In Persona 5 almost all of the side-stories seemed relevant to the main one. I remember in Persona 4 I felt that I had a lot of random downtime where the story just seemed to freeze until an arbitrary point was reached and it kicked back up again.

It seemed to flow much better from one story-beat to the next. There were dozens of quality of life improvements made from the previous Persona games like the streamlined combat controls to the overworld map that made it much easier to understand how to build your social links.Ĭompared to Persona 4, I was amazed how much more natural the story in Persona 5 felt. The story was engaging, the characters were captivating, the UI was beautiful, the art style was jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Persona 5 took me about 90 hours to beat and I loved almost every minute of it. Persona 5īack in April I wrote that I did not think anything would supplant Persona 5 as my game of the year for 2017 and I turned out to be right. This list is what are the best games that I, Reid Main, made the time to play in 2017. I don't want these games of the year articles to be fodder for the un-ending argument of what was 'the best game of 2017' using a constantly warping set of criteria. Nier: Automata, Horizon Zero Dawn, Divinity: Original Sin II, What Remains of Edith Finch and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus are a short list of some of these games. I know that I have missed out on numerous titles which many people consider to be one of the best games released this year.

I am not a 'games journalist' so I have not had the time to play the vast majority of video games that were released in 2017. Games of the Year 2017: The Good Monday January 1, 2018

These were the best games of 2017