Dragon Warrior is a perfect, beautiful game.

But I'm abstaining.

Destiny of an Emperor is simply an amazing (and criminally overlooked in the general populace) NES RPG. Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy get a lot of attention, because they were excellent and spawned several sequels, but Capcom's Destiny of an Emperor stands right up there alongside those original...

Guess I'll have to play Final Fantasy IV soon so I can vindicate my rare haven't-played-its-opponent vote. Amusingly, I'm usually the one rolling my eyes when a Nintendo title beats (or nearly beats) a more deserving game, but I'm pretty confident I'm right about this one. I'm not sure there's anoth...

Beaten: 01/02 - Yakuza: Like a Dragon (PS5) 01/05 - Fighting Vipers 2 (PS5 [Arcade]) 01/12 - Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (PS5) Staying current on the blog for once. :) Really great, smaller game from RGG Studio that lets us know what Kiryu was up to during the events of LAD7. C...

Just now opening the polls, but this is an early contender for toughest of the bunch.

Brutal. Wish I'd played Hollow Knight so I could vote on this one. NMH is one of my faves, but I genuinely don't know how it would stack up against the esteemed Knight!

Kong Wen wrote: ↑15 Jan 2024 21:49 The lowest-seeded game still alive in the competition is F-Zero AX, which came into the contest in 1284th place. It's in the lower bracket right now. The lowest-seeded game still alive in the upper bracket is #338, Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar.

Beat a backlogged N64 game Beat a backlogged Saturn game Beat two games I bought during the Wii U/3DS eShop closure Beat two games that are not part of a series 1. SpikeOut: Final Edition (Beaten 1/27) 2. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (Beaten 03/01) 3. Raimais (Beaten 03/07) Beat a game on MiSTer that would ...

Damn, I cast my vote on this one a bit thoughtlessly before rereading and realizing I hadn't played the first game. Kong, feel free to strike my vote from the record if you want. I'd prefer to abstain. But if you don't want to make a habit of amending votes, then so be it! I do quite love Banjo-Tooi...

Beaten: 01/02 - Yakuza: Like a Dragon (PS5) 01/05 - Fighting Vipers 2 (PS5 [Arcade]) Knocked out a couple things out the gate. First a fairly long game whose final moments I wrapped up just after the new year, then a tiny arcade fighter I beat in one sitting. Hopefully I'm back here soon having fini...