It’s official since the Game Awards ceremony on December 11, 2020, The Last of Us Part 2 is the best game of the year, the famous GOTY 2020. The title of Naughty Dog even managed to grab 7 awards in total including the most prestigious such as best director, best narration, best actor / actress performance or best sound design. In short, it is a final victory. Only here, on the side of Japan, we do not really agree, because over there, in the land of the Rising Sun, it is Ghost of Tsushima who emerged victorious. But how is this possible? Through an end-of-year survey carried out by the famous magazine Famitsu, which questioned no less than 132 Japanese personalities, a list that includes both actors and especially developers.
It is therefore unanimously that Ghost of Tsushima has won the favor of Japan, which had already fallen in love with this game when it was released last summer. We remember the words of Toshihiro Nagoshi, the creator of the Yakuza series, who trembled with emotion at the title of Sucker Punch, to the point that he would have liked the game to be developed by a Japanese studio. Chauvinism when you hold us. But in reality, it’s not just the stars of showbiz and developers who voted Ghost of Tsushima the best game of the year, the Japanese public too, since Ghost of Tsushima is none other than the best seller among all. the exclusives released on PlayStation 4. Note that this is the 3rd consecutive year that a PS4 exclusive has inherited the throne, since Marvel’s Spider-Man had obtained the title in 2018, while Death Stranding had it in 2019. Note also that Spider-Man was the biggest Western success on PS4 before Ghost of Tsushima landed.
Ghost of Tsushima touched the Japanese so much that they placed it in the standings ahead of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, while it is undoubtedly one of the biggest sales of the year in Japan, but also in the world (more than 26 million copies sold as of the fixed date of November 2020), and it is far from over. Among the other games in this Top 5 produced by Famitsu having surveyed personalities and developers, we also find Final Fantasy VII Remake, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin and Fall Guys.
