VGChartz’s Mark Nielsen: “If there’s one genre you can almost always rely on to put out at least a few solid titles each year it’s the RPG genre. Whether it’s CRPGs, WRPGs, JRPGs, ARPGs, or MMORPGs, there are a lot of subgenres with rich histories and confusing abbreviations, and each of them brings something worthwhile to the table. This year in particular was a bit of an interesting one since it had no brand new entries in the really long-running, genre-defining series like Final Fantasy or SoulsBorneRing to step in and steal the show. Instead, our shortlist consists mainly of much more unique titles within the genre, but they’re certainly no less deserving for that.”
