Ghost of Yotei Wins Big in PS Blog's Game of the Year Awards

That's like sucking your own...

More snubs for Death Stranding 2?! This is why democracy doesn’t work!

Lumines arise got robbed at these awards

Well deserved. Easily my game of the year, and nothing else came close. A massive improvement on GoT, and I can't wait to see a sequel to this, or maybe Infamous.

The 'best graphical showcase' was very well deserved too, and I note that DS2 came in 2nd here, which was also amazing in this regard.

"Studio of the Year - Kojima Productions"
List of Death Stranding 2's awards: ...

Great to see Lies of P Overture win best expansion too. I loved the base game, but Overture really added to the game as a whole, in a way most expansions simply do not.

After playing overture, I just had to play through the base game and Overture again in a single playthrough (NG+3 I think).

The overall package Lies of P now sits at the very top of my best soulslikes, and above even Fromsofts games.

I will add shinobi 🥷 art of vengeance as my second favorite game and clair obscur expedition 33 as number 1.and gran theft auto 6 as my most anticipated game of 2001.word up son

Brilliant game, I'm just more happy that the game is in the top 10 sold games of year, that's when you know the game is good, despite when Twitter tried to tell you...

I really, really liked the game but had to push myself to finish the last 1/4. It could've been a little shorter and 1 big area less. After clearing out 3 big areas I just couldn't bother with the last 1 (which also felt the least interesting/beautiful to me) and just finished the main story quests.

Finished the game in about 45 hours.

This is a much more accurate reflection of reality than what we got at the game awards.

If you can't win at TGA just make your own I guess...

But of course! 😆

PS Blogs having better results than Game Awards lol

Anyway, I'm playing Ghost of Yotei and yes, this game is really good and fun. I'm surprised at how it's more engaging than Tsushima, and i finished Tsushima just a couple of months ago. I thought i was gonna burnout with Yotei and yet I'm 20h in and having so much fun

The game feels more organic and less "checklist". I also thought the improvements they made in the combat are very good. Having multiple weapons instead of different stances made the game so much more dynamic. Too bad Kingdom Come didn't win anything

Kingdom Come not winning anything is a crime.

Even though I liked Ghost of Yotei, I feel it was a step back from Tsushima.

Tsushima thrived on restraint, tonal consistency, and subtle storytelling, Yotei explains its themes and pushes emotion too hard. The narrative often tells instead of showing, which weakens all impact

Also Erika Ishii's delivery frequently over-emphasizes emotion, shifts intensity too abruptly, and uses a modern cadence that clashes with the historical tone. Rather than letting moments breathe, the performance draws attention to her. And if you saw how she behaved at the Game Awards, that makes a lot of sense.

When there is too much PlayStation fanboyism even for the PushSquare staff…

Good game, even though in many respects I prefer AC Shadows, including the more realistic graphical style which on balance has had more "wow" factor for me, and the English VO of the protagonists.

I know that won't help me win any popularity contests.

@Dogbreath I'm curious how many people will read this and not understand what you mean by "more realistic."

I think gamers are generally bad at differentiating high-fidelity graphics from realistic art direction.

@SeaDaVie : I'm sure they did. Doesn't matter, I'm just joking around xD

Might be beating a dead horse here, but not as surprising as spider man winning over BG3

Well ofc the comments went as expected as soon as I read the headline lol. They do this every year

Oblivion best remaster????? Its one of the worst remasters I've played in terms of performance

Graphical Showcase Ghost of Yotei, over Death Stranding 2?

I'm not really surprised tbh, it's PS Blog after all. For 2023 it was Spider-Man 2. For 2022 it was God of War Ragnarok. For 2020 it was The Last of Us Part 2. Only their 2021 and 2024 winners showed some variety. Even then, there were some choices that clearly had more favor than others (RE Village for the 2021 awards for example). Mark my words, on 2027 the one getting the most awards will be Intergalactic, for very obvious reasons lol

Quite embarrassing. Their game lost in all possible categories, everywhere. So they grant it a „reward” like that.

I also voted for Yotei and DS 2. But kinda sad that Shinobi: Art of Vengeance and NG Ragebound didn't win at least a bronze trophy.

@Leinad7 Grant a reward? It's a long running fans voted award.

@Wardenknight133 - PS Blog 2019 winners with Death Stranding, Sekiro, KH 3 etc
https://blog.playstation.com/2019/12/19/game-of-the-year-2019-the-winners/

• PS Blog 2018 winners with GoW, RDR 2, Fifa, Beat Saber etc
  https://blog.playstation.com/2019/01/17/game-of-the-year-2018-the-winners/
• PS Blog 2017 winners with Horizon, Hellblade, Rick & Morty etc
  https://blog.playstation.com/2018/01/11/game-of-the-year-2017-the-winners-as-voted-by-you/
• PS Blog 2016 winners with UC 4, World of FF, Battlefield 1, Firewatch etc
  https://blog.playstation.com/2017/01/12/the-winners-playstation-blog-game-of-the-year-2016/

Looks like the award has a good amount of winners variety based on the fans votes. And if Intergalactic turns out as a very good game and the majority of PS fans voted it to win multiple category then i don't see the problem with that. The same can be said for next year Saros, Wolverine, Tokon, RE 9, Onimusha, GTA 6 etc.

official playstation blog users vote slightly different than playstation enthusiast website users, what a silly bunch

Best graphical showcase: Ghost of Yotei?? Come on, Death Stranding 2 and Assassin’s Creed Shadows are so much more impressive. It isn’t even close. I actually booted Shadows after finishing my Yotei playthrough and it was like if it was from a different generation. Yotei is the better game, but graphics related it is not even close.

@bizzysgs exactly

You mean to tell me internet fans cannot be trusted to offer a fair, balanced opinion on something? I'm stunned!

(I also voted the exact same biased way by voting for blue prince in every single category possible)

PS Blog, exactly who I look to for unbiased awards.

I love democracy..

Amazing game, well done Sucker Punch. I bow to your many who made this come to life. It’s also only game that takes 8 seconds from menu to playing on base ps5! Kudos!!

Well that sounds meaningless 😂

The game awards and Game Informer already crowned GOTY
With Expedition 33

@PuppetMaster
Fans voted award Yeah, sure

@Leinad7 Yeah it is. That's why the winners is different compare to TGA who picked by gaming media journos.

@PuppetMaster it’s just like asking VW blog what is the best brand of cars in 2025. Do you expect anything else than VW to win?

@Leinad7 Do you want them to vote Nintendo games that doesn't exist on PS? Lol 🤣

@PuppetMaster You know very well what I meant, the fact you try to pretend you don’t understand is better than any kind of answer

@Pat_trick GoY is much better in Japanese imo...

@BloodEagle Agreed. The English VO is too westernised.