The best way I can say it is this: I hate it when people ask me “What’s your favourite game” because I play so many that I simply don’t have one. The game’s demo shows a really good indication of this, particularly if you pay attention to the way the help file changes… And that’s not even mentioning the fact that multiple playthroughs are basically essential to really get into the meat of some of the game’s deeper mysteries, or that there are loads of secrets squirrelled away in the most unlikely of places. You can use a cellphone to call up the various characters you’ve befriended, and they’ll have different comments for practically every screen of the game.
Undertale isn’t a lengthy game, insofar as you can pretty much get through it in maybe six hours, but it is a very broad one. It marries very real characters, a quirky and knowing sense of humour, and actual emotions in a way that’s pretty much unmatched. On the other hand: it’s possibly the only game I’ve ever played in which I’ve tried to date a skeleton, debated as to whether or not anime is real, fought my battles by dodging attacks and showing mercy, and then followed all that heartwarming delight with a genuinely horrific playthrough that actually caused me some emotional damage (Peter refuses to do this, which is probably the sane choice, but he’s missing out on a lot). Because you might still play it, and dammit, you should experience it as blind as possible. I could give details about the ways it messes with your expectations, makes you feel bad about every other RPG you’ve ever played, creates characters that I like so much I pretty much consider them friends, and toys with the usual mechanics of games and RPGs in heart-rending and harrowing ways (while still being witty, funny, and having some of the finest music to have touched my ears this year)… but I shouldn’t. As noted in my review, it’s the sort of game which is vastly improved by knowing as little as possible about it. The thing is, I still don’t feel comfortable talking about Undertale. Yeah, okay, the 10/10 game is a really obvious choice. Instead, I rattled off a big long list of the games that I really liked from the past 12 months, and squeezed that list until a few particularly special ones popped out of the top. How do you compare Way of the Samurai 4 to Pillars of Eternity? Does it matter if I pick multiple games that kinda do the same thing, or should I try to spice things up a bit? Should I make special note of a few games that didn’t really get the attention they probably deserved? I mean, these are my picks, and there are certainly a few games that really need a lot more highlighting than they actually got. As per usual, I’ve had a bloody awful time trying to narrow down my personal list of the best PC Games 2015.
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