tis that time o year
Favorite 2023 Release: To be honest I didn't play that many games (that released) this year, as I was playing more older ones but Touhou 19 was pretty fun, Advance Wars 1+2 was cool too
I guess if I had to choose, Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe was pretty fun to play with my friends.
Least Favorite 2023 Release: Super Bomberman R 2. I haven't played too much of the story, but the "open world" is pretty boring, and bland. Castle mode's ok, kinda wished there was a map creator for normal maps.
Favorite Game Played in 2023: Astro's Playroom. Best intro I could ask for to my first Playstation Console. Shoutouts to: Disgaea 6, Blazblue Cross Tag Battle, and 100% Orange Juice.
Least Favorite Game Played in 2023: All the Neptunia Games I've played this year have been boring, and pretty much require grinding (or just getting the dlc characters for better abilities, which i did considering I got the 3-Pack with some DLC included with it.), plus, both did this annoying this where you'd have a boss to beat and I'd be like "man that was a challenge, but I got through it" and then after a cutscene they'd just hit you with a second stronger one, and I'd be fine with it if they at least healed my units, but not only do they not, but the boss is always faster so it goes first and One-Hits one of my teammates, so I'm basically screwed. Even worse in Neptunia VII, there's no healing before the 1st boss begins, the only place you could heal was if you left the dungeon. You know, the four floor maze dungeon that's the 2ND area in the game. But I would say the worst game I played this year was Touhou Genso Wanderer, because I could at least get through the first dungeon in Neptunia. Who the hell thought to make the first dungeon 38 Floors?? PLUS if you die you restart the whole thing AND get reduced back to level 1.
Though I played this last year, Cris Tales was extremely boring.
Sleeper Hit of 2023: Pretty much the same as my Best Game of 2023.
Favorite Gaming Moment in 2023: Playing Astro's Playroom for the first time. (It really hit for me)
Proudest Collection Accomplishment of 2023: Getting my first Playstation Console!
Probably not a "Collection" Achievement but still
Anyway, Here's a top 7 list of my favorite and least favorite Games I played this year:
Favorite- Astro's Playroom
- Rivals of Aether - I can make touhou smash bros (the mods honestly bring this game up from being good to amazing)
- Disgaea 6 - JRPG comedy done right
- 100% Orange Juice - The only "Mario Party Like" I've found fun
- Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe
- LittleBigPlanet 3 - just plain fun, dunno how to make good levels but I've played a lot of em
- Persona Q - One of the few RPGs I found myself getting into
Least Favorite- Touhou Genso Wanderer
- Megadimension Neptunia VII - for the reasons listed above + JRPG comedy done wrong
- MONARK - pretty boring and has this weird spike in level when the bosses arrive, which means grinding!!!!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
- Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus - don't
- Monster Prom - I don't actually remember much from this as I refunded it but I remember not liking it
- Super Bomberman R 2
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - least bad game here, but I think it had kinda boring combat. I'm trying to like JRPGs but like I can only find like a few I like