Video Games
6. Super Mario Bros 2: The Japanese Edition - Nintendo
Played On: (Fceux Emulation of Famicom Disc System on Windows 10 PC)
Do you like difficult games? When I say difficult , I am not talking about fair challenge or anything of sort. No, I mean the kind of game that hates you, everything is out to get you, including the very world itself, but not just game is cheap --there is plenty of it too-- but it tries to mess with you as much as possible. It's still fun though despite, sometimes because of, its active trolling, the line between creative design and cheap difficulty -- saying "wow, this is smart" and destroying the keyboard -- is actually quite thin. It feels very pure in a way, other Mario games try very hard to be likable, this game just says: "Are you having fun? If so great, here is more goodness. If not, too bad." How much fun you will have depends on how calm you are when playing but it's worth trying out. Save states are recommended.
5. Doki Doki Literature Club - Team Salvato
Played On: Windows 10 P̷͙̠̔̓̓C̶͉̣̐͋
Dating in video games are very common, but imagine you had a dedicated game where you can get not one, but four h̴̘͖͂ồ̵̡̩t̵͉̒̀ ̶̻͘͝w̵̲̏̐ā̸͉̚ȉ̴͚̜f̶̙̯̉ŭ̶̘͌s̷̡̈͝, Natsuki, the short tsundere c̷̺͍̟̲̊h̷͇̎i̶̟͓̍ͅć̸͙̙k̴̙̒̃ who can cook cute deserts. Yuri, a shy,bookish, elegant, eccentric girl with