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00:00Every year has a handful of faces that instantly become gaming memories.
00:04Here is my top 10 characters from 2025 releases only.
00:08The ones players kept quoting, memeing, and actually caring about.
00:11What's up guys, it's Braz and here we go.
00:16We are kicking things off with Henry from Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
00:20He is still the blacksmith's kid from Scalets,
00:23just with a few more scars and a lot more responsibility on his shoulders.
00:26The sequel picks up his story in early 15th century Bohemia
00:30and keeps the same grounded first-person RPG structure,
00:33where every insult, brawl, and bad decision sticks to his reputation.
00:37Reviews keep calling out how the dialogue system tracks his clothes, skills, and past choices.
00:43So when Henry walks into a noble court in muddy boots, the room remembers it.
00:47What makes him stand out in 2025 is that he never turns into a generic chosen one.
00:52Articles literally describe him as an ordinary protagonist dropped into a historically researched
00:58Civil War story.
00:59He is brighter and more competent than in the first game, yet he still argues with priests,
01:04misreads social cues, and gets caught in problems one sarcastic line at a time.
01:08A lot of people called him the funniest RPG player character this year,
01:12because the game constantly lets Henry be clever and stupid in the same scene.
01:16That mix of realism, heavy systems, and dumb human moments is why players talk about
01:21specific Henry screw-ups years after the credits roll.
01:26Mayelle is the youngest member of Expedition 33, a 16-year-old orphan from Lumiere who knows
01:32her exact death date thanks to the paintress and her ritual gommage.
01:36The whole game spins around this idea of a living countdown, and Mayelle treats the journey
01:40not as martyrdom, but as her only chance to finally leave the city and decide something for herself.
01:45Mayelle is described as a girl who has trouble trusting people, yet quietly relies on her
01:50foster brother Gustav and the rest of the crew while marching toward a literal deadline painted
01:55on a monolith.
01:56In combat, she became a community legend.
01:59Mayelle is a burst damage monster built around her virtuoso stance and the medulum weapon that
02:04lets her start fights already powered up.
02:06That one-shot potential was so strong that the first big balance patch cut Stendhal damage by 40%
02:12explicitly because Mayelle builds were trivializing encounters.
02:16The nerf kicked off huge debates about balancing a single-player RPG, but even after the patch,
02:20she stayed one of the most popular party cores, which says enough about how hard she carries
02:25runs when properly set up.
02:27By the end, she feels like the heart of Expedition and one of the most emotionally powerful game
02:31characters of the entire year.
02:36Enzo Favara is not a glamorous mob boss or a typical hero.
02:39His story in Mafia the Old Country starts with his father selling him into child labor in Sicilian
02:45sulfur mines to pay off debts.
02:46For 12 years, he works underground as a Caruso, hauling ore in the dark for a man he never chose to serve.
02:53That background matters, because when the game jumps to 1900 Sicily and lets Enzo step into the
02:59Taurisi crime family, he moves through the usual Mafia imagery with the heavy weight of someone who
03:04has already paid his ticket in blood and coal dust.
03:07On paper, it is a linear third-person action game exploring the roots of organized crime,
03:12but Enzo gives it a spine.
03:14His famous line,
03:15I was willing to die for this family, but now I have to live for my own,
03:19appears in trailers for a reason, since the whole campaign is built around that shift from blind
03:25loyalty to something closer to self-respect.
03:28Overall, the new Mafia had a very poor start with mixed reviews on Steam,
03:31and it is the character of Enzo that carries almost the majority of the positive feedback around the title.
03:39Fragile comes back and Death Stranding 2 is far more than the courier in a broken umbrella suit.
03:45The sequel puts her at the center of the drawbridge crew on their Taur-traversing mobile base ship,
03:49and Ty's most major story beats to her decisions, from recruiting Sam again to the way the ship
03:55threads its route between ruined coastlines and the beach. Reviews single her out as one of the
03:59most important characters this time, with several of the heaviest scenes framed around her voice and
04:04point of view rather than Sam's. That works partly because players already know her history from
04:08the first game, but also because DS2 finally lets Fragile show competence without asterisk.
04:14She runs a delivery company, commands a crew, and still carries the trauma of earlier sacrifices.
04:19And the game keeps underlining how much she does off-screen to keep this world moving.
04:24Commentators point to a late twist that recontextualizes almost every scene with her,
04:29turning earlier moments of warmth or distance into something much sadder, once the credits roll.
04:34And it is one of the details people openly debate in spoiler-heavy breakdowns.
04:38According to Kojima himself, this is his favorite and most important character in the franchise.
04:44Jan Dalsky is the kind of protagonist whose biggest mistake is not one bad day in space,
04:51but a lifetime of small, cowardly choices. By the story, he grows up in a mining town with a brutal
04:57father, once walks away from a fight instead of helping, and drags that guilt into adulthood.
05:02Years later, he is still a nobody, a construction worker hired for a corporate mission to keep a remote
05:07base running on a planet rich in rapidium, an element that makes living matter grow fast. When the mission
05:13collapses and Jan is stranded, the alters turns regret into a mechanic. With rapidium,
05:18he creates alternate versions of himself, each built from a different path he could have taken.
