We are honored to have Super Eyepatch Wolf contributing to our 2021 Game of the Year guestlists. If you're unfamiliar with Mr. Wolf, he has a supremely great YouTube channel where he makes videos that shake the entire internet with each release.
His most recent upload, "What The Internet Did to Garfield," is not just perfectly on the nose for the GB Extended Universe, but has also been viewed over 2.5 million times.
But perhaps best of all, we're currently working on a new podcast with John that will begin to air in February.
Honourable mentions
Inscryption, Shin Megami Tensei V, Metroid Dread, Little Nightmares 2, Binding of Isaac: Repentance.
10. The House of Fata Morgana
There is a moment in visual novel horror game “The House of Fata Morgana” that made me put down my switch, and speak aloud in my empty apartment:
“OH GOD, OH GOD NO, I AM NOT DEALING WITH THIS.”
I have not played it since.
9. Lost Judgment
One time while playing Lost Judgment, I was skateboarding down a busy Okinawa street, did a sick flip over a car, stopped to solve a mystery with my best friend who is a small dog who also enjoys solving mysteries, I then threw a bunch of street thugs into a river for fun, before helping my local dance troupe take first place in the school regionals.
This all happened in the space of about 40 minutes.
8. Resident Evil Village
I am unfortunately one of “those” Resident Evil fans.
People speak to me about how much they enjoy RE7 and the REmakes, earnest enthusiasm glinting in their eyes, I grumble how resident evil is not “real” survival horror, how RE4 was great, and also, the worst thing that could have happened the series, ruining whatever birthday/ family event/ social outing I am a part of.
I do not wish to be this person.
But I am.
What I love about Resident Evil Village, is it shut me up.
Resident Evil Village goes so far the opposite direction of what people like me “think” Resident Evil “should” be, it CACKLES at the concept of slow, carefully, paced scares, it HOWLS at the idea of introspective atmospheric horror. Instead, it SCREAMS at you to punch haunted dolls in the brain, it BERATES you in giant deadly robot wars, it DEMANDS you shoot giant dragons in the face with sniper rifles.
It is glorious.
But not as glorious, as Lady Dimitrescu, my beautiful giant terror wife.
More than just a horny twitter meme, Lady D is incredible. Her frantic and terrifying bursts of anger, her ability to choke slam me through several floors of a medieval castle, her… GIANT BATHTUB, so many things about Lady D are simultaneously charming, hilarious, and horrifying, the delirious image of this giant beautiful BECLAWED woman gliding murderously towards me through a hallway of golden opulence, this is the image will that float up from my subconscious whenever I recall RE8, and the perfect encapsulation of all the beautiful and occasionally horrifying insanity that is this game.
7. Adios
After I beat Adios I sat back and thought “oh god, I’m going to die some day, and I’ll probably know it's coming, that's gonna be weird.”
If for some reason that statement is enough to convince you to play Adios, then read no more and continue to my next entry.
If not-
You are a pig farmer.
A pig farmer, who helps the mafia dispose of dead bodies.
You have done this for many years.
You do not want to do this anymore.
You tell this to your longtime mafia friend.
He tries to convince you to reconsider.
He fails.
He tells you that you know what this means, and that he’ll be back at sundown.
You have hours to live.
6. The Forgotten City
There’s a bald man in the Forgotten City called Galarious and he does your side quests for you.