In a year of endless uncertainty and monotony, where a pleasure as simple as eating out at a favorite restaurant has warped into an inadvisable health risk, video games were there to help us get through it all.
Normally, I’m all over new releases and fresh takes on ongoing series, but in 2020 I gravitated toward a different pool of games: remakes and remasters. It was a year filled with them, bringing a sort of heightened familiarity to many people like myself who were searching for a sense of safe normalcy.
Resident Evil 3, Final Fantasy VII Remake and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+ 2 took beloved games of the late ‘90s and early aughts, revamping them into beautiful remasters. Demon’s Souls upgraded the oft-overlooked 2009 precursor to Dark Souls into a 4K PS5 launch titleSuper Mario 3D All-Stars brought us barely touched re-releases of the iconic Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy. Read more…
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Source : The classic video game remakes and remasters that took the edge off 2020