h̷̠̞̫̗͔̝͌̍̀͝u̵̧͔̤̫͉͔͈̅̔̀̔̋̑̎͝ͅg̶̡̞̖̗̮̩̩͕̎́͑̆͗̽̏e̶̤͕̩̒͊ ̸̪̠̥̙̘͖͓̖͑̈́͆̓͠b̶̡̛̛͈̟̠̮̜͋̉̿ȏ̴̜̦̱̙o̸̢̯͈̗̗̭̓͠b̶̢͇̌s̷̡̤̠̟̈́̐͜͝. Sayori, your cherful childhood friend who is always r̷̯̝̣̦͚̹̣̃̓̏͂̅͒̀̾̎̍͘͝͝͝ȩ̸͉̼̤̦̔ằ̷̑͐͌̂̽̐̕̕͜ͅd̸̡̠̼̻͉̠̘̗̙̹̤̼̮̮͛͌͂͗͛̊̍̂̆̐̕͘͝͝y̵͕̱͕̤̭͖̪͙̱͖̝̟̖̓̎͋͊͘ͅ ̵̥̖̞̳̞̼̈́̿̇͆͛̀̕ṯ̵̡̝͕̟̖̥̩̫̖̦̻̄͑͘͝ͅǫ̶̡̝͔̝͉̩̭̲͖̞͒͂̾͗̀̀͜͠ ̵̩̰́̓̌̊͗̈s̶̲̞̩̑̿͑̈́̐̂́̔̾̍͌̔̚͘ȩ̴͚͇̈́̀͑̅̀͑̄͋̚͘͝͝͠r̸̢̛͔̦̤͕̳̫͍̈́̉̎̑͆̃̔̈́͑͒̍̚͝v̴͈͔͕̔͑̔́̿͘̚ë̴̢̟̺̘̳̬̪͙̝͕͙͈̀͐͐̒̓̌̓͛̊̓̕͜͝͠ ̴͇͎͇̲͍͈̻̮̼̲̯͗͜y̸̧̨͔͓͇͇͙͊͋̀͌̉ͅȯ̵̧̬̺̥͉̼̟ũ̶̡̢̧̗͚̖̪̬̳̟̐̽̈́̕̕. And of course Monika, a shining star who aces at everything but who takes a liking in you, and you, a rather unremarkable teenager man, win her d̸̨̨̧̛̬͍̺̺̯̮̳̣̘͍̠͙̙̪̆̎͛́̆́̐̌̾̉̅͋̽͂̏̕͜͝͠e̴̻͖̱̮̫͎̳̓͐͐͑̉̉̏̆̆̽̌̅͊̈̈́͘̕̚͜͝v̶̰͒̍̈́͛́̍̒̊͊͑͂o̵̮͌͑̀̿̽̋̿̀͑̂̈́̌̔͌̏̚͝ͅt̵̠͈̭̦̣̹͈̥̫̦͈̪̙̹̜́į̵̡̧̗̯̣̬͚̻̩̺̙̠̙̯̮̓̚͜o̵̧͙̜͖̬̼͐̀̚n̴̗͕̫͍̻̈́. It's always amazing when girls argue, and p̴̧͓̫̗̰̲̦̼̬̎͑͗̑̃̓̀̏̑͐̒a̵̢̘̯̹͍͉̪͇̾̃͋͌̓̓̃͛̒́̾̓͑̈̈́̉̕͠͝s̵̢̰͚̔̒̇́̽̈́̈̏̆͌̌͊̑̐͂̈́̉̾͜͝͝ͅs̵̡̢̟̝̙̪̯̭̥͋̐̊͋͑̍̉̎̇̐̑̓̆́̈́̇̊͐̿͐͛̽̑̕i̸̡̡͕̲̬͔̻̞͉̥̳̠̰͍̳͖̟͎̗͙̗̯͕̐̀̎͑̉̈́̒̆͂͝ô̴̺̲̦͐́́̚͝n̸̬͍̪̓̏̔̃͛̀̕͘͝a̶̛̛̩͐̍̍̔̇̓̒̿̇̊̀͆̒͐͊́̾͗̕͝ţ̷͙̰͖͕̰̥̰̐ę̶̨̛̖͉̠̹̜͇̰̭̺̱̦͔̊́́̄̎̊̇͌̃̀̒̆͂̅l̷̢̫̯͖̤̝̙̪̼̺̳̫̗̱͔̿̎̃̂͌̃͐̎́̉̌̑̅̀̀̆́̍̔͒̓̈͜y̷̪͈̰͎͚͎̞̗̮̠͈̝͖̪͉̯̒̈̽͘ͅ ̶̲̬̳̀̏̊̏̆͆͆͋͆͌̓̃̌̚̚f̴̧͙̳̱̗͉̪̹͓̮̔͆͛̈́͜i̵̢̮̤͉̩̳̣̰̦͚͚̭͙̔͋̅̑͜ģ̴̛͓̤̱̖̮͓̺͈͖̥̜̼͉̤̘̱͓̖̝̟͓͈̏̉͐̕h̵̢͈̙̙̾̈́̽̑̇̈̅͗̏͋͗̎͂̆̔̄͊̓̽̆̓̂͛͝t̴͍̹͈̪̞͎̫̹̖̥̥̘͍̤̮̅̿̒̌́̒͑̓̃̎͒͆̍̆̐͋͛̔̂͘͘ each other for you. especially in the end, things get real intense.
