Bottom 768 — Week 6 — Poll 5

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Which of these two games is NOT QUITE THE BEST BUT DOESN'T DESERVE THIS FATE (YET...)?

421 — Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004, PC/PS2/XB)
3
50%
860 — Suikoden V (2006, PS2)
3
50%
 
Total votes: 6

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Bottom 768 — Week 6 — Poll 5

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Welcome to the #BGE2020 Elimination Round Lower Bracket!

Each game in the lower bracket is still seeded based on its performance in the two opening rounds of pools! Every game in the lower bracket has already been defeated by another game in a 1-on-1 poll to get to this point. This is their chance to claw their way back into the main event... but the stakes are high. The games that lose in these polls are out of the tournament for good! The games that survive will face the next crop of upper bracket losers in the next round.

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Even though I'll admit GTA San Andreas is much more influential and well-known, Suikoden V proved that even with the absence of virtually any of the staff from previous numbered games, the feel of the series can be replicated.

It's not perfect, but it's a pretty darn good game. The 6-hour-ish introductory section gets a little long in the tooth (at least the Belcoot/Marina stuff could be trimmed a bit) but the gradual raveling and subsequent (piecemeal) un-raveling of the plot is fantastic. It doesn't have the brisk pacing of the first two, and it's a little derivative in places (dragon knights again?), but it's probably just a little behind 3 in my view. And the Godwin/Barrows rivalry still feels relevant to modern politics.

Here's hoping Eiyuden Chronicles is at least as good.
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