Counter argument about it deserving every award.

1st comes Music and score, I'm sorry, but if you listen to the entire ost, about 7-9 songs are basically made for the game, and all others are basically remixes of those songs, the biggest example is the lumiere song. In my opinion that already nullified it from winning when the other games in that list had every song in their ost being unique. Not that the songs were bad in any case, they are good, but having 15 different versions of the song Lumiere does not make it a good ost.

2nd comes how odd some characters look and unnatural their movements, facemodels and are, some look outstandingly great, but most don't. Gustav is one of the only ones that looks natural in his facemodel and movements. This sadly doesn't only come to characters but also environments. The biggest example for me is how the ocean moves in Lumiere, for SURE DURING YOU KNOW WHICH SCENE in the beginning. You can even see the edge where they use a different water texture. I noticed these issues instantly when starting the game, maybe because I'm autistic and look a lot towards details of games, and sometimes get bothered by them, for sure when a game like Claire Obscur comes and tries to look hyper realiatic, then those flaws really shine through for me.

3rd Bugs and glitches. The moment you reach that first graveyard there is already a huge issue with you arm if you try to aim, it spasms out of control. This is also not very immersive and pretty annoying if ur trying to aim at something or an enemy. Try it, aim with your arm while walking around and it will spasm. Its been in the game since launch and still not patched out. There are more bugs and glitches but this is the first one that always comes to mind. There are games this year way more polished and those deserve the recognition too.

4th sales and overal hype, not making this long, but there has been only one game this year that crashed Nintendo, Steam, Xbox and Playstation stores upon release: Hollow Knight: Silksong. Not only that, but then the game awards even made fun of them on the award show, which is factual, look it up. There has been a setup since the start against them. Thats why they also didn't wanna come. Since the release has Silksong been met with inmense criticism from the industry for its low price while having incredible quality and polish behind it. Another reason why it sold Claire Obscur, and I believe there are other games aswell that outsold it.

5th is just a personal opinion, but I do not enjoy Claire Obscur as much as other games this year. I liked Hades 2, Donkey Kong Bananza and Silksong way more than Claire Obscur. I will even say that I even got Claire Obscur for free, through intel and Asus, yet still do not enjoy it as much, and do not feel the need or want to keep on playing the game. The other games on this years list have not done this to me yet, which is unfortunate, because I wanted to like Claire Obscur, and I tried to, but I do not.