05:23The base fills with Jan's, an engineer, a medic, a hard drinker, an idealist,
05:28all carrying their own skills, fears, and grudges. The loop is survival management and scheduling,
05:33but the real sting is living alongside selves who did chase dreams or did punch back. Every new altar
05:39is useful and uncomfortable at the same time, so the bunker becomes a midlife crisis you literally
05:44have to feed and keep alive. Atsu in Ghost of Yotei is introduced as a wandering mercenary in 1603 Ezo,
05:53but the story keeps reminding players that she is also the girl who was pinned to a burning ginkgo tree
05:58and left for dead by the Yotei 6. Years later, she comes back to the shadow of Mount Yotei, hunts those
06:04names one by one, and leans into the reputation of an onryo, a vengeful spirit that samurai whisper
06:10about in campfire stories. Unlike Tsushima's noble air-jin, Atsu is low-born muscle, closer to a bounty
06:17hunter than a lord and that makes her whole revenge route feel dirtier and more physical.
06:22The game is full of flashy katana duels and stealth, but Atsu works because the writing lets
06:26her be more than a blade with a tragic past. Her wolf pack of allies slowly forms around her,
06:32including a brother she thought dead, and Oyuki, a former assassin who once served the same man Atsu
06:37is chasing. Critics highlight that the story gradually slides away from pure revenge into
06:42something closer to processing trauma and choosing what kind of ghost she wants to be for the people
06:47still alive. Rove is technically just an NPC vendor in Monster Hunter Wilds, an item trader from a local
06:56forest tribe of stubby woodwoods who help hunters navigate the new regions. Rove shows up at camps on
07:01caravans and even on the edge of big set-piece hunts, chirping commentary while players fight
07:06sandstorms and giant monsters. Guides list his locations and services like any other support
07:11character, but community threads are full of people either defending him as their strange little best
07:17friend or threatening to mute him forever. The turning point was a Kotaku piece that flat-out called
07:22him their front-runner for 2025 video game character of the year, pointing to his hot topic goth energy,
07:28awful fashion sense, and relentless enthusiasm. From that moment, Rove memes flooded social media,
07:33from fan art of him in band tees to edits of him interrupting deadly serious cutscenes.
07:38Critics mention that Wilds is the most cinematic monster hunter to date, yet the character people
07:43quote most often is this noisy trader who keeps handing out supplies and unsolicited advice.
07:51Goro Majima has been a fan favorite for years, but pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is the first time the
07:57series hands him an entire game as the only playable character. The story drops him on
08:01Rich Island near Hawaii with total amnesia, and lets him rebuild himself as captain of the Goro Pirates,
08:07surrounded by a tiny community of locals, ex-Yakuza cleanup crews and rival corsairs.
08:13He saves Noah Rich, a sickly kid with a pet cat that is absolutely a tiger cub, then hijacks a pirate
08:19crew, goes after the legendary Esperanza treasure, and slowly starts piecing his past back together.
08:25Gameplay-wise, it keeps the real-time street brawling and folds it into shipboarding actions,
08:30bar fights on floating cities like Madlantis and a pirate-ranked system, where Majima's crew
08:35gains perks as their reputation grows. Reviews are split on the overall story, calling it a fun-side
08:41tangent while waiting for the next numbered like a dragon, but almost all of them agree that Goro Majima
08:46himself carries the whole thing. Mio Hudson is one of the two writers at the
08:52heart of Split Fiction, a cooperative adventure from Hazelight. She is a struggling science fiction
08:57author who shows up at Raider Publishing desperate for a break and ends up trapped inside a machine
09:02that steals ideas by forcing writers to live through their own stories. The game literally locks her and
09:08fantasy writer Zoe Foster into a simulation that constantly shifts between Mio's hard sci-fi concepts and
09:14Zoe's more whimsical worlds, and the level design leans into that clash. Director Josef Fares has
09:20said that Mio and Zoe are loosely inspired by his daughters, and you can feel that in how specific
09:25Mio's personality is. She has this anxious workaholic energy, overthinks every pitch, and even her small
09:32animations show it once she realizes the machine is tracking her fears as well as her drafts. Split
09:37Fiction landed hard thanks to its co-op design and the way it digs into creative ownership and AI,
09:42and Mio sits right in the middle of that mess, with a boss who literally tries to automate her
09:47out of a job by copying her imagination line by line. And closing out the top is Hornet. She was
09:55already iconic as the princess protector in the first Hollow Knight, but Silksong finally lets her
10:00take over the stage. Team Cherry has talked about how her taller faster body forced them to redesign
10:05entire levels since she climbs walls, uses a needle grappling hook, and chains movement in a way the
10:10knight never could. The launch was big enough to crash online stores, and Hornet instantly became
10:16the face of that moment, with social feeds full of clips of her vaulting through Farloom. Reviews
10:21and community posts keep praising how well she slots into the lead role, noting that her dialogue is
10:25noble and precise but never cold, more like a knight holding court than a silent insect avatar.
10:31One patch even made headlines because it nerfed her Threadstorm Silk skill after players discovered high
10:36needle-level builds that shredded bosses too quickly, while buffing other tools to keep aggressive play
10:42viable. There is even a viral exploit where people figured out how to trap Hornet in a prison called
10:46The Slab and softlock their own saves, mostly as a dark joke about karmic punishment. The fact that
10:52players are willing to straight-up ruin progress just to create a new kind of Hornet story says a lot
10:57about how strongly she landed in 2025. Drop your pick in the comments! Who deserves the title of the most
11:03memorable game character this year? A like and a sub would mean a lot too! And by the way,
11:07many of the games in this video are GOATI nominees, so I also made a roundup of the most
11:12loved 2025 games with the highest player ratings, not just the critics' scores. You know where to tap!
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