2021 comes to an end And with this, the lists of the best video games of the year proliferate, which derive, how could it be otherwise, in general evaluations in relation to the launches that have colored the last twelve months. Here two factors come together that, at no time, could augur great expectations. We are in the first year of generation, which is usually weak for most platforms and, in addition, there is the issue of the pandemic. There have been no surprises, not even the delays of titles like Horizon: Forbidden West The Gran Turismo 7 We have been caught off guard (many of us already took it for granted). It certainly hasn’t been a megaton year. Now there is light beyond it and, en lo personal, títulos como It Takes Two, Guilty Gear, Shin Megami Tensei V, Returnal, Loop Hero, Metroid Dread, Tux and Fanny, Humankind, Age of empires IV, Tales of Arise, Resident Evil: Village o el retorno de Project Zero, they have made my day to day happy. And I leave a few earrings like Halo: Infinite, Scarlet Nexus, Psychonauts 2 Y Death Loop, to name a few. That is to say, I’m going served.

However, I understand that the absence of big brands, like those that won 2019 and 2020, They ugly a photo in which one is not very clear about what to position in the center. The summary could be that Fares aspires to GOTY, and that more or less everyone understands that it is, in large part, due to a lack of competition (and for the record, I enjoyed his proposal like a dwarf. I will not go into that debate, because Today we have not come to that, but I can understand the doubt.

What we have come to today is take a look at the most immediate future of the video game, to look at the horizon of 2022 that is already beginning to illuminate the panorama and that has an aspect diametrically opposite to the catalog that we left behind. All those who have missed the launch of great productions, and sequels expected for years, are in luck. The fat cows are back, and twelve months from now there may be a lot of gamer singing that of “the best year in the history of video games”. Absurd? Surely, however we all know how this categorization goes in the video game: effusiveness sells. So, honoring our honest need to earn our bread, we get effusive, and begin our review of the …….