just for kicks:
- Wolf (I don’t think I’m more than halfway but there’s absolutely nothing it could do to jeopardize this ranking at this point)
- Zelda (phew, thank goodness I didn’t have to put this first)
- Nier
- Original Sin 2
- Yakuza 0
- New Torment (the writing is really good and I’m still sad no one played this or wrote it off for mediocre mechanics)
- Getting Over It (easily my favourite of bennett’s work)
- Observer (definitely the best surprise of the year for me, and utterly perfect use of setting / just-barely-open-ended scope)
- Snake Pass (developer I really like perfectly executing a genre I really like)
- Dishonored (they finally nailed it)