Owlboy stuck in cloud gardens free#

The role this game has played in inspiring countless others since is fully evident, but, even after all this time, it still feels like it’s pulling off this impeccable game design better than most of its spiritual successors are today. After 20 or so years of not playing this signature game of the 32-bit era, I finally got around to not only beating it, but uncovering ever single square of this masterfully designed map. Yet another failure of my gaming life up to this point was rectified in 2019. Games Released Prior to This Year Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS4) I still think Dracula’s son being named Alucard is one of the best things ever

Owlboy stuck in cloud gardens free#

With so much to cover, feel free to skip ahead to Games From This Year or My Top 10. While figuring out my top 3 titles may have been among the easiest decisions I’ve had to make on this blog in years due to the few titles that truly distinguished themselves, narrowing down the top 10 proved to be one of the hardest thanks to an abundance of strong if not transcendent releases.

For me, it will always be a year defined by the games that took the biggest, riskiest swings making the most profound impacts. Overall, it was another solid year for games even if it didn’t feature as many all-timers as the previous two years that this current golden age of gaming had produced. Somehow, in the grand lead-up to fatherhood, I managed to surpass 80 games/collections this year between a combination of further exploring the many wonderful ports constantly coming to the Switch and checking out most of the latest AAA titles (sorry, Sekiro, I’ll get you next year).

One year ago, while writing this post, I thought I had perhaps hit my limit for games played in a year at a mind-boggling 71 (well up from the previous year’s 36).