{"id":9594,"date":"2022-02-01T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9594"},"modified":"2022-01-31T11:34:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:34:25","slug":"2021-reflections-part-4-the-runners-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9594","title":{"rendered":"2021 Reflections: Part 4: The Runners-up."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;But Ryan!&#8221; you shout, incredulously &#8220;Where was Part 3??&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll tell you where Part 3 is. <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9449\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"9449\">It&#8217;s here<\/a>. I just didn&#8217;t add it to the post title, because I didn&#8217;t want to. There you go. There&#8217;s no lost chapter or anything. Just me being silly and inconsistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, just for kicks, here is the list of video games that I had considered for my 2021 Top 10 list, but didn&#8217;t quite make the cut. I think that these are all great games, but they just didn&#8217;t affect me the same way that the winners did. I would absolutely recommend any game from this list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Downfall (PC)<\/li><li>Ys Origin (Switch)<\/li><li>Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished ~ Omen (PC)<\/li><li>Ys II: Ancient Ys Vanished ~ The Final Chapter (PC)<\/li><li>Power Wash Simulator (PC)<\/li><li>Deltarune: Chapter II (PC)<\/li><li>Alisa (PC)<\/li><li>Kathy Rain: The Director&#8217;s Cut (PC)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s every other game that was a candidate for the list. If you&#8217;ve forgotten, that only means that I played them for the first time in 2021. Not all of these get my seal of recommendation. I&#8217;ll let you peruse the <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8788\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"8788\">Month End Wrap-Ups<\/a>, should you feel the need to figure out which ones are good and which are&#8230; <em>less good<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Astro&#8217;s Playroom (PS5)<\/li><li>Roki (Switch)<\/li><li>Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon II (Switch)<\/li><li>Vader Immortal: Episode I (Oculus)<\/li><li>Contra (Arcade)<\/li><li>The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (GBC)<\/li><li>Pixel Puzzle Makeout League (Switch)<\/li><li>Bravely Default II (Switch)<\/li><li>Little Kite (PC)<\/li><li>Pac-Man 99 (Switch)<\/li><li>The Persistence (Switch)<\/li><li>Picross S5 (Switch)<\/li><li>Inunaki Tunnel (PC)<\/li><li>Stigmatized Property (PC)<\/li><li>Ys: The Oath in Felghana (PC)<\/li><li>Crooked Silence (PC)<\/li><li>Madrobot X (PC)<\/li><li>Lorelai (PC)<\/li><li>White Day: A Labyrinth Named School (PS4)<\/li><li>Doki Doki Literature Club Plus (Switch)<\/li><li>Legend of Mana (Swtich)<\/li><li>Pixel Ripped 1995 (Oculus)<\/li><li>LISA (PC)<\/li><li>The Medium (PC)<\/li><li>Shutter (PC)<\/li><li>Mr. Driller: Drill Land (Switch)<\/li><li>Stela (Switch)<\/li><li>Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand (SNES)<\/li><li>Samsara Room (PC)<\/li><li>NieR Reincarnation (iOS)<\/li><li>Cyberpunk 2077 (PC)<\/li><li>Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim (PC)<\/li><li>Beat Saber (Oculus)<\/li><li>No More Heroes III (Switch)<\/li><li>Castlevania: The Adventure (GB)<\/li><li>Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi (PC)<\/li><li>Castlevania II: Belmont&#8217;s Revenge (GB)<\/li><li>MediEvil (2019) (PS4)<\/li><li>Castlevania: Bloodlines (Genesis)<\/li><li>Ys Seven (PC)<\/li><li>Pok\u00e9mon Shining Pearl (Switch)<\/li><li>The Room (PC)<\/li><li>Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s: Security Breach (PS5)<\/li><li>Maize (PC)<\/li><li>Tap Wizard RPG (iOS)<\/li><li>Trash Quest (Switch)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But Ryan!&#8221; you shout, incredulously &#8220;Where was Part 3??&#8221; I&#8217;ll tell you where Part 3 is. It&#8217;s here. I just didn&#8217;t add it to the post title, because I didn&#8217;t want to. There you go. There&#8217;s no lost chapter or anything. Just me being silly and inconsistent. Anyway, just for kicks, here is the list &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2021 Reflections: Part 4: The Runners-up.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23,20,6,83,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-games","category-pokemon","category-retro-gaming","category-video-games","category-vr","category-zelda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594","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=9594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9595,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions\/9595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}