You might wonder why this game is classified as scary? Well, of course, this game is certainly scary to politically correct, social justice warrior feminists who can't stand the site of an r̴̡̡̨͎͍͚͖̖̖̬̰͍̰̟̖̹͕̤͎̣͙͛̑̑͋̈̐͌̊͐̈́̌̾͗̑̓̽̾̾̾́̾̎̂͜͜͝͝͝ę̸̡̨̢͕̺̺͓̻͕͕͍̮̭͓̻̮͉̮͂͋͛͗̉̈́͒̽̂͛̓̋̎́͐̽̎̀́̅̔̓̎̍͌̐͘a̵͈̖̖̮̭̯̖͕̲̼̜̙̮̺̥̝̥̼͔̙͕̜͊̎͒͒̽͐̔͗̾̇͘͝l̸̢̛̹̰͍̠̖̖̮͕̹̜̦̻̲̹̥̥̻̮̳͈̗̻͔̻̪̈́̇̑̄͛̅͂̐̂̓̿̀̃͑̌̚͝ ̷̧̧̢̨̛͍̬͔̘̫̙͉͍̺̖̫͙͍̳͎̜̦̘͔̝͍̜̇̊̈́̋͗͗̅̐͛̍͋̑̎̉͘͜͝͠͠͝ͅã̶̧̡̧̛̱͚̙͍̝̰̙͖̪͖̊͐̿́͑̅̾̃̄́̀̓̕͘͠͠l̸̨̲͔͍̟͍̟̝̦̙̳͎̤̬͉̖̝͍͍̫͈̘͖̲̻̹̈́̃̔͌̎̎̿̀̽̅͠͝p̷̧̧̛͚͉͓̬̲̝̟̩͍̯̤͔̬̟̜̫̥̲͖͉̜̪̝̪̍h̶̢̡̛͙̱̹̱͎̦̹͉̪̄͛͌̎̏̑͗̇̆͗̉̌ḁ̷̛̾̽̆͒͆̃̈̅̔̀̑̍̋̇́͊́̆͑̒̎́͊̽͘͘ ̶̡̨͖͙̼͍̺͍̫̩̰̝̦̱̫̰̘̜̙̠͉̘͕͚̂̒͊̿̄̀̀̆̈́̅̈́̄͆̇̕͜͜m̵̡̨̦͉̣̤̙̹͙̪̞̹͍̺̪̠̬̙͕̯̳͎̞̩̱͗͑͐̿̉̋́̏̓͛͑̈́͗̀̈̓͊̈̑͠ͅạ̷̧͑͑̄̉̀̒͊͛͒̀̂͝l̸̨̢͉̰̠͔͕͍͎̮̬̼̦̟̪͙̯͖̻̜̊̾̔͂̾͊͐͛̓̽͝ę̴͙̪͇̮̳͇̤͎͎̼̩͚̟͑̀̀̅͛͐̌̍͌͒̽͌̓̈̀̎̌͜͝. Have f̵̘͇̻͚̤͉͈͎͚͖̘̬̼̬͎̗̗͙̥͗̈́̒̿̄̍͑̽͜͝͠ų̸̛͓͎͈̲̜̰̼̭̭̘͈̦̼͕̥̺̫̻̱̫̖͕̪̮̏̏͆́͐̑̓̓͒̌̽͑̓̃͊̕n̵͇͉̠̩͓͚̮̥̹̗̟̼̬̗̰̝͙̓̓̇̀͜
4. Night In The Woods - Infinite Fall
Played On: Pe Ce Ten Windows
What can you think of as a fun topic to video games? Unemployment, debt, lost teenager years, dysfunctional families, uncertain future, crushed dreams, classism, mental disorders, and good bit of humor? Yes, yes, please all of it. You can also hop on electric vires, badly play music, look at stars and enjoy a 8-bit dungeon crawler. Also the game has the principled position on cops (ACAB) so please give the attention it deserves.
3. Fallout New Vegas - Obsidian
Played On: 57H 69H 6EH 64H 6FH 77H 73H 20H 31H 30H 50H 43H
This game offers an incredible range of options for role-playing. For example, you can be a leather clad lesbian with a nerdy technician girlfriend and punch Roman-costumed fascists together. Or you can be a gun lesbian for your punchy lover. Of course you can also play as a boy and you can enjoy a pacifist geek boy as your companion. You can also sleep with the man who shot you in the head, defeat a bald and slightly old Elon Musk who is in he charge of socialism with New Vegas characteristics, send zombies to the Moon, stop a narcissist walking brain who is really obsessed with his highschool crush, watch 1950's futuristic robots roam in Wild West, get a robo-dog from post-apocalypse Elvis Presley, enjoy mission-breaking glitches and much more! Also, there is an orc grandma, she is really sweet.
If nothing else, if you want a shooty game in a wasteland; it's cheaper than Fallout 76, works without an internet connection, has less glitches, freely moddable, not cursed by Hodd Toward and most importantly, it has NPCs.
