Question Wednesday #2: Therapy Games

[moon_hotel]

Sorry I missed last week, it completely slipped my mind! I'm setting myself reminders to keep up on QWednesdays though. 

This week's icebreaker is kind of a your-mileage-may-vary question, but here goes: do you have any "therapy games?" That is, are there any games/genres that you like to curl up with when you're feeling down, or help you burn off stress? And, as always, what are you playing right now?

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[jackvambrace]

So far as therapy games, I'd toss in Super Mario World, Minecraft, Xenoblade more recently, and anything with decent local coop.

Super Mario World is pure blinding nostalgia right down to my very core. First game I remember playing, first game I remember beating, and I really liked the artwork in the manual, not sure why. It was so much better put together than almost any other book I found in any other game.

Minecraft gets bonus points because of the local coop on PS3, so my wife and I can just chill and decompress and zone out. We also had fun with Resident Evil Revelations 2, maybe the best coop game I've played ever, definitely the best this year.

Xenoblade was just magical. All the characters have their own personality and mesh really well together and I just feel good playing this game. I just put money towards a preorder for the sequel, and I can't wait.

I recently finished off Wild ARMs 2, leaving just the fifth and the portable entries for me to play. I wanna play through Saga Frontier, knock off another old game from my past that I've not finished.

Shenanigans lead to me coming into possession of a Wii U and a ton of games for it so I'm playing Shovel Knight and Bayonetta, and I just picked up Monster Hunter for it also. If anyone has and recommendations for games, I'm all ears.