Game of the Year 2023

[IcaroRibeiro]

I'll go with BG 3

Zelda is great and a technical marvel. It's almost bug free and have a very good performance for a mobile chipset from almost 10 years ago. It's a fun game, engaging and that give you awesome freedom to explore at your own pace. I'm blowed away by the level of ambitious they tried with the mechanics such as Ultrahand and Ascend. You can see the insane level amount of polish they have dedicated to make shrines and overworld puzzles to be so clever and functional. It's a masterpiece, I have no other words for it. I'm around 150 hours on it and I'm surely playing it again in future
Maybe on Switch 2 to play it as full glory with higher resolution and 60 FPS



But... I need to give it to BG 3. It's like the RPG I wanted to play all my life and simply couldn't. It's also a huge game with a combat system that never fails to make me engaged. Bg3 has level of depth in combat and problem solving that is simply ridiculous. The quests, even the side ones, are incredibly well thought and they interact each other in a way that makes me wonder how hard was to programming so many interactions. The companions are awesome, I love game that focus in parties interactions (that's why Persona is one of my favorite games) and here you have many fully fleshed out companies with meaningful quests that interwine perfectly with the main quests. From a narrative point of view this is a game that has a level of ambition beyond anything I've ever played. I simply love how there is very few handholding, the game let you figure out how to play by yourself. Also love how your decisions can severely change plot lines and story events. It's a game with an insane replay value because your choices can make your journey so damn different. Messing around with the combat system, classes and variations is a joy. If you enjoy strategic combat with a huge variation of forms on how to win a fight you will never have a bad time here. This all fully voice acted, with great custscenes and running very well wirh very few bugs (at least on PS5). It's incredible how such a huge game could be developed by an independent studio