With the arrival of the annual Tokyo Game Show 2023 event comes the results from the Japan Game Awards. The winner of the coveted best game award at this year’s event is the content packed Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak expansion, which is available right now on the Nintendo Switch eShop and other platforms. All the votes for this year’s Japan Game Awards are for games which were released between April 2022 to the end of March 2023 in Japan. Here’s the full list of winners which includes Award for Excellent in which eleven games were chosen including Hogwarts Legacy, Sonic Frontiers, Splatoon 3 and more.
Grand Award
- Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak (Capcom)
The Awards for Excellence
- Earth Defense Force 6 (Sandlot)
- Final Fantasy 7 Reunion (Square Enix)
- God of War Ragnarök (Sony)
- Hogwarts Legacy (Warner Bros)
- Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak (Capcom)
- Paranormasight (Square Enix)
- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (Nintendo)
- Resident Evil 4 (Capcom)
- Sonic Frontiers (Sega)
- Splatoon 3 (Nintendo)
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Nintendo)
Best Sales Award
- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet (Nintendo)
The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award
- Family Computer
Game Designers Award
- RPG Time: The Legend of Wright
I thought Sunbreak was an “expansion” so how can it be awarded best game. Monster Hunter Rise is the base game, a stand alone title and Sunbreak is an expansion that adds additional content. Technically Sunbreak isn’t a game It’s an expansion, so how can it be awarded best game.
My thoughts as well. I haven’t played it though but maybe it’s jam packed with so much content you can call it a standalone game lol
As a lover of almost only Japanese games, Monster Hunter series is the worst gaming series a japanese company produced.
That’s your opinion, for me it is the best thing to ever come out of Japan game wise.
It is, has more content than base game.
They’re the award givers, they make the rules. They could give it to a movie if they felt like it.
If they think Sunbreak was better than any of those other games then sure, why not? My biggest contention is how Pokémon Scarlet and Violet ends up on a list called “Awards for Excellence”. That’s far more egregious in my opinion.
It’s essentially another game. This has always been the trend in Japan we refer to it as DLC / Expansion, this is not the case. It has as much content plus more than base game.
They gave Pokemon Scarlet and Violet an award in “Excellence.” That’s all you need to know about their poor judgement tbh
What even is that image for the article? Cause that’s not any Monster Hunter I’ve played.
It’s from Monster Hunter Iceborne, I believe
it 100% is in Sunbreak I can confirm I have hunted it multiple times. It’s called the Velkhana
Read this elsewhere earlier and had to laugh. These awards are a complete JOKE. Sunbreak released around summer last year. Never mind that it’s DLC to the base game Monster Hunter: Rise which is even older.
Want further proof? They gave Pokémon Scarlet and Violet an award for EXCELLENCE. 🤣🤣🤣
Pokemon won an Award for Excellence in being a shitty, buggy mess of a game!? Perfect award for it! … Wait. Excellence as in good? …oh……..
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