“In a year where so many things have gone so badly, video games have stood out as one of the good things of 2020”, he wrote the US tech site The Verge in presenting its ranking of the best video games of 2020. A ranking that, like every year, presents different video games: from the best known to those a little more niche, from those most anticipated a year ago to those perhaps technologically and visually less surprising, but still of great impact and capable of offering a peculiar experience to those who have played them. Second The Verge, in 2020 “video games were more important than ever, offering new ways to interact and distract yourself”.
The nine games – which we report below – have been chosen, he wrote The Verge, “After many votes (and some discussions) within the editorial staff”.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Nintendo Switch
Released in March, it is a life simulation video game in which the player controls one or more artificial living beings and through them “lives” in a virtual world. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons players are human beings with very large heads in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, and the aim of the game is to build shops, bridges and other structures on your personal island to convince large numbers of pets to move there. The editor who wrote about it The Verge (in whose ranking each game is presented by a different person) he appreciated it for being “full of small distractions that allow you to play it for hours always having new things to do”. He wrote, however, that the main quality of the video game is that it has become a “cultural moment”. We talked about that “moment”, the dynamics of the game, and how much the success of the game did the coffers of Nintendo in the Post in May, also describing how an article published on the first page of Financial Times he had analyzed the bank’s interest rate cut at the center of the gaming world.
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Fall Guys
PlayStation 4 e PC
It is a video game battle royale, a type of game very popular in recent years in which many people face each other but in the end only one wins (as happens, among others, in Fortnite). Generally, he explains The Verge, games battle royale they foresee that you shoot at each other, or otherwise take some action to eliminate the opponent. In Fall Guys no: here the players (or rather, their avatars) have to challenge each other in a series of tests and obstacle courses that in some ways resemble those of certain television programs, often of Japanese origin, such as Takeshi’s Castle, which the older ones will remember for Never say Banzai of Gialappa’s Band. As well as in Fortnite, the challenges of Fall Guys take place in a lively, playful, funny and colorful setting. Fall Guys, however, is not only and always an all-against-all: there are also cooperative trials, in which the players are divided into teams. In addition to the fun (and sometimes frustration) of those who play it, The Verge he also chose it because “watching him play is as much fun as playing it”.
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Final Fantasy VII Remake
PlayStation 4
It is an RPG video game (a role-playing game, a role-playing video game) which, as the title suggests, is the updated makeover of Final Fantasy VII, which was released in 1997 and which according to many was the best video game of the long and successful saga for years Final Fantasy. The game therefore has the same protagonist (the mercenary soldier CloudStrife), the same setting (a fictional sci-fi world) and the same plot (the struggle of an ecoterrorist organization against an evil society called Shira) as the original. “This remake,” he wrote The Verge “It could have been a disaster,” because he was trying to redo something that for many was almost perfect as it was and because Square Enix, the company that took care of it, “hadn’t been doing very well in the last decade.” Instead, obviously, second The Verge it was not like that and this game is «a modern masterpiece, combining what fans loved about the original with a deep and compelling battle mode, an amazing depth of the characters, an incredible soundtrack and a totally unexpected ending that promises other exciting sequels ».
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Ghost of Tsushima
PlayStation 4
It came out in July and features Jin Sakai, the last samurai in Japan in 1274, during the first Mongol invasion (that of the Kublai Khan). It is an open world and dynamic adventure video game, one in which you are free to go wherever you want, perhaps riding and sometimes having to whittle some enemies with your katana. Second The Verge the game is admirable for the landscapes, the soundtrack, the haiku which makes the players write and his ability to be also peaceful and meditative, despite the katanas and enemies to be shredded or eliminated in other less brutal and more cunning ways (also very appreciated by The Verge). It is also said to have a beautiful and fulfilling finish.
Hades
Microsoft Windows, macOS e Nintendo Switch
«Challenge the god of the dead and run away from the Underworld to the sound of slashing in a rogue-like dungeon crawler born from the mind of the creators of Transistor and Pyre» writes the popular Steam platform in presenting this game. In terms more understandable by anyone who doesn’t know what a dungeon crawler rogue-like, is a game in which in a series of environments you have to face a series of enemies, with a few helpers and aids accumulating as you play. It is a video game in which you have a bird’s eye view of what is happening and in which you fight by combining a series of moves. “It took me 15 minutes to fall in love with it,” wrote the editor of The Verge who has dealt with it: “the beginning is jarring, because you are thrown immediately in the middle of the escape, without great explanations, and I had already reached the first enemy that I still had little understanding of the game mechanics and history”. But then things settle down and understand each other after “a bit of dialogue and a bit of explanations on the story”. In any case, it is a game for patient people, in which you often die but in which “every failure is also a reward” and in which the satisfaction often lies in being able to “go a little further than where it once was. before”.
Half-Life: Alyx
Microsoft Windows
Half-Life is a first-person shooter video game series, in which you shoot a lot (not necessarily everything and everyone) and see what the protagonist of the video game sees. Half-Life: Alyx – whose events take place a few years before those of Half-Life 2, released in 2004 – you can only play with a virtual reality viewer, so it’s not really accessible to everyone, of which The Verge wrote: “there is everything to which anyone who knows one of the Half-Life games is familiar”, with the only difference that “the body of the player is placed in the middle of the game, and this makes the formula new and innovative” , something that “never ceases to seem magical”.
The Last of Us Parte II
PlayStation 4
One of the most anticipated video games of 2020, because it is the sequel to one of the most beloved and celebrated video games ever, released in 2013 for PlayStation 3. The second chapter features Elle, the girl who had been co-star of the first, and is set five years later. It is not an open world video game, but it proceeds by following the story and killing the enemies, which are zombies, mutant creatures and hostile humans. Taylor Lyles, who wrote it for The Verge, confessed that she was initially a little disappointed, because for years she had imagined a different sequel, but then she changed her mind. “It is a painfully beautiful game” he wrote “that from the point of view of playability is more robust and pleasant, although it is much more macabre and violent, but which makes the world in which it is set more credible and which allows a better immersion in this story about revenge and its consequences “.
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Spider-Man Miles Morales
PlayStation 4 e 5
It is the sequel to a video game from 2018 and has to do with a Spider-Man, but if for you Spider-Man is solo Peter Parker, it is a little more complicated than that. The Verge wrote that this “sequel” “intentionally tells a smaller and more intimate story” and is a great showcase of what can be done with the PlayStation 5, for which it was one of the launch titles.
Star Wars: Squadrons
Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
It is a space combat videogame set in that Galaxy there, which looks like a “love letter to film fights” and that to make it a great game it would be enough the possibilities of flying and fighting that it offers, also (but not only) in reality virtual. But that is also a great game for its multiplayer mode.
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