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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!

I don't need to qualify my vote for FFV here because there's no "original" version in the west for me to prefer.

Shining in the Darkness gets my second vote. Really charming little dungeon-crawler in an era of dark, clunky dungeon-crawlers.

Gley Lancer is the only reason FFV & Shining didn't each get 3 votes. I had to toss it something.

I went with Shining in the Darkness for being my favorite dungeon crawler (I loved it so much I toyed with the idea of making a 3D model of the labyrinth before I got married). Also FFV...because jobs...plus it had to have some quality for getting me to keep coming back to it over the six years it took me to beat it. I did like the game but sheesh!