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The Game Awards are voted on by journalists who hate themselves for being stuck talking about video games and yearn to be taken seriously as art connoisseurs despite having no taste or a triple digit IQ. they hate gaming, don't play games, and are constantly crippled by their insecurities over their parents not taking their job seriously, so everyone knew expedition 33 was going to win GOTY at the show the second it was shown off. it fucks up its premise through c-tier execution because it's written by talentless amateur readers and focuses all its attention on designing encounters around nothing but parries, the biggest nogbait braindead game mechanic in modern gaming, used as a crutch by every unimaginative soulless robot who only found out about games after dark souls became popular. there isn't a single encounter on the critical path that will be remembered for its turn based elements in a year or two, the only thing people will remember will be the parry combos. it's tailor made for insecure midwits that are too low iq to actually read a book but desperately want to be seen as art experts, and for fags who don't play any games but desperately want to be a part of gaming discourse because they're always online. Expedition 33 is vidya Oscar bait, the 2025 equivalent to last of us part 2 and bioshock infinite and other similar pseud slop, and there's never been a shred of a doubt that faggot journos would vote for it over actual games.