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Here's a tie-breaker! Only one of these two games will advance to the Top 32.

106 - Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - 1995 - SNES
112 - Shadow of the Colossus - 2005 - PS2

You have one vote. The poll will be open for 4 days.

Rather than making something mechanical out of art, like so many "artsy" games end up attempting to do (a recent example is Child of Light, which is a storybook with some gameplay tacked on), Shadow of the Colossus makes something artistic out of mechanics. It focuses down on a core feature of most games (boss fights) and develops them into a great opus.

On the other hand, Yoshi's Island is something like the 50th game featuring Mario. They needed an excuse to make Yoshi the main character of a game, so they made Mario & Luigi into screaming babies...

Kong Wen wrote:Rather than making something mechanical out of art, like so many "artsy" games end up attempting to do (a recent example is Child of Light, which is a storybook with some gameplay tacked on), Shadow of the Colossus makes something artistic out of mechanics. It focuses down on a core feature of most games (boss fights) and develops them into a great opus.

On the other hand, Yoshi's Island is something like the 50th game featuring Mario. They needed an excuse to make Yoshi the main character of a game, so they made Mario & Luigi into screaming babies...

I'd give Yoshi's Island a little more credit than that, it was a fun, inventive platformer to be sure. But I agree with you on Shadow of the Collosus.

The Shoemaker wrote:

Kong Wen wrote:On the other hand, Yoshi's Island is something like the 50th game featuring Mario. They needed an excuse to make Yoshi the main character of a game, so they made Mario & Luigi into screaming babies...

I'd give Yoshi's Island a little more credit than that, it was a fun, inventive platformer to be sure.

I might be inclined to believe that if a single person chimed in with a single reason to consider it inventive.

Kong Wen wrote:

The Shoemaker wrote:

Kong Wen wrote:On the other hand, Yoshi's Island is something like the 50th game featuring Mario. They needed an excuse to make Yoshi the main character of a game, so they made Mario & Luigi into screaming babies...

I'd give Yoshi's Island a little more credit than that, it was a fun, inventive platformer to be sure.

I might be inclined to believe that if a single person chimed in with a single reason to consider it inventive.

I thought the idea of eating enemies and creating eggs to throw was a pretty new idea for the platforming genre, mixed in with a timed based health system rather than a traditional linear health system. Also, Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy!

I don't think it should go into the Top 32 though, nor should it win over Shadow of the Collosus.

Yoshi's Island is more of an annoyance than good. I've tried to enjoy it several times but I just can't.

Shadow of the Colossus all the way.

It's not that inventive, but it is fun. I haven't played shadow of the colossus though so I'll refrain from making comparisons.

These tie breakers have been really close.

This is the only one so far which seems like there's a clear winner. Because the top ranked team gets through for a tie sotc needs 4 votes in 19 hours to win.

Ack, where are we going to find 2 more good voters in 1 hour?!