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Today, I’m going to be doing a round up of my favourite video games! Some of these will be entire series, some will just be individual titles!

Let’s not waste time, and dive right into it!

Devil May Cry Series

While the rest of this list won’t be in any particular order – Devil May Cry definitely sits at the top of my favourite games list! It is by far my favourite series of video games. My obsession with this series can be traced back to my brother and I renting the first game from our local video rental store (not a Blockbuster, but very similar.) Just saying that sentence makes me feel old – tell me quickly, do you remember Blockbuster?

I immediately fell in love with the style of the game, the sassy protagonist, and just the entire vibe of the game in general. Naturally, we picked up the second game after the first, and I really enjoyed that one too.

My love for this series was well and truly cemented with the release of Devil May Cry 3 in 2005, and the proper introduction of Dante’s (the aforementioned sassy protagonist) twin brother Vergil. (I say proper introduction because he is mentioned in Devil May Cry 1.) I remember this game coming out at around the same time as the original release of Resident Evil 4 on the Gamecube.

This was honestly the point where Vergil took over as my favourite character in the series, though Dante will always be a close second.

Just a note because I feel I should mention it – I do not include the DmC reboot game as a part of this series. It’s a reboot. While I did like DmC as a game, (it had some interesting elements) I hated it as a Devil May Cry game. It had none of the charm of any of the other games until this point. That is all I will say on that.

My least favourite game in the series is Devil May Cry 4 – mostly because I hate Nero. I will take Dante from Devil May Cry 2 over Nero any day. I still don’t really like him after Devil May Cry 5, but I do appreciate that they developed him into his own person in that game.

My favourite game in the series is Devil May Cry 3, with 5 coming a close second. The 11 years of waiting for that game was well worth it.

Silent Hill Series

What started as Konami’s attempt to make a Resident Evil clone became so much more – a true cornerstone of the Survival Horror genre in video gaming.

I love the Silent Hill series as a whole – especially all of the thought that went into the lore of the series. It’s deep and rich, and a really fun rabbit hole to find yourself going down. The monster design, especially in the second and third games, is also exceptional. Pyramid Head, or Red Pyramid Thing, is an icon for a reason.

I will admit here that I have only played the second and third games, as well as Silent Hill Downpour, myself – though I am aware of the stories and mechanics of all of the games.

My favourite of the games from the Team Silent era (covering games 1 though 4) is definitely Silent Hill 2, a shocker, I know. I enjoy all of the characters, and all of the monsters are creepy and well thought out in their symbology. I also really enjoy the voyeuristic nature of Silent Hill 4: The Room.

My favourite game of the post-Team Silent games, and actually my favourite from the whole series is Silent Hill: Downpour. This is the latest game to have been released, and came out in 2012. I am not counting PT as that was only a demo, an amazing demo, but a demo nonetheless, and the full game was never released. Back to Downpour, I really like Murphy, the main character, and the slight subversion of the games. At least that is my theory about it – but that’s a post for another day.

Resident Evil Series

In addition to Silent Hill, I am also a fan of the core series of the Resident Evil games, and also Code Veronica. I don’t really care too much for the spin off games, though I do enjoy the way they expand the lore sometimes.

As ridiculous as they are, I love the over the top stories that are the later games in the core series ( looking at you 5 and 6.) I appreciate the more subtle horror of the first games – that initial zombie sighting, looking over its shoulder at Jill, is still kind of chilling.

I don’t really care for the shift towards the more action-based game mechanics of Resident Evil 5 and 6, but I do still enjoy the story-lines.

My favourite game in the series is probably Resident Evil 4, followed by the remake of Resident Evil 2. (I only ever got to play the original 2 once.) In 4, I like seeing how Leon has come into his own after his experiences in Racoon City. I also really enjoy seeing the game that Devil May Cry 1 could have been.

Fun Fact: Devil May Cry was originally developed to be Resident Evil 4, but was changed later on to be something original. That’s something else I will probably dedicate a post to later on.

If you hadn’t already guessed, my favourite character from the Resident Evil series is Leon S Kennedy. My close second favourite is Billy Coen, a character I wish got mentioned more. Can you tell me which Resident Evil game features Billy Coen?

I will be bringing up Resident Evil again when I post about my favourite video game tie-in novels.

