


And why can’t a game make my top 10 for how it makes me feel through watching my kids play it? 7) Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age Remastered And truth be told, I get more enjoyment from watching them explore this world, their first Mario, than I do playing it. Yet it has a level of charm that compels me to include it on this list.

So, why am I conflicted? I’m not head-over-heels in love with Mario as others are - I disagree with our 100/100 review score for it, and I still have trouble jumping around some levels thanks to the camera (3D platforming will never get this right). And I loved taking over a T-rex and rampaging around. Cappy and the capturing mechanic is new, and it does introduce some other new capabilities, like taking over an Uproot and using its escalating power to climb up structures. My first gut reaction was that “it’s fine.” It never felt magical to me, as past Mario games have. Of all the games on this list, I’m most conflicted about Super Mario Odyssey. And in doing so, I found a lot of areas I’d missed the first time around. My kids and I created our character together - a big red Wizard (I kinda steered them to that color as a play on Final Fantasy), and when I play it with them watching, I’ve turned it into a “Choose Our Own Adventure” in which I present options and ask them to decide how we proceed from there.
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Add this to a game where you build a party of three pawns - AI characters that you can recruit, and as you gain in power, you can enlist even stronger pawns - and you get what leads to one of the best Western-style open-world RPGs on the PS4 … one that comes from a Japanese publisher. And you know what? It’s essentially an old Dungeons & Dragons megadungeon. While I’d had a blast with this in 2013, I never got to the Dark Arisen expansion. And you know what? I’ve logged more hours with this since it came out than any other PS4 game this year. 9) Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen RemasteredĬapcom remastered this excellent 2012 role-playing game this year, releasing on the PlayStation 4 amid the crowded schedule of fall games in October. I might look bad while playing this with my kids, but I’ll take that to share this wonderful gem of a game with them. And boy, are they critics! “You’re bad, Daddy.” This version keeps the trademark difficulty of NES games. But this time, I shared this with my sons. And as soon as I started, I felt like I did in junior high, exploring the underworld as I shoot mutants in my tank. This remaster comes from Inti Creates for the Switch, and it was the first game I bought for Nintendo’s clever hybrid console. It was different from anything else on the system - a blend of 2D shooter and platformer, where you drove your little tank and destroyed a bunch of mutants, and top-down exploration in caves with puzzles and enemies. I cherish those memories, biking a couple of miles to my buddy’s, and seeing just how far we could get in this fantastic Sunsoft game. One summer many years ago, me and two of my best friends from junior high school spent days playing through Blaster Master on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
