BOTTOM 320 — Week 4 — Poll 7

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Which of these two games is NOT QUITE THE BEST BUT DOESN'T DESERVE THIS FATE (YET...)?

170 — Kirby's Epic Yarn (2010, Wii)
2
33%
279 — Plants vs. