Tough pool. Soul Blazer is a legendary SNES action RPG. Civ II is one of the strongest games in the influential series. Saints Row 3 is perhaps my favourite sandbox action game, somehow managing to out-GTA GTA. Golden Axe II is one of the best arcade beat'em-ups of all time. New Ori is lovely. Herzog is important.
I think I'm going to have to go 3 for Soul Blazer, 2 for Saints Row, and... 1 for Golden Axe.
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Ori and Forza are 2 of Xbox's best games in the past few years. I wish I had more time to put towards Forza but my backlog makes it hard for a game so long.
I grabbed Steredenn on Vic’s recommendation and boy do we love it. I play it with my son almost daily. We have been able to get to the second-to-last level relatively consistently depending on how the random levels and random power-ups treat us. Highly recommended.
And I gave Golden Axe II a couple votes for being outstanding at what it is and somehow raising the bar on the incredible first game.
I’ve been waiting for the sun to come up. Waiting for the showers to stop. Waiting for the penny to drop. One time. And I’ve been standing in a cloud of plans. Standing on the shifting sands. Hoping for an open hand. One time.
Dead Rising is good arcade fun. I personally don't think the following games managed to nail the balance between plowing through hoards of zombies and the tension of dying at any time.
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