2021: Backlog Progress

I managed to hit a record high of 98 games played in a year, which I can’t see myself topping any time soon, had a really good year that included some time replaying some old favourites (always feel guilty doing this with a backlog!) with a mini Skyrim playthrough to celebrate the 10 year anniversary, and two playthroughs of Mass Effect Legendary Edition which is my favourite series ever and the remaster was the perfect excuse to revisit it!

There’s really too many to go through… some highlights that I didn’t have space in the top 5 favourites below are finally playing through the Halo series, finding out how brutally hard the Crash games are… not sure that really counts as a highlight, finishing the modern Tomb Raiders (looking forward to Uncharted coming to PC!), Saints Row IV turned out to be exactly the funny game I needed at the time, KOTOR2 still proved enjoyable as a modern day experience, so many memorable indie games like Return of the Obra Dinn and Outer Wilds, and had some conclusions to long-running series with Banner Saga that I started in 2016 and Telltales Walking Dead that began in 2015 and delivered a near perfect end that made me very emotional! Feel free to ask about any, the full list can be found here.

Below I’ve listed my favourites from the year (not including Skyrim and Mass Effect), and my key targets for 2022, you might notice a lot of JRPGs… well I’ve been thinking how few western RPGs I had left so I gave Dragon Quest XI a try this year that must have been my first JRPG experience, and I absolutely loved it, highly recommend, and also Persona 4 which I’d heard so much about that turned out to be brilliant too, so my plan is to try to experience more next year as there’s so many big series I’ve not played, including Nier which I’ve had as a target the past two years that I’ve not played and since then NieR Replicant came out, so I really need to make that a priority, and 2021 seems like it was a really good year for new releases in that genre I’m excited about!

2021: Favourites

• DRAGON QUEST XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition
  

  108 hours playtime

  57 of 57 achievements

• Ori and the Will of the Wisps
  

  25 hours playtime

  30 of 37 achievements

• Persona 4 Golden
  

  65 hours playtime

  32 of 50 achievements

• STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
  

  30 hours playtime

  39 of 39 achievements

• The Walking Dead: The Final Season
  

  21 hours playtime

  48 of 48 achievements

2022: Targets

• Batman: Arkham Knight
  

  9 hours playtime

  0 of 113 achievements

• DEATHLOOP
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 54 achievements

• Final Fantasy VII
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 36 achievements

• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 82 achievements

• Monster Hunter: World
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 100 achievements

• NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 47 achievements

• Red Dead Redemption 2
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 51 achievements

• Tales of Symphonia
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 39 achievements

• Yakuza 0
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 55 achievements

• Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 54 achievements