2. Deltarune: The First Chapter - Toby Fox
Played On: Wowdisn: 10th PC
A game actually from 2018 on this list? How did this happen? Well, the game is free, that made it much faster to obtain. Yes, a game with this level of excellence is totally free, in an age where games try their hardest to take your money away. It's like Undertale, but with more party members, somewhat short but packed with tons of good ideas.
In fact, this game is really similar to Undertale... You know why? There might be some hints... now hold tight, because according to our exclusive scoop, Deltarune is an anagram of Undertale! Surprised, aren't you? This is the level of content I offer here, folks! That Game Theory guy has nothing on me...
1. Trails In The Sky: The 3rd - Nihon Falcom
Played On: ウィンドウズ 十 パーソナルコンピュータ
Truth to be told, I have started to play this game in 2017, yet finished in 2018. So, where the game actually belongs to? See, the answer doesn't matter, because the sheer goodness of the game just bends the time. It can be the best game of 2017, 2018, 2019 or 3000! I will step outside from my usual review style; which is objective, factual, logical and rational and show emotions like a female I am, because It's probably kinda obvious that I like these series a bit, I wrote many articles on it, have 328 hours for three games in total. So don't mind me acting like the no-life weeb gamer girl with feet I truly am.
If you wanna join the adventure, you should actually start from the beginning. If you are willing to sacrifice at least 150 hours and like to read a lot in video games, Trails in the Sky games and Trails series as a whole are just for you, and this entry is the high-point of series in some ways.
69. Honorable Mentions and Revisits
These are some of the games that impressed me but didn't make the cut, because either I have not finished it, I have played them before or they are not stand-alone releases.Guardian Legend(Fceux Emulator On PC) - Compile
You are a cute robot girl who can turn into a space fighter. You are tasked with self-destruction of a spaceship overran by aliens. And there are a lot of aliens to shoot, missiles to evade and power-ups to collect, either in a top down in a shooter mode or during walking in the ship. It is challenging, tight, has a good aesthetic and soundtrack, and able to give the feeling of fighting in a spaceship full of aliens. The game may get a little stale towards the middle though, it is a bit too long for the variety it offers.
LOTR: Battle for Middle-Earth 2: Rise of the Witch King(PC, Not Officially Sold Anymore) - EA
Don't worry, (orrr, do?..) I am not done talking about this game yet. Because, really, it's my favourite RTS title that is not played on a map, excellent when you just want to play something in a short burst. It's smooth, easy to pick up, chill, oozes Middle-Earth, you can make purple-armored orcs that throw bombs What else one can ask really?
Battle City(Famicom emu.) - Namcot
This game is notable because it shows how fun you can be with absolute minimum. Turn tanks into dust with white bullets, make bricks vanish bit by bit and move around pitch black ground and evergreen trees that never touch tanks.
Europa Universalis 4(PC) - Paradox Entertainment
Grand strategy games are weird because I have only two moods regarding to them. Either I want to play them without end, losing my sense of time or cannot stand looking at them for a single second, none in between. While it is hard to justify spending much time on it nowadays, eventually I find some justification and find myself staring at the colorful map.
Sid Maier's Civilization 5(PC) - Fraxis Games
This game requires even more of a specific mood to enjoy it but for what it is, I enjoy chill games where I see my cities grow, dominate culture and launching a space expedition. Combat? Not so fun, but nukes are cool. Seeing citizens getting happy because they get enough salt, making the annoying AI beg me for peace, archers damaging the planes are the cherry on top. The idea Aztecs, Ottomans and USA fighting against one other is the kind of abstract fun only strategy games can offer.
