10 or so games to explain the disaster before you in no particular order Armored Core: Master of Arena Planescape: Torment Dragon's Dogma SMT 4 Morrowind Blood Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate The Great Ace Attorney Pentiment
St. Sebastian showing up to tell Diocletian he's a sinner after surviving being pierced with arrows
The subtle difference being that unlike St. Sebastian her mother is not built different, and does.
It does help that the game has one of the hottest evil men in fiction
The Romancing SaGA 2 remake is only a little over a week away so that might end up taking it.
It's fucked up that my favorite game this year might be from the persona team despite the fact that a sequel to one of my favorite games of all time that seemed tailored to a lot of my design sensibilities also came out this year.