Gundam Breaker 4. Not sure if I can say if it beats Gundam Breaker 3 (which never got an American release, I imported it), but that set a really high bar IMO. Mindless hack and slash, and dream Gunpla building. And I think it does it well enough. The DLC is getting major downvoting, I'll probably wait to see if that gets a real sale before deciding to pick that up, and that's only if I stick with this game to the end.
Looks like they're trying to make it a little bit of everything that was trendy the past five years. That said, if there's supposed to be multiplayer here, I have to wonder how they'll reconcile the time periods, considering it's going into thousand-year "cycles."
Wicked is the original "the 'Evil Witch'/Villainess was misunderstood!" trope. A stage musical origin story to the Good Witch of the North and the Wicked Witch of the West. Where they're classmates in high school.
Elphaba/the Wicked Witch has been famously performed by Idina Menzel on stage.
Dustborn can at least say it's a small non-corporate (who gets government funding) team, and it's a small game with a relatively small budget. All of those pictured above are from MASSIVE corporate-owned developers, making MASSIVELY expensive games that have to literally be record-breaking sellers to be able to profit.
Disillusioned True Believers can at least be reasoned with once the conditioning is broken.
The issue is distinguishing True Believers that can actually wake up from Grifters that know everything they say is bullshit.
Unknown9: Awakening was a SweetBaby, Inc. title in all but name (I can't confirm if the entity itself was part of the devs, but all of its biggest names and founding members were in top roles). A dIvErSe girlbossing game that had godawful combat, ugly character designs AND subpar graphical modeling. And this somehow got picked up and published by BANDAINAMCO. And they were actually using this to push a fucking transmedia project- novels, webseries, comics, etc.
And people are aware and calling him out on it. I don't think he's an idiot, he'll get the message and withdraw the nomination, hopefully.