Traditionally, the Tokyo Game Show honors the best Japanese games released in the previous fiscal year.
2024 was no exception, and today the winners of the annual Japan Game Awards were announced.
Here’s what we know
The winners were chosen from the games released between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2024. The winner will probably surprise few: it is The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, one of the highest rated games on Metacritic. It won the main prize, as well as awards for special successes and best sales (remember that Tears of the Kingdom sold over 20 million copies in its first year).
The popular fighting game Street Fighter 6 received the Special Award, which recognizes the developers’ achievements in the field of sound-related accessibility settings, thanks to which even visually impaired people can navigate the game perfectly.
The Japan Game Awards list of top releases included the following titles:
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (FromSoftware)
- Dragon’s Dogma 2 (Capcom)
- Final Fantasy XVI (Square Enix)
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)
- Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (Sega)
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Sega)
- Persona 3 Reload (Atlus)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Nintendo)
- Street Fighter 6 (Capcom)
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Nintendo)
- Unicorn Overlord (Atlus).
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