In recent days we have been sharing statements of Japanese developers heading into 2021 and your plans for this new year. Well, 4Gamer has offered similar information recently, only in this case the creatives have shared the games that have impressed them the most this year.
As you can imagine, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been very present. Here is the list of all the creatives who have chosen Nintendo games along with the general top of times a game has been chosen by Japanese developers:
Most popular games:
Ghost of Tsushima – 36
Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 16
Cyberpunk 2077 – 15
Final Fantasy VII Remake – 9
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin – 6
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout – 5
Genshin Impact – 5
The Last of Us: Part II – 5
None – 3
Yakuza: Like a Dragon – 3
Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & The Secret Fairy – 2
Hades – 2
Helltaker – 2
Spider-Man: Miles Morales – 2
Super Mario Bros. 35 – 2
Developers who have chosen Nintendo games:
Idea Factory / Compile Naoko Mizuno – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Idea Factory / Compile Wataru Watanabe – Moon RPG
Inti Creates Takuya Aizu – Animal Crossing: New Horizons / Cyberpunk 2077
Inti Creates Yoshihisa Tsuda – Arcade Archives: Markham
Inti Creates Hiroki Miyazawa – Mechstermination Force
EXNOA HaseP – Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & The Secret Fairy
SNK Eisuke Ogura – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
M2 Naoki Horii – Baba is You
OVERRIDE Yusuke Nashiki – Genshin Impact
Kadokawa Games Juntaro Kono – Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban!
Capcom Matt Walker – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Capcom Shuhei Matsumoto – Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection
GungHo Kazuki Moroshita – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Grasshopper Interactive Goichi Suda (Suda51) – Mario Kart: Live Circuit
Granzella Kazuma Kujo – Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia
Koei Tecmo Kazuhiro Echigoya – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Koei Tecmo Kenichi Ogasawara – Genshin Impact
Koei Tecmo Keisuke Kikuchi – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Koei Tecmo Yasunori Sakuta – Genshin Impact
Koei Tecmo Junzo Hosoi – Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin
Koei Tecmo Hidehisa Yamaguchi – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
CCP Games Hilmar V. Pétursson – Among Us
CyberConnect2 Hiroshi Matsuyama – Tick Tock: A Tale for Two
Square Enix Takashi Anzai – Genshin Impact
Square Enix Akitoshi Kawazu – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Square Enix Yoshinori Kitase – Maneater
Square Enix Akihiko Matsui – Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & The Secret Fairy
Sega Naofumi Hataya – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Sega Mizuki Hosoyamada – Super Mario Bros. 35
Sega Takumi Yoshinaga – No Straight Roads
Taito Yoichi Shimosato – Genshin Impact
WFS Takeru Sakurada – Pokémon Sword and Shield: The Isle of Armor & The Crown Tundra
Digital Extremes Rebecca Ford – Hades
Toybox Tomio Kanazawa – Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin
Niantic Susumu Yukihiro – Dragon Quest XI
Nippon Ichi Sayaka Oda – Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin
Nippon Ichi Yu Mizokami – Pikmin 3: Deluxe
Shuichi Koga Portholes – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
HAL Laboratory Teruhiko Suzuki – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
HAL Laboratory Yumi Todo – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
BeXide Inc. Kazunori Nanji – Gaplus (Namcot Collection)
Platinum Games Atsushi Inaba – Spiritfarer
Platinum Games Hideki Kamiya – Arcade Archives VS. Balloon Fight & Arcade Archives VS. Wrecking Crew
Proletariat Seth Sivak – Hades
Rabbit&Bear Studios Junko Kawano – Super Mario Bros. 35
Rabbit&Bear Studios Junichi Murakami – Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Level-5 Comcept Keiji Inafune – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Voice actor Nobuhiko Okamoto – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Compositor Hiroki Kikuta – Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Guionista Makoto Kedouin – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Illustrator Tsunako – Disaster: Of Rice and Ruin
Director creativo Yoko Taro – Ikaruga
Musician Ram Rider – Headliner Novinews
You have the list with all the choices here. What do you think?
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