4. Ace Attorney 6: Spirit of Justice (2016)
- Spirit of Justice is also the last game of a second trilogy and it shares a lot of similarities with Azran Legacy as well (supernatural stuff happening more than previously and the game feels like Atlantis animated film or something). The game has a lot of far too slow pacing instead of rushing but other than that the build up to the plot twists was done much better than previously in the main series. The way how you slowly get towards the truth however just feels intriguing. When the game ending hits you just feel like "wow. fucking hell." This game sadly doesn't have interesting antagonists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF0UO7_UzC0
3. Last Window: The Secret of Cape West (2010)
- Very enjoyable game. This just leaves the player with a message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6amyBkxpmXw
2. Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (2017)
- Although the story in DQVIII: Journey of the Cursed King was better, this isn't far from it. DQXI has some fantastic presentation of the scenes and each of the cast gets fleshed out very well. Worldbuilding is fantastic as always and the journey feels right. The game doesn't feel like a rip-off, you get all your money's worth in one go, play the game and then just are left with a fulfilled feeling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcH3WWrNAEY
1. Miles Edgeworth Investigations 2 (2011)
- Take half a dozen of the best AA villains and put them in a game with pacing and plot twists flying off the rails. In this game you don't investigate and go to court to talk about what you've already seen, no, here you investigate and have to shoot at all cylinders immediately. The game never stops and Edgeworth is ridiculously impressive here. I finished the fan translation right before AA6 so the downgrade was noticeable from Edgeworth to Wright.
GK2 is the greatest game of the decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDDziqDSNFk
Honorable Mentions: Witcher III, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Skyrim, Devil May Cry 5, The Wolf Among Us
10. Zero Time Dilemma (2016)
- When you take the best of VLR and condense it to a more manageable game you got one of the top 10 games of the decade.
9. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
- One of the most memorable beginning and ending sequences for any game ever. Kojima had a touch that no one can replicate.
8. Persona 5 (2016)
- Even when the story drags to hell all the time for no reason the boss fights still feel legit. Akechi fight was the best boss fight in the Persona series akin to the Demi-Fiend boss fight. It took all the usables I had to barely beat him.
7. Digimon World Next Order (2016)
- Digimon World 1 on PS1 is one of my favourite and most nostalgic games (along with 2003 from Digimon). Turn that into a current gen game with remastered soundtrack and +1 digimon to care for and I'm in there.
6. Telltale's The Walking Dead (2012)
- This game was so good that when I got to the momma's dinner party I told about that shit to my friend and he's been playing this junk series for like 4 years even after I dropped out.
5. Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (2013)
- I used to GRIND the Professor Layton games. Although Unwound Future (2008) has the best written story in the series, I hold Azran Legacy at a pretty high level despite its rushed ending because of its worldbuilding and use of more main characters than the previous games as well as the fact that the game starts the same way the other games in the series end with grand stuff happening right off the bat. It's a good game to end the second trilogy with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtgquM4JKR0
4. Ace Attorney 6: Spirit of Justice (2016)
- Spirit of Justice is also the last game of a second trilogy and it shares a lot of similarities with Azran Legacy as well (supernatural stuff happening more than previously and the game feels like Atlantis animated film or something). The game has a lot of far too slow pacing instead of rushing but other than that the build up to the plot twists was done much better than previously in the main series. The way how you slowly get towards the truth however just feels intriguing. When the game ending hits you just feel like "wow. fucking hell." This game sadly doesn't have interesting antagonists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF0UO7_UzC0
3. Last Window: The Secret of Cape West (2010)
- Very enjoyable game. This just leaves the player with a message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6amyBkxpmXw
2. Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (2017)
- Although the story in DQVIII: Journey of the Cursed King was better, this isn't far from it. DQXI has some fantastic presentation of the scenes and each of the cast gets fleshed out very well. Worldbuilding is fantastic as always and the journey feels right. The game doesn't feel like a rip-off, you get all your money's worth in one go, play the game and then just are left with a fulfilled feeling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcH3WWrNAEY
1. Miles Edgeworth Investigations 2 (2011)
- Take half a dozen of the best AA villains and put them in a game with pacing and plot twists flying off the rails. In this game you don't investigate and go to court to talk about what you've already seen, no, here you investigate and have to shoot at all cylinders immediately. The game never stops and Edgeworth is ridiculously impressive here. I finished the fan translation right before AA6 so the downgrade was noticeable from Edgeworth to Wright.
GK2 is the greatest game of the decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDDziqDSNFk
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