4gamer's annual end-of-year GOTY roundup is up, with 147 game devs & personalities sharing their fav media of 2020 4gamer.net/games/999/G999…🇯🇵 gonna go through and highlight whatever catches my eye:
https://twitter.com/4GamerNews/status/1343572517173129217
Arcsys' Daisuke Ishiwatari's GOTY for 2020: the 2015 game Skyhill, which he only just got around to playing store.steampowered.com/app/382140/SKY…
he's also a big Man of Steel fan & is looking forward to the Batman vs. Superman Snyder Cut, in case you were wondering
he's also a big Man of Steel fan & is looking forward to the Batman vs. Superman Snyder Cut, in case you were wondering
Arcsys' Kazuto "Pachi" Sekine has traditionally nominated poverty fighting games (complete with tech guides) for GOTY, with previous picks including Shaolin vs. Wutang & Fight of Gods—he planned to pick Fight of Animals but it came out in December 2019, so he went with Fall Guys
Inti Creates' Yoshihisa Tsuda picked Arcade Archives Markham as his GOTY—it's mostly a tribute to Hamster managing to reissue new & obscure games weekly without fail, but he picked Markham in particular bc he prided himself on his '80s arcade knowledge but had never heard of it
Bloodstained Curse of the Moon 1&2 director Hiroki Miyazawa's GOTY: @BertilHorberg's Mechstermination Force: "I was miffed bc the game I'd wanted to make forever had been made before I could do it; at the same time, it was as fun as I'd thought it'd be, so I sincerely enjoyed it"
Street Fighter producer Shuhei Matsumoto picked Samurai Shodown Neogeo Collection as his GOTY: he remembers being a kid & having to choose between SF2 & Samsho at the game corner bc his dad only gave him ¥200, and so he picked Samsho bc he could tell it'd be cool, and it still is
(Tiger King & Meg Thee Stallion also made his list, and probably no others)
Granzella's Kazuma Kujo chose Brigandine: Legend of Runersia as his GOTY: "the rules are simple, but once u start you won't be able to stop...the pace is highly addictive bc you're finding things & being presented things to do...this is the first home SLG I've played in a while"
CyberConnect2's Hiroshi Matsuyama's GOTY: Tick Tock: A Tale for Two "even tho it's a mystery-solving ADV for 2 ppl, it's neat how they expect ppl to communicate using external apps like LINE; it's a new way of thinking—everyone already has their own VOIP nowadays, so why bother"
Square-Enix's Yoshinori Kitase's GOTY, Maneater:"it's an absurd game but I was impressed that it was a soundly-made RPG, & the open world is paced so that anyone can remain motivated; I felt a lil guilty about getting so into slaughtering ppl on the beach, but u soon get over it"
Jiro Ishii's GOTY is the live murder mystery Randolph Lawrence no Tsuioku: "it's a huge game that takes ~5hrs to play but some have said it's life-changing; it'll move you beyond digital games & movies and let u experience being someone you're not, so try it if u get the chance"
Sega's Yosuke Okunari chose GG Aleste 3 as his GOTY, with a submission that's both way too long to summarise and completely lacking any of the sardonic jabs he usually throws at M2, so you know he really likes it
oh and on plans for 2021, he talks about how they dropped the MD Mini & Game Gear Micro back-to-back in '19/20 but he'd like to take a little more time with whatever's coming next, so while there may be a lot going on behind-the-scenes, announcements may be thin on the ground
Space Channel 5 creator Takumi Yoshinaga chose @MetronomikIncEN's No Straight Roads as his GOTY: "I was impressed at how it tackled the balance of playing music vs free action head-on; it's been a while since a game made me feel both the players & the creators were being tested"
(there's more to his statement & that's an awkward translation so I may come back to this particular comment, it's super late, bear with me)
they asked the producer of the yuri ADV series OshiRabu for comments and I don't care enough to relay them but here's their profile pic 
Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada wrote a lengthy screed on Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, in part because he figured everyone else would want to talk about Ghost of Tsushima and Fall Guys so he should talk about something nobody else would pick
Doko Demo Issyo creator Kazunori Minami chose Namcot Collection's Famicom port of Gaplus as his GOTY, right on
Hideki Kamiya picked Arcade Archives Vs. Balloon Fight & Wrecking Crew as a pretext for a rant about how Capcom, Sega, etc should be on ACA, Taito & Konami's buffoonery around making games exclusive to promos/pre-orders, Namcot Collection's button config, "retro =/= classic", etc
it's a running joke that Kamiya writes absurdly lengthy responses for these articles & they're longer than ever this year, Harada already pre-empted him with a jab about how long they'd be
except for his 2021 signoff, which is "same as whatever Inaba wrote (I didn't read it)"
except for his 2021 signoff, which is "same as whatever Inaba wrote (I didn't read it)"
Hironobu Sakaguchi picked Gears Tactics as his GOTY: "it seems like scout's combination of bombs & cloak might be a little unbalanced" (is he right? I have no clue)
Yoko Taro's submissions are oddly subdued, they're usually fairly wacky... being the Ikaruga nut that he is, he picked the recent physical reissue of Ikaruga as GOTY
...and that's it, I skipped over a ton, that took way too long as it is
Ghost of Tsushima was by far the most common GOTY nomination & Animal Crossing was also big; others common mentions were FFVIIR, 2077, with fewer mentions for Sakuna, Genshin, Fall Guys, TLOU2, Yakuza 7
Ghost of Tsushima was by far the most common GOTY nomination & Animal Crossing was also big; others common mentions were FFVIIR, 2077, with fewer mentions for Sakuna, Genshin, Fall Guys, TLOU2, Yakuza 7
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