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AC Shadows. Not only is this great fun, I reckon it's the most graphically impressive game I've ever played. It feels like this generation's Red Dead 2 (without the attention to detail, perhaps). Same leap in quality from what came before, same 'just have to stop and look' moments. RTGI is a gamechanger.
Mario Galaxy 2. Nintendo's confusing Switch 1/2 game labelling is immediately undone with this game. I'm playing on Switch 2, in 4K, but it's not the 'Switch 2 version', which apparently doesn't exist. You just buy the Switch 1 version and it runs the Switch 2 version. I don't even know any more. It took a good 5 minutes of googling to figure out what to buy. Aside from that, this is still one of the best games ever made.
Hades 2. I've killed the final underworld boss once, and I'm stuck on a certain flying, arena-destroying bastard on Olympus. I'm enjoying this, but I'm not convinced it's the all-timer everyone else seems to think it is. There's only one weapon I actually enjoy using (the dual blades); the rest feel a bit naff. And it has the same problem as the first Hades, namely that for a game entirely focused on combat, the combat isn't very satisfying. There's no weight to anything, and it's laughably hard to read at times.
I also don't really get along with the repetitive nature of rogue-likes. I've already seen the first 4 areas about 30 times, I have zero desire to repeat them at this point. It's saved by the stunning art, good voice acting and interesting story, though.
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Clair Obscur. I dropped off at the end of Act 1, haven't loaded it back up since. The combat started off great, but after 6 or 7 hours it had overstayed its welcome. Also, 'some stuff' happens at the end of Act 1 that apparently leaves people speechless, in awe, shouting GOTY and lots of other superlatives. It barely even registered that something important had happened for me, so I clearly wasn't that invested in the story. Banging soundtrack though.