Freedom at last! Finally my first year of university is over. Now with a little more free time on my hands, I can dedicate much more time to blogging. As the season transitions from winter to spring to eventually summer, the release of games slow significantly. While game releases slow, game news starts to pick up with big announcements leading up to some huge conventions like E3, Comic Con and PAX Prime. The slowing of game releases for the spring and summer help with working on the immense backlog that has been building since last Fall. Along with a few new games I am looking forward to in the next four and a half months, there are quite a few I want to work on this summer break. I will get to those games in my blog tomorrow. Before we look to the future, it is time to look back at the best of the first quarter of 2013.
Game of the Quarter
Even with the busyness that is university, I did make some time to pick up and play a good amount of new releases. The games I picked up this quarter were Tomb Raider, Lego City: Undercover, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and BioShock Infinite. All these games are great and deserve your time and money, but none of them could compete with the 3DS's masterful strategy epic that released this past February. Yes, Fire Emblem Awakening is the best game of the first quarter of 2013 and quite possibly could go to be this writer's Game of the Year. Intelligent Systems has produced many great games over the years be it strategy, role-playing or even puzzle games, but Fire Emblem Awakening stands as their crowning achievement in this medium. The countless hours of content, great story and vastly improved support system are the stars of Awakening bar none. Combining these elements with the excellent tactile battle system and challenging yet fair difficulty that this series is known for easily makes Fire Emblem Awakening the best game in Nintendo's venerable strategy series, on the 3DS and of this year. Personally, I have put just over 100 hours into Fire Emblem: Awakening and I still have a handful of sidequests and DLC levels to play and plenty SpotPass teams to fight with tons of more content being uploaded daily. Fire Emblem Awakening is a game that no 3DS owner should pass. It is the 3DS's killer app.
Video of the Quarter
One moment in the past three months captured the hearts and minds of gamers around the world and put Capcom in a much better light after the hellaciously bad 2012 they had. That moment was the reveal of DuckTales Remastered at PAX East. Nobody saw this reveal coming, but when it happened jaws dropped. Gamers have been clamouring for another DuckTales game for years now and finally got their wish when Capcom showed this trailer.
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