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 My game of the year for 2023 is undeniably The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. I played and beat many games this year, but I only ended up finishing a couple of titles that released in 2023. So, my choice boiled down to Tears of the Kingdom, Mortal Kombat 1, or World of Horror. Two large budget projects and a phenomenal Indie game. While I loved Mortal Kombat 1 and World of Horror, they didn't hit like TOTK. A game that had massive hype and anticipation going in and managed to over deliver in the process.  I finished Breath of the Wild a bit before TOTK in anticipation because I wanted to be ready for the follow-up on release. I was so captivated by the Hyrule Kingdom in BOTW that I wanted to know, "where do we go from here?" How do you expand on a world with a numerous amount of mystery? The easiest answer was to just expand. The game world went from exploring all of Hyrule to discovering the wonders of the Sky  and the underlying Horrors of the Depths. Three sea

 As I am still waiting to finish my choice for Game of the Year. I have decided to write about one of my favorite games of the past few years. Muse Dash, a rhythm game from Pero Pero Games, is a title that I periodically come back to. The music choices are pretty expansive and I find this intensity and adrenaline rush that comes from playing songs. The flow of the game is dependent on the track chosen, and the experience has really made me appreciate music and timing based actions in games more and more.  For me, rhythm games are not really my style. I was into Guitar Hero when those were popular in the late 2000s and early 2010s, yet I could never apply myself as much as I needed to play Hard or Expert difficulty. Perfection was too embedded in my mindset that it was genuinely difficult to imagine not getting a full combo. I would say that I still struggle in that regard, but I have been better about it as of recently. And I think that Muse Dash has helped me quite a bit in working on