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2019: The places we traveled through our games
There were many places we got to visit in 2019. Some familiar, others brand new and others entirely bizarre and uncanny. They all brought with them new adventures and new stories to tell and when the time came for them to end, we always felt that little bit of sadness and emptiness inside, like we had gotten so used to being surrounded by these characters and their worlds that it was difficult to let them go and we just didn’t know what to do with ourselves afterwards. On a personal level, these are the worlds I visited and the experiences I gathered from within the gaming world in this past year.
Kingdom Hearts 3
Kingdom Hearts 3 was the first epic game to be released this year and was a title that had been anticipated for over ten years by some. That in and of itself gave it a very heavy burden from the start to live up to the great expectations many fans had created in their minds. Yet Sora’s adventure paid off big time. Although a little held back by the Disney worlds that felt like they needed to be in the game purely for advertising and marketing purposes (even though some brought along with them a series of highly entertaining mini games), the “meat” of the story is still enough to satisfy the appetite of even the most hardcore fan, with some especially heart-wrenching moments that will have you cheering, crying and any other…
