Japanese Fighting Game Developers Name Their Games of the Year

Over at BlueSky, HDKirin posted an interesting thread that shares a very large list of favorite games of the year from all sorts of Japanese game developers. You might want to give the full list a look, there are dozens upon dozens of developers there, so you're bound to find somebody you've been curious about.

For now, let's take a look at the favorites from many different fighting game devs! Keep in mind that they didn't have a strict number of games to list, and typically each entry has a personal comment, but we don't have a translation for those bits.

Daisuke Ishiwatari:

1. Mario Kart World
2. R.E.P.O.
3. ACECRAFT
4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Naoto Abe:

1. Borderlands 4
2. Silent Hill f
3. Donkey Kong Bananza
4. Battlefield 6
5. Silent Cleaning

Nobuyuki Kuroki:

1. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
2. Ghost of Yotei
3. Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
4. Titan Quest II
5. Assetto Corsa EVO

Eisuke Ogura:

1. Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake
2. Mario Kart World

Takayuki Nakamura:

1.  Urban Myth Dissolution Center
2. Blade Chimera
3. Diesel Legacy - The Brazen Age
4. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
5. Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers

Riichiro Yamada:

1. Elden Ring Nightreign
2. Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening with Power-Up Kit
3. Sid Meier's Civilization VI
4. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
5. Suikoden: Tenmei no Chikai

Naoya Yasuda:

1. Kingdom: Hadou
2. Battlefield 6
3. Astro Bot
4. Mario Kart World
5. Doukyuusei 2 Remake

Kohei "Nakatsu" Ikeda:

1. Donkey Kong Bananza
2. Monster Hunter Wilds
3. Ghost of Yotei
4. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
5. Hades II

Katsuhiro Harada:

1. Hunting Simulator 2
2. Kirby Air Riders
3. Battlefield 6
4. Way of the Hunter
5. Cuphead