Well, I at least managed to do some catching up in January, played a couple of games I had missed out on last year before big 2022 releases come out. We do have a new Pokeymanz coming out in a couple of days so that’s something.
While January didn’t have anything big outside of the upcoming Pokemon game, February is basically signs of 2022 starting to shape up a bit. There are several big games, some medium-ish games, and a few I’m getting. There’s actually a good variety here, not a bad month.
For February 2022 I’m listing: 13 multiplats, 3 Switch pieces of filler I included for the lulz, and 1 PC release. As far as what I’m getting, there’s only 2 for sure, but there’s a good 5 “maybes” in there too.
Disclaimer: I only list games that I think are worth mentioning. This includes games I’m personally interested in, games that will likely be popular, highly advertised games, small interesting ones I may notice, and such. Not just games I care about myself, I highlight as much as I think makes sense. And of course, I can’t see the future, so I may be missing games and I may be listing games that may get delayed.
MULTIPLATFORM RELEASES
Life Is Strange: Remastered Collection 02/01 (Switch, PC, PS4, Xbone, PS5, Xbox X/S)
Why do I keep seeing games on my lists that I am pretty sure I had on a previous list? Anyways… if you like crappy crap, here’s several games worth of it in one neat package.
Dying Light 2 Stay Human 02/04 (PC, PS4, Xbone, PS5, Xbox X/S, Switch)
Hey, it’s finally coming out. It feels like it’s been “about to come out” for at least 2 years now (it was announced in 2018 so it’s a long time coming at this point, and it was originally meant to be out in 2020). I didn’t play the first but I do consistently hear good things about it, so I’m sure this is gonna be a good one too. The whole zombie parkour moral-questions thing sounds like it has the potential to be fun.
Maglam Lord 02/04 (Switch, PS4)
This is one of those smaller games that I don’t think too many people will talk about, that does look kinda fun. It’s an action RPG with a side-view combat system that seems pretty fun to paly. I’ll probably be checking this one out.
Sifu 02/08 (PC, PS4, PS5)
This is a martial arts brawler that looks like it has a pretty cool combat system. You can learn different skills and you age as you progress as well, not super sure how that turns out in gameplay but it’s interesting. Might be an interesting one.
OlliOlli World 02/08 (Switch, PC, PS4, Xbone, PS5, Xbox X/S)
I’ve never played OlliOlli. Never looked particularly interesting to me. They must be doing something right if it got to a third game though.
CrossfireX 02/10 (Xbone, Xbox X/S)
This is some FPS that I remember seeing at an E3 presentation years ago. There’s a free-to-play multiplayer mode and a paid single-player mode. A rare Xbox “exclusive” (not actually exclusive but you know what I mean), which is very strange since an FPS not on PC isn’t gonna be very good due to subpar controls… and the original Crossfire, which I’ve never heard about before this, was on PC.
The King of Fighters XV 02/17 (PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox X/S)
I do think fighting games should launch, at minimum, with the same amount of characters as the previous game, and this has fewer than 14’s launch roster (let alone DLC), but 39 characters isn’t a bad number. I did hear from the beta that the rollback netcode wasn’t the best, but that might be fixed by the time it comes out. Anyways, the game looks really good, as expected from KOF. I’ve mostly stopped buying fighting games though, so I’ll hopefully watch a couple of people play this.
Horizon Forbidden West 02/18 (PS4, PS5)
I’m planning on waiting for the PC version of this game. The first Horizon was pretty okay, I’m in no hurry to play the second one. It looks fine. And, if I REALLY want to, I can just get it on PS4. There’s still no reason to get a PS5. Sony continues failing the “make the PS5 worth buying” challenge.
Monark 02/22 (Switch, PC, PS4, PS5)
This is an RPG made by staff who worked on early Persona titles, with a similar feel to Persona from what I’ve seen. It uses a free movement battle system, there are skill trees and relationships and stuff… it looks pretty cool. I did highlight it in my “2022 hype” post as one of the quite exciting games this year, I hope it’s good.
Sol Cresta 02/22 (Switch, PC, PS4)
I believe this is meant to be a spiritual successor/sequel to the classic vertical shooter series Terra Cresta (with even the logo looking very similar). It looks like a decent shooter from what I’ve seen. It’s made by Platinum Games, but it’s definitely a simpler kind of game for them. I’m curious about it.
Dusk Diver 2 02/24 (Switch, PC, PS4)
I didn’t play the first one, comments I saw for it weren’t super positive, but they rarely are for this kind of game. It looked kinda okay-ish, I figured it would get repetitive pretty quick. I saw a few trailers for this one, it looks fine. It’s just a fairly standard animu-style action RPG, with combat that looks kinda cool.
Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream 02/25 (Switch, PC, PS4)
Sophie is one of the Atelier games I skipped. I may skip this one too, we’ll see. But Atelier is usually good, so it may just be a backup game for if I run out of games to play… which may be in a while. But hey, if you like your “cute anime girls doing alchemy and beating up monsters” games, this should be solid as per usual.
Elden Ring 02/25 (PC, PS4, Xbone, PS5, Xbox X/S)
This is definitely one of the top 3 biggest games this year. And for good reason. I mean, it’s a new Souls game. It looks fine. But I have some doubts. Namely, the open world. Souls is a series that has a Metroid-ish design, so you have specifically-designed areas, that end up having shortcuts between them, giving the illusion of a somewhat open world. This, though, goes full open-world and I don’t know about that choice. Open worlds tend to be an obstacle to good gameplay design, usually just serving as a time-waster in-between actual gameplay segments… So I’m really quite curious of how this will turn out. I will be playing this.
SWITCH RELEASES
Death end re;Quest 2 02/08
This was a pretty fun game, but I didn’t find it as good as the first game. It’s a JRPG with an interesting combat system where hitting enemies has them sliding across the battlefield like beyblades, hitting each other. Fun stuff, but I’d recommend the first game before this one (kinda no duh).
All the KH stuff in Cloud Version if you want garbage 02/10
I’m not even posting an image for this garbage. Cloud gaming is not in a state where it’s a good option for most people, much less on Switch which is reliant on Wifi (since the base system requires an adapter for ethernet, and only the oled one has an actual port in the dock… and either way if you’re playing in handheld you need wifi). There’s always gonna be latency, even on the most solid wifi. The demo shows this is a shit way to play KH, and it costs like 4 times more than the PS4 collection that has all the same games physically. Fuck this. There’s no reason not to, at least, have 1.5+2.5 HD as a physical/digital game that’s not on the cloud, those were on PS3, the Switch can absolutely play them. What a stupid, lazy release by Squeenix.
Assassin’s Creed: The Ezio Collection 02/17
I dunno, I wanted to put more stuff on the list. Assassin’s Creed sucks, but if you really wanted to play the ones featuring boring lame guy Ezio on a portable system… there you go.
PC RELEASE
Total War: Warhammer III 02/17
I’ve not played Total War since… Shogun, which is the first game in the series. No idea if these are still good, I assume they are. There’s still a ton of them coming out after all.
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