The boring answer for this topic is also the correct one, so Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom is my favourite game of the year so far.
Such a shame it didn’t do well (even though I’m part of the problem, since I was waiting for the Switch version). The card-based combat is really easy to get into, in part because the game explains it well as you go. And the modern controls scheme option means I don’t entirely suck at Street Fighter for the first time ever!Īnd an honourable mention, since I think it was a 2022 release, but I just started playing Marvel’s Midnight Suns and that’s pretty special so far. I’ve been having so much fun on World Tour, walloping randos in the street, and the arcade mode. I haven’t played a load of new releases but I really like Street Fighter 6 (Xbox Series X). I’ve loved the originals of those latter two, so unless there’s some awful change to them they should be great. Wonder and the Star Ocean 2 and Super Mario RPG remakes. Per that, for the second half of the year, the games I’m really looking forward to are from those genres: Super Mario Bros. But that’s not a knock on the quality of recent games, it’s just that the genres I really love haven’t much changed since the 90s, and those aren’t really in vogue anymore.
There’s nothing this year, thus far, which really comes close to my favourites.
