Where I live, the date has changed to December 31st, the last day of 2010. This marks the end of my first year at GameSpot as well, and I'd like to take the opportunity to reflect on the year,mostly by writing about what my favorite games of this year were,as this is a gaming website after all, and to give readers a few updates about my plans for my activity here at Gamespot in the near future.
As for my favorite game of the year, that would be Super Mario Galaxy 2. This is a game that took what was my second most liked game of all time and improved on it in nearly every conceivable fashion, resulting in an experience that was nearly unparalleled.
The runner-up game for my favorite of this year would be Kirby's Epic Yarn which was creative and enjoyable in all the right ways, as well as providing an excellent and incredibly creative art style, which is something I've come to value in gaming as of late.
As for recent developments and my plans for the future, I've recently obtained Professor Layton and the Curious Village and Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, the former which I've played to completion and thoroughly enjoyed, as well as having reviewed Here, and the latter which I've started to play and am currently enjoying. I plan to review the game once I complete it. Other games I've been playing are The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, (Which I've found to have the same great gameplay this series is known for and one of the series' better storylines, and an artistic presentation which I love), and Earthbound, which is turning out to be quite different from it's sequel (which I consider one of the greatest games of all time) and nearly as good. I plan to review these games upon completing them as well. Also, I've received some money during the holidays, which I plan to use to buy the second game in the Professor Layton series, Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, seeing as I liked the first one so much, though I may end up buying Scribblenauts or one of the Ace Attorney games I've yet to play instead.
As for my most anticipated games of next year, I'm most looking forward to Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney, seeing as Layton and Pheonix are two of my favorite video game characters, and I've enjoyed their games. Another game that I'm looking forward to playing is The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, which has loads of potential that I think Nintendo will be able to bring out in it and create an incredible game. I'm also planning on picking up the DS version of Plants vs. Zombies which will be coming out in January, as this will be my first chance to get the full version of the game.
I suppose that's all for this blog post. I've a few ideas as to what my next few blog posts will be, though I may not end up finishing any of them, and in the case of a few of them, there are a few games I'll need to play first.