Evil Uno's Top 10 Games of 2021

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Evil Uno has played A LOT of video games in 2021.

Here are the best of them:

Honorable mentions: Ratchet & Clank: Ryft Apart, Deathloop, Death’s Door, Fights In Tight Spaces

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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

13 Sentinels is a sci-fi mystery game focused around the day gundams show up and start a war that ends the world. It’s partially a top down RTS game, where you try to position your combatants and their mechs to survive as many waves of enemies as you can. While I enjoyed the combat, it’s the visual novel portion of the game that really sucked me in. You play as 13 different protagonists, each character advancing the story incrementally, each slowly giving you more information & unraveling more mysteries. The story takes a few wild turns that genuinely surprised me. It’s filled with interesting characters, incredible music (Seaside Vacation is my jam) and a bat-shit crazy plot. This game was released in 2020, but I only got around to playing it in January of 2021, so thank you Jan for putting this in your GOTYs list last year, or I would have never picked this up.

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Chivalry 2

I have never played the first Chivalry game, so the only thing I knew about the second one was that it was a game I could play online with my friends. I quickly learned how fun a multiplayer medieval battle is and what followed was a good 3 months of guttural screams over the chat while my friends and I chopped off limbs and bashed-in heads. I really enjoyed setting my warrior to random and making the best of whatever weapon I was given (my personal favorite is the shovel). I’m very excited to see what the addition of horses will do to the combat and overall gameplay.

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Forza Horizon 5

I don’t typically play racing games, it’s never really been my thing, but there’s just something about Forza Horizon 5 I can’t quite put my finger on. Maybe it’s the expansive open world, maybe it’s that it’s graphically stunning, maybe I am just getting old and need to unwind with something mindless. Whatever it may be, I have loved every minute that I have played Forza Horizon 5. I don’t know how it compares to other Forza games, but the gameplay is just so smooth and easy to pick up. It’s the perfect game to get competitive or just turn your brain off and drive the countryside.

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Super Mario World 3D + Bowser’s Fury

Mechanically, Bowser’s Fury is very much the same as Super Mario Odyssey but with an added night & day mechanic that changes the world around you every time Giga Bowser makes his appearance. The sky goes black, rain starts pouring down, and the electric guitar kicks in. The shift in ambience really sets the tone for some great challenges as the obstacles in the world change drastically and add pressure to everything you are doing. It all eventually culminates into some exciting boss fights between Giga Bowser and Giga Cat Mario. The soundtrack is pure Mario bliss; Plessie’s Ride still pops into my head every now and then.

Super Mario Odyssey is a masterpiece, Bowser’s Fury is also a masterpiece, although a much, MUCH shorter one. You can likely complete the game at 100% in one sitting (I did), which is the only bad thing I can say about this stand-alone expansion. Overall, one of the best games of the year, hindered only by the fact that I wanted so much more of it.

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Jan Ochoa

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