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I am happy with the ranking, mostly, but specially happy about #1 and that people are consistent.
Everyone asks for new IPs and less sequels and sometimes when we get them they turn the other way before even trying them. Happy that the most exciting game for the majority is the new IP from this excellent Studio.

This could have been a day one for me, but based on the reviews, and as mentioned in a previous post, the Local Multiplayer/Split-Screen being only available in one map is a huge letdown for me considering that Local Multiplayer is the only reason I would buy this one.
There is a mod for that already in PC, but this is better in a console I think. If they add a patch for it down the line while it is on sale then count me in. Until then sorry but no.

I thought of eventually getting it on a sale. But the whole purpose of the Tenkaichi games for me was to be able to play local multiplayer.
This is not the best game for online where everyone will use the strongest characters, nor is a fun for long kind of game for playing solo.
Big shame that they didn't focus on that very important aspect

Sounds great but my backlog is stacked. Will wait for the Royal/Vengeance/Golden/ version.
How much I hate that Atlus practice....

Wow over 50% plan on buying it at some point....
Yes it's a PS site, but also for that same reason I think that many of the voters already have a PS5.
Upgrading seems as dumb as those people who change their Iphone every year.
Upgrading if you already have a PS5 is just not worth it.
But I guess there is a lot of people with money to completely burn apparently.

Too many people crying about this.
It is an universally acclaimed series that many people love. It just became cool to hate on it because they killed a beloved character for the purpose of their story and also because somehow people thought it became 'woke' or something for really nonsense reasons. Always thought this was just American Xbox players review bombing the game, but apparently there were people who really believed it and needed a big hug.
I haven't played the first game in a decade and now having this critically praised remastered version included in my subscription at no extra cost is great.
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I was just about to buy it last month.
This is great news for me. Finally gonna play this story for the 2nd time!

@Shinnok789 the games that 7 year olds used to play back in the nes/snes era would break laughing about Astro bot's difficulty.
Personally I am very disappointed in how beloved franchises (Pokemon, Mario f.ex) have left out any kind of challenges for people being afraid that kids get
"frustrated".
7 year old's also can beat the hell out of me in online shooters.
Assuming that kids can't handle a game like Astro Bot feels like too much. They are even beating Shadow of the Erdtree. Don't underestimate them.
It is just reinforcing the "Crystal generations" concept. Challenge is good. Becoming so easily frustrated shouldn't.

Amazing, but too short for it's price tag.
Lost the 10/10 because a $60 game should be above ~10 hours imo.

This was an amazing hidden gem back in the PSP era.
Remember loving it, but I am not sure that it can pass the test of time as it is right now. A remaster would have been amazing but it was so niche that I can see this "ps premium" release causing the same or even more excitement.

Wow I honestly did not know Stellar Blade was so popular.
It is clear it has not been the best year in gaming ofc but still big votes to be 2nd with such a margin.
Loved Rebirth and want to try Animal Well, but I know that my GOTY, including all platforms is a certain June DLC which if we could have voted for I think would definitively have made into top 3

Crisis Core is a great addition for extra. Still think Premium subscription makes no sense no matter the games they add, but Jeanne d'Arc is an amazing game I remember fondly from the PSP era.
I have to renew my yearly Extra subscription this week and probably will cancel it at least until November waiting for a black Friday discount. I have mostly been waiting for either RE8 or TLOU1 Remaster to hit extra but still nothing

Yeah sorry but Shadow of the Erdtree has been better than any game released in any platform this year.
Other than that I enjoyed FFVII and Paper Mario but are not even close to the mentioned DLC

@Dom_31 just using Budokai Tenkaichi 3 playable characters I think there a a lot other than the named ones above (Tao, Shen, King Piccolo, Kid Goku): Cyborg Tao, General Blue, Chi-Chi, GrandPa Gohan, Spike (the vampire) , Android 8 (Frankenstein's monster one), etc... Not that I played those as mains, but still loved to play them every once in a while and the roster availability of that game

Amazing, so glad that it is doing so well! Loving every second of it and taking my time to inspect every piece of it.
My only concern is that with "masses" comes all the crying and review bombing from 'new fans' to put it softly asking for a lower difficulty level from a game that is supposed to be hard.

@Shepherd_Tallon Couldn't agree more. I love these games, and I know that if I die it's part of the game and usually my fault. The pure essence of git gud.
On the other hand I felt Nioh games a little unfair some times. But it's good that more games like these exist anyways.

Other than exceptions like GOW and Souls games, I tend to find most games nowadays on the easier side.
It's good that we have both, so I implore that FromSoftware won't nerf the DLC with all these review bombings in Steam. Just go play another game, as I did with 80% of Nintendo games nowadays sadly because they have no challenge at all.

