Chaos Field: I've always enjoyed how conducive the ballet of bullets is to erasing the friction between player and controller. Once you're in, how easy it is to reduce your entire focus onto a single pixel. The sci-fi style and great soundtrack help.

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Harvest Moon (SNES): Though it has long since been improved upon by sequels, this game was my first in the farm, life, and romance-sim genre. They're surprisingly crunchy games if you let them be, but the texture gives me the same feeling of opportunity I always felt after-school on a Friday.

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Shenmue: The reason I enjoy it isn't exactly as an action game. Shenmue is a series I always enjoyed for having a strong sense of place—a game world that wasn't made just for its player. Ryo is a too-focused-often-inhuman protagonist, but the world resists being just a martial arts backdrop.

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Cropped so I don't give this post too more oxygen, but I remain baffled that opinions like this persist. Game criticism sites close regularly, writers are looking for work constantly, the people who write big articles are the same ones who write news churn. Where is all the supposed pay off money?

Name a game with a 10/10 soundtrack.