{"id":7355,"date":"2018-01-27T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7355"},"modified":"2018-01-26T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T15:49:45","slug":"the-also-rans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7355","title":{"rendered":"A really big list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone&#8217;s curious, and doesn&#8217;t want to do the legwork themselves, here is the complete list of the sixty-nine (ha!) video games that I beat in 2017, sorted by categories of when they were cut for the Top 7 list.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Replays &#8211; <\/strong>Games that didn&#8217;t qualify because I don&#8217;t allow replays. Obvi.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Day of the Tentacle Remastered (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>Shovel Knight (3DS\/Switch)<\/li>\n<li>Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins (Game Boy)<\/li>\n<li>Destroy All Humans! (PS2)<\/li>\n<li>Life is Strange (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>Chrono Trigger (SNES)<\/li>\n<li>Super Mario 64 (N64)<\/li>\n<li>Resident Evil HD (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>Super Mario World (SNES)<\/li>\n<li>Illusion of Gaia (SNES)<\/li>\n<li>No More Heroes (Wii)<\/li>\n<li>Kirby Super Star (SNES)<\/li>\n<li>Star Fox (SNES)<\/li>\n<li>Silent Hill: Downpour (X360)<\/li>\n<li>Donkey Kong Country (SNES)<\/li>\n<li>Mega Man X (SNES)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Non-Competitors &#8211; <\/strong>Games that weren&#8217;t even considered for my favourites of the year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Witch and Hero II (3DS)<\/li>\n<li>Ape Escape 2 (PS2)<\/li>\n<li>Citadale (WiiU)<\/li>\n<li>The Perplexing Orb (WiiU)<\/li>\n<li>Dragon Quest VII (3DS)<\/li>\n<li>Parappa the Rapper Remastered (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>The Unfinished Swan (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>Wonder Boy: The Dragon&#8217;s Trap (Switch)<\/li>\n<li>Pic-A-Pix Color (WiiU)<\/li>\n<li>KAMIKO (Switch)<\/li>\n<li>ABZU (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>Blazing Star (NEO-GEO)<\/li>\n<li>Dark Witch Music Episode: Rudymical (Switch)<\/li>\n<li>Zoo Rampage (PC)<\/li>\n<li>Spooky Cats (PC)<\/li>\n<li>Team Kirby Clash Deluxe (3DS)<\/li>\n<li>Anna: Extended Edition (PS3)<\/li>\n<li>Vaccine War (PC)<\/li>\n<li>Castlevania III: Dracula&#8217;s Curse (NES)<\/li>\n<li>Citadale: Curse of Darkness (WiiU)<\/li>\n<li>BioShock Infinite (X360)<\/li>\n<li>Azure Striker Gunvolt (3DS)<\/li>\n<li>VOI (PC)<\/li>\n<li>Piczle Lines DX (Switch)<\/li>\n<li>PAN-PAN (Switch)<\/li>\n<li>Magikarp Jump! (mobile)<\/li>\n<li>Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers (Wii)<\/li>\n<li>Picross S (Switch)<\/li>\n<li>Yono and the Celestial Elephants (Switch)<\/li>\n<li>Deep Space Waifu (PC)<\/li>\n<li>Doki Doki Literature Club (PC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Harder Cuts &#8211; <\/strong>Games that I found memorable, but\u00a0lacked a certain <em>je ne sais quoi.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Layers of Fear (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>Bye-Bye, BoxBoy! (3DS)<\/li>\n<li>Snipperclips (Switch)<\/li>\n<li>Until Dawn (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>Ever Oasis (3DS)<\/li>\n<li>Chicken Wiggle (3DS)<\/li>\n<li>Fire Emblem Warriors (Switch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Runners-Up &#8211; <\/strong>Games that I struggled to justify cutting because they really clicked for me.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drakengard 3 (PS3)<\/li>\n<li>Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment (Switch)<\/li>\n<li>Blaster Master Zero (Switch)<\/li>\n<li>Stardew Valley (PC)<\/li>\n<li>ArcaniA (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>Tales from the Borderlands (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>Metroid: Samus Returns (3DS)<\/li>\n<li>Hollow Knight (PC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top 7 of 2017 &#8211; <\/strong>The cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Death Road to Canada (PC)<\/li>\n<li>Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)<\/li>\n<li>Resident Evil 7 (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>Mighty Gunvolt Burst (Switch)<\/li>\n<li>DOOM (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>NieR: Automata (PS4)<\/li>\n<li>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone&#8217;s curious, and doesn&#8217;t want to do the legwork themselves, here is the complete list of the sixty-nine (ha!) video games that I beat in 2017, sorted by categories of when they were cut for the Top 7 list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7375,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions\/7375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}