5. Disco Elysium The Final Cut
Disco Elysium is one of the best RPGs of the past few years, but no game is perfect. The Final Cut edition is an example of a developer listening seriously to player feedback. As a result, the new version includes over a million words of newly recorded dialogue and changes in the video game’s story and mechanics. Although The Final Cut does indeed make some cuts, it expands the story and choices and adds new songs to the soundtrack.
4. Animal Crossing New Horizons
There is probably no game more responsible for people immersing themselves in a fantasy alternative reality than 2020’s Animal Crossing. Besides being a beloved classic, the reboot on Nintendo Switch was the perfect, stuck at home pandemic game. Otherwise productive and rational people logged thousands of hours on their idyllic little islands and those of friends. Just last month, the Happy Home Paradise DLC allowed player to take the fantasy even further by designing vacation homes.
3. Hades
Just about every gamer I know is down with Hades, a roguelike action game/dungeon crawler from developer Supergiant Games. Fans and critics praised the game’s Greek mythology characters and setting and the challenging but addictive gameplay. The downside was that it only lived on the Epic game store, but in 2021 it was freed to roam on consoles as well.
2. Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
The reboot of Final Fantasy VII was one of the most anticipated games of 2020. It was a swan song for the PS4 and an amazing transformation of a classic game. It brought everything into the modern age, including combat, graphics, dialogue and story. For the PS5 version, the Intergrade version of game got an even sweeter and more detailed look, better load times and a really entertaining side chapter called INTERmission. While there’s some controversy over the PC version of Intergrade, at core it’s still one of the single best video game reboots of all time.
1. Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut
For many gamers, 2020’s Ghost of Tsushima was indeed a sucker punch of goodness. The open-world ARPG was rooted in Japanese history and culture and had incredible visuals and an engaging story and combat. While some look at the idea of a “director’s cut” videogame with skepticism, in this case, it’s hard to argue with the result. The Director’s Cut edition included DLC, full Japanese lip sync, haptic feedback and adaptive trigger support, 3D audio support, dynamic 4K resolution and improved loading times.
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