My favorite games of all time and why.
Along the years I have played many games. Some better than the others.
These aren’t the ones I have played the most. Those are multiplayer games. These are my favorites of all time. The ones that provoked me strong feelings I will never forget.
1. Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber
My all time favorite.
A game a friend of mine and I rented when he was staying a night cause my parents were going to be out. I didn’t like it when I saw the box first but he insisted and as always I obligued.
I think one of the reasons I loved it so much is because it wasn’t ruined by another friend who liked to ruin stories for me at that time in my life (books mainly). Because I played it first. So everything was new to me.
I remember very cool scenes that made me tear from passion alone. By far the best is:
My favorite scene: when Dio defends Magnus
Stays to fight Rhade with a couple amazons. Depending on what the player chooses just before:
- “…” leads to Dio becoming a Dragoon and having to kill him later on.
- Or choosing “I can’t do it…” has Dio returning safe immediately when Magnus is joining the Revolutionary Army.
That is the most important decision in the game. Having Dio is a requirement for the Zenobians to join you. Which is required for many characters to do the same. And in the end to get the best ending.
So do you have the balls to speak up, or are you a coward like everyone else?
2. Tenchu 2
Since the very first cinematic, the intro, I fell for it. It was artistic, beautiful, strange. and then I started the game, the story was very cool, and the gameplay hooked me. All these games have very cool gameplay besides amazing story, even tho the story is the thing I remember more fondly.
The stealth is amazing. And one Tenchu on PSP also hooked me in that regard, with different gameplay mechanics. But as I said, the story is the main thing. There is 3 playable characters. You can only choose 2 of them at first. Rikimaru and Ayame.
Each character shows their part in the whole thing. Unlike the first Tenchu (which I played after and didn’t like), in which if you choose Rikimaru, ayame gets captured and opposite, if you choose ayame, Rikimaru is captured. But in Tenchu 2, each character shows their part separately with no mistakes in the middle that I remember.
Rikimaru’s campaign is the typical hero story. You find out Tatsumaru, the third playable character, loses his memory and never gets it back. You defeat the main villain, Kagami. Etc. All standard but very cool story.
Ayame’s campaign on the other hand shows you that Tatsumaru actually recovers his memory but chooses to stay on Kagami’s side until he meets his end at Ayame’s own hands (but actually he is the one taking his sword (Izayoi, the clan leader sword) and stabs himself). Surely deeper and darker than Rikimaru’s part.
And when you finish those 2 campaigns, you get access to Tatsumaru’s. In which you see why he decides to stay on Kagami’s side. He fell in love with her.
The whole game is very emotional. Tatsumaru killing their master, fighting the greatest Goda warrior Tachibana Jubei, when he recovers his memory thanks to Ayame, etc. So I don’t really have a favorite scene among the others.
3. Chrono Trigger
A very emotional RPG that as soon as I finished made me say: This is the greatest RPG ever. Still not topped by any one later. I don’t play RPGs anymore tho.
It is funny in many parts and emotional in many others. I cannot think of a favorite scene so I will tell you my favorite musical piece on it. Given this is one of the 2 games that have a perfect soundtrack according to me (the other one is Zelda).
This would be Frog’s Theme. Here’s an amazing cover by Taylor Davis:
4. Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy
I fell inlove with this interactive cinematic way of telling a story. It made me put Quantic Dream as my favorite company. Above Capcom, which by the way, took several games to made me say that about it.
Up to this day, I haven’t played the other QD games. I even have them installed for years in my computer, at least Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls, but I haven’t played them yet.
My favorite scene: when lucas fights the police back
My favorite scene would be the one in which the main character, Lucas, is about to be arrested by the police but decides to fight back and it’s shown, much to his own surprise too, that he has super human abilities.
It starts like a regular game over cinematic. In that game when you get captured by the police, a small cinematic is shown in which Lucas laments that he cannot do nothing else to clear his name (iirc).
So this cinematic starts in the very same vein. Lucas is having a monologue while the police follows the arresting protocols but then he decides to fight back. It includes a cool chase on the streets.