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I guess it is a bit early to start naming a GOTY, but honestly Virtue’s Last Reward is the best thing I’ve played this year and I can’t even imagine anything getting close to it among the games that’ll be released (or that I’ll get around to playing) between now and the end of the year. The only thing that saddens me is that it’ll probably get robbed of all the recognition it deserves on account of being on a platform that most people don’t have access to (including, it seems, the AGs staff; seriously, when is the review coming?!).

Special mentions for The Walking Dead, which is simply the best piece of interactive story-telling ever, and Resonance, which showed that you can still have a lot of innovation (and fun!) with the old point-and-click mechanics.

Add to that Frogwares’ best Sherlock Holmes game to date, Botanicula, and other games I haven’t had the chance to play yet (Cognition…?), and it looks like 2012 has been a pretty strong year for adventures.

Advie - 25 November 2012 01:33 PM

Kurufinwe - 25 November 2012 11:41 AM

I guess it is a bit early to start naming a GOTY, but honestly Virtue’s Last Reward is the best thing I’ve played this year

Kuru would you be kind and make it easy for me, shoot me with a any good review link for that title.

The IGN review matches my own opinion very well.

Lost Chronicles of Zerzura is firmly occupying my top spot at the moment but there’s a chance that might change. There are a few games in the upcoming releases for 2012, so I suppose it depends on whether they actually come out this year or (as is more likely) are delayed. ASA: A Space Adventure in particular looks wonderful.

thejobloshow - 25 November 2012 01:20 AM

Definitely going to have to say Resonance at this current point of time. I found the whole adventure… pulchritudinous?

However, that might all change once I get a chance to play Virtue’s Last Reward.

This is my current opinion exactly - saving VLR till I’m home for the holidays but I’d hope to finish it by New Years.

Haven’t played Walking Dead and a few other good-looking titles yet though; given my backlog, I doubt I will finish it  

IMO, Resonance is slightly on the top, racing against TWD and Botanicula. Despite being a Daedelic fan, CoS and Deponia didn’t impressed me that much (they are good, solid games however)and neither TToSH did. I’m also not going to talk about games that only their first part is released (Cognition, Anna’s Quest, etc). It’s still November however… plenty of time to wait for Primordia, ASA and the others….

I’m sad to say I didn’t do much adventuring this year. I played Botanicula and Resonance, and that was about it. I’ll probably snag walking dead at some point.

But that just emphasizes how important this Kickstarter boom was. The contrast between this year and 2013 is startling. There’s at least 10 adventure games coming next year I’m genuinely excited for, all of which rate higher on my hype meter than anything this year.

Kurufinwe - 25 November 2012 11:41 AM

I guess it is a bit early to start naming a GOTY, but honestly Virtue’s Last Reward is the best thing I’ve played this year and I can’t even imagine anything getting close to it among the games that’ll be released (or that I’ll get around to playing) between now and the end of the year. The only thing that saddens me is that it’ll probably get robbed of all the recognition it deserves on account of being on a platform that most people don’t have access to (including, it seems, the AGs staff; seriously, when is the review coming?!).

I loved 999 and want to play Virtue’s Last Reward, but I can’t justify buying a piece of hardware for one, maybe two games as both the Vita and 3DS don’t have all that many interesting games and Virtue is the only standout title for me. Even then, I almost pulled the trigger just now, because I really want to play VLR. Looking at future releases, I don’t see anything worthwhile being added to the library either, unfortunately.

As for this year’s GOTY I think it’s still too early for me to decide. December has several new releases (Primordia, The Cat Lady, Critter Chronicles and Haunted) and there are also a few games I still have to finish, such as The Walking Dead (arrived at the beginning of episode 3 yesterday), The Testament of Sherlock Holmes and Harvey’s New Eyes.

Having said all that, Chaos on Deponia, Botanicula and Resonance rank highest at the moment, closely followed by Recognition, The Chains of Satinav and The Sea Will Claim Everything. I felt Zerzura was kind of a disappointment, as I found both the characters and the plot to be quite weak.