Wow I am pleasantly surprised that they already added the Shadow of the Erdtree guides. That was fast.
Wish I wouldn't need these, but probably will come back for tips sooner rather than later

@get2sammyb @LiamCroft yes you are right 8 is "great" and the review describes it like that, a great game.
I am just surprised that based on this review it didn't earn more considering it is a DLC and not a full game; and that usually these reviews are on the low-score end compared to others.
But giving 10s to every single good game is also far from ideal too, I agree.
Anyways thanks for the review, all I can say is that I am excited to play it as soon as it drops.

@ishaajo840 oh yes you are right. I was looking only at the PS5 reviews where this appears at the bottom, as of now. Think it does not let you see all platform reviews combined at the same time.

@MikeOrator. I own both, loved both. But as you clarified "to me", it depends on the player.
Personally:

• The lore of Elden ring is much better than the story of BOTW
• BOTW has very few enemy variations, even TOTK which increased them is very low in comparison to ER.
• The challenge. I just prefer the challenge of ER. BOTW only had ~5 bosses and were very easy even by Zelda standards.
• I give the sense of wonder, discovery and overall world to BOTW. But they are close.

Again this is personal opinion but I think both are 10/10, can't see BOTW being 2 points above ER

Push Square has the current lowest Shadow Of the Erdtree score on Metacritic as of the time of writing with an 8.
I remembered they also did the same with Armored Core, having the second to last score on the same page currently.
Exactly the same happened with Sekiro.
Only Demons Souls has a great score coming from Push Square from the recent releases, in comparisson to other sites.
But certainly PS is not among the fans of From Software apparently.

Anyways, day one definitively, more of the same is just what I needed here

Not a fan of Disney's forced inclusion, since it has been done in movies with very weak scripts, making it seems that they only care for that and not the story. But on the other hand Spider-Verse films are the best and also f.ex as controversial as black Velaryons can be in the House Of Dragon world, the screenwriters made it make sense for the plot.
But hating on this game based only on that trailer is just free online racism. Yasuke is a historical figure, and even if it wasn't, there is not enough story/gameplay being revealed to make it the most disliked. Just people feeling hurt about the character.

@RicebinBernacky yep I was wondering the same. So many deleted comments.
And I see that increasing every day in this page. Post sections are either getting more toxic or the ones in charge of deleting them have become too sensitive. I just can't tell which one it is because I never got to see the original deleted comments in the first place; or if I have, they mostly never called my attention in a bad way in the first place.
Hope this comment does not offend anyone and gets deleted too

As pointed out by others, this is Ubisoft and will be at a hard discount sooner rather than later. No rush to play it now.
If/When it comes to PS Plus Extra it will be a good option too, else when it goes into a $10 price for Switch, my go to console for Metroidvanias due to the handheld option.

Well of course a PS title would win in a poll like this here, as would Zelda win in a NintendoLife poll or would maybe even Starfield be nominated in an XBox site. It is just biased.
Anyways I still think the it is a race between BG3 and Zelda, with only AW2 being a possible underdog suprise

I only see three viable candidates, with Zelda and BG being the favorites and AW2 being the underdog.
Sorry Spidey, RE4 and specially Mario Wonder, they don't have a real chance although being great games

@fabio1 Meanwhile NSO subscribers: You guys receive monthly games with your console subscription??

• Me Laughing and crying with a yearly NSO subscription on.

But jokes aside, we know Game Pass is Microsoft's only argument above PS right now, and this month's PS + games don't help fight that true, but during past months they haven't been so bad, at least for Extra.

Will be finally playing Superliminal here. Not much more this month

@Bamila interesting that you rated Alan Wake 2 as 1st. Been really wanting to try that one, but still haven't found the strength. Just finished RE4 and wanted a more lighthearted game next. But definitively will get it sooner rather than later

@Bamila Sorry, have to be the "I told you" guy.
So is Hogwarts Legacy still considered the GOTY as you passionately claimed? Not even in the nominees apparently.
Just remembered about this post because I heard a guy asking for it in the nominees. But hey, with all honesty, maybe it should have been at least nominated, maybe instead of Mario Wonder, but definitively not winning.

@trev666 think it could make sense for a sequel to be better than the original and still not score as good as the first.
Just recently that happened to TOTK for example.
That is because years have passed and you expect more and better from a sequel. If the new one is exactly as good in story, graphics, gameplay, size etc.. as the original, you would be disappointed and would rank it lower than the original right?
So if it is just slightly better, by today's standards and expectations it can rank lower.
If not, all ports should be scored exactly the same as their original.
But that is just my subjective opinion.