Knights of Honor(PC) - Black Sea Entertainment
In this game, as an invisible hand you rule over a medieval kingdom, day and night. You control knights to lead your armies, your king too can be a knight, but not his wife. Your mouse icon is a hand of a knight, so perhaps you yourself are a ghost knight. And you can be an honorable knight. Shine upon your people like light. Let bards song your deeds at sight. At the harshest of storms, be their master shipwright. Or, be a dishonorable, malevolent knight, a blood knight, spreader of blight, who burns villages at cold night, betrays their enemies when out of their sight, trembles even the haughtiest lords with their might. With honor or not, create an empire whose stories told by hundreds of generations at night, to the tides of time, test your might
420. Upcoming Stuff
This year is very bright in terms of future releases. A promising title coming to emulators around 2030s is Super Smash Ultimate. Various characters from lots of franchises like Mario, Kirby, Fire Emblem, Zelda are pit against one another in a trippy, fast-paced, colorful fighting game. There seems to be a lot of little touches. For example, you can choose to play as Robin and also her pre-HRT version. It's very cool to see trans representation in such large titles.Also announced are Pokemon Let's Go: Eeeve and Pokemon Let's Go: Yellow Abomination. It's different than handheld line in many ways: Mechanics from Pokemon Go and simpler systems; It's more focused on catching over battling or narrative. Seems interesting.
For PCs we have Celeste. It looks like a difficult platformer, which doesn't immediately captivate me, I have seen so many praises of it. It apparently has a really good story and also has an easy mode, so it might worth to checking out, you might need a controller to enjoy properly.
Animes
α. Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica - Shaft
I haven't watched too many anime this year, but yeah, this is the one I recommend heavily. It has really gorgeous animation, an incredible soundtrack, just long as it should be, knows how to pull your heart strings, and ties its misery up to something really uplifting. If you are ready to get happy,,sad, sadder, sadder, then happy again and cry a lot, this is your Japanese animated picture television series.
Σ. High Potentials
This year looks like a bountiful good for anime overall, two of them stand out in particular.Zombiland Saga: It looks like a wholesome anime with a good trans character in it. That alone is as good as a reason as, if not better than "cool fights","just wanting to pass time", "boobs" or "robots".
Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight: From many a fan artwork I have seen, this show has gay girls.
Musics
The rule for this list is, it has to be something that is not made for video game, animation or something else, otherwise I would praise stuff I have praised again. It has to made for its own sake, y'know, like stuff normies listen to...FFFF. Rong - Röyskopp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zhKt9iyXDs
Very philosophical, big thonk song.
FFF. The Flight of Lulu - Possimiste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TJvjaKsGz4
It's calming and blood-pumping at the same time in a weird and good way.
FF. 718 Suite (Part 2) - Kplecraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsaeDAdWT3E
This song is really really fun. All these different instruments and sounds create a song with a really unique vibe and boundless energy.
F. Poisoned Blade 2 – Metal - Sebastian Forslund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdKOW3ToI_o
This slaps yo!
Other Nerd Stuffs
This is for anything I have found cool but not necessarily I would make a list or otherwise talk about at length.Let's be honest, Youtube occupies a nontrivial part in time we spend viewing media. (Orrr is it just me??? Oh no...) So here are some channels that might be worth your time.
Jenny Nicholson makes incredibly chill videos that can be easily listened in the background, mostly about movies She is actually the probably the nest sarcastic deadpan reviewer ever. It's amazing how she can absolutely rip apart things without feeling toxic, pretensions or annoying in slightest. And videos are just what they are with zero gimmicks.
donoteat1 is in the group of Youtube channels that are actually informative. Interested in city planning, logistics, American history from a socialist perspective? Well this is your channel. I really love the videos where people bring in information you can't gather easily combined with their life experiences.
ThePedanticRomantic is a one great anime channel that is insightful, constructive and its creator which is not a weird creep. It owns that the creator is a trans woman. More trans creators, especially in areas that is not about trans issues is happily welcome.
A webcomic really captivated me this year, Aztec Empire, which is about the history of... the Aztecs and Mayans in the years of Spanish Arrival. It provides so much information in an easily digestible manner. I am eagerly awaiting new issues.
And of course, who can forget about LE EPIC MEMES!!! This year, "the guy looking at the girl instead of the girl on his side" really got viral as a comparison meme. Also "two Spidermen pointing at each other" is still going strong. My favourites are:
Memes generated from this clip from American Chopper. They are really good as a discussion format, and I don't think nothing has been replaced it on that front. The original video itself is practically burned on my mind now.
