My Top 10 Games of 2025
1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
2. Kingdom Come 2
3. Atomfall
4. Cronos: The New Dawn
5. Hell is Us
6. The Alters
7. Dispatch
8. Mafia: The Old Country
9. The Hundred Line
10. The Midnight Walk
My Top 10 Games of 2024
1. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
2. Unicorn Overlord
3. Persona 3 Reload
4. Astro Bot
5. Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
6. Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster
7. Trails Through Daybreak
8. Metaphor: ReFantazio
9. Dragon Age: The Veilguard
10. Dragon's Dogma 2
007 First Light takes the skeleton of Hitman's gameplay, and structures it with more story and set pieces that makes it way more interesting to someone like myself.
Well after the PlayStation State of Play, Summer Game Fest, Xbox Games Showcase, and Nintendo Direct, I have a pretty clear idea of what games I will playing for the rest of 2026.
Big Boo's Haunt was one of my favorite levels in Super Mario 64 when I was a kid. It's still a cool area, but several of its Stars are annoying and I'm now sure how I ever figured out to get them without the internet.
I'm a huge James Bond fan. Unfortunately, there haven't been many good video game adaptations. Even if I played way too much of 007 Legends multiplayer as a teenager. I enjoyed Hitman games well enough, but I have a feeling I'll like 007 First Light way more.
I wasn't that interested in the major Sony first-party games showed at PlayStation's State of Play, but there were several horror games I was. Silent Hill: Townfall, Ill, and Until Dawn 2. The only other game I'd mention was Control: Resonant, and even that's horror-adjacent.
Next up for me is Starfield. People seem to feel every which way about this game. I actually don't have too much experience with Bethesda Game Studios. I loved Fallout 4, but I got bored of Skyrim very quickly. And that's all I've played.
Directive 8020 is The Thing meets Alien. A neat concept on paper, but unlikable characters and uneven writing mar what could have been a great story. A late game plot twists also takes away any reason to care about the ending. Yet another middle of the road Dark Pictures game.
Somehow I keep seeing people complain about Expedition 33 fans, but not the actual fans they're complaining about. So you can guess who I'm more annoyed by.
I was positive on the addition of stealth segments to the Dark Pictures Anthology. However, they overuse them in Directive 8020 to the point they just become tedious by the end and disrupt the flow of the climax.
Directive 8020 handles branching choices far better than past Dark Pictures Anthology games. Instead of devolving into a random hodgepodge of scenes, the story remains cohesive.
Directive 8020 tries to replicate the blood test scene from The Thing, but it doesn't work since you already know who's been potentially replaced or not based on your choices.
With Directive 8010 they really tried to bring more gameplay to the Dark Picture Anthology and tone down the QTEs. Not only is there way more adventure segments, which have been almost nonexistent since Man of Medan, but it also introduces stealth sequences to the series.
I have only started Directive 820, but I already know that this jackass needs to die and that he's responsible for everything bad that's about to happen.