You could also call this Best Old Game, if you hated being pithy and also wanted to insult these games. But in any year, MOST of the games we play aren’t from that year. They’re from years previous, sometimes many years previous. Of these, which ones defined our 2021?
The Nominees Are:
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late [cl-r]
Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise
Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist: Link Evolution
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Disco Elysium
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Metroid Fusion
Tekken 7
Kidou Gekidan Haro Ichiza: Gundam Mahjong + Z: Sara ni Deki Ruyouni Nattana!
And that’s a wrap for today’s Gimmick Awards! Please come back tomorrow for two more, and then two more the day after that!
Our intro music for the Gimmick Awards 2021 is Piano 29 from Demon’s Souls, a Japanese royalty-free music site. A big thank you to daanboii (@daanboii on Twitter) for our Game of the Year art!