Happy that many people will be able to finally give a chance to Disco Elysium. Amazing game.
No title for me sadly but happy for them and an increase in that game's popularity is always good for future similar games

Going through my first playthrough of the Resident Evil 4 Remake's campaign.
Just reached the island in ch 13. So I still have at least a couple more sessions before the end

Want exactly the same game as Tenkaichi 3 but with updated graphics/controls and the new Super Characters of course.
What I mean? The same gameplay, amazing quantity of playable characters and no DLC (not going to happen) trying to squeeze every penny from us for a bunch of extra characters that should be in the base game from the start.

An Ubisoft short game? Yeah I like the idea but definitely waiting for it to come to ps plus extra eventually, no hurry at all

One of my favorite games of all time too. Loved it and the fanbase is clearly there. Hoping for a sequel. Loved it more than FFVII, but honestly the impact of FFVII is bigger.
With that said, ehrmm... this was a very PS biased tournament. Deep down we all know that at the very least a Zelda/Mario should have reached the semi-finals

@wiiware I totally agree with your 2 hours long game comparison and both @naruball and @Dange 's comments too.
For example What Remains of Edith Finch . As good as the game is and in spite of all the 10/10 reviews it has earned, including Pushsquare's, if the game was ever at a full $60 there is no way that it could remain a 10/10 at an average 2 hours to complete, unless the reviewer had absolutely no sense of value for money. Reviewers should factor price into consideration.

@DrVenture69 Sorry but Separate Ways did not release for Gamecube. As that is the only version I've ever owned, I still haven't been able to play it

Ghost of Tsushima. Just a few more days before I finish liberating the last section and the game.
Planning on finally getting RE4 afterwards

@BaldBelper78 not in that list, but Sony could wait 2/3 years without releasing any more PS exclusives and still would have more and better exclusives than Xbox Series', at least until Bethesda's exclusives start coming, which don't seem to be happening soon enough.

@Bamila, yes it is selling a lot as expected. FIFA, Madden, NBA 2k and COD are always among the best selling games every year, but they are far from the game of the year discussion. Hogwarts is considered game of the year by whom? I get that it is selling well, but definitively not game of the year. There is no way it will beat Baldur's Gate 3, Tears of the Kingdom, Starfield, FFXVI or even RE4 this year, and we still don't know about Spidey 2 with all the hype behind.
Hey it was a great game, did better than I expected, just saying that it is not at the level of the GOTY winners in the last decade, other than maybe It Takes Two.

A nice pack of games, but no huuge stars at sight. Maybe FF Rebirth? But nothing else with the hype levels of GOW, an RDR/GTA, Spiderman nor something from Naughty Dog or From Software (A DLC does not count) as in the past few years.
Star Wars could be very good or very bad game, but expecting at most a Hogwarts Legacy level of reception, not much more

@Cashews Well, same day as Nintendo's Direct, both announced the same day and this one only being focused on indies and third party games? !
More than anger, I think there could be interesting Indie/ third party games that they want both to announce the same day hitting both consoles. Yes, even if it is a meme by now, I believe Silksong is coming in between the announcements on both presentations.

@Deoxyr1bose exactly. Not a bad lineup at all, but not as good as expected being the month after the increase. Was even expecting some Resident Evil and/or Last of Us remakes being present.
I am honestly curious of why would someone still to this day continue paying for the Premium service when Extra is clearly the best option available in comparison. Too much money to spend? Something I am missing?
Anyways, happy finally dipping into 13 Sentinels

Top 4 consists only of PS exclusives? (At time of original release at least) A little too biased but expected from a PS community.
Anyways, replace one of the lower bracket's semifinal with RDR2 and I'm ok, if only considering PS available games

13 Sentinels is a game that I have been willing to play for a while. Was going to get it on switch as it seems like a better home for visual novels, but it will be nice to at least test it on my ps now that I have it included

@Reptilio don't worry happened to me too. TOTK was a blast from start to finish.
P5R on the other hand is an amazing game too, but everything after the Casino felt eternal. Most relationships were already maxed out and Palaces just felt more of the same.
I know it is not clever to criticize such a popular game, which again I really liked in general, but the last couple of months felt like a chore. That's why I need shorter to the point games before the next big one.

I am now really interested to try it out. But from what I heard it consumes your life and is kind of long, which is not bad, but just recently having beaten TOTK and P5R , I am now getting into shorter games at least for some time, like Metroid Dread, Humanity, Uncharted Lost Legacy and Miles Morales. Maybe this will be my next 'long' game when I have the energy and time to invest again.

Well, interesting to see how much has the Switch version sold in comparison.
For me, this kind of games are much better suited for a handheld such as the Switch. I even waited years for Persona 5 Royal to launch there to finally play it because long JRPGs feel more comfortable there. Exactly the opposite that happens for FPS, Sports or other RPGs such as Soulsbornes, which I feel must be played in my PS5 instead.
That is why even if I have it included on my PS Plus Extra Subs, I may prefer to get it in the Switch after a sale eventually