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Votes are now closed! We ended up with 39 participants which is pretty good, thanks a lot to all of you!! I'll start revealing the top 25 shortly, one game a day as usual.

I do quite like Carlos's hair.

Sadly I won't play it anytime soon but I've got a good feeling about this game.

@axel If BotW does overtake SMO, it would probably be the first time a Zelda game Overtakes a 3D Mario.

Yup thanks, I was on holiday but I'm back now so I'll take care of it. Edit: done!

Final call for your votes, send me a PM if you want to participate! Ill start revealing the final rankings on Monday.

@sentinel-beach My favourite Rockstar game yet and I want Bully 2 more than anything they can come up with.

@axel said: the good-but-not-great games like Kirby or Yoshi I still maintain that Yoshi's Crafted World is the best the series has been since the original Island, (even if I still have a soft personal favoritism for Story) just everyone can feel how much the couple baffling decisions like the limited and awful soundtrack (especially after Woolly World's amazing one) plus being forced to revisit levels over and over instead of being able to knock out multiple objectives at once hurt the overall experience for the player. That definitely hurt how the game was scored and for good reason, but I do hope people give it a chance still, because it is extremely charming, strikingly good looking, and both goes interesting places you wouldn't expect from a Yoshi game as well as mixes up the gameplay enough to keep the lengthy journey fresh through the end. (as long as you're not going for 100% like a madman, which murders the pace) And honestly, even if it had been a perfect game, I don't think Yoshi would get the credit he deserves these days. The character just doesn't have the same popularity he had back in the 90s, there's a stinging stigma surrounding the games of the perception that they're all mindnumbingly easy primarily targeting kids, and nothing can ever live up to what the original Island was for it's time. Yoshi just isn't currently a hype franchise for Nintendo like Mario, Zelda, or Smash despite all of those equally having great entries and subpar ones. I really wonder how Luigi's Mansion 3 will turn out, given how great it has looked so far, given it'll likely suffer from this same consumer hype level bias. I'm convinced that when all is said and done we'll look back on the Switch as having one of the best libraries of all Nintendo consoles. I kind of doubt this, but if it happens it'll most likely be for cribbing all of Wii U's stellar titles, in the eyes of people who never owned a Wii U to experience them there first, on top of it's own usual amount of original standouts for a Nintendo system. I personally think the Switch's legacy in the longrun will be the system itself, with all the good and bad resulting from this souped up handheld masquerading as a console.

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Massive info dump on Trials of Mana: https://gematsu.com/2019/11/trials-of-mana-details-characters-classes-prologues-and-map-mechanics I love the way the game looks, seems both faithful and modern, on par with Dragon Quest XI in some ways. They put way more effort into this than Secret of Mana, it's nice to see! And damn that artwork is gorgeous!

Need to see more. Can't get excited for it with the little we've seen so far. People comparing it to Breath of the Wild because of the visuals, but so far I haven't seen the stuff that made me love Breath of the Wild in this.

Tango has yet to disappoint and I think a new IP is a good way for the studio to grow. I'm intrigued by the background info and knowing how esoteric and scary The Evil Within is, I have high hopes for this.

@axel It probably happens around Smarch

I was very disappointed with "Oddworld: New N' Tasty". It didn't have an ounce of the atmosphere that the original game had. I am hoping that they can improve with this one.

@axel Resogun should be on there

Yeah, and the current hint was like, "Look for the boss that can fit in tiny places," which is for something different. There was never any mention of the ID or its destination. They also never replay these scenes, so if you forget any of it or accidentally skip it, you're on your own. Side note, though: These scenes are hilarious. Miriam is a fantastic protagonist. She is so much more well-rounded than her weird gothic lolita design implies. I really wish they designed her as less of a caricature than they did.

@axel said: Over 9.8 million Switch Online subscriptions, Tetris 99 played by 2.8 million. With the way people were talking about it, I thought I was one of the few who didn't bother with Tetris 99, but nice to know there's 7 million others who did the same. Also glancing through there, I spotted the slide for games from other publishers planned to release this fiscal year, and spotted Hollow Knight Silksong on there, which is sooner than I expected that to come out. Also good to see Crystal Chronicles on the same slide, as there's been pretty much no word of that since first shown while all the Final Fantasy games revealed alongside it have been coming out in waves. Speculation ahead. Looking at how they're considering release seasons for upcoming games, you can semipredict when the ones simply still slated for 2019 will come out. Luigi's Mansion 3 is probably a safe bet for Fall. Animal Crossing and Link's Awakening could both either go Fall or Winter, but probably will be one in one and one in the other. If I had to bet on it, I'd say Animal Crossing in Fall, just to spread it out away from Pokemon and Animal Crossing cannibalizing one another as longterm games. That's assuming nothing gets delayed though. Think it is safe to say at this point Nintendo has no plans to support Super Mario Party any further, despite it being among the games listed as the first games new Switch owners play. I wonder if this means they're aiming for a quick turnaround on a sequel instead, but either way it is pretty disappointing as that game was severely lacking in number of boards and could've really used some other touch ups. Least it looks like we'll be getting even more Free Smash Ultimate updates alongside the release of future Paid DLC.

@tearju-engi Ahhh, Axel beat me to it by 5 minutes. But yes, as he said both here and above, not enough distinction on the bottom half of submissions (though, like always, I'm just FASCINATED to know how this is going to play out. This is gonna be a good time.).

I would really like to do 2005, it'd be fun to do one from that era that we haven't touched yet.