2024 Review and Game of the Year

[@SilverrWinter]

Nice recap! Seemed like a nice line up. Keeping an eye out for these 2025 teases.

[@nelsonw9483]

I can't wait for your 2025 Falcom video! I hope in it you'll include an update regarding the state of Falcom localizations. Since your last video, so many great strides have been made in the english localization front - how much we've caught up since then, being only one game behind after Daybreak2, shorter gaps between releases in the West (7months), two more localization companies added, the Trails JP scripts now being shared with NISA while they're still being written, etc.

[@CommRio]

There is so much to talk about and yes I will be touching on just how far we’ve come since my initial video on the localization process in 2023 or the sequel video in 2024. I’ve got other videos to concentrate on first but I’ve definitely been ruminating on everything after all the announcements and details revealed in the last month or so

[@kali-qgames1301]

Been waiting on this one! I’ll report back when I finish :)

[@CommRio]

I look forward to hearing your thoughts

[@Nikita_Akashya]

I sadly haven't played Daybreak or Ys X yet. I am held hostage by Harvestella and am also like 5 games behind for both of those series. My goal is to finish Harvestella and then finally play Ys X. Or Ys 7, since that one really interests me. I might actually just play Ys 7 before it gets released on Switch. I guess my game of the Year would be Trails to Azure that I replayed on Switch. It was even better the second time around. I hope I get to play some more games next year. I just need to finish that one game first. I will dedicate the entirety of my week to doing this. I hope it works out.

[@CommRio]

How has Harvestella been? I watched my friend play it on stream and it seems fun but not exactly up my alley. Glad Azure held up!

[@Nikita_Akashya]

@CommRio It is a really great game with a very interesting story. But there is just so much to do and you always get side tracked. I have been playing this game for 2 years at this point! But the sidestories are amazing. There was this quest with the ghost in the well and it was actually just the Mayor having a drink at his private bar inside the well. I like this game. And yes, it is pretty clunky, but also a lot of fun. Getting money early on is hard, but that part checks out once you get the kitchen and the fishing gear. I have like 3 dishes I need to make and then I have all the money to buy my new backpack. I also just bought a bigger farm. And I almost finished the story. I just really need to get some of those winter plants and I am done. And also juice. The game has a lot of stuff you can make, but it is more RPG than farming sim for the most part. The story is actually really good though. Way too good for some one off farming RPG. I like the characters too. Time to do some character stories while I'm at it. I need to do them all at some point. And again, the sidequests are amazing. And they give you stuff. Nobody talks about this game, but I really like it. I hope more people play it at some point.

[@mrp1234]

ok this made me actually want to play Baten Kaitos Origins. I unfortunately didn't like BK at all because I hated the gameplay but I did love the world. so improving the combat sounds promising. isn't Ryza great? I love her and her games so much. she's so endearing. I did gasp a bit at the "Metaphor ReFantazio will NOT be on my top list" until you explained it :p you definitely picked a great one for GOTY though!!! my games of the year for 2024: 5. Eiyuden Chronicles: Hundred Heroes 4. Kunitsu-Gami 3. Unicorn Overlord 2. Romancing SaGa 2 remake 1. Metaphor ReFantazio the top three are some of my favorite games ever. honorable mention to Visions of Mana which could swap with Eiyuden in the "flawed but I loved it w/e" spot at #5 of games I'd probably like from this year, I haven't played Ys X, Persona 3 Reload, Infinite Wealth, DA Vanguard (yeah pretty sure I'd love this one from everything I read about it lol), Animal Well, Stellar Blade, SMTVV, DQ3 remake, Card-en-Ciel, Balatro, LOZ Echoes of Wisdom. very burnt out from Trails but Daybreak looks like something new and interesting so I'd like to check that one out too. I probably forgot a bunch as well. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is unfortunately one of the worst games I've ever played and I hated it. :(

[@CommRio]

Too bad about Rebirth but I’m glad there was still a lot you enjoyed from the year, and plenty for you to tide you over to next year.

[@mrp1234]

@@CommRio it was a fantastic year!