It’s back for its second year! Ghost Studios: Game Awards, the contenders just consist of what games I completed this year. Completed: Defined as the beginning of the story to the end of the story.
And of course, yours truly will be picking one from my Top 3 favorites for Game of the Year.
Let’s get into it!
So, here is what I got my hands on this year, the date of completion and games I dropped if you are interested.
Game Completion List (PC) (2024)
1. Tekken 8 (2024) (January 27, 2024)
2. Detroit: Become Human(2018) (March 6, 2024)
3. Forspoken (2023) (June 22, 2024)
4. Mass Effect (2007) (October 4, 2024)
5. Remember Me (2013) (October 13, 2024)
6. DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO (2024) (October 27, 2024)
7. Overcooked! (2016) (November 23, 2024)
8. Monster Hunter: World (2018) (November 28, 2024)
Dropped Game List (2024)
1. Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen (2012)
2. Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (2011)
3. Black Myth: Wukong (2024)
4. Asterigos: Curse of the Stars (2022)
5. GreedFall (2019)
6. Resident Evil: Revelations (2012)
7. Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1 (2010)
8. Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout (2019)
Here are the Categories I’m doing for 2024!
Worst Game of the Year
Best Music
Best Gacha Game
Most Wanted
Game of the Year
Worst Game of the Year
Forspoken
Official Release: January 24, 2023
I’ve played through the entirety of Forspoken, including the DLC.
Despite me doing that, the game was just awful, the map was way too big, it took literally forever to get anywhere, despite you running with magic, which is absolutely insane to me and that’s not including the performance issues like the map itself taking forever to load. Not the map, but the menu the map is in…
Forspoken felt like it should have ended after the first hour but it just kept going and going and things that actually made the game good were all packed into like the last 30 minutes, they honestly should have started the game that way. Absolutely unforgivable…
Best Music
Tekken 8
Official Release: January 26, 2024
Tekken 8 was one of the best fighting games this year!
But… There was something even better about it, the Jukebox Mode, but even though the game had all the music from every Tekken game in existence, Tekken 8’s original music alone was absolutely great. My favorite original song from the game still to this day is Kakuri-yo Kagura – Normal by Yuu Miyake.
Best Gacha Game
Wuthering Waves
Official Release: May 22, 2024
No one expected Wuthering Waves to be as good as it was, the appeal of female Rover was something simply unheard of in gacha games, all the characters just looked so good and the story was great.
The summoning monster mechanic in place of gear slots was literally a welcomed game changer.
Most Wanted
BLEACH Rebirth of Souls
Official Release: 2025
Bandai must be getting tired of losing money because BLEACH Rebirth of Souls marketing tactics have been absolutely insane. We have been seeing nothing but straight gameplay and literally no one is saying anything bad about the game.
The fighting style along with its in depth story mode seems like it’s about to be one the biggest releases of 2025 and on the route to becoming the greatest Bleach game in history.
Game of the Year (Top 3 Contenders)
#3: Detroit: Become Human
Official Release: May 25, 2018
You are faced with many choices playing as the Androids in Detroit: Become Human and most lead to very tricky situations, but you had no choice, walls the humans made had to be broken…
#2: Tekken 8
Official Release: January 26, 2024
As I mentioned earlier, Tekken 8 was no doubt one of the best fighting games this year!
The story mode was miles better than Tekken 7 and we also had the return of Mother Jun.
While I wholeheartedly disagree with the monetization tactics added after the fact, seeing many of us bought the $100+ edition of the game, the fact remains Tekken 8 is a solid addition to the franchise.
#1: DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
Official Release: October 11, 2024
Years… Literally years… Decades… The King of Games finally returned…
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO, the game was so great, so over the top, it was honestly no contest. No other game this year even came close to the masterpiece that this became.
I’ve written many, many, articles over this game, so there was no other choice, but to crown DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO as Ghost Studios: Game of the Year!
Winners
Forspoken – Worst Game of the Year
Tekken 8 – Best Music
Wuthering Waves – Best Gacha Game
BLEACH Rebirth of Souls – Most Wanted
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO – Game of the Year
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