The people behind Virtue's Last Reward can't seem to figure out how to patch a save-erasing bug that affects the 3DS version of the Japanese visual novel.

To describe why Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward was my favourite game of 2012 is to describe why I fell in love with games in the first place.

You don't realise just how good a gaming year it's been until you look back at all of the games you actually played. From physics puzzlers to ninja simulators, 2012's library was full of interesting, creative, unique experiences.