These are my most favourite games to least favourite games, 1 being the best and 10 being the worst.
1. The Last of Us
“The
Last of Us” is a story driven, photo realistic and apocalyptic survival game
for the PS3 and remastered version on the PS4. A man named Joel loses his
daughter at the beginning of the apocalypse and grieves about her for the next
20 years. One day, a group calling themselves the Fireflies, ask him to take a
14 year old girl named Ellie to their camp to help get a cure for the virus
“Cordyceps.” Joel takes Ellie on a yearlong journey, only to end up not getting
the cure. The entire game features events, which most are extremely
unrealistic, as they somehow manage to kill anyone that gets in their way, like
76 people who live in one city. But other than that part of the game, the
characters are well written and we understand what they have been through since
the apocalypse started. The zombie’s, otherwise known as in four stages,
Runners, Stalkers, Clickers and Bloaters, in that order. As you go through the
game, you realise that the zombie’s aren’t the only threat as many men along
the way try and kill the pair. As the game carries on, we start to make an
emotional attachment to the characters as we see their troubles along the way,
such as Joel thinking about his daughter and how much Ellie reminds him of
her., or the way that Ellie seems distant from Joel, even though they have
spent more or less every second with each other for the past year. The ending
of the game didn’t really satisfy people, but it was a good way to end the
story at that point. The ending does give away the possibility of a sequel, but
even if there isn’t one, we can still assume that everything turns out alright
for them, with a few troubles ahead.
2.
Heavy Rain
“Heavy Rain” is a story driven, choose
your own adventure, photo realistic drama game for the PS3. The game lets you
play as 4 different characters, Ethan Mars, Maddison Paige, Scott Shelby and
Norman Jayden. The game mainly focuses on Ethan, am man who loses his eldest
son at the beginning of the game. Then, his second son, Sean, gets kidnapped by
a man nicknamed the “Origami Killer.” The Origami Killer puts Ethan through a
series of tests to see if he is a loyal father who really loves his son.
Somewhere, throughout the game, he meets Maddison Paige, a women who suffers
from insomnia when she sleeps in her own home. She then decides to help Ethan
find his son and gets into even more trouble than Ethan does. Norman Jayden is
an FBI agent who has some weird, futuristic sunglasses which can help him
document clues he has found, track down where people may be, and even play with
a ball and throw it against an animated wall. Scott Shelby, a private
investigator “hired” to investigate the parents of the victims of the Origami
Killer. Lauren Winters decides to help Scott Shelby in his efforts to find the
Origami Killer, but things turn upside down when an extreme plot twist that
ruins your interpretation of a particular character who turns out to be the
Origami Killer. There are several different endings to Heavy Rain, which most
people enjoy, but a lot of the time, people don’t get the ending that they
would prefer. But it does make people want to play it again to see what else
could have happened if things went differently.
3.
Her Story
“Her Story” is a story driven, photo
realistic game for the PC, IOS and OS X. “Her Story” is a unique game where you
play an unknown person (at first), watching video clips of a woman telling her
story to detectives investigating the murder of her husband. At first this game
seems to be straight forward, but then, as you dig deeper into the game, you
find out much darker subjects that this woman has gone through. The game
mechanic is also pretty unique, as you have to type in a search engine a word
that you have come across in particular video clips, which ranges from 3
seconds to 2 minutes, watch the first 5 videos in chronological order and use
different words to find the missing videos you are unable to watch. The
actress, Viva Seifert does a very good job at delivering a good performance,
and making the game worth playing until the end. I can see why some people
might not think this is very exciting as it is basically just watching a woman
talk in a few video clips, but also forget that some games don’t even let you
do any gameplay half the time. But “Her Story” does a good job at making you
think about what you are trying to find out, and the story alone can draw you
in pretty quickly.
4.
The Walking Dead: Season One
“The Walking Dead: Season One” by TellTale
Games, is an extremely story driven, Cel Shaded, choose your own adventure game
for Android, iOS, PC, PS3, PS4, PS Vita, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. This game is a
great game, and not only because it has won over 80 Game of the year awards.
“The Walking Dead” gives you the control of a 38 year old man named Lee, a man
who has recently been convicted for the murder of the man who was sleeping with
his wife. When the apocalypse occurs, Lee is brought into the presence of a
little girl named Clementine, a girl who doesn’t know where her parents are. In
5 episodes, Lee and Clementine go on an adventure where they have to overcome
death of those around them, escape from psychopaths and cannibals. This game
has moments which can make you laugh, but the game can really be
heart-breaking, with the deaths of major characters and having to choose out of
two people who you should save and who you let die. What makes this game so
interesting is how the game changes based on your actions, and how a character
changes their attitude towards you.
5.
Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
“Spongebob
Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom” is an adventure, action, story driven
game for the PS2, Xbox and GCN, where you play, obviously, Spongebob
Squarepant, and his friends, Patrick Star and Sandy Cheeks. Plankton wants to
find a way to steal the Krabby Patty formula, but as most of Plankton’s plans,
it doesn’t go to plan when the robots he creates don’t follow any of his orders
and become reckless. It is up to Spongebob and his friends to take back Bikini
Bottom from the robots. What is very good about this game is the comedy
elements that we all know and love from the TV series, and the familiar
locations we have seen before. Even though this is a child’s game, some of the
obstacles in the game can be quite difficult, but after a while, you should be
able to accomplish your goal. The obstacles include boxes/crates with spike
that when you touch them takes away a life. A good element in this game is that
after every major boss in the game and the beginning, you are given golden
underwear to give you one extra life, and for collectibles, there are “shiny
objects” and golden spatulas. You can also talk to all the characters you have
come to know throughout the years and have funny conversation with them.