"They did surgery on a grape" Finally folks. The humanity is now advanced enough. They did surgery on a grape! A surgery has been performed on a grape. The grape was subjected to a surgery. Very carefully. And precision technology. Grape.. folks, they sure did a surgery. On a grape. A surgery. Skillfully. They did...
Moth memes are really good, is that a lämp?
Yeah, folks, I have just made a countdown for viral internet macros, no, I did not have any dignity anyway, so it's fine.
Bottom of 2018
Now, when it comes to the media, I find actually difficult to dislike things. I don't get angry at a game unless it undoes my progress or I get incompetent and impatient, even more repulsive media makes me stare with blank at worst, and I usually know my tastes enough to not touch that anything I would find outright horrible.But still, trash can smell from far away. Fallout 76 sure stinks a lot, I mean, I expected Bethesda's usual glitchy work would cause a lot of problems when carried online but wow... by all reports this game gets more and more unplayable each day. It's actually amazing in its own way.
Other than that, I am pretty sure there are usual stuff on Steam: Asset flips, some child abuse games, low-tier bait porn; but they are not really that interesting. There is Detroit: Become Human, which is lambasted for its ripped-from-headlines appropriation of civil rights moment and writing of women characters. But none of these is truly worthy of being the bottom.
Similar story in anime, there is goblin rape anime, some incest stuff, y'know, the usual. As bad as these can get, they are not bad enough. they have some quality that makes them at least watchable to some degree. No, what we search is true garbage.
And it comes from... our beloved author Just Kidding Rofling delivered something truly awful. Crimes of Grindelwald. From now on, spoilers here but whatever:
- Its plot is all over the place, Rofling isn't a screenwriter and it shows.
- Movie is too black.
- Some characters does not need to be there like Nagini, Nicholas Flamel (although the several minutes with him was fun). There is just way, way too many characters.
- Hogwarts is 100% pandering
- Rofling tries to explain things we don't need and the explanation makes it worse(Nagini)
- She changes established lore for the worse(Credence is Dumbledore's brother now???)
- Newt now pursues a hetero romance for Lina out of nowhere because we couldn't just have a character who isn't interested in this oh no!
- The whole thing with Jacob doesn't make sense, he is one of few good things in the movie but his existences undoes the previous film's end.
- Queenie, oh my god Queenie arc, why??? She joins bad guys because Grindelfart promises her she will be free to romance with Muggles, but Jacob flat-out says he doesn't want her to join? And there is also fact that the Jewish witch joins to wizard-Nazis side aaaaaaaaaa...
- Johnny Depp. He is just the worst. Even if he was good, he would make the movie worse but he isn't even good! Maybe it's the character but the constant single tone voice does not usually make a compelling character.
- Grindelfart as a character is just a discount Voldemort, at least the latter was fun to watch. See, I would actually welcome a retcon here. Why always "attack Muggles?" Why another comically evil character? I could understand Voldi's obsession with pure blood but like there is no economic ruin here, no nation-building, no old hatred regarding Muggles, nothing that makes a fascist movement gain support?
- For a movie that is focused on action, wizard fights and magic in general are once again lackluster, expect for G-fart's fire magic in the end.
- For a "Fantastic Beasts" movie, there sure are not much magical beasts around.
- Dumbledore gay bait, gay bait, Ms. Rofling "Oh I am so woke ah ah ah"
- And now... the titan in the room... "Beating wizard-Nazis causes regular Nazis starting WW2" Just wow, Rofling, I mean you write pretty bad stuff but wow...
- Also, if G-fart can see the future, wouldn't he be more afraid of Muggles? What's their pew pew beam gonna do against modern weaponry and sheer number of Muggles? I would actually like to see wizards attacking Muggles and how quickly they get obliterated
- You know the bad part? There could be a great point about cop violence, but J.K could not help her neoliberalism..
The End
That was the Tops and Bottoms of 2018 folks! If you like my content, smash that like button and subscribe!!All visuals are either mine on from official Steam page. Which one is which is left as an exercise for the reader.
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