The Best RPG of 2016

There can only be one.
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Honorable Mention: I Am Setsuna

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It’s award season here at Twinfinite! Starting with a few runner ups, let’s look back at the best RPGs from this year and our 2016 winner! 

I Am Setsuna may not do a lot in the story department, but it does remind us of the joys we had from playing the old-school RPGs of yore. It’s a classic story of a wayward mercenary who finds redemption in escorting a young and fair maiden across oceans and treacherous lands to help her fulfill her destiny. It sounds like a cliche (and it is), but its execution is near flawless, and that’s really all that matters.

The game adopts an active time battle system, not unlike the one we’ve seen in earlier Final Fantasy games, but it also introduces a few other mechanics such as momentum management, fluxes, and spritnite customization, to add a new layer of strategy into the mix. The soundtrack is sorrowful but fitting for the game’s atmosphere, and the combat is just as good as you remembered from all your hours spent in Chrono Trigger.


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Zhiqing Wan
Zhiqing is the Reviews Editor for Twinfinite, and a History graduate from Singapore. She's been in the games media industry for nine years, trawling through showfloors, conferences, and spending a ridiculous amount of time making in-depth spreadsheets for min-max-y RPGs. When she's not singing the praises of Amazon's Kindle as the greatest technological invention of the past two decades, you can probably find her in a FromSoft rabbit hole.