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Round 2: Bracket 8/16 - EIGHT

You can vote for 1-2 games in this poll. Vote carefully—you can't change your votes after submitting them. The #1 and #2 ranked games at the end of the week will move on to Round 3.

1986 - Rolling Thunder - Arcade
1994 - Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 - GB
1996 - Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - SNES
1997 - Fallout - PC
1998 - Crash Bandicoot: Warped / Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped - PS1
1999 - Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! / Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer - PS1
2004 - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - GCN
2008 - Professor Layton and the [Lost/Unwound] Future - DS
2012 - Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward - 3DS
2013 - Corpse Party - PSP

You are encouraged to discuss your choices and your reasons for selecting the games you did.

Fallout gets a vote because it deserves it, but Rolling Thunder is my personal pick here. This one is among my all time arcade favourites in the golden age. It had such strong art direction, it became one of the sources of inspiration for my weird 7-year-old imagination's forays into making (terrible) comic books/fan fiction. I don't think I've played it since '88, and I'm pretty sure it hasn't held up like Shinobi has, but it's a favourite nonetheless.

Fallout is an easy choice here. I gave my second vote to Zero Escape, which can seem to be an uncharacteristic choice for me. This is a game that benefited greatly from being a PS+ freebie, because I would never have tried it otherwise. The main game plays out like a fairly typical point & click puzzler crossed with a virtual novel. Big puzzle rooms alternate with lengthy expository sequences. Fairly standard stuff. But then something happens after you beat the game. Something special. I can't spoil it. Anyway, this little spark of originality alone wouldn't normally be enough to earn a vote from me here, but the game executes it very well.

Fallout and Super Mario RPG get my votes this time. It's a shame because I'm pretty sure I will really like Virtue's Last Reward when I finally get around to playing it. But I've got to play 999 first.

Claytone wrote:It's a shame because I'm pretty sure I will really like Virtue's Last Reward when I finally get around to playing it. But I've got to play 999 first.

I never played 999 so I can confidently state that it's not required to understand the game. Of course, you might get more out of it if you have that background.

I haven't played any of them enough to vote here.

Fallout and Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 have advanced to the next round.