One of the great problems that power scaling RPGs face is they tend to have a slow start. You’ve no interesting abilities, the story is so vague there’s nothing to follow.
There have been jokes that the Nintendo Switch is the successor to the PlayStation Vita. Plenty of visual novels are making their way to the console, and it also has become a haven for RPGs. In fact, it’s even starting to find itself the home for a certain specific sort of RPG, the first-person, party-based dungeon-crawler. There were loads of them on Sony’s handheld and now Nintendo’s system is starting to build up its own library.
"2018 has been packed full of incredible RPGs of many varieties so here are the best ones within 9 unique categories." - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums
Odd that Dragon Quest 11 didn’t make the cut. Did the author not play it? It’s quite good.
That is the most anemic list one could possibly conjure. Many of those suck. DQXI and Octopath are well above. Not to mention Torna the Golden Country.
Dragon Quest 11 was easily the best RPG this year, and it's not even on the list.
Kadokawa Games President Yoshimi Yasuda shares his insight as Producer of many games and veteran of the Japanese gaming industry.