BOTTOM 320 — Week 4 — Poll 14

[This Old Neon]

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.

Polls are updated weekly, typically on Monday. Check back throughout the week to make sure you don't miss a vote!

HOW TO VOTE

This is easy. You only get one vote per poll. The game with the most votes wins. In the event of a tie, the higher seed advances, so don't get complacent!

[Sharecrow]

Jeez I’m not sure on this one. Will have to think about it.

[Kong Wen]

Damn, this is a match between two underrated and mechanically very impressive entries in the FF series. FF5 takes the previous games' job system and bulks it up to a level where it feels like it's a big toy to be played with, on a level only surpassed in the whole series by Final Fantasy Tactics.

But I have to give the edge to FF12, which has several excellently-written protagonists in Vaan, Ashe, Basch, and Balthier (sadly, Penelo and Fran are somewhat under-written here), a vivid world that blatantly steals from Star Wars but somehow makes some elements actually feel fresh and natural to the game's setting (the Judges), and a brilliant AI-crafting system that lets the enterprising strategist fine-tune a set of complex conditions and reactions for the party members. So much more interesting than just equipping a sword with bigger numbers on it!