Darksiders Series

This one is a more recent series that I am extremely fond of. There is something about games focusing on the Apocalypse and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I’ve always been fascinated about the lore of the Horsemen, so naturally these games had me from the get go.

One of my favourite aspects, as I played through each of the games, is that each of the Horsemen has a unique personality, and they have a believable relationship with each other. For context here, the Four Horsemen are War, Death, Fury and Strife.

I also really enjoy the poilitics of Heaven and Hell – they are not portrayed as black and white, good and evil. The races that appears in the games are also cool, I especially like the Makers, and the denizens of the Kingdom of the Dead (another area with great politics involved.)

My favourite of the four games is the first one. I don’t have a favourite of the Four Horseman, though I really enjoy Michael Wincott as the voice of Death. If you haven’t heard him, I do recommend that you check him out. Two other characters that bring me a great deal of entertainment are Samael and Vulgrim.

Little bits of the whole story are slowly being revealed, so I do hope that we get enough games to get the full picture of what is happening. I also hope for a true sequel – games 2 and 3 happen parallel to the first, and the fourth game is a prequel to the main series.

Pokemon Sword and Shield

I specifically played Shield.

I’ll be honest here and say that I haven’t actually played a Pokemon game since the original Silver, and I actually ended up enjoying this one a lot more than I thought I would.

The entire reason for me playing this game is Piers, the Dark Type Gym Leader of the Galar Region. I caught a glimpse of him while watching other people playing the game and I immediately loved his aesthetic. After actually playing the game for myself, I love his character too.

I’m currently working on filling out the Pokedex in my game.

I have to say that I really like the new Pokemon designs – Corviknight and the Galarian form of the Zigzagoon especially. I will be doing a post of my favourite Pokemon at a later date.

What are some of your favourite Pokemon? If you played this game, did you play Sword or Shield?

Dishonored Series

I have not played these games myself, but I have watched complete walkthroughs for all of them.

This series of games is one of my favourites entirely because of the storyline. I greatly enjoy the way your morality and the choices you make factor into the ending you receive, as well as the way you actually play the game. I also like how your choices affect how the characters interact with you, their behaviour towards you as you proceed through the story.

The lore of the series is fantastic, especially the Overseer and how his influence may have affected history and events within the world of the game.

The characterisation of the assassin Daud, is another fascinating high point of the story. Within the DLC of the first game, we get to see what goes through his mind after he kills Empress Jessamine. I enjoy that he isn’t just a heartless killing machine. The dynamic he shares with the member of his gang is equally fascinating.

Favourite character of the series if by and far Corvo Attano, whether he be silent protagonist or chatty mentor. Daud and the Outsider are also up there among my faves.

Berserk and the Band of the Hawk

This is one of my favourite games to play when I need to blow off steam – I cannot say enough how much I love the story of Berserk being combined with the hack n slash game mechanics of Dynasty Warriors.

That’s exactly what you get in Berserk and the Band of the Hawk by Koei Tecmo.

I haven’t played Guts’ Rage, which is the Berserk game for the Dreamcast, so I can’t speak to that one – but the Dynasty Warriors game mechanics are perfect for a video game based on Berserk. Cutting through swathes of enemies with Guts’ giant sword, and later on, the Berserker Armour, is a pretty good representation of the series – at least from a video game stand point. You really get the feeling of being the “Hundred Man Slayer”.

Having said that, I would love to see a Berserk game made by Miyazaki, of Dark Souls.

The storyline of Berserk and the Band of the Hawks covers the beginning of the manga up to the beginning of the Boat Arc.

You get to play through a variety of well known moments from the series including the Battle of Doldrey, the Eclipse, and the Fall of the Spirit Tree Mansion. You also get to interact with all the popular characters from Berserk, and experience the hell once more of most of the dying in the Eclipse.

Up until the end of the Eclipse uses footage from the 2012 set of Golden Age animated films, which act in part as cutscenes for the game. The only language available in the game is Japanese, but there are English subtitles.

And that is all for my favourite video games! Do you enjoy any of the games or series that I have mentioned? What are some of your favourite video games?

Thank you everyone for reading, and remember to stay nerdy my friends!

White Elorda

Introvert, nerd and wannabe blogger.