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|5||''{{iw|wikipedia|Shovel Knight}}''||God knows how long it took me to beat this. (I'm looking at you, Propeller Knight.) That aside, this is a really great platformer. It's a nice shoutout to all the NES 8-bit platformers, with its gameplay, level design, and soundtrack, while still keeping things fresh, with its storyline and characters. And I love just how much is in this game, making you want to come back and enjoy levels again and again.||[[File:ShovelKnight.jpg|128px]]<br>[[File:AidanzapunkShovelKnightSymbol.png|30px|center]]
|5||''{{iw|wikipedia|Shovel Knight}}''||God knows how long it took me to beat this. (I'm looking at you, Propeller Knight.) That aside, this is a really great platformer. It's a nice shoutout to all the NES 8-bit platformers, with its gameplay, level design, and soundtrack, while still keeping things fresh, with its storyline and characters. And I love just how much is in this game, making you want to come back and enjoy levels again and again.||[[File:ShovelKnight.jpg|128px]]<br>[[File:AidanzapunkShovelKnightSymbol.png|30px|center]]
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|4||''{{iw|wikipedia|Kingdom Hearts II}}''||Rarely do I ever replay a game, primarily because I know what's coming, and there's not really that much more for me in terms of what the game can offer. The ''Kingdom Hearts'' series is different, though, because even if you know the story, there's still so much you can do in the game that makes it worth reliving. I don't think there's a better example of this than ''Kingdom Hearts II'': by itself, it's already a fantastic sequel by both expanding on the story established in the original ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Chain of Memories'', refining the gameplay of the first game by creating one of the best combat styles of an action RPG, and integrating the characters into the Disney worlds in a way honestly not seen in any other game, but it's an even more fantastic individual game by just how much it offers, with its collectibles, Drive Form abilities, character-specific Limits, numerous side boss battles, and everything else.||[[File:Kingdom Hearts II.png|128px]]<br>[[File:AidanzapunkKingdomHeartsSymbol.png|30px|center]]
|4||''{{iw|khwiki|Kingdom Hearts II}}''||In the past, I rarely replayed games, primarily because I knew what's coming, and I felt there wasn't really that much more for me in terms of what the game could offer beyond the initial playthrough. The ''Kingdom Hearts'' series helped prove me wrong, though, because even if you know the story, there's still so much you can do in the game that makes it worth reliving. I don't think there's a better example of this than ''Kingdom Hearts II'': by itself, it's already a fantastic sequel by both expanding on the story established in the original ''Kingdom Hearts'' and ''Chain of Memories'', refining the gameplay of the first game by creating one of the best combat styles of an action RPG, and integrating the characters into the Disney worlds in a way honestly not seen in any other game, but it's an even more fantastic individual game by just how much it offers, with its collectibles, Drive Form abilities, character-specific Limits, numerous side boss battles, and everything else.||[[File:Kingdom Hearts II.png|128px]]<br>[[File:KingdomHeartsSymbol.svg|30px|center]]
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|3||''{{iw|wikipedia|Professor Layton and the Unwound Future}}''||Oh god, the ''Professor Layton'' series. It's a fantastic video game series that I hold very dear to me. Every game throws you on a rollercoaster of emotions and plot twists, and I love every game in the series, but this game honestly does it the best, and, as a result, is my favorite in the series.||[[File:Professor Layton Unwound Future.jpg|128px]]<br>[[File:AidanzapunkProfessorLaytonSymbol.png|30px|center]]
|3||''{{iw|wikipedia|Professor Layton and the Unwound Future}}''||Oh god, the ''Professor Layton'' series. It's a fantastic video game series that I hold very dear to me. Every game throws you on a rollercoaster of emotions and plot twists, and I love every game in the series, but this game honestly does it the best, and, as a result, is my favorite in the series.||[[File:Professor Layton Unwound Future.jpg|128px]]<br>[[File:AidanzapunkProfessorLaytonSymbol.png|30px|center]]
