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# Ballots: Jon Irwin
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/ballots-jon-irwin/
- Published: 2012-01-06T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:34:17.000Z
- Description: High Scores 2011 ballot.
- Author: Anonymous
- Tags: Article, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

### Games

1\. Super Mario 3D Land (20)  
2\. Portal 2 (20)  
3\. Blocks That Matter (10)  
4\. Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! (10)  
5\. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (10)  
6\. Shadows of the Damned (10)  
7\. Find Mii (5)  
8\. Army of Darkness Defense (5)

### Comments

*Mario 3D Land* offers a perfect toybox of ideas and nostalgia and unbridled fun. (Walk up to a dandelion and blow into your 3DS.)

*Portal 2* is as fiendishly clever and consistenly funny as advertised.

BtM, winner of Microsoft’s Dream.Build.Play contest, succeeds where most hybrids fail: creating a unique experience wholly its own.

*Freakyforms* is bizarre and hilarious—To a patient and open-minded player, this tiny sandbox contains multitudes. Weird, adorable, freakish multitudes.

If *Ghost Trick*‘s trial-and-error puzzles are a turnoff, you’ll stay for the fluid, otherworldly animation and a cast of outlandish characters from *Ace Attorney* creator Shu Takumi. (Also: the most balls-out insane ending of the year.)

Speaking of balls, any game with the cajones to stop you mid-level and read you a gruesome fairy tale, as *Shadows of the Damned* does, gets my vote.

The mechanics and style of *Find Mii*, a barer-than-bones RPG included in every 3DS, have less to do with why this game succeeds than what happens when you’re not playing it. (I still feel a tiny pang of euphoria every time that green light, signifying a StreetPass, shines anew.)

AoDD was not the most awe-inspiring iOS game of 2011; it’s a well-worn idea executed fairly. But it’s the game I played most on my iPod Touch this year. Ping me if you want to hear the story why.

Certain big-name titles are conspicuously absent from my list; this is because I either haven’t yet played them, or have no great desire to. *Arkham City* looks cool, but I want to go through the Asylum first. *Zelda*‘s on my Christmas list. *Skyrim* would swallow me whole. My lifestyle permits a certain amount of time playing games and no more. I most enjoy digestible experiences that surprise me. These are the ones that stayed in my gut the longest.

*Back to [High Scores 2011](http://killscreendaily.com/articles/high-scores-end-2011?ref=killscreen.com)*