2025 was a rough time for me, for many reasons I won’t go into, but the bottom line is: for a large chunk of this year, I did not have a lot of spare cash to throw at video games. Given the rising cost of AAA titles, Nintendo releasing the Switch 2 at a very premium price point, and general economic instability in many places worldwide, I imagine I’m not alone in feeling a tightness in my wallet. For most of the year, I struggled to justify new game purchases. Even your average indie game at a more affordable price than the big retail AAA titles was something that could only be an occasional treat.
Read More »My Favourite Things of 2019
At the beginning of 2019 I started a list for every new movie, anime, game, etc. that I was interested in and crossed them off as I went. Over the course of the past year, I watched 47 new movies, 12 seasons of television, 7 documentary features, played 46 new games, watched 16 anime, and read 16 volumes of comics and manga. From those, I’ve selected the 12 pieces of art I consumed this year that I got the most out of. I wouldn’t exactly call it a “best of the year” list, because I’m not in any way trying to be objective about their quality, but just to explain why I personally connected with them more than any other media I consumed this year. These are the things that meant the most to me. The ones that were dealing with subjects I found personally relatable or got me thinking and stayed in my head long after I had finished them, as well as the ones I just had the most fun with in 2019. Hopefully you get something out of reading this, and my words can encourage you to watch, read, or play some of my favourite things of the past year.
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