Welcome to VGChartz's Top Five Hack and Slash Games! Hack and Slash is a very diverse genre with a range of different approach by different developers and high quality games comoing from the likes of Santa Monica Studio, Platinum Games, Ninja Theory and many more. So whcih ones are VGC's top five picks in the genre? Here we decide.
Permission taken from CGI-Quality and Miguel_Zorro.
Rules:
1. Can pick anywhere from none to five games from any hack and slash franchise, your picks for the best in the genre need not be limited to one per franchise.
2. Vote for five of your favourite hack and slash games. Cannot be any less or it wouldn't count. If its more, only the top five games would count. Only one game at each position from one to five, no ties or it wouldn't be valid.
Points are based on your ranking as follows:
1 - 50
2 - 40
3 - 30
4 - 20
5 - 10
3. If your vote has been registered once you cannot change it.
So go ahead and vote now!
Results:
1. Individual Games
| Rank | Game | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Points |
| 1 | God of War 3 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 970 | |
| 2 | God of War 2 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 910 |
| 3 | Bayonetta 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 630 |
| 4 | Devil May Cry | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 540 |
| 5 | Devil May Cry 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 510 |
| 6 | God of War | 2 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 500 |
| 7 | Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 400 |
| 8 | Bayonetta | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 310 |
| 9 | DMC: Devil May Cry | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 290 |
| 10 | Diablo 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 280 | |
| 11 | Ninja Gaiden | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 280 |
| 12 | Devil May Cry 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 270 |
| 13 | God of War: Ghost of Sparta | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 210 | |
| 14 | Castlevania: Lords of Shadow | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 180 | |
| 15 | Heavenly Sword | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 140 | |
| 16 | Darksiders 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 140 | ||
| 17 | Hyrule Warriors | 2 | 2 | 2 | 140 | ||
| 18 | God of War: Ascension | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 120 | |
| 19 | Bloodborne | 3 | 120 | ||||
| 20 | Dante's Inferno | 2 | 1 | 2 | 100 | ||
| 21 | Darksiders | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 | ||
| 22 | Dynasty Warriors 8 | 1 | 1 | 90 | |||
| 23 | The Wonderful 101 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 90 | ||
| 24 | Ninja Gaiden 2 | 1 | 1 | 90 | |||
| 25 | Dynasty Warriors 7 | 1 | 80 | ||||
| 26 | Dynasty Warriors 3 | 1 | 2 | 80 | |||
| 27 | Demon's Souls | 1 | 1 | 80 | |||
| 28 | Onimusha 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 80 | ||
| 29 | Lollipop Chainsaw | 1 | 3 | 70 | |||
| 30 | Dragon Quest Heroes | 3 | 60 | ||||
| 31 | Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep | 2 | 60 | ||||
| 32 | Mad World | 1 | 1 | 60 | |||
| 33 | Dragon's Crown | 1 | 50 | ||||
| 34 | Dark Souls 2 | 1 | 50 | ||||
| 35 | Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny | 1 | 50 | ||||
| 36 | Conan | 1 | 40 | ||||
| 37 | Castlevania: Symphony of the Night | 1 | 40 | ||||
| 38 | Diablo | 1 | 40 | ||||
| 39 | Dynasty Warriors | 1 | 40 | ||||
| 40 | Star Wars: The Force Unleashed | 1 | 2 | 40 | |||
| 41 | The Incredible Hulk | 1 | 30 | ||||
| 42 | Samurai Warriors 2 | 1 | 30 | ||||
| 43 | Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance | 1 | 30 | ||||
| 44 | God of War: Chains of Olympus | 1 | 1 | 30 | |||
| 45 | Diablo 3 | 1 | 1 | 30 | |||
| 46 | Fighting Force | 1 | 30 | ||||
| 47 | Prince of Persia: Warrior Within | 1 | 20 | ||||
| 48 | Dark Souls 3 | 1 | 20 | ||||
| 49 | Enslaved: Odyssey to the West | 1 | 20 | ||||
| 50 | Castlevania: Lament of Innocence | 2 | 20 | ||||
| 51 | Gauntlet Legends | 2 | 20 | ||||
| 52 | No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle | 1 | 20 | ||||
| 53 | Drakengard | 1 | 10 | ||||
| 54 | Anarchy Reigns | 1 | 10 | ||||
| 55 | Kingdom Hearts: Chains of Memories | 1 | 10 | ||||
| 56 | Titan Quest | 1 | 10 | ||||
| 57 | Warriors Orochi 2 | 1 | 10 |
2. Series
Total: based on total points of a series
| Rank | Series | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Points |
| 1 | God of War | 21 | 19 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 2740 |
| 2 | Devil May Cry | 12 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 1610 |
| 3 | Bayonetta | 8 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 940 |
| 4 | Ninja Gaiden | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 370 |
| 5 | Diablo | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 350 |
Average: based on average points of games in a series
| Rank | Series | Points |
| 1 | Bayonetta | 470 |
| 2 | God of War | 456.6 |
| 3 | Devil May Cry | 322 |
| 3 | Ninja Gaiden | 123.3 |
| 4 | Darksiders | 120 |
3. Developers
| Rank | Developer | Points |
| 1 | Santa Monica Studio | 2500 |
| 2 | Platinum Games | 1500 |
| 3 | Capcom | 1450 |
| 4 | Omega Force | 530 |
| 5 | Ninja Theory | 450 |
Voters:
| GOWTLOZ | SanAndreasX |
| Veknoid_Outcast | Lawlight |
| Alex_The_Hedgehog | fleischr |
| BasilZero | Angelus |
| CWegzz | ktay95 |
| Neoarc | Goodnightmoon |
| Jpcc86 | ARamdomGamer |
| Darwinianevolution | Saeko |
| Nautilus | Ka-pi96 |
| torok | naruball |
| V-r0ck | MTZehvor |
| AZWification | alternine |
| cuecolez | raulbalarezo |
| LudicrousSpeed | Shadow8 |
| finalrpgfantasy | Manlytears |
| Fei-Hung | Ryng_Tolu |
| Sixteenvolt420 | KilleyMc |
| malistix1985 | Dr.Vita |
| Nemesis1993 | TruckOSaurus |
| JustThatGamer | John2290 |
| Azuren | Nem |
| JRPGfan | kitler53 |
| pastro243 | Hiku |
| Ronster316 | bouzane |
| Ruler | IkePoR |
| REDZONE | Chazore |
| Rafie | XanderXT |
| Machina | Lauster |
| RavenXtra | KLXVER |
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