![]() ![]() ![]() More importantly, you begin to understand the importance of sisterhood and sacrifice. ![]() Throughout the game you’ll learn so much about the characters, the world of witching, and snippets of what’s happening on earth. The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood starts out simply enough, a witch has grown bored after being in exile for several hundred years and makes a pact with a demon to allow her to see her friends and begin practicing the fine art of tarot card reading again. I had been eagerly anticipating The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood after reviewing Essays on Empathy for Monstervine and feeling like I was truly experiencing something novel. Dealing with the teens, putting up the radio transmitters, and figuring out what the heck is going on in Riley’s hometown of Camena is a thrilling ride that’s a worthy sequel to one of my favorite games from 2016.ĭeconstructeam has a way of tapping into very human emotions and experiences and doing fantastical things with them. Attempting to set up the rest of the radio transmitters, Riley and Jacob run into several teens trying to amplify the dimensional portal, connected with a cult that one of the teen’s guardians started. While erecting radio transmitters across the coast, Riley, our protagonist, and her local guide Jacob experience a dimensional portal opening up above the aforementioned Edwards Island. Like the first game, Oxenfree II: Lost Signals takes place over the course of a single night that reveals fears, doubt, and the ongoing and very human struggles of all the characters involved. Hot off the heels of their first game, Night School Studio dropped their follow-up in 2023 taking place on the mainland as opposed to the spooky Edwards Island. Despite its flaws, Final Bar Line is the ultimate Theatrhythm experience and consumed a considerable amount of my time in 2023, both on and offline. Even the online multiplayer which seemed silly and pointless at first, was incredibly fun and enjoyable to play. Music aside, each track contained challenges for your party to complete while you slapped at buttons on your controller, adding a little passive-strategy to your rhythm playing. Fortunately, boasting over 400 tracks, you’re likely to find quite a few of your favorites in a very playable format. Unfortunately, with its arcade game roots in Japan, Final Bar Line centers around versions of songs that circle around three minutes long. Since its inception on the 3DS, Theatrhythm has always been an exceptional blend of rhythm and RPG strategy. I always thought the mixing of video game music with a rhythm game made way more sense than something like Guitar Hero: Van Halen. Likewise, the structure of the game’s puzzles to slowly introduce you to concepts before having you execute them and think outside of what was shown is what makes the design of Cocoon so masterful. Puzzles that were simple enough for me to understand but also requiring enough thought that some trial-and-error was involved was the perfect blend of brain bending. I blasted through Cocoon’s admittedly short playtime over the course of a single day and found myself unable to put the game down. Cocoon not only is a stunningly beautiful game, it’s also an extremely well-designed game. ![]() I have strong roots in point-and-click adventure games and by extension, puzzle games. Weird to start off my list with a game that is neither a narrative masterpiece (debatable) or a Japanese Role-Playing Game (objectively) but Cocoon is a truly excellent exception to the rule. So enjoy this list of narrative masterpieces and Japanese Role-Playing Games. I love playing games that evoke emotion and make me feel something but I’m also a stupid baby that loves watching numbers go up. I got to play some really bad games in 2023 but also some really awesome ones, and I think we’ll just focus on the awesome ones today. But I also got to play some great games in 2023, so maybe it’s a wash. I got diagnosed with chronic pain which sent me into a nasty depression and had me writing way less than I’d like. I’m pretty pessimistic for an optimist, so just about every year of mine is a tumultuous year. ![]()
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