Gimmick Awards 2024 – Best Action Toolkit Podcast

"Action Toolkit" is the best phrasing we could come up with, but it's like... you know when you play a game, and you push buttons, and it feels good? Yeah. That. A nice wall jump, a cool counter, a great set of tools that come together to form a playstyle and concept that feel good and engage your brain. Not everything on here is an action game. It does kinda exclude turn-based games, however. The Nominees Are: Madeline (Celeste 64) Globule (Decline's Drops) Kez (Dota 2) Thief (Dragon's Dogma 2) Witch's Staff (Hades 2) Doctor Strange (Marvel Rivals) Jeff the Land Shark (Marvel Rivals) Luna Snow (Marvel Rivals) Peni Parker (Marvel Rivals) Engage Gundam Booster (Mobile Suit Gundam: Battle Operation 2) Yi (Nine Sols) Pepper (Pepper Grinder) Darkrai (Pokemon Unite) Ho-Oh (Pokemon Unite) Psyduck (Pokemon Unite) Sargon (Prince of Persia The Lost Crown) Night Owl (Slitterhead) Burnice White (Zenless Zone Zero) Miyabi Hoshimi (Zenless Zone Zero) Tsukishiro Yanagi (Zenless Zone Zero Here's our write-up for the winners! Our intro and outro music for the Gimmick Awards 2024 is Afternoon After the Rain by Kazuki Kaneko, and our art is a commission from Sarracenian on Bluesky. The rules summary music for this category is Pizza Deluxe! from Pizza Tower, whose main playable character Peppino won our Best Action Toolkit category in the Gimmick Awards 2023.