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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!

Pretty strong pool, but since I remember that I already had the chance to vote for the original vvvvvversion of VVVVVV, I don't need to cast any votes for it here. That gives me room to give full deserved votes to 3D Dot Game Heroes—a lovely and stylish From & Atlus-published Zeldalike from the developers of the Bravely series.

Also voting for Guacamelee! STCE and the excellent Castlevania II.

Not voting on VVVVVV basically because the main one has already been voted for. No point doubling up.

Castlevania II, despite its bad reputation, is one of my favorites in the series and handily earns my votes. I gave Myst some too for being a good-but-sooooo-hard-it’s-simple puzzle game.

I like Banjo Kazooie GBA because it's a part of the era of pairing down console games to work on a handheld, but this one actually did a decent job of playing similarly to an n64 game.