Re: 20 Day Video Game Challenge - Day 7: 5 of your favorite OSTs
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...FINALLY, AND NOT JUST BECAUSE HE WAS TOO LAZY TO DO IT BEFORE.
1. A game that had a lasting impression on you.
I'm not gonna lie, you're reading this in order so this is the first answer you're going to read. But, in reality, this is the last question I am answering while going through all this. So this is like future me writing this but you're reading past me. Whoa.
There are a lot of games I could put here and there are so many that could actually work here. Dark horses like
Guitar Hero III, a childhood game, helped build my love for music and has had a lasting impression on me. Games I've played as recently as the last two years which have surged my love and appreciation for certain styles of video games, while subsequently helping me in other facets of life (as stupid as that sounds, but a series like Phoenix Wright has helped me think through things in a more logical matter), like the
Ace Attorney series, the
Danganronpa series, and
Shovel Knight. A lot of games I regularly consider my all-time favorites, like
Danganronpa 2,
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations,
Cave Story,
Portal,
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes,
Super Mario Sunshine,
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future,
The Walking Dead: Season One... they're all applicable here and they are all games that have left a lasting impression on me.
But I think the game I have to go with is the game I consider my all-time favorite game and has been my all-time favorite game for about a decade now, only being challenged for that position by
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, and that game is
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.
Radiant Dawn helped me confirm my love for straightforward RPGs, something that has been grounded since the early Pokemon games, all the while providing an excellent plot and wrapping up a fantastic two-game storyline (
Path of Radiance is a fantastic game in its own right), great music and characters, really simple gameplay all the while still being insanely difficult during some stretches, and it has one of the best endgames in all of video games. It's a game I've gone through at least four times and all this talking about it makes me want to go through it a fifth. I never thought when I got it for Christmas alongside my Wii that it would become my favorite video game of all-time and be the one game I would continuously and routinely always come back to like a decade later and enjoy more and more every single time.
2. Favorite female video game character.
This one's kind of difficult because there are so many great choices. Nino (
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade), Elesa (
Pokemon Black/Black 2 and White/White 2), Mia Fey, Maya Fey, and Franziska von Karma (the
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series), Clementine (
The Walking Dead series), Lucina (
Fire Emblem: Awakening), Aoi Asahina, Kyoko Kirigiri, and Peko Pekoyama (
Danganronpa and
Danganronpa 2) just to name a few are ones right off the top of my head, but I'm probably going to have to go with the safe answer and go with
Samus. She's just a badass and there's a part of me that really enjoys having the two-character layer of Samus and Zero Suit Samus, if that makes sense. It's like a two-in-one and I've spent so many games and hours with her character and I've enjoyed every minute of it. Yes, even
Other M.
3. A game that's so bad but so good.
This is such a stupid game and it's very controversial, but I think I'd have to go with
Postal 2. It's stupid mindless violence that is often times really uncomfortable and very offensive and the game has not aged well visually but my god it's so much fun. It's stupid mindless FPS fun featuring pissing mechanics, al-Qaeda terrorists, the late Gary Coleman, cat guns, an obscene amount of sexism and misogynistic things... it's a really, really bad game in all sense of the word but it's stupidly fun if you can get back the super dark humor.
4. A game that hit an emotional spot in your heart.
I already mentioned in a previous post that
Pokemon Gold continuously hits me with nostalgia, so I'm going to add onto those sentiments with other games. As far back as I can think, I believe there are only four games that have ever made me tear up, for varying reasons:
Pokemon Gold (and subsequently
Pokemon SoulSilver), Telltale Games'
The Walking Dead,
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, and
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations. Any of these are applicable for this answer but I think the one I'm going to go with for this challenge is
The Walking Dead. When I refer to this, I definitely mean season one and not any of the follow-up seasons or DLC like 500 Days or Michonne.
I have a weird relationship with TWD. Before I finally got to play it a couple years ago, I had watched two full playthroughs on YouTube and became super attached to the game, its characters, and the story. Doing that spoiled the entire game for me (and believe me, it is a very spoiler heavy game) but honestly, it was worth it. Watching people play through it made me cry because it's such an emotional game and it does a hell of a job making you attached to characters. Fast forward about a year or two later and I finally got to play through the game myself, and it still made me cry. It's by far and away Telltale's best work before their formula became oversaturated and, well, formulaic, and before The Walking Dead's story unfortunately became dry by the time season 2 was wrapping up. It's such a great game and if there's a Telltale game anyone should play, it's this one. I can't really talk about it more than that without spoiling at least a smudge about it.
5. Favorite game developer or studio.
Nintendo is the go-to answer here just because it covers SOOOO much, but there are branches and a few other indie developers/studios to go with here. Intelligent Systems is decidedly the Nintendo branch here.
Pushmo,
Pokemon Puzzle Challenge, the first three
Paper Mario games, and the
Fire Emblem series (with a HUGE emphasis on
Path of Radiance and
Radiant Dawn) are all brilliant titles and some of my all-time favorites. Some of my favorite indie developers/studios would range from Yacht Club Games, Nicalis, Number None, just to name a few!
6. Favorite male video game character.
"Blacker than a moonless night, hotter and more bitter than hell itself... that is coffee."
Godot from
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations. What a brilliant character with an amazing story. One of the reasons why I cried playing this game. He's a kickass prosecutor who is addicted to coffee and has one of the best character themes I have ever heard. Completely honest, he was the inspiration for a poem I wrote for my creative writing class just a few weeks ago. A close second is The Black Knight from
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance /
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. Can't talk too much about him without being spoilerish but my god his theme and just his nature and personality and appearance and everything about him is perfect.
7. Five of your favorite OSTs.
I'm so sorry to Crackin but I am absolutely stealing your format for this post because it's perfect. It's so hard to narrow these down and these choices probably aren't entirely accurate but they're what I can come up with right off the top of my head.
Individual OST
So yeah! Gonna try to stay updated with these but lol knowing me I probably won't.
Also let me just tell you all, you're all awesome. I love reading through all of your answers and I'm super happy about all the people participating in this. It's super awesome seeing everyone's varying interests and loves and appreciations and how drastically different they are or how similar they are and it's just awesome.
