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TopicGames that just came out of nowhere for you?
NBIceman
08/07/21 3:43:52 AM
#18:


Furi.

Saw it at a GDQ a long time ago and thought it looked cool, picked it up in a Steam sale soon afterward and thereafter left it sitting in my library untouched for years. My understanding of the game was that it was just a short, straightforward, ultra-hard boss rush with no story to speak of, and I wasn't confident in my ability to finish it, so I was in no hurry.

Finally took the dive a couple weeks ago, beat it in a few hours, and it absolutely blew me away. Haven't stopped thinking about it since. Its gameplay is masterful all on its own - one of the best in the genre for sure - but there's also an awesome amount of philosophy and lore packed into the narrative, most of which isn't apparent until the game ends and you take a few minutes to sit back and put everything that was told to you over the course of the journey into a different context based on the new information you've gotten. And that's all with a script that, in its entirety, is probably shorter than a singular standard JRPG cutscene. Backed up by an incredible soundtrack, too, despite most of it being far outside my usual preferred genre.

Definite top-20 all-time for me, crowding top-15. I seriously can't believe it's not more widely known and appreciated - I would highly recommend it to anyone that figures they can handle the difficulty.

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