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What is the reasoning your favourite game is indeed your favourite? Is it nostalgia? Maybe it got you through a hard time? Maybe you love certain mechanics within the game?
For me personally, my favourite series is Legend of Zelda, and there's a fair few games I like within the series (and there's a fair few I don't like too!)
Ocarina of Time: This game I just have so much nostalgia and fondness for and whenever I try to pick it up again these feelings come rushing back. I do recall when I was younger I wasn't too sure on the game, I found the inside of the Deku Tree a bit scary. But man when you hit the Hyrule Field, Peahats fly at you which terrified me. Not getting to Hyrule Town in time before the drawbridge closes and it turns night time and stalchildren appear. I recall thinking to myself the game was great when I was growing up and there was a lot to do, so imagine my shock when I got to the Temple of Time, which I found eerie, turning into an adult and having the entire world being spun on it's head. The ReDeads screaming at you and literally making you shudder, going back to Hyrule Castle to see there's a huge lava moat and the castle has been taken over. Even typing all this out makes me want to go back to it. One thing I haven't touched on is the music, but to be honest the entire LoZ series is incredible with the music.
Majora's Mask: On the same engine as Ocarina of Time, but it's low development time mixed with how they used a 3 day system due to the constraints that just worked perfectly. Having a smaller scale game allowed for NPC schedules where everyone was in a specific place when they needed to be. The bombers handbook and side quests and smaller stories (I remember being a bit weirded out by the Kafei / Anju was a bit weird till you did the quest. But so many things in this game are "weird", cause it's a much darker game than many of the series.) So many times I remember trying to ring the bell in Clock Town where Kafei is, and trying to run into the door behind him wondering why it never worked. The clock noises, the moon creeping me out, the whole looping process. I feel like I could go on forever for these two games and others in the series, but I just wanted to give a couple of reasons for each.
Beyond this, Zelda has been a major part of my life for almost it's entirety, and it has genuinely got me through some extremely hard times whether it's messages in the game I can relate to, or just being a thing where I can turn off my brain from the real world and get immersed.
There's other games outside of Zelda of course that I love, but I wouldn't want to make a huge wall of text haha!
For me personally, my favourite series is Legend of Zelda, and there's a fair few games I like within the series (and there's a fair few I don't like too!)
Ocarina of Time: This game I just have so much nostalgia and fondness for and whenever I try to pick it up again these feelings come rushing back. I do recall when I was younger I wasn't too sure on the game, I found the inside of the Deku Tree a bit scary. But man when you hit the Hyrule Field, Peahats fly at you which terrified me. Not getting to Hyrule Town in time before the drawbridge closes and it turns night time and stalchildren appear. I recall thinking to myself the game was great when I was growing up and there was a lot to do, so imagine my shock when I got to the Temple of Time, which I found eerie, turning into an adult and having the entire world being spun on it's head. The ReDeads screaming at you and literally making you shudder, going back to Hyrule Castle to see there's a huge lava moat and the castle has been taken over. Even typing all this out makes me want to go back to it. One thing I haven't touched on is the music, but to be honest the entire LoZ series is incredible with the music.
Majora's Mask: On the same engine as Ocarina of Time, but it's low development time mixed with how they used a 3 day system due to the constraints that just worked perfectly. Having a smaller scale game allowed for NPC schedules where everyone was in a specific place when they needed to be. The bombers handbook and side quests and smaller stories (I remember being a bit weirded out by the Kafei / Anju was a bit weird till you did the quest. But so many things in this game are "weird", cause it's a much darker game than many of the series.) So many times I remember trying to ring the bell in Clock Town where Kafei is, and trying to run into the door behind him wondering why it never worked. The clock noises, the moon creeping me out, the whole looping process. I feel like I could go on forever for these two games and others in the series, but I just wanted to give a couple of reasons for each.
Beyond this, Zelda has been a major part of my life for almost it's entirety, and it has genuinely got me through some extremely hard times whether it's messages in the game I can relate to, or just being a thing where I can turn off my brain from the real world and get immersed.
There's other games outside of Zelda of course that I love, but I wouldn't want to make a huge wall of text haha!