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Japanese developers name the games that most impressed them in 2020

Animal Crossing gets a ton of praise
by rawmeatcowboy
28 December 2020
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As we mentioned in an earlier post, 4Gamer spoke to a bunch of Japanese devs to get some hints as to what they're working on for 2021. Turns out the website staff also asked developers about the games in 2020 that most impressed them. Not surprisingly, a ton of Switch titles made the list. You can see all the Nintendo-related answers below, and the full list of responses here.

Idea Factory / Compile Naoko Mizuno - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Idea Factory / Compile Wataru Watanabe - Moon RPG
Inti Creates Takuya Aizu - Animal Crossing: New Horizons / Cyberpunk 2077
Inti Creates Yoshihisa Tsuda - Arcade Archives: Markham
Inti Creates Hiroki Miyazawa - Mechstermination Force
EXNOA HaseP - Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & The Secret Fairy
SNK Eisuke Ogura - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
M2 Naoki Horii - Baba is You
OVERRIDE Yusuke Nashiki - Genshin Impact
Kadokawa Games Juntaro Kono - Momotaro Dentetsu: Showa, Heisei, Reiwa mo Teiban!
Capcom Matt Walker - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Capcom Shuhei Matsumoto - Samurai Shodown NeoGeo Collection
GungHo Kazuki Moroshita - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Grasshopper Interactive Goichi Suda (Suda51) - Mario Kart: Live Circuit
Granzella Kazuma Kujo - Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia
Koei Tecmo Kazuhiro Echigoya - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Koei Tecmo Kenichi Ogasawara - Genshin Impact
Koei Tecmo Keisuke Kikuchi - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Koei Tecmo Yasunori Sakuta - Genshin Impact
Koei Tecmo Junzo Hosoi - Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin
Koei Tecmo Hidehisa Yamaguchi - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
CCP Games Hilmar V. Pétursson - Among Us
CyberConnect2 Hiroshi Matsuyama - Tick Tock: A Tale for Two
Square Enix Takashi Anzai - Genshin Impact
Square Enix Akitoshi Kawazu - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Square Enix Yoshinori Kitase - Maneater
Square Enix Akihiko Matsui - Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & The Secret Fairy
Sega Naofumi Hataya - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Sega Mizuki Hosoyamada - Super Mario Bros. 35
Sega Takumi Yoshinaga - No Straight Roads
Taito Yoichi Shimosato - Genshin Impact
WFS Takeru Sakurada - Pokémon Sword and Shield: The Isle of Armor & The Crown Tundra
Digital Extremes Rebecca Ford - Hades
Toybox Tomio Kanazawa - Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin
Niantic Susumu Yukihiro - Dragon Quest XI
Nippon Ichi Sayaka Oda - Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin
Nippon Ichi Yu Mizokami - Pikmin 3: Deluxe
Hublots Shuichi Koga - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
HAL Laboratory Teruhiko Suzuki - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
HAL Laboratory Yumi Todo - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
BeXide Inc. Kazunori Nanji - Gaplus (Namcot Collection)
Platinum Games Atsushi Inaba - Spiritfarer
Platinum Games Hideki Kamiya - Arcade Archives VS. Balloon Fight & Arcade Archives VS. Wrecking Crew
Proletariat Seth Sivak - Hades
Rabbit&Bear Studios Junko Kawano - Super Mario Bros. 35
Rabbit&Bear Studios Junichi Murakami - Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Level-5 Comcept Keiji Inafune - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Voice Actor Nobuhiko Okamoto - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Composer Hiroki Kikuta - Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Screenwriter Makoto Kedouin - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Illustrator Tsunako - Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
"A fool who keeps complaining under the title of Creative Director" Yoko Taro - Ikaruga
Musician Ram Rider - Headliner Novinews
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