#BGE2020 - Round 1 - Pool 259

[This Old Neon]

Welcome to the first round of #BGE2020 pools!

Each game is randomly seeded into pools using the set generator at Random.org. There's no seeding, no ranking, and no preference or prioritization.

The results of the pools will determine how each game stacks up in the elimination rounds, coming later this year.

HOW TO VOTE

Voting is ranked, but it's not super intuitive, so listen up.

• You have 6 total votes to distribute.
• You can only select up to 3 options.
• You can only give each option up to 3 votes.
• NOTE: The number you pick is not the RANK of your choice (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd), but the number of VOTES you're giving it.
• The more votes (bigger numbers) a game gets, the better for that game.

EXAMPLES

• You could pick three games and order them by giving them 3, 2, and 1 votes.
• If you like three games equally, you could give them 2, 2, and 2 votes.
• If you only like two games, you could give them 3 and 3 votes (or 3 and 2, etc.).

This gives you a lot of granularity for how you assign your votes and thereby a lot of influence over which games can do well. Use your power wisely!

If you have questions, ask before voting!

[Kong Wen]

Damn.

Hexologic is a brilliant little logic puzzler, introducing nice mechanics along quite a comfortable difficulty curve, and Der Langrisser is a brilliant Warsong sequel that lets you choose multiple paths/alignments through the story.

I had a hard time choosing between Cho Aniki, Snail Maze, Phantasy Star, and Vib Ribbon for my final vote, but in the end I had to give it to the Snail Maze, because I remember being blown away as a kid that the game was built directly into the Master System hardware. And it's got a catchy tune.

[Claytone]

Voting for Snail Maze because I'm very amused it was even nominated. Haven't played the rest of these unfortunately.