Ho, ho, ho, and Merry Christmas!
Christmas is a wonderful time of year. If you’re in the north then you get to enjoy snow, hot drinks, the wonderful colours of decorations and the smell of a freshly-cut Christmas tree. If you’re south of the equator, it means blistering hot weather, beer, and the wonderful colours of decorations and the smell of a freshly-cut Christmas tree.
Christmas is a time for good food, family, and friends. It’s a time for celebration, and Christmas is the time of year where it’s okay to be a kid all over again, and count down the days to gifts and celebrations one day at a time. Each year we get into the spirit of the season ourselves with a countdown of our own; the 24 Games of Christmas!
So please do join in the countdown with us, crack open some great games, and enjoy the season!
Sony had the good sense to bring Wild ARMs 3 to PlayStation 4 earlier in the year, and the holidays are a perfect time to visit (or revisit) one of the most underrated gems of the PlayStation 2 days.
It’s a very typical JRPG in a lot of ways, with all the heart, humour, and melodrama that goes with that. However, it’s full of design quirks that smartly alleviate a lot of the common problems with the genre, and it has a story that, though formulaic in a lot of ways, is cleverly subversive in others. Wild ARMs 3 embraces the tropes of the genre with love, respect, and a hint of satire. It also has one of the best soundtracks ever heard in a game, courtesy of the incomparable Michiko Naruke.
Wild ARMs 3 is a game about joy, love, and family – a perfect fit for Christmas.
– Matthew C.
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