SleepyAnimal

It's like when someone sellotapes a plastic bag to a housebrick, pours beans over it and then wins the Turner prize. People rage about it being meaningless and worthless nonsense and definitely not art, but the artist was the only person in the world who thought to do it, thought to call it important and actually put the work in to do it, and that's what makes it art.

Glad I'm not alone in enjoying Blasphemous plenty but finding it really hard! Want to get deeper into it but am just stuck, shamefully early on and not even on a tricky boss either, just generic enemies I can't handle.

Developers churning out lots of quality free updates for a game just because they want to is always heartwarming though, and I'm very happy for the much more accomplished gamers out there who will get to horribly disembowel even more gross monsters than I ever will.

Getting back into ACNH, razing most of my island to the ground and leaving my islandmates tottering around on desolate rocky outcrops amidst a sea of forlorn emptiness in preparation for all the new stuff I'll probably never get round to using. Amazing how long, laborious tasks you have to wait days to complete are still compulsively fun with this thing.

Also Blasphemous, even though I'm completely stuck, and occasionally smacking my head against a brick wall for some light relief.

That's what I'm playing, but also looking wistfully at discounted Xenoblade and wondering if I can circumnavigate my other half's unspoken 'don't by stuff for yourself this close to Christmas you muppet' rule. Seems like the best evolution of the faintly silly epic-storylined JRPGs I liked as a smaller person and always wanted to try it...

Alternating between Blasphemous and Mario Odyssey, just to mix it up a bit. Once the violence, body horror and oppressive sense of evil get too much, I go back to Blasphemous, etc. etc..

I hate that the NSO expansion pass is clearly terrible and not in any way worth the money but that I'm stupidly tempted purely because Ecco the Dolphin is included. Man, I would love to play Ecco and Ecco 2 on the Switch. Everything else I own in various formats but not the jumpy ol' dolphin.

@dr-gorgo It's been a roaring success on every platform with both newcomers and nostalgia fuelled old people like me begging the developers for more playable characters, more enemies, more content pretty much since day one, so I reckon that might have featured in their thought processes.

Big gap in my gaming history so I'm playing catch-up since last year and getting over-excited about newer stuff which seems so much fancier than gaming from the 90s and early 2000s, but most of my usual top choices have more to do with nostalgia than anything so I'll be bold and chuck in 2 from 2017 (although 2020 for me personally.)

Also I've re-written this list about eight times in five minutes and have already changed my mind. Top 5 too hard!

1 Rocket Knight Adventures
2 Phantasy Star IV
3 Heroes Of Might And Magic 3
4 BOTW
5 Hollow Knight

Hmm - I'm almost definitely just seeing what I want to here but the tone does almost seem a bit jolly and casual for strolling in and dropping impactful news that will upset a lot of people...maybe he's trolling in anticipation of something? (Or maybe I'm clutching at straws.)

Getting my butt handed to me by Hornet a few more times in Hollow Knight, and attempting to revive my old school, Megadrive era, Phantasy Star 2-tastic map drawing skills for The Longing...