Top 10 Games I Beat in 2024

For 2023, I wanted to do a retrospective on every game I managed to finish that year. That was frankly a mistake. Between its length and the fact I had taken on a full time job at the time, I didn’t get the retrospective fully written up until nearly four months into 2024. Still, I liked the idea enough that I wanted to try it again for 2024, but I’m doing things a bit differently to hopefully make things easier on myself.

Rather than essentially do mini reviews on every game I cleared in 2024, I’m only going to highlight my top 10 favourites of the year. It doesn’t matter if they were brand new releases or not, or even games I had replayed for the first time in years. If I rolled credits on them, they went on the list.

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We Should Be Cautious About Paper Mario: The Origami King (startmenu Preview)

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Nintendo, as Nintendo does, suddenly dropped a trailer for a new Paper Mario game on us earlier in the week, and we collectively lost it.

Even though it’s only been four years, it feels like it has been forever since the last entry in the role-playing spin-off series, so excitement is at a fever pitch. Established fans and those who had never touched a Paper Mario before have become immediately invested thanks to that trailer and rightly so. It’s a good trailer. I myself as a long-time fan was hooked quite easily.

But as I watched the trailer, my excitement gave way to concern and anxiousness. The memories of the last couple of Paper Mario games flooded back in and, now, I can’t help but be incredibly cautious. And frankly, so should you.

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Favourite Moments in Fiction #25 – The Hooktail Boss Fight (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)

WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

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It’s such a shame that Nintendo doesn’t seem to know what to do with the Paper Mario series anymore. The first three entries are fantastic games that I could easily recommend to anyone with even a passing interest in RPGs or games with well-written stories and dialogue. Of those three, there’s no denying that the GameCube title, The Thousand-Year Door, is the best one. I could write several of these articles on that game alone with how many memorable moments it has, but for this instance, I’m going to focus on the game’s first major boss fight. Continue reading