![]() ![]() Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy weaves together a galaxy-effecting story, but still manages to keep things personal and develop its characters. Eidos Montreal has managed to craft a game that brilliantly delivers on nearly every front. The game’s E3 2021 showing was so lackluster that it was difficult to foresee the game succeeding. It’s hard to believe that six months ago, no one would have thought Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy would be game of the year material. A game bursting at the seams with inventiveness and surprise throughout, Everhood’s seemingly small stature plays host to a release both mechanically stimulating and potentially tear-inducing in equal measure. To say anything more about the nature of its narrative - not least its latter half - or just any one of its musically-led encounters would be to spoil a game chock full of amazingly poignant and engaging sequences. A game that jumps from being surreal and humorous, to dark and bittersweet without ever feeling disjointed. ![]() But it’s through the literal combination of soundtrack, visuals and writing that marks Foreign Gnomes’ creation this year as one of 2021’s genuinely one-of-a-kind releases. If Everhood were just a gameplay mechanic-centric success, that would’ve been that. Completely reshaping how later (and even prior) encounters may play out. One whose originality and visual application is intriguing, eventually building in complexity and context only to then flip those conventions on their head around the half-way mark. To put it simply: Everhood is a pitch-perfect example on how you lay out a unique gameplay mechanic. It’s all of that (and more) which makes Loop Hero one of the best games of 2021. It’s the type of game where you can get sucked in for hours on end as you try and figure out the best strategy for surviving to and beating the current boss, the type of game that provides these wondrous new spins on classic genre conventions, the type of game that you can look at and think about how there’s nothing else like it. Well while Loop Hero might not be a major contender in the technical areas like the other games here (though not for lack of trying, as it still has some great pixel art and music, among other things), it more than excels in the areas of innovation, gameplay, charm and pure fun, which are they key areas when it comes to what makes one of the year’s best games. There might be those of you who wonder why Loop Hero wound up here in the Top Ten, given that it only has one win and one nomination elsewhere in this year’s awards. It was a hard-fought battle, but without further adieu, here’s our top 10 games. Both the nominees and winner were not taken lightly, having to exemplify the best of gaming to be named. That’s right, it’s the end of the road folks and time for us to award our greatest honor: Game of the Year. But with that said, I can't say it wasn't exciting and entertaining, and made me look forward to the next part.After revealing our awards during the past several days, the biggest day of them all has finally come. Once again, it did not have the novelty and originality the first part had. Different settings, different environment, different atmosphere. All in all, Scorch Trials is a very different movie from the first. I liked the twist at the end, which unlike in many movies, doesn't feel forced. I thought everyone did a pretty compelling job. Unoriginal ideas, but well, they worked OK in this movie. It also has many cliché moments, and scenes taken right out from other movies like Jurassic park. ![]() In fact, this movie felt more like a zombie survival movie with long screen time in darkness, jumpscares and all, so this is another reason some fans of the first part might not like Scorch Trials. part 2 did not have the novelty of part 1, and for that reason alone some people might give a lower score. Whereas for the ending of Maze Runner, I was like. It also had a better cliffhanger in my opinion, because I felt like I needed to watch the next part NOW. OK, so I found Scorch Trials exciting and more complete as a movie. ![]()
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