I liked it, but I was expecting another game that met the quality of Chrono Trigger based on how people were talking about it, so I ended up being a tad disappointed once it ended.

It's nice to see a traditional JRPG get so much praise, though.

I haven't played it yet, but I kinda get Death Stranding vibes from it. More action though.

That's a fair assessment for the most part. I think a lot of the time it's all just hype for one title, but this game is actually fantastic, and I think it deserves everything it won. I can't think of anything else this year that would surpass Clair Obscur in any of those categories.

It's a downside of the award show template. If the "best game" is, say, an RPG, then there's no logic that should say it would win "best game" but not "best RPG", right? If it wasn't an award show you could go from the top down instead of building up to GOTY and it'd be spread out more. Expedition 33 is GOTY, so "best RPG" is now de facto "best RPG not named Expedition 33". But even that collides with awards like best soundtrack or best performance by a VA.

If anything, Golden Joystick "sandbagged" E33 by not including it in "best indie" - Sandfall is absolutely an indie studio by every meaningful definition of the term.

Blue Prince was awesome, and literally curled up with my boyfriend watching him play E33 right now (these games make me motion sick, thus the scrolling lol.) I can see why it won so much.

Love seeing Blue Prince win awards. Such an inventive, creative and amazing game.

I love both, but I also would pick KCD2 for the story just because it hits exactly the same as A Knight's Tale.

E33 definitely is more creative and unique, though, and because of that I would expect it to win.