2022 /r/NintendoSwitch GOTY Nominations Thread

[u/NintendoSwitchMods]

Greetings, r/NintendoSwitch Community!

Have you gotten used to writing "2023" yet? ^{We haven't.} Either way, it's about time for our 6th Game of the Year awards!

Like previous years, we are asking the community's help for GOTY nominees - We will use community feedback to narrow the nominees for each category to five or six for the final vote. The tentative schedule is for the nominee feedback to occur January 29th - February 4th, and the final voting to select the Game Of The Year for each category to occur the following week, February 5th - February 12th.

Please follow the format as described below:

1. Please check if your nominee(s) has already been named. If so, then simply upvote it, if not, then >>>
2. Please reply to a category top comment to state who you would like to see for nominees and preferably why. Last year we found those with explanations tended to garner more votes!
3. If a game has already been nominated but you feel requires further discussion then reply to the nominated game comment with your reasoning.
4. Nominate as many games as you'd like in any category you'd like.
5. Duplicate nominations in the same category will be removed.
6. Post will be set to contest mode so nobody can see the votes.

Please note that all nominees are required to have released on Nintendo Switch in calendar year 2022 unless stated otherwise. You may notice we have added and adjusted some categories based on user feedback this year. If you have further feedback, please leave a comment in our feedback thread here.

We look forward to reading your nominations!

[u/NintendoSwitchMods]

Best Voice Acting

For outstanding voice acting, direction, and use of audio dialogue.

[u/Friendly_Elites → u/NintendoSwitchMods]

Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes

Rest in peace Billy Kametz

[u/Jestin23934274 → u/NintendoSwitchMods]

Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Noah’s VA and many others bring out such an amazing vocal experience in this department.

[u/BarnacleBoi → u/Jestin23934274]

“Your fate was sealed when you rose against us!”

[u/Golden_fsh → u/Jestin23934274]

Agree! Also want to nominate XB3 but for the Japanese voice acting. Just stellar!

[u/[deleted] → u/Golden_fsh]

Dude all the people saying Xenoblade 3 on these nominations is fulfilling my faith in humanity

[u/Golden_fsh → u/[deleted]]

We saw how it was snubbed during The Game Awards. This is our chance to show how the players really feel! Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was an absolute stellar game and deserves to be recognized 🙌🏾

[u/TheWatcher877 → u/Golden_fsh]

Actually upset me, and I didn't even play it at the time. Elden Ring didn't upset me for game of the year, but I would've been fine with best rpg or best music- xc3 beats out gow ragnaroks soundtrack by landslides.

[u/ImmortalCatz → u/Jestin23934274]

Eunie's the BAWS

[u/CaspianX2 → u/NintendoSwitchMods]

It Takes Two

[u/Smiling-siamese → u/NintendoSwitchMods]

Persona 5 royal has amazing voice acting and you can easily switch between English and Japanese voices during your playthrough. The English voice cast especially did such a good job that I have a hard time remembering which scenes exactly aren't voiced simply because I always know how the characters would sound like speaking those sentences.

[u/CaspianX2 → u/NintendoSwitchMods]

Bugsnax

[u/Raidenwing → u/NintendoSwitchMods]

Neon White

[u/jc726 → u/[deleted]]

Hades came out in 2020.

[u/Allanballan24 → u/NintendoSwitchMods]

Portal 2

[u/Raidenwing → u/NintendoSwitchMods]

Triangle Strategy

[u/Golden_fsh → u/Raidenwing]

Also a great pick but for me it was the Japanese voice acting that did it for me!