Tuesday, July 6, 2021

2021 Hugo for Best Video Game

 It's a bad year not to be Hades.

The temporary (but hopefully to be permanent) addition of a Best Video Game Hugo came in a year when there are two games everyone's been playing: Animal Crossing and Hades.

And Animal Crossing has the significant disadvantage in a popular choice contest of being console specific, while Hades is multi platform.

Everyone has been playing Hades, the "rogue-like" (I personally argue real time combat makes it a rogue-lite) about breaking out of the Greek underworld, which has an intriguing plot demonstrating a lot of knowledge of Greek mythology. And Cerberus. Don't forget to pet Cerberus.

There has been significantly more buzz about it than other nominees: Final Fantasy VII Remake, The Last of Us, and Spritfarer.

Honestly, the last of those is my actual favorite, a delightfully melancholy time management-ish platformer about dying. It's cute, it's cozy, it's adorable.

But the biggest competition for Hades is undoubtedly the bizarre free browser game Blaseball. Which I just can't get into at all.

I'm still thinking it's a bad year not to be Hades.

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