Best game of the year: Khayel’s top 5 PS5, PS4 games of 2022

Our individual Game of the Year articles allow our lovely team of writers to share their personal PS5 and PS4 picks for 2022. Today, it’s staff writer Khayl Adam’s turn.

A remake of the stone-cold SRPG classic, Tactics Ogre: Reborn stands like a colossus over the genre, setting the gold standard for tactical turn-based combat when it was originally released and maintaining that honor years later. keeps With an adult, complex story of political intrigue, different story paths, and a choice of dozens of different classes with which to take to the battlefield, Tactics Ogre: Reborn is in a league of its own.

Trails from Zero offers the kind of JRPG experience that reminds us why we fell in love with the genre in the first place. With a charismatic cast of highly likable characters, an engaging and incredibly well-written narrative to get lost in, and a combat system that’s a cut above the usual fare, Trails from Zero offers a lesser-known adventure that’s well worth it. is doable.

Mount and Blade: Bannerlord is one of the most unique games on PlayStation, a strategic sandbox experience masquerading as a medieval life management sim. It boasts the kind of incredibly large-scale battles and RPG progression that will keep you coming back again and again, giving PlayStation fans a glimpse into the kind of experience usually reserved for solo PC players.

God of War Ragnarok sets a new benchmark for cinematic gameplay experiences, which combined with the game’s crunchy action combat system, make Kratos’ latest adventure one of the most unforgettable of the year. With a level of production almost unparalleled even within Sony’s vaunted suite of first-party studios, Ragnarok is a shiny new jewel in the PlayStation’s already magnificent crown.

The Elden Ring is developer From Software’s magnum opus, representing more than a decade of iterations on the same rock-solid core gameplay loop and system of interlocking mechanics. Haunting, beautiful and utterly captivating, the gaming world ground to a halt when Alden Ring was released back in February and will long live in our collective consciousness as an open world epic without equal.

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