2022

The best new game releases of 2022 were, to me:

  • He Fucked the Girl Out of Me (Taylor McCue, 2022)
  • Into Ruins (Eric Billingsley, 2022)
  • Yars: Recharged (Liudas Ubarevičius, 2022)
  • Automaton Lung (Luke Vincent, 2022)
  • Citizen Sleeper (Gareth Damian Martin, 2022)
  • Know by Heart (Ice-Pick Lodge, 2022)
  • Betrayal at Club Low (Cosmo D, 2022)
  • Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins (Daisuke Inoue, 2022)

The best games I played in 2022 for the first time from any year were:

  • Libble Rabble (Toru Iwatani, 1983)
  • In the Psychic City (Hot-B, 1984)
  • Otocky (Toshio Iwai, 1987)
  • Golden Axe Warrior (Okaru, 1991)
  • Heartbeat Memorial (Yoshiaki Tanaka, 1994)
  • Darkstalkers: The Dark Warriors (Junichi Ohno, 1994)
  • Palette (Nishida Yoshitaka, 1998)
  • King of Dragon Pass (David Dunham, 1999)
  • King's Field IV (Rintaro Yamada & Satoru Yanagi, 2001)
  • One Piece Mansion (Hideaki Itsuno, 2001)
  • Nepheshel (Studio Til , 2002)
  • Radio Zonde (Inudon Empire, 2002)
  • Histoire (tk, 2004)
  • Blue Wish Resurrection (x.x. Game Room, 2006)
  • Hellsinker (Ruminant's Whimper, 2007)
  • The Dark Spire (Success, 2008)
  • Random Dungeon (Hamu suta, 2009)
  • Undefined Fantastic Object (Jun'ya Ota, 2009)
  • Eden's Aegis (x.x. Game Room, 2010)
  • Dragon's Dogma (Hideaki Itsuno, 2012)
  • The House in Fata Morgana (Keika Hanada, 2012)
  • Akashicverse -malicious Wake- (Endless Shirafu, 2012)
  • Saturn V (Cosmo D, 2014)
  • Super Hook Girl (Qpic, 2015)
  • Gothic Magic Maiden (Tsuneki Ikeda, 2015)
  • The Tearoom (Robert Yang, 2015)
  • Stephen's Sausage Roll (Stephen Lavelle, 2016)
  • Rockman X4 Boost (Appendko, 2016)
  • Can You Say My Name Again (nadia nova, 2017)
  • Mudrunner (Saber Interactive, 2017)
  • Akashicforce (Endless Shirafu, 2019)
  • Tomato Clinic (npckc, 2020)
  • In Other Waters (Gareth Damian Martin, 2020)
  • Crumble (Matthieu Houllier, Romain Gremmo, 2020)
  • Jetboard Joust (BitBull, 2020)
  • Hardspace: Shipbreaker (Blackbird Interactive, 2020)
  • Boat Prom (Brendan Patrick Hennessy, 2020)
  • a year of springs (npckc, 2021)
  • Negative Nancy (FEED, 2021)
  • Vestaria Saga II: The Sacred Sword of Silvanister (Shouzo Kaga, 2021)
  • Annalynn (Cruise Elroy, 2021)
  • Unconnected Marketeers (Jun'ya Ota, 2021)

The best movies released in 2022 were, to me:

  • Les passagers de la nuit (Mikhaël Hers, 2022)
  • Chronique d'une liaison passagère (Emmanuel Mouret, 2022)
  • Bowling Saturne (Patricia Mazuy, 2022)
  • Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (Richard Linklater, 2022)
  • Pacifiction (Albert Serra, 2022)
  • Don Juan (Serge Bozon, 2022)
  • Viens je t'emmene (Alain Guiraudie, 2022)
  • Soseolgaui Yeonghwa (Hong Sang-Soo, 2022)
  • Kare o shinjite ita 13-kakan (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2022)
  • Die innere Glut – Requiem für Katia und Maurice Krafft (Werner Herzog, 2022)
  • Watcher (Chloe Okuno, 2022)
  • Barbarian (Zach Cragger, 2022)
  • Avec amour et acharnement (Claire Denis, 2022)

It is possible that the works whose absence may be noticeable may have already been watched or played. I have not been able to watch Adam Curtis's, Frederick Wiseman's, Marco Bellochio's, Mitra Farahani's, Arnaud des Pallières's, Rita Azevedo Gomes's, Masao Adachi's, Hirokazu Kore-eda's, Kelly Reichardt's, Kunihiko Ikuhara's or Eugene Green's new films due to availability. Likewise, I have not been able to play Studio Saizensen's or Endless Shirafu's new games due to availability. 

On the other hand, I deliberately omitted mention of James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, Andrew Dominik, George Miller, Jordan Peele, Rian Johnson, Daniel Kwan & Scheinert, S.S. Rajamouli, Todd Field, Joseph Kosinski, Robert Eggers, Ruben Östlund, Chan-Wook Park, Charlotte Wells, Guillermo del Toro, Robert Eggers, Martin McDonagh, Alex Garland, Baz Luhrmann, Alejandro González Iñárritu or Carla Simón on the side of films; or Tetsuya Takahashi, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Aaron Keller, Tony Huynh, Yusuke Miyata, Jonathan Lavigne, Takanori Sato, Ojiro Fumoto, Tomoya Asano, Cory Barlog, Andrew Shouldice, Ben Esposito, Colas Koola & Vivien Mermet Guyenet, Sam Barlow, Luca Galante, Yuri Stern, Kevin Choteau, Jordan Layani, Ron Gilbert, or Geography of Robots on the side of games. Among many others.

Not that we need any of those names to come across good films or good games.

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