Sean's first PC games were Full Throttle and Total Annihilation and his taste has stayed much the same since. When not scouring games for secrets or bashing his head against puzzles, you'll find him revisiting old Total War campaigns, agonizing over his Destiny 2 fit, or still trying to finish the Horus Heresy.
, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We'll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month.
With Enotria: The Last Song channeling Italian folklore and Black Myth: Wukong inspired by Journey to the West, it's been a decent year for soulslike fans looking for settings more grounded in real-world mythology than last year's Lies of P and Lords of the Fallen.
Black Myth's absurd production values also help realise its world. With little knowledge of the mythology, I was able to just drink in the pure magic of the setting—that opening cutscene is the perfect example. You've got this instantly likeable monkey king making wisecracks as he defends his mountain against the assembled armies of heaven, and the result is the most cinematic soulslike intro I've ever seen.
Take chapter two, for instance. You wake in a desert, riddled with arrows, to find a headless priest serenading you—somehow—with a sanxian; a kind of shamisen-like instrument. As you explore the area, fighting its rat-men denizens, the priest keeps popping up and his songs transform into the region's soundtrack; a genius way of subtly hinting at the area's lore, the tragedies that occurred there, and the priest's identity.
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