Day 19 - Czaros' Game of the Year 2014 Part 2

Today's categories are Best Looking Game and Best Soundtrack. Without further ado, here are the lists:

Best Looking Game
#5 Shovel Knight (WiiU/3DS)

 

The highly anticipated indie-game Shovel Knight is finally here and it lives up to the hype. It captures every aspect of retro gaming perfectly and the looks are one of them. It looks really nice.

 

#4 Mario Kart 8

With the power of the Wii U, it was obvious that Mario Kart 8 will be the best looking Mario Kart 8, but what we got might actually exceed the expectations. The graphics are beautiful, but on top of that, the courses are amazingly designed and very detailed. Each tracks feels like its own living world.

#3 Valiant Hearts: The Great War (PC)

It's rather unsual to see a game about war that isn't a first person shooter and games about World War I are even more rare. This game utilizes the amazing UbiArt engine to create that artistic cartoon/book/drawing style. The visuals are only one of the things that are good about this game though.

#2 Child of Light (WiiU)

While UbiSoft failed multiple times this year, they also managed to release two very beautiful looking game. Child of Light uses UbiArt as well and it looks even more beautiful than Valiant Hearts. It's a true work of art. The game itself is really good too. Good job, UbiSoft!

#1 Dust: An Elysian Tail (PC)

There are many reasons why I love this game. I love everything about to be honest. The most impressive thing about it? Aside from the music, voice acting and some writing, the game is made entirely by Dean Dodrill. A single person made both all the programming and the beautiful visuals. It's one of the most beautifully looking 2D games out there. The PC port does those visuals justice as you can now enjoy it in native 1080p.

Best Soundtrack
#5 Shovel Knight

As I said before, the game captures the retro feeling perfectly and the soundtrack is a wide collection of amazing, authentic sounding 8-bit music. Wonderful!

#4 Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire

I gotta admit, I wasn't that big of a fan of Ruby/Sapphire's music. It was still good, but my least favorite and mostly due to its overuse of trumpets and the rather poor quality of GBA music. The Hoenn remakes on the other hand have amazing remixes that are just nice to listen to. It may not be AS good as Pokemon X/Y's soundtrack, but it's great.

#3 Bastion

 

 

Yes, this game has been out for a few years now, but I didn't really play it until now and I kinda regret that, as the game is amazing. Aside from amazing story told by an awesome storyteller, there's also some awesome music and three nice songs.  

#2 Dust: An Elysian Tail

Told you that I love everything about this game, right? Well, there's no doubt that the soundtrack is amazing. HyperDuck Soundworks did a very, very, VERY impressive job with the music. I can go as far as saying that The Glade is one of the best gaming tracks of ALL TIME. 

#1 Super Smash Bros for Wii U

I actually had a hard time choosing between this and Dust but in the end I decided to go with this as it most likely one of the biggest soundtrack ever and the vast majority of tracks are well done. That's impressive considering there's over 400 of them. From originals to remixes there's something for everyone and the music only makes the already awesome game even better.

That's it for today. Tomorrow's categories will be Best Story and Best Indie Game. See you then!