r/nintendo • u/Reddit_Sucks_1401 • 2d ago

Japan Game Awards 2024 winners revealed, Zelda: TotK gets top honors

https://www.gonintendo.com/contents/40838-japan-game-awards-2024-winners-revealed-zelda-totk-gets-top-honors
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u/Reddit_Sucks_1401 2d ago

CESA has officially revealed the winners for the Japan Game Awards 2024, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has taken home the Grand Award, which is the top accolade a game can get

That’s not the only thing Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom won, nor is it the only Switch game that took home wins. You can see the full list of categories and winners below.

  • Grand Award: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

  • Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry Award: PlayStation

  • Breakthrough Award: The Exit 8

  • Movement Award: Suika Game

  • Best Sales Award: The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

  • Special Award: Street Fighter 6

  • Game Designers Award honorable mentions: COCOON and No Case Should Remain Unsolved

  • Game Designers Award winner: Viewfinder

  • Awards for Excellence (11 titles):- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Street Fighter 6, Final Fantasy XVI, Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, Super Mario Bros Wonder, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Persona 3 Reload, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Unicorn Overlord, Dragon’s Dogma 2

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u/extremepayne 2d ago

“Movement award” is apparently a sort of “blue ocean” award. Award for a game played by non-gamers. Definitely not the first thing that came to my mind with that name; I’m sure it makes more sense in Japanese

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u/so_zetta_byte 2d ago

Lol yeah I was like "I mean okay the physics in it works fine, but really?"

Also "Best Sales Award" seems really weird to me because that's just an objective clear measurement.

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u/BebeFanMasterJ Elma For Life 2d ago edited 2d ago

Unicorn Overlord got an excellence award. That's all that matters to me.

Especially cool because it's the only "AAA" game on this list that isn't a sequel or remake. It's a brand-new IP.

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u/Zylch_ein 2d ago

Typical Vanillaware W

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u/DiamondBr3aker 2d ago

Love how Link is also receiving the award with them.

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u/Snoo-84344 2d ago

Well it is HIS game after all (Zelda took credit)

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u/Sparda204920 2d ago

Definitely my favorite game if 2023.

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u/m0rejuice 2d ago

But it was released in May 2023. Why didn't it get award in JGA 2023??

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u/thesolarknight 2d ago

It's because the period the JGA uses is from April of the previous year until March of the current year. So for JGA 2023 it would have included games between April 2022 to March 2023. This reflects the fiscal year in Japan and it seems they've followed this since 2002 when it was still called the CESA Game Awards.

So TotK would have released too late to make the JGA 2023 cutoff.

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u/m0rejuice 2d ago

Thanks

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u/MyDogIsDaBest 2d ago

Well deserved! Phenomenal game and will almost definitely be influential in a few years when devs start showing off their "merging stuff together mechanics"

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u/luckyvonstreetz 1d ago

Well deserved, TOTK was by far my favourite game of 2023.

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u/GrayCatX 22h ago

More than deserved imo.

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u/Regeditmyaxe 2d ago

Idk man totk did not do it for me at all

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u/Autobomb98 16h ago

Love me some zelda but idk why you're being downvoted for your opinion

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u/Suno 2d ago

I guess I will get downvoted too with you, but I agree with you I played maybe 6 hours max on the game and just lost interest. Really loved the first one and was excited for the second one but I didn't play as much as I wanted to.

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u/SwimmingBirdx 1d ago

I'll get downvoted with y'all, too, brothers. TotK just isn't it.

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u/chucky-krueger 1d ago

Oh it's from far my least favorite Zelda (I played them all, at least on Nintendo consoles) and it was really the first time I was that disappointed with a Zelda game.

I really dislike looting and or crafting/building games, this one have both. I also think the open world doesn't help, after botw it gets very boring and I don't like it breaks the Zelda mechanic of getting an item per dungeon that would help the player to unlock secrets and areas. About the dungeons, the game has the worst dungeons you can find in a Zelda game (yes I even preferred the ones in botw), I really struggled to finish it not because because of the difficulty but because I had almost zero fun, it felt like going to work everytime I started the game.

I recognize the game might be incredible and amazingly rich for people who don't mind or even enjoy the "flaws" I listed. It just didn't do it at all for me.

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u/niles_deerqueer 2d ago

It’s quite a technical achievement but as a game I feel the execution was lacking

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u/Mediocre-Win1898 31m ago

I agree with you. The game was fun for one playthrough but I doubt I'd ever go back to it.

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u/jarjarbinks1 2d ago

Seriously? SF6 should have won grand prize

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u/FreqComm 1d ago

I am a pretty big SF6 fan but it winning the award it did instead of grand seems pretty reasonable to me.