There's a day like today where I immediately went on to select BOTW without thinking because the experience I had the time was prolly one of the most significant in gaming at the time and technically nothing has replicated it on that front ... An incredible world of discoveries where you are asked only to weave your own tapestry of adventures with some incredible physic based abilities.
Zelda BOTW was the game I needed.
If it hadn't come out, then my choice would go to Xenoblade Chronicles 2, it has some quirks that might have not meshed with some but those aspects are completely overshadowed by the overwhelming quality of other aspects like it's music which in hindsight I'd consider like of the best OST in the history of the medium, the complexity of it's character writing and story sequences that culminates in some of the peakest moments the JRPG genre ever had in it's second half.
So yeah, BOTW was the game of that year but Xenoblade Chronicles 2 was the game for my heart
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