Last year was a rough one for Japan. China overtook the country as the world's second largest economy, yet another prime minister upped and resigned and the economy was stagnate as ever. Things weren't much better for the game industry.

Year after year, the game industry here keeps shrinking in size and relevance, finding fierce competitors in America and Europe. But this past year, a whole slew of big titles where churned out by Japanese game studios. Some of those games were truly innovative. Some were tremendous flops. But one thing that many had in common was that in 2010, they made waves in Japan.

Here's a look back at the biggest, but not necessarily best, Japanese games of 2010.