Hello everyone!

So nothing much has been happening with me lately. I've been doing some stuff but I'll just mention that in my next update when I buy some new games. In the meantime however, after taking the advice of a good online friend of mine (you know who you are ), I've decided to make a Top 10 list. Instead of going for something like "Top 10 Best Games I've Played", I've decided to take a look at my collection and see what games rise above everything else in terms of leaving a memorable impression on my mind. It doesn't necessarily have to be a high quality game, but just something that really resonated with me. Also, take note that I am only including games that are in my collection because I have not played every game ever made. If you're going to argue with me saying "this game should have been there" then go consult my collection list first to see if I've even played the game. On to the list!

10. No More Heroes "The Bosses"

I had no prior knowledge of Goichi Suda (also called Suda51) before playing this game. I was introduced to this game by a friend who considered him to be an amazing game director though. He praised killer7 greatly and recommended this game to me so I went ahead and bought it. That is one decision I do not at all regret. This game has its fair share of problems with an underdeveloped open world and graphics (which are cel-shaded and I honestly thought Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne did it better) but if there's one thing I'm always going to remember from this game, it's the amazing boss fights. They were truly the highlight of this game for me and showed me in a way that Suda51 has many creative and great concepts and ideas, but probably just doesn't have the funding to polish them all up. This game's bosses are definitely memorable for me and really had a huge "epic" and "whoa" factor which you don't find in many other games.

9. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines "The World"

My first exposure to this game was from someone who didn't particularly have my taste in games (he is known as vaarna, for those of you who might know him). He didn't like JRPGs and tended to go against the popular opinion. I asked him about the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion which I had started playing at the time and he told me that it was a pretty mediocre game. I honestly didn't like Oblivion as much as some people either so I asked him for other recommendations. This game was one of them so I went ahead and bought it. I was not familiar with this game at all but when I played it, I couldn't help but be amazed as I continued playing it. The way that this game portrayed the world of a vampire was so effective and immersive that I almost felt like I was my character. The game does have many technical bugs but those were easily fixed up with the unofficial patch. It isn't a top-quality highly polished game from a major company, but it created a believable immersive world that I hadn't experienced in all the other games I had played which definitely makes it one of the most memorable games I've played so far.

8. Endless Ocean "The Scenery"

I'm going to take a cue from tvtropes.org and say that this is one of the fist games I bought that is pretty much mostly consisted of "scenery porn". Although that site only listed one example of it on the game's main page, I honestly thought that the entire game was pretty much an example of that. The landscapes and the aquatic lifeforms exhibited in the game are really a feast for the eyes. Underwater ruins of an ancient civilization, coral reefs, and the like are all featured here and they are done pretty impressively. It still never made sense to me how you can pet sharks and horribly dangerous fish without consequence but...the game is still gorgeous and definitely sticks into my mind. It doesn't have the best quality of graphics out there but the beauty of the surroundings is definitely very memorable.

7. Siren "The Scares"

As some of you may know by my review of this game, I did not particularly like it. Its gameplay was horribly broken with a ridiculous difficulty that makes me wonder how people get through this game in the first place without some help. What it did accomplish well was creating an effective atmosphere with terrifying enemies. So what do you get when you mix a broken difficulty with a genuinely scary atmosphere? You get one of the scarier games out there. Unfortunately, it only has a very scary beginning. Thanks to all the problems this game has, the scares quickly turn into frustration and proves to be a very broken game. Does this game give a great and memorable first impression? Definitely. Can it keep this up throughout the whole game while not being ridiculously hard? Nope. It had potential though.

6. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney "Something New"

This was one game I bought on a whim. I saw it and remembered Gamespot's shining review of it and decided to pick it up. I honestly wasn't expecting much since I didn't really think being a lawyer was all that much of an interesting concept. Although, that was also a time when I had no clue what a visual novel was. I had no clue that on the first day that I started playing this game, I couldn't stop playing until it was 3 AM in the morning with school starting in a few hours (you certainly could take lots of liberties back in elementary school ). This game was really something new to me because it was something I'd never experienced before. I had played Adventure games before but not quite in the visual novel $tyle and I had never played a game that had me playing the role of a lawyer that made it actually seem epic and fun (real life court isn't like this of course but this game honestly wouldn't be very fun if it was). Definitely a memorable experience for me. One thing I'm really pleased with too about this game was that it started gaining popularity gradually after my purchase and the entire series is now pretty much playable in North America (the Miles Edgeworth game still awating release). I remember back then I used to have arguments with people who hated the game because there was no action or whatever which wasn't the point of this game in the first place. I remember that I was pretty much the only one on my side. If I were to have that same argument now though, I'd probably have hundreds of fans siding with me

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Anyway, I have a bad feeling that if I keep going all the way to #1, I'm going to exceed the character limit so I'll stop here for now and let you guys comment on what you think and what your most memorable games in your collection are. I'll post my other 5 later on.