Time to become a botanist and chop trees for ten hours.” Like, “Eh, I’m tired of investigating this mystery cult that’s sacrificing women to a dark god. I acknowledge that MMORPGs aren’t for everyone, but at the same time I can’t help but love how easy it is to stray from the main story path. I don’t mean the Shadowbringer expansion either, I mean I only started A Realm Reborn for the first time late this year.
My next “Why Didn’t You Get to this Sooner, Nadia?” entry is Final Fantasy 14. No, it’s not the fanciest-looking game on the Switch, but I still clocked a whole bunch of hours into running around the Wild Area, battling friends, battling foes, and just having a good time. I also fell in love with Pokemon Sword and Shield, even though all the poisonous discourse around the game had me convinced I’d hate it. I loved the heckin’ heck out of Sayonara Wild Hearts, which now ranks as one of my favorite rhythm games of all time-until the next Rhythm Heaven game comes out, of course. Watch for a repeat appearance on next year’s “Best Of” list! Well, no guarantee, but who knows. I expect I’ll be playing Three Houses well into 2020 too, since I haven’t finished the Blue Lion or Black Eagle paths.
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It’s a great debut for the series on the Switch, and a great return to form for a series that strayed a bit with its last 3DS release. (I got used to ’em.) Speaking of games about war and strife wearing people down into nubs of their former selves, Fire Emblem: Three Houses got a lot of playtime from me this year. Maybe it helps that my play session lined up with a weird, difficult time in my life, but it’s also just a good game with wonky shooting mechanics. I didn’t intend to fall in love with Arthur Morgan’s Sad Cowboy story, but oops. I kicked off the year playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time. This is indeed the definitive version of Dragon Quest 11, and that’s not something I get to say about Switch games every day. I’m still amazed such a huge game was squeezed onto the Switch with minimal compromise. Square Enix went above and beyond bringing this epic RPG to the Switch: There’s new quests, new story content, an orchestrated soundtrack, additional voice acting, the works. Bring on Dragon Quest Builders 3 and the Dragon Quest 3-centric story that’ll probably drive it.ĭragon Quest 11 S also earns a shout out even though it’s a port of last year’s Dragon Quest 11. There are new kingdoms to save, scavenger hunts to engage in, and a huge island to build and populate to your tastes. Most of the quibbles I had with the first game are fixed through some solid quality of life improvements, and then Square Enix piled a whole lot of great new content on top of the experience. I’ve been waiting on Dragon Quest Builders 2 for a long time (the first Dragon Quest Builders was my favorite game in 2016), and I love it to pieces. Well, I was born two weeks late, so I’ll just say the delay is very on-brand for me.Ģ019 brought along its share of difficulties, but I can’t complain too much about a year that gave us not one, but two Dragon Quest games. This is my convoluted way of admitting I’m sometimes late to the video game hype party. We shouldn’t turn away from critically-acclaimed games just because they’re yesterday’s news. I’m happy about that caveat, since it’s not always possible to get around to playing a game the second it drops. It’s fine since these lists are comprised of our personal game picks for the year, we’re allowed to include older games we only got around to in 2019.
Since you already scanned my list of favorites for the year-I know you did, don’t lie-you likely noticed there are a couple of games that are technically from 2018 taking up real estate here. The doctor says I need to get more variety in my gaming diet before I excrete dragons on a daily basis. Another year, another mighty butt-load of RPGs under my belt.
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