'It Takes Two' Takes Home Game Of The Year At Trailer-heavy, Celeb-lite Game Awards

Last night's Game Awards, like so many Game Awards before it, wore on viewers' patience with its lengthy run-time, a boatload of trailers, and comparative lack of announced awards.

Still, when all was said and done, Hazelight Studios' co-op action-adventure game It Takes Two took home Game Of The Year, perhaps an upset for a game that stood against AAA contenders Deathloop, Metroid Dread and Resident Evil Village.

The moment you’ve all been waiting for, Game of The Year! A massive congratulations to It Takes Two hazelightgames</a> + <a href="https://twitter.com/EA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">ea + @josef_fares for your big win! #TheGameAwards pic.twitter.com/3o2kGm8qHm

— The Game Awards (@thegameawards) December 10, 2021

Other notable winners include Dream for Content Creator of the Year, Returnal for Best Action Game, Metroid Dread for Best Action/Adventure Game (which is somehow a different category, much to our confusion), Tales Of Arise for best RPG, Elden Ring for Most Anticipated Game and Maggie Robertson won Best Performance for her turn as Lady Dimitrescu. You can see the full list of winners here.

Still, Game Awards veterans know that the show tends to be more of a trailer-fest, and there were certainly many notable trailers at the event. Trailers for the second Sonic movie and a Sonic open-world game got fans excited, while Among Us VR, Cuphead DLC, and a new game from the original team behind Silent Hill called Slitterhead made headlines.

For many, however, the most notable thing about The Game Awards was what it didn't show: namely, trailers for Breath Of The Wild 2, Metroid Prime 4 and Hollow Knight: Silksong.

THERE IS NO BOTW 2THERE IS NO METROID PRIME 4AND THERE IS NO SILKSONG pic.twitter.com/A8mEapF9iO

— Chaos (@Chaos49068619) December 10, 2021

Overall, the Awards appeared to leave viewers feeling simultaneously exhausted and underwhelmed after the long night of trailers with a comparative lack of exciting news.

the game awards is usually always a weirldy hollow spectacle but this year nobody showed up, the void was filled with advertorials, and everyone else was fucking out of it. it felt like huffing paint thinner.

— chris person (@Papapishu) December 10, 2021

I’ve been watching the Game Awards for what feels like several days

— Gym Leader MacDonald (@WizardMacDonald) December 10, 2021

I cant be disappointed by The Game Awards if i dont watch them and just see what happens on twitter 🤝

— ESAM (Panda) (@imESAM) December 10, 2021

See you next year.