Robert's Top 5 PS5 Games of 2024 | Push Square
Our individual Game of the Year articles allow our lovely team of writers and editors to share their own personal PS5 picks for 2024. Today, it's the turn of assistant editor Robert Ramsey.
Look, I wasn't totally sold on Yakuza: Like a Dragon. The series' pivot to turn-based RPG-ing made for a fun new twist on the (arguably tired) Yakuza formula, but I thought the game's combat system was basic and unbalanced, and the elongated storytelling definitely dragged in places.
Thankfully, Infinite Wealth improves on basically everything — especially the combat. I played this one over the course of several months, in-between reviewing other games, and each time I was forced to stop and leave it for a week or two, I couldn't wait to get back to Ichiban and the gang.
I think it's a brilliantly mental game in ways that only Yakuza / Like a Dragon can be. It is a bit bloated in terms of structure and design, but the characters — and the sheer madness of their escapades — kept me hooked for close to 100 hours.
Trails through Daybreak always promised to be step up for Falcom's storied franchise, and while it's not quite my favourite instalment, it's yet another fantastic example of the developer's talent for world building and character writing.
Daybreak gets a bit too chatty at times (seriously, the amount of text is mind-blowing), but when it kicks into gear, it offers up some of the series' absolute best storytelling. What's more, the main cast — mostly made up of entirely new characters — is top tier. Van might just be the best Trails protagonist, too.
The stage is well and truly set for Trails through Daybreak 2 and Kai no Kiseki — and I can't wait to play them.
I feel like Persona 3 Reload deserves a lot more credit than it's getting — especially in all of these Game of the Year articles. For me, this is one of the best remakes I've ever played, straight up.
And part of that is down to me being a total Persona 3 fanboy — I get that. But I think Atlus did an amazing job of
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