Oof, this is a tough one for me. Both of these are text-heavy RPGs that subvert many expectations with regards to what an RPG is. I mean, Disco Elysium is more of a visual novel that uses RPG-style conventions and attributes - a little more like old fantasy gamebooks where you had more options or sa...

That strategy doesn't just end in your approach to combat, but in your whole approach to character design. One of the complaints people who don't know how to play the game had about it was that you just have to walk around everywhere holding your shield up. Using a shield and then reacting to enemy...

For me this was kind of an easy vote - while Symphony of the Night has fantastic aesthetics, Dark Souls is a much more challenging and rewarding game to play. SOTN also has good exploration and weapon variety, but both feel like they matter more in Dark Souls.

Have to abstain here - haven't played Celeste yet.

Gross in the usual Vanillaware way? I haven't booted up the demo yet. All I know is Ogre Battle good, gambit system good, Vanillaware usually good, so I would be shocked if I don't enjoy it. Yeah, it's not nearly as bad as some of their other games, but there are definitely girls that have 50% of t...

To be clear, I don’t think they did much to the game other than add trophies and maybe some tiny tweaks. But it worked well in the first place so that’s probably a good thing. Yeah, calling it a remake was just shorthand on my part - it's largely a port from my understanding. Which is good, there's...

Glad to hear the remake of Symphonia is worth playing - I enjoyed the original myself, and would probably return to it at some point. I started up the Mario RPG Remake and wow, it's a lot easier than I remember. And I remembered it being pretty easy. It's a serviceable remake, lots of nice QOL featu...

Oh great, the other Shadowrun is also up against a great game that I love. At least this poll had the good graces to match the two Genesis games together. Too bad Lemmings in that category isn't the SNES port. (which was pretty decent, although the 2P mode is weird) This is an easier vote than I th...

The PC original is pretty stripped down / the XBLA remake (which was subsequently ported everywhere) is a dramatic remake that completely changed all the graphics and music, added more characters, way more enemies, WAY more items, more stages, lengthened the game, and added a lot of meaningful phys...

Wish I'd played Breath of the Wild, so I could safely vote for X-COM here.

Jokes aside, I'm enjoying TOTK so far, so I'm fine with either advancing. X-COM did well getting this far, these both deserve recognition.