The title has been awarded GOTY at the Japan Game Awards, which take place at the Tokyo Game Show.
Few doubt that Elden Ring is one of the great releases of this year, and even one of the most serious candidates to win awards for the best game of 2022. Although we are in September, the title of FromSoftware can now boast of its first grand prize, awarded during the Tokyo Game Show which is taking place right now.
He has won the GOTY at the Japan Game AwardsAnd it is that, as the Japanese developer herself has announced in her official account of TwitterElden Ring has won the award for Best Game of the Year at the Japan Game Awards, which is the first big prize for the huge RPG. Surely it will not be the last, although, for the moment, FromSoftware is limited to thanking this recognition.
Los Japan Game Awards are given now due to the peculiarities of these awards, which do not wait for more later titles since the nominees come from a vote of the Japanese public of titles released in the previous fiscal year (from April 1 to March 31). After this, the panel of judges chooses ten for the Excellence Awards and, finally, the best title of all that stays with the GOTY.
These were the ten nominees:
- Resident Evil Village
- Sky: Children of the Light
- Tales of Arise
- Lost Judgment
- Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
- Pokemon Legends: Arceus
- Horizon: Forbidden West
- Elden Ring
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
In its elden ring analysisour colleague Alejandro Pascual made it clear that, following more than 100 hours in the Middle Lands of the last great work of Hidetaka Miyazaki“in the future we will look at Elden Ring in many of our discussions and reflections on the medium”, having become “one of the great generation masterpieces“.
In fact, Elden Ring is not only doing well critically, but commercially there is also cause for celebration. Title has exceeded sales expectations con over 16.6 million copies sold as of June 2022, and is the prime candidate for achieving one of the goals that only Rockstar releases have achieved in recent years: beat the annual sales figures of Call of Duty in the North American market.
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