The best graphics of the year, the best soundtrack, and remake of the year are part of GameCentral’s mini-awards, along with Worst Game of 2024. Our list of the Top 20 games of 2024 honours what we consider to be the best video games of the year but sometimes titles can have elements that are worthy of high praise, even though the overall game doesn’t necessarily work on every level.
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We wouldn’t unconditionally recommend the games we’ve named as having the best visuals and best music, and our innovation of the year award goes to a title that only just made our Top 20, but there’s no doubting that, at least in some respects, they’re very accomplished games.
Our worst game of the year is the only one without any redeeming features but it’s always useful to warn about that too, especially when it’s a licensed game. The Plucky Squire. It’s very common for the best visuals of the year to not belong to a particularly good game. Ever since gaming began, amazing graphics have been used to compensate for mediocre gameplay and we’re afraid to say that’s definitely true for The Plucky Squire.
It’s not a bad game but its attempt to combine Zelda style 2D visuals with the ability to walk around in a modern 3D world is much more interesting for how it looks than how it plays. It’s a shame, because the game has lots of other great ideas too, such as making the storybook you play in a physical object you can move around to change the game world, but unfortunately it never evolves beyond a neat visual gimmick.
