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Toomanywires's best and worst games of 2024

It’s that time of year again: Toomanywires has reviewed his best and worst games of the 2024. Here are the games he played from the current gen, either to completion or with a significant number of hours behind them:

Alan Wake 2 & the Night Springs and Lake House DLC, All You Need is Help, Botany Manor, C-Smash VRS New Dimension, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, The Case of the Golden Idol, Chants of Senaar, Donut County, Doom, Dordogne, Dragon’s Dogma 2, Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, Final Fantasy VII Remake: Episode INTERmission, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Forza Motorsport, Grindstone, Humanity, Into the Breach, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1, Neon White, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, Silent Hill 2 Remake, Sonic Origins, Still Wakes the Deep, Street Fighter 6 – Character Packs, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania, Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns, Venba

Wow. I could never but it has certainly inspired me to try (albeit with older games). And speaking of older games:

6. Best Retro Playthrough:Sonic 1-3 and Sonic CD – Sonic Origins

I picked up Origins in the sale in November. I’m not sure what possessed me to do so, as I’d shown no interest in it previously, satisfied as I was with already owning Sonic 1-3 in various other formats and having no nostalgic ties to CD. But whatever, I bought it and then spent the rest of the year dipping in and out of 16-bit Sonic. Sonic 1, 2 and CD are all cleared, and I’m a good way through Sonic 3. I must say that I’ve really been enjoying myself, in spite of the hidden spikes, baddies placed at the end of loop-the-loops and high-speed ramps, and motherfucking springs into springs. 

Sonic 1 has to be one of the most confident and well-formed initial entries in any series; Sonic 2 is by far the best Sonic of the 1990s, and therefore the best Sonic all told. If I’m being honest, I don’t love Sonic 3, but it has its moments. Sonic CD is one of the strangest games I played all year, but I’m exceedingly glad to have experienced it. Look at me, finally playing a Mega CD game! A man of exceptional, and exceptionally-delayed, taste.

Here’s to more in 2025!

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