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|''{{iw|wikipedia|Life Is Strange}}''||I'm bad at on-the-spot decision making (unless I know what I'm doing), so I don't really play a lot of decision-based games, especially when those games are super stingy about it and certain things can affect what happens next. But ''Life is Strange'' handles it in such a good way. You can rewind time to see the outcome of a different decision, or you can let it play out and see how things go. A big thing is you can also take time to think it out, unlike 90% of Telltale's games. I also adore the alternative genre of music that the game uses, and I have a lot of those songs on my music.||[[File:LifeIsStrange.png|128px]]<br>[[File:SpecialStagesSymbol.svg|30px|center]]
|''{{iw|wikipedia|Life Is Strange}}''||I'm bad at on-the-spot decision making (unless I know what I'm doing), so I don't really play a lot of decision-based games, especially when those games are super stingy about it and certain things can affect what happens next. But ''Life is Strange'' handles it in such a good way. You can rewind time to see the outcome of a different decision, or you can let it play out and see how things go. A big thing is you can also take time to think it out, unlike 90% of Telltale's games. I also adore the alternative genre of music that the game uses, and I have a lot of those songs on my music.||[[File:LifeIsStrange.png|128px]]<br>[[File:SpecialStagesSymbol.svg|30px|center]]
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|''{{iw|khwiki|Kingdom Hearts|game}}''||Yep, I'm including the original on here as well. While not quite as good as the sequel, in my opinion, there's still so much that this game has to offer. It plays fairly differently from future games, its plot is way more simple <s>and clean</s> than any other game, its world design is immensely better than the sequel, and it has a unique charm to it that I think hasn't been replicated in any other game in the series. Sure, there's some good quality of life improvements as the series goes on, but it's always nice to go back to where it all started.||[[File:Kingdom Hearts.png|128px]]<br>[[File:KingdomHeartsSymbol.svg|30px|center]]
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|''{{iw|wikipedia|Skullgirls}}''||This one was bought solely because I happened to stumble upon the wiki for the game. I gotta say, it's a really solid 2D fighter, and the only one I've actually been able to get into. The animation is solid, the design is near flawless, and don't even get me started on all the great music this game has.||[[File:Skullgirls.jpg|128px]]<br>[[File:AidanzapunkSkullgirlsSymbol.png|30px|center]]
|''{{iw|wikipedia|Skullgirls}}''||This one was bought solely because I happened to stumble upon the wiki for the game. I gotta say, it's a really solid 2D fighter, and the only one I've actually been able to get into. The animation is solid, the design is near flawless, and don't even get me started on all the great music this game has.||[[File:Skullgirls.jpg|128px]]<br>[[File:AidanzapunkSkullgirlsSymbol.png|30px|center]]
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|''{{iw|wikipedia|Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed}}''||I love ''{{iw|mariowiki|Mario Kart 7}}'', it's a fun game. I like the way the courses integrate flying and underwater segments. But ''Racing Transformed'' does it a lot better, and with a much better roster and courses. I originally had the Wii U version, but years later I'd get the Steam version as well, and I fell in love with the game all over again. Pulling from different corners of Sega's history with both its characters and race tracks (even including a few [[wikipedia:Wreck-It Ralph|unexpected]] [[wikipedia:Danica Patrick|guests]]), offering tons of unlockables and collectibles that make it worth coming back to the game, and overall just being one of the most solid racing games I've ever played, it's not just racing: it's ''Racing Transformed''.||[[File:SonicRacingTransformed.jpg|128px]]<br>[[File:SonicSymbol.svg|30px|center]]
|''{{iw|wikipedia|Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed}}''||I love ''{{iw|mariowiki|Mario Kart 7}}'', it's a fun game. I like the way the courses integrate flying and underwater segments. But ''Racing Transformed'' does it a lot better, and with a much better roster and courses. I originally had the Wii U version, but years later I'd get the Steam version as well, and I fell in love with the game all over again. Pulling from different corners of Sega's history with both its characters and race tracks (even including a few [[wikipedia:Wreck-It Ralph|unexpected]] [[wikipedia:Danica Patrick|guests]]), offering tons of unlockables and collectibles that make it worth coming back to the game, and overall just being one of the most solid racing games I've ever played, it's not just racing: it's ''Racing Transformed''.||[[File:SonicRacingTransformed.jpg|128px]]<br>[[File:SonicSymbol.svg|30px|center]]