My Top 10 Games - 2022
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I had a blast making a dent into games this year! Out of 20 completions, I managed to neck it down to by Top 10. I have to say that Batman: The Video Game (NES) was a surprise gem for me! And taking on the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) again for the first time in many years brought me new appreciation for how that game was designed. But overall, I have to give it to the Final Fantasy VII Remake. I loved the original and revisiting that world in a new way hit me in the feels!! The soundtrack alone was perfection!
Looking forward to another gaming year in 2023!
Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
This is the best one player game I have played in a very long time. It was a beautiful remake. It was great to revisit this world in a whole new way! I can't wait for the next part!
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales - Ultimate Launch Edition
Miles Morales picks up where the first game left off. The story is great and full of emotional character development which makes for a fantastic follow up.
Insomniac really crushes it with their Spiderman games! The graphics on the PS5 are incredible especially with the Winter setting this game has. I didn't use fast travel because it was more fun to swing block by block! A+!
Batman: The Video Game
This was one of the first video games I had on the NES as a kid. It was so challenging to me then that I don't even think I made it to the first boss, certainly never passed it.
Coming back to it now was a joy! I breezed passed the first level in under 5 minutes haha! There aren't many stages but man does the difficulty really spike by Stage 5 (the final stage). I think a lot of that difficulty comes from the NES itself. If you are playing the original game on a NES, there are a lot of spots where the game/console lag can get you into trouble. It reminds me of Mega Man in that way.
The level design is fun and I think it is some of the best NES music out there. The cutscenes with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson were also great and ahead of their time! Overall I really enjoyed it, even with the ol' NES glitches. Feels great to put a completion on this one!
Elden Ring
Super well made and a great world to explore. Can be super challenging but I feel accomplished for finally beating it!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989 NES)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES always gets a bad reputation. Despite being a huge fan of everything TMNT as a kid, this game was impossible to me. The infamous water level was insane, and even after that, the next area was overwhelming that I never really got passed it. That being said, I still tried to play it a lot!!
Resident Evil 4 HD
Glad I finally played this! Gameplay is good but story is little corny in hindsight.
Dragonball FighterZ
For me, this is the best DBZ game to date. The animation and graphics are perfect! It runs so smooth! It really captures the energy of the show unlike the other games in the franchise over the years. And as I said before, I am not particularly good at fighting games. So it is nice that they went with the basic Street Fighter type controls to keep combos to a minimum. Every character has the same basic controls, you just need to learn how their moves perform rather than memorize a long string of buttons. I have gone back to this game several times and still enjoy it. A+
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game
This was my go-to game when I was younger! In the days of NES, I played this constantly. Revisiting this was as fun as I remember. The music is great and the graphics are nice and bright. The game is surprisingly long for games at the time and it's definitely a challenge. The Switch version definitely eases the difficulty a little with the rewind option but I still had a blast. When someone talks about TMNT games, this is the first one that comes to mind! A classic!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
I always loved renting this as a kid! This is definitely the most polished of the three TMNT games on NES. The character roster is great and it has cool cut scenes to tell the story throughout. It's a cool way to link each level together and was certainly a step up for games on the NES!
My only critique is that the bosses have too much health. It is definitely product of its time -- the only way to make short games longer is to make them harder. But even when you figure out the trick to a boss, it just takes too long. Overall, it was a great way to close out the early TMNT game era! I will always enjoy booting this one up!
Altered Beast (Console)
“Rise from your grave!”
Finally beat this classic from my days as Genesis kid! Had no idea there was a way to start at the level you died in by holding A + Start! If only I knew that back then!
Had a lot of fun playing this! It’s shorter than I realized!