Many fans guessed the mysterious figure who loomed over Fennec Shand at the end of the Season 1 episode "The Gunslinger" could have been Fett, but considering how his armor is now with Cobb Vanth, this doesn't provide much weight to his return.
In order to find The Mandalorian 's inspiration for how the show could bring back Boba, the best place to look is the same place that inspired the return of his armor—the Aftermath trilogy of novels by Chuck Wendig. However, the books also explained how the Jawas found his armor. In Aftermath: Life Debt , it's revealed the Sarlacc was injured by a sail barge and left with its stomach exposed, which the Jawas quickly harvested for anything that could be valuable.
It's also noted they found many skeletons, but there's nothing saying these skeletons belonged to Boba. Although his armor was there, he could have fought his way out somehow. Boba has a massive sentimental attachment to that armor.
Fake People - AI-generated faces. Quote Generator - AI thoughts to inspire you. AI Dreams - What does a computer dream? Movie Plot Generator - Movies that do not exist.
Anime Stories - Read an AI-generated anime story. Movie Montage Maker - Type a word or phrase. Insult Battle - We dare you to insult our AI. Poetry Generator - Our AI is a poet.
Happy Moments - What makes humans happy? Band Name Generator - Hundreds of fun band names. Perhaps the most surprising part of Immortals Fenyx Rising , however, is its downloadable content. The game featured three add-ons; one called A New God was basically a continuation of what came before it. But the second pack, Myths of the Eastern Realm , transported players to the world of Chinese mythology with the story of a totally new hero. In The Lost Gods , players returned to the world of Greek myth, this time with a new hero and a new gameplay perspective.
If Immortals Fenyx Rising started in as a very good game, has made it, well, if not great, then at least one of the most fun and interesting games this year, and well worth revisiting if you missed it the first time around.
Every day, I wake up, and every day, the sequel to Final Fantasy 7 Remake is not announced. It haunts me. This is fine, for now. Square Enix did her justice, fleshing out her backstory and personality beyond the crumbs we got in the original game.
The worst part about Intergrade was when it was over, as it just reminded me that I have to wait again for more Final Fantasy 7 Remake. Mundaun starts off quietly, but the hand-drawn graphics immediately set a stark tone. An unsettling sense of dread starts to creep in as soon as you arrive in the titular Swiss village, and a horrifying vision from a supernatural painting incites the rest of the mystery.
Mundaun is slow and ponderous, and even the action is clumsy and inelegant. But everything the game lacks in polish, it makes up in character. Protagonist Curdin is returning home to investigate the mysterious death of his grandfather. Of course, in true horror fashion, everything goes to hell immediately.
Early on, I pet a goat behind the ears. Horrifying, tortured beekeepers lumber at Curdin as he explores the Alps. Each environment, depicted via pencil shading, is distinctive and memorable. The experience is a clever take on horror that is absolutely drenched in atmosphere. Players start their rounds by playing perk cards, and the library they choose from is also the best record of their progression.
Like a typecast child star or a s one-hit wonder, Turtle Rock could be forgiven for seeing Left 4 Dead as an unfair burden. But with Back 4 Blood , the studio has embraced it fully, as well as the responsibility of keeping its contributions relevant to a modern audience, rather than assuming that anything that was once a hit is automatically timeless.
There are other games that use Tinder-style mechanics — swiping — to tell a story, but Tender happens in the app itself. It works so naturally thanks to key designs from the developers. You see, Tender takes place over days — maybe longer. Conversations happen in real time, and you have to wait for potential dates to respond.
The writing, too, is some of the best in video games this year; to see romance tackled so deftly in such a precise, compact experience is stunning. Cookie Run: Kingdom is so much.
Every time the developers add some new system, my eyes roll to the back of my head in agony, and yet I open the app every day and play. Is it the cute characters and the costumes that they can get? Is it the desire to power up and see those numbers rise? I have played this game every day since February, and I still love it.
OK, maybe the fact that the Cookie Run Twitter and TikTok accounts keep posting thirst traps of cookies does make me log in more often. At first glance, I was hooked. Instead, it creates the valleys that the game needs to fully max out its peaks. And wow, does it go hard on those peaks, offering up some of the most over-the-top, luxurious, self-indulgent, entertaining moments of any game this year.
It feels kind of pointless to write a recommendation for No More Heroes 3. For us, this is a game of the year. But I will not, under any circumstances, recommend this game to newcomers. It would just be an ugly cascade of meaningless sounds, colors, shapes, and ideas. It combines Dynasty Warriors combat with the characters and introspection of Persona 5. Strikers spends most of its time pulling players through its story and dungeons. The giant fights break out as encounters, rather than just battlefield brawls.
Strikers is a true hybrid. It pulls everything you know from Persona combat and just takes away the turns. It also serves as an extension of the Persona 5 storyline, with most of the same characters, and it succeeds at showing off the Phantom Thieves as proficient, seasoned heroes. It manages to tell a great story that only serves to enhance the original.
That restraint helps make Strikers feel like a real Persona game, even if it has a different format. Boyfriend Dungeon can be completed in an afternoon, and yet it contains multitudes. The game combines dungeon crawling with dating by offering up a suite of paramours who can turn into weapons that the player character wields on the battlefield.
No, this is not an actual board game, nor do you play it with other people. But the feel of laying down tiles, earning points, and growing your romantic village feels just like a cozy board game night.
