Aside from reading, I spend a lot of my downtime playing videogames. I always have, I suspect I always will. Here’s a list of my favourite videogames published this year, a few I missed out on and one that’s so special that I had to include it, even though it came out in 2010.
Honourable Mentions
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, published by Nintendo
It’s stylish and funny, has a labyrinthine storyline that never peters out even as it gets more and more twisty, more and more zany, and the animations are some of the best in the genre despite being on hardware that’s almost seven years old. It does everything right and deserves more attention.
Super Mario 3D Land, published by Nintendo
Clever bite-size levels make this the best 3D Mario game since Super Mario 64. What more needs to be said?
