NEO: The World Ends With You was also snubbed for Best Role Playing Game, but even more egregious than that is its absence from Best Score & Music. NEO: The World Ends With You – Best Score & Music Neo The World Ends With You It did come out early in 2021, so hopefully this is just a case of games amnesia and recency bias, not an actual act of neglect. There were a fair number of strong action games released this year, so Persona 5 Strikers isn’t alone, but its absence from the list does feel like a shame. Classic RPG elements like type advantages and managing your magic are still here, making Persona 5 Strikers a lot more complex than the premise of ‘Persona Dynasty Warriors’ might lead you to believe. Beyond the simple premise, Persona 5 Strikers deserves points for how it merges its JRPG source material with its new Dynasty Warriors style of mowing down hordes of enemies.
Persona 5 Strikers – Best Action Game Persona 5 Strikers Of all the indie games released this year, Unpacking deserved a shout out. It’s a very focused game, but Unpacking mines incredible emotional gratification and keen gameplay nuance out of its premise. The gameplay is elegant and the dopamine hit of emptying out each box never disappoints. With a charming lo-fi soundtrack soothing every new box, players sort their belongings into different houses as an unseen character grows up and grows into adulthood. Unpacking is a relaxing puzzle game that somehow turns the real-life stress of unpacking after moving into a new place into a soothing, relaxing puzzle game. The Missing Nominations Unpacking – Best Indie Game Unpacking game Is that independent? Are the truly independent games getting anywhere near this kind of press?Īnd now, with that bellyaching out of the way, we can move to the games that should have made the list: The developers behind these titles may well be small, independent teams, but they’re hitched to a massive piggy bank of a publisher. Devolver Digital is a publicly traded company that was valued at $1 billion earlier this year. While we’re on the topic of what is or isn’t indie, there’s also Devolver Digital, the publisher behind nominated indie titles Death’s Door, Inscryption, and Loop Hero. It’s a shame that one of them is missing out on this nomination thanks to Twelve Minutes.
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Indie gaming is a thriving, booming culture, full of titles that are making a lot more with a lot less. Your mileage may vary on how its point-and-click gameplay and tight, repetitive loop works, but no matter what it’s hard to spin Twelve Minutes as any kind of independent underdog when it has three Hollywood megastars in it.
It also stars James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley, and Willem Defoe. Twelve Minutes is published by Annapurna Interactive, no stranger to high-profile releases. It’s developed by Luís António, a former developer at Rockstar and Ubisoft, who also worked on smash hit puzzle game The Witness. For those not in the know, Twelve Minutes is a time loop mystery thriller, taking influences from Kubrick, Hitchcock, and other such psychological cinema fare. Twelve Minutes has been nominated for Best Independent Game.
What Are You Doing Here, Twelve Minutes? Twelve Minutes Why are we still talking about this game a year later? It was famous, and that must be the main reason it was nominated. Cyberpunk’s music is mostly Nine Inch Nails and Run The Jewels channeling some ‘get out of the studio by 5’ energy. Never mind that Cyberpunk 2077 was a cluster of bugs at launch, never mind that it included seizure-triggering lights that had to be patched out, never mind the rest of the toxic cloud that surrounded its release.Ĭyberpunk 2077 might be technically a role playing game since you can customize your build and tinker with your character’s stats, but it doesn’t really reward tinkering or experimentation. Last year’s Cyberpunk 2077 was nominated for Best Score and Music and Best Role Playing Game.
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