Hope you got what you wanted for Christmas! Comments of the Year is a feature where we scour the Comments of the Week archive looking for comments. The ones that make you think the fullest, the ones that make you laugh the heartiest and the ones that make you cry the hardest (but also laugh the most), and consolidate them into an entertaining package for the viewing pleasure of you, the Destructoid community....

Are you ready for a second trip to Heavenly Host Elementary School? Corpse Partyis one of the most disturbing horror games I’ve ever experienced. Starting out on something of a cheerful note, the game allows players time to form bonds with its affable cast of characters. That is, before it rips all of that away and plunges headlong into darkness. The game certainly plays with one’s heartstrings and I can understand if one dose of despair was enough for some players, but if you’re up for another thrill ride this emotional roller coaster is coming around for another pass....

New content season and mode also in the works Last month saw abatch of new contentforStar Wars Battlefront IIincluding two new heroes, another map, and more single-player missions. DICE is prepping a second season along those lines that’s “coming soon” (and hopefully adds Obi-Wan so fans can stop requesting him already). There’s also a limited-time mode, Jetpack Cargo, planned for February. It’s a capture-the-flag variant with two teams of eight players zipping around the map trying to steal each other’s cargo....

I tremble at the logic here. Somewhere, a room full of people not only came up with the concept for this game, but decided it would be GOOD. BlameCodemastersfor this fearful turn of events, who apprently teamed up with Lionsgate to produce this work of rapture for the PC. Per the teaser page: “Work alongside the team at the Kellerman’s resort, play through a fantastic variety of fun mini-games and earn camp dollars to purchase Dirty Dancing® memorabilia, cabin furnishings, and the all-important dance lessons with Johnny and Penny....

Vote or die There are two competing box arts forThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. We’ve got the North American version, which is the same one Japan will use, surprisingly: And then there’s the softer, more saturated and painterly European box art: I’m not really into either (box art is just so dull these days…), but if my adjectives didn’t tip it, I’ll probably take the brighter one that shows off the main character....

The David Ginola FUTTIES Hero SBC could be your next big challenge to grind inEA FC 24Ultimate Team. With 18 tasks, it won’t be easy to complete the challenge. However, there’s an excellent item to be earned, and let’s take a look at what you’ll need to do to earn the card for your Ultimate Team squad. EA FC 24 David Ginola FUTTIES Hero SBC tasks All 18 tasks of the David Ginola FUTTIES Hero SBC inEA FC 24have their separate set of conditions that you’ll have to meet while submitting the squads....

The Defensive Minded Evolution is now live inEA FC 25, and you can use it to upgrade one of the base items of your choice. The latest evolution is available for free, and it offers good stat upgrades, new playstyles, and roles. Let’s take a look at the requirements that determine which items can be used for the upgrades. EA FC 25 Defensive Minded Evolution requirements Here are the requirements for the Defensive Minded Evolution inEA FC 25....

If you’ve completed the first three Foundations set inEA FC 25, Foundations 4 SBC might not be a hard challenge. That said, this will be the first time when you’ll need to manage player chemistry while submitting a squad. Additionally, you’ll also have to keep the nationalities and leagues of the items in mind. Hence, the task is much more complex compared to much simpler challenges like theFoundations 2 SBC....

Ukiyo-e Heroes: Boss Fights It’s hard for me to fathom that it’s been five years sinceUkiyo-e Heroes, a series of game-inspired Japanese woodblock prints, sought funding through Kickstarter. I never backed the project orbought the prints, but I sure admired them. And in the time since, I’ve latched onto woodblock printmaker David Bull’s calming, insightfulYouTube videos. Straight up, it’s one of my favorite channels around. (Here’s a great video from 2013 showing the making of theMetroid-inspired “Infestation....

Before Garrett steals them, anyway Thiefmight be the game I’m most excited about from 2014, so Eidos Montreal knows exactly how to tease me by releasing some screenshots from early in the game. These are all from an initial level of the game called Lockdown; a curfew has been imposed by Baron Northcrest in an attempt to stop the spreading of a disease known as The Gloom and to quell the unrest it has caused....

90s kids return to the battlefield The next wave of classicFire Emblemcharacters are waiting in the wings to join the roster of pocket-battlerFire Emblem Heroes, currently kicking ass on mobile devices. The roster additions this time around are from the 1996 Super Famicom classicFire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. The three new warriors are the Black Knight; Ares, the Thunder Goddess; Ishtar and the… erm… “Yearning Dancer” Lene. Alongside these new characters comes an all-new story chapter,Hellfire, so you can test out the Black Knight’s weaponry, Ishtar’s command of the mighty winds and Lene’s… sweet two-step?...

Looks like theMass Effectvs. Fox News controversy won’t be ending anytime soon folks. We informedyou the other daythat EA had contacted Fox in regards to thehorrendous pieceonMass Effectin an attempt to fix the complete lies Fox so proudly stated. Thanks toMTVMultiplayer, a Fox News spokesperson has stated that they actually had invited someone from EA to discussMass Effecton the segment: “Fox News Channel has extended several invitations to EA through a company representative to appear on ‘Live Desk With Martha MacCallum’ to discuss ‘Mass Effect’ and the segment which aired on Monday....

The second-to-last-year of our existencewas quite an amazing one for multiplayer gaming! On the competitive front, we were blessed with the latest releases in theBattlefield,Call of Duty,Gears of War,Killzone,ResistanceandUnchartedseries, co-op gamers enjoyed the addition of multiplayer to the stellarPortalfranchise as well as creative new IPs likeBulletstormandDungeon Defenders, and fighting game fans were finally given the first properMortal Kombatgame in a generation (oh, and a little game calledMarvel vs Capcom 3, to boot)....