[Question] The Gamingforce Game of the Year 2012: Results now in!

Oh boy oh gee time to give a bunch of points to games only I played again

Botanicula -- 20 points
Dat adventure, dat slapstick, dat music, dat slapstick, dem puzzles, dem characters, dat slapstick. I just fucking love Amanita Design, you guys.

Kid Icarus: Uprising -- 20 points
Oh god I'm fighting my clone to Ace Combat Zero music, now I'm flying through a tornado, now I'm in a tank, now I'm Tony Hawk, THIS IS ALL ONE STAGE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS GAME IS AMAZING

I don't know if the controls were supposed to be better or worse with an XL than with an original 3DS, but the only problems I've had have been incompetence-related. Well, maybe except for air dashing, because that's weird as fuck, but besides that it's just me being fifty kinds of terrible at this game.

The constant magnificent visuals during flight are great, ground combat is some of the best arcade action fighting there's ever been, the banter is just... Uprising is just good, okay. Wow.

The Fool and His Money -- 15 points
Sequel to a mildly obscure puzzle game released twenty-five years ago? Sequel to one of the best puzzle games ever created. I am doing anagrams all day and all night and it is outstanding.

Corrypt -- 10 points


This is the best block-pushing game I've ever played.

Dustforce -- 10 points
NINJA JANITOR FORCE GO GO GO. This game is some severe horseshit for perfectionists, but damned if the almost puzzle-like quality of route planning isn't fun as heck. The parkour platforming engine is one of the best ever.

La-Mulana (remake) -- 10 points
This game is the reason I built a giant tractor beam and made the Moon crash into the Earth; you may have heard about that on the news, what with the world ending and all. The old school bullshitness of this game is off the charts, but so is the old school throwback awesomeness. I haven't been this lost & stumped in a game in a long time.

At the very least, if you're not going to play it, you all should help me with making Skills play it. That man is hilarious when he's enraged, and if there's one thing La-Mulana is guaranteed to make you do, it's making up swear words that have never before been spoken by a human tongue.

Paper Mario: Sticker Star -- 10 points
The battling in this game is the best and most tactical it's ever been in the Paper Mario series, which is why it's weird that getting into battles is disincentivized the way it is with extreme item management and no leveling. Quite a delightful adventure game despite this. This game ended up being much more explore-y and puzzle-y than I was expecting it to be, and that is a fabulous thing.

Pokemon Conquest -- 5 points
Nobunaga's Ambition, but the warlords battle with Pokemon. Played completely, 100% straight. I can't help but laugh every time I play this tremendously silly game. The main campaign unfortunately doesn't really require any strategy besides forming Pokemon teams, but the five trillion post-game side stories bring in all the Nobunaga's Ambition good stuff: warlord management, kingdom development, etc.


I haven't played these yet, but I have a feeling that they'd have gotten points if I had: DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, Virtue's Last Reward

Jam it back in, in the dark.