I am sure there are dozens of blurbs on year-end lists out there about people replaying Mass Effect more than a decade later. Mass Effect has an incredibly grand scope: As Commander Shepard, you must save the entire damn galaxy from ancient and all-powerful harbingers of destruction.
That is compelling and exciting, but what really makes Mass Effect so memorable is the small interactions between characters and the relationships you get to build — which makes the emotional impact of some of your choices hit all the harder. Seeing your choices play out across the trilogy is perhaps one of the most satisfying parts of Mass Effect, but what really resonated with me in my Very Paragon Playthrough was how many of those key decisions came from connecting with others and bridging old rivalries.
Players were initially drawn to the title because of those inspirations, which Eastward wears proudly; there is no hiding its influence. But more than Zelda or EarthBound , Eastward stands on its own as a complicated, compelling journey, well, east. John, a miner, is quiet but hits things with a frying pan. Sam, for her part, is white-haired and has mysterious, otherworldly powers.
That unique gameplay experience, set in an intriguing and weirdly inviting world, makes it a top choice. The Ace Attorney franchise is now around 10 games deep depending on which spinoffs you count , and given that the games all feature recurring characters and plot lines, it can be tough to keep track of it all. Fantastic localization and some genuinely charming characters make this visual novel a great introduction to the format.
Nier Replicant brought back the original Nier from with an HD remaster, and with it came the perfect reason to revisit the game — or, for some, experience the cult hit that inspired Nier: Automata for the first time. The story follows Nier, a young boy looking to cure a disease called black scrawl that has infected his little sister Yonah.
It incorporates play styles in innovative and daring ways: One section of the game plays like a Diablo clone while other sections play like bullet-hell arcade shooters, and there is even a portion where you read through descriptive text and play through as you would a text-based Twine game.
You just need to be willing to suffer through some fetch quests, is all. Do you love fishing, cooking, and renovating a dying small town? Well, let me introduce you to Moonglow Bay.
The name suggests a spiritual relationship to Stardew Valley , and its tone is similarly wistful, cute, and a little sad. You return home and cook the fish into beautiful meals. You sell the meals in a little vending machine! You take that money and reinvest it in the town, fixing up local storefronts, cleaning up trash, and bringing hope to a hopeless town. I found immense satisfaction in discovering new species of fish, and in calculating which meals to cook and sell to earn the most money.
The fishing mechanic can be alternately challenging and hypnotic — a far cry from the initially frustrating fishing in Stardew Valley. So get out there and go fishing! Toem asks you to think creatively about its quests. A character is looking for inspiration for a song — well, what does a photo of that look like? The game also succeeds at being extremely funny.
In an early level, I got a horn attachment for my camera. Recent roguelikes have taken what was originally a difficult genre and made it far more approachable, with progressive upgrades and difficulty settings.
Returnal , from developer Housemarque, goes another way. And yet, thanks to a wild sci-fi storyline and stunning visuals, Returnal introduces the genre to a much wider audience.
But thanks to some post-launch support, Returnal now lets you quit at any point , and will also let you restore progress should your PlayStation 5 have a rough day. With this one major issue removed from the equation, Returnal stands tall as one of the most innovative takes on the roguelike genre, and one that continues to leave an indelible mark, many months after release.
I have waited a long time for Inazuma, or rather, what felt like a long time. In actuality, it was only around 10 months. After hearing murmurs about Raiden Shogun and her vision hunt decree, the hype slowly grew, but Genshin Impact itself had hit a lull back in the spring.
Just as intended, the release of a new major region reawakened the Genshin Impact fan in me. The new area, which is continuing to get updates as I write this, was filled with new enemies, new puzzles, and new stories.
The enemies served as a challenge for even a seasoned player, requiring people to think and dodge rather than just smacking them repeatedly with our strongest characters. I rushed through to clear the newly added area, and it left me hungry for more, just like the game did when it was first released. Revisiting the original 3D World is pure chaos if you play with others. While another 3D Mario game on the Switch Super Mario Odyssey has a limited two-player mode, 3D World offers a fleshed-out multiplayer mode where you play entire levels with your friends.
You can collaborate on some sections — another player can hold down a switch that makes a jump easier, for example — but the multiplayer has a bit of a competitive edge too. What fun! Characters double jump, air dash, and sprint around the screen at full tilt.
Strive understands that a vital first step in creating a fighting game fan is helping them fall in love with the characters — and boy, these are some characters. Unlike lots of fighting games, Strive has a tutorial system that explains everything from fundamentals to advanced tryhard tactics. In a standout year for loop-themed games, as well as roguelikes with deck-building elements, Loop Hero is utterly unique. The hero simply walks this looped path, auto-fighting enemies on the track and reaping various rewards that let players upgrade armor and weapons.
Players have a deck of different region cards that can be placed as tiles along the path. Other tiles will evolve after meeting certain conditions, spawning enemies that will kick your ass.
Part of the fun is learning how to anticipate these, and strategically make it all fit together. Only you have the power to slowly rebuild it, one painful loop at a time. It makes sailing through the ocean on the King of Red Lions in Wind Waker — no matter how beautiful the art style — seem unimpressive by comparison. The time boat is such a perfect moment in Skyward Sword.
It lasts only 30 minutes or so, but it makes an impression. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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