This week’s issue of Weekly Famitsu magazine #1518 features a questionnaire that was given to multiple Japanese celebrities and game creators to rank the ‘trendiest’ games of 2017.
The top 10 most popular games overall this year, in order, are:
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Dragon Quest XI
- NieR: Automata
- Splatoon 2
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
- Monster Hunter XX
- Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
- Super Famicom Mini
Three different Atlus developers were given the questionnaire:
Katsura Hashino’s Top 5 2017 Games
Katsura Hashino is an Atlus director and producer of Persona 5, and a producer of Catherine: Full Body. A lead director of Studio Zero, he is one of the developers who responded to the questionnaire for the five remarkable games he played in 2017:
- Dragon Quest XI (2017)
- Wizardry: Summoner (2001)
- Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation (1988)
- Star Force (Arcade Archives) (2015)
- Papers, Please (2013)
In a recent Dengeki PlayStation Vol. 651 interview, Hashino stated that the game that left the biggest impression on him this year was Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age.
Kazuhisa Wada’s Top 5 2017 Games
Kazuhisa Wada is an Atlus director and producer of Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night and Persona 5: Dancing Star Night. He is part of P Studio, and is one of the developers who responded to the questionnaire for the five remarkable games he played in 2017:
- Resident Evil VII (2017)
- Animal Tower (2017)
- Dragon Quest: XI (2017)
- Dragon Quest Builders (2016)
- Valkyrie Connect (2016)
In a recent Dengeki PlayStation Vol. 651 interview, Wada stated that the game that left the biggest impression on him this year was NieR: Automata.
Kazuyuki Yamai’s Top 5 2017 Games
Kazuyuki Yamai is an Atlus producer of Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse and of Shin Megami Tensei V. A representative of Team Maniax, he is one of the developers who responded to the questionnaire for the five remarkable games he played in 2017:
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017)
- Super Mario Odyssey (2017)
- Metroid: Samus Returns (2017)
- Resident Evil VII (2017)
- Candy Crush Saga (2012)
Last year, a post was made for the top 5 games Hashino and Yamai played in 2016.