6.
Beyond: Two Souls
“Beyond: Two Souls” is a story driven,
choose your own adventure, action and adventure game for the PS3. Follow the
path of Jodie Holmes, a girl with an entity that has been attached to her since
the day she was born. Her story goes from the age of 8 to 23 years old, though,
because she can’t recall which order each part is, we have to play the game
through random parts of her life. At first what seems to be a confusing story
about a girl with powers turns into such a heart-breaking story when we find
out that Jodie has been under government testing at the beginning of her story.
A feature that does help in the game is that you can’t die during gameplay, no
matter what you choose to do, you can’t die, but you can get hurt badly. The
entity attached to Jodie is called Aiden, who seems to have a sense of humour,
though sometimes he becomes quite scary when people try to hurt Jodie.
Throughout the game, it seems that Jodie hates Aiden, but, several times, she
shows that she truly loves him. Some parts of the game can really bore you, and
the worst part is that the boring parts are the longest part of the game, sure
they come with a few little jump scares, but nothing to actually make you
scream. And throughout the game you realise just much trouble Jodie has gotten
herself into, and the game does bring to you some serious subjects.
7.
Life Is Strange
“Life is Strange” is a story driven,
choose your own adventure, adventure and possibly a game that features a
trigger warning for the PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox One and Xbox 360. This game, in the
first episode, seemed to be a game purely only about finding a girl named
Rachel that has been missing for a few months, and trying to avoid the upcoming
apocalypse that the main character Maxine ‘Max’ Caulfield has foreseen. But the
player chooses to dig deeper into the story behind the scenes of the first
episode, you can see what is really happening to certain characters around you.
As more episodes have been released, an even bigger event has been noticed, and
it seems that Max has almost completely forgotten about the incoming
apocalypse, and is focused solely on finding Rachel. The voice acting in the
game is kind of out, such as there is no lip syncing, and the way that the
lines are delivered could be more believable, but if you can overcome that
flaw, then maybe you can see the good things, like what can happen to teenagers
in schools. What made me like this game is how it kind of reminds me of the
show “Degrassi,” and how it deals with teenage life and how terrifying it can
all be. If you do consider playing this game, please know that this game
features subjects such as suicide, kidnap, roofies and drugs etc.
8.
Until Dawn
“Until Dawn” is a story driven, choose
your own adventure horror game for the PS4. This game has a very good story to
it where you play 8 different characters, all with different personalities.
What I like about this game is how, at the beginning, they make you hate a
character so much, but then, as the game goes on, and if that person is still
alive, then you can see their attitudes change. The story itself isn’t all too
original as a lot of what happened to these characters, happen to those in
classic horror films, except your action decide what who gets what treatment.
The graphics in this game are very good, and the developers have done a really
good job at making the characters look exactly like the actors, but sadly the
acting, and even some of the writing could be improved. The game itself is
great, but the decision on the actors was terrible as none of them could act
believably, and also the fact that they don’t really look young is also a
downer. The only concept that made this game somewhat good was the amount of
decisions you can make and all the little jump scares that always gets you.
Another thing is the facial expressions, some of them are way too extreme,
especially the eyes and mouths, almost squinting and smiling when saying
something, as seen at the beginning of the game.
9.
The Walking Dead: Season Two
“The Walking Dead: Season Two” is a story
driven, adventure, action and is supposedly a choose your own adventure game
for the PC, PS3, Xbox 360, iOS, PS Vita, PS4, Xbox One, Ouya and Android. When
this game was released, everybody who had played the first season was excited
that this series was continuing. Sadly, this game was a big disappointment as,
unlike the previous season, none of your choices mattered, even though it
claims to be a “choose your own adventure.” No matter what your choices are
this season, nothing was changed, the same thing would happen with only one or two
things being mentioned from previous episodes. Also, the fact that in this
season we are forced to play Clementine, two years older than she was in the
first season (now 11 years old) is very unlikely. All the adults in the game,
which is more or less everyone, expects Clementine to do the “mature” thing and
do everything they require. And all the events that occurred during this game
made no sense, as the characters make a plan, and they don’t even go along with
it. A lot of people say that this game is great, but there is hardly any
gameplay, and decisions don’t even affect the story, and it confuses me at how
this game is so popular as to even be nominated for Game of the Year award. The
most unlikely thing that has happened in this game is that Clementine comes to
meet an old friend from the previous season, even though it’s been at least two
years since they last saw each other and they have both probably been around
all of America and its connecting countries.
10.
Minecraft
“Minecraft”
is a game that many people like to play, where you play with blocks of
different things and attack other people. Killing animals and building
wonderful places. Sadly I find this kind of boring and pointless. Whenever I
have tried playing this game, I have always gotten bored after a few minutes,
or I don’t get enough time to have any fun as people keep murdering each other
when online. This game reminds me a lot like Roblox, but not as fun as because
Roblox actually looks fun while Minecraft looks kind of bland unless you build
everything yourself. It is very time consuming, but unless you make your own
little game to play on it, it can be extremely boring to some people, but I can
see why other people like to play it, you can play online with friends and
build masterpieces with it. But sadly this is not the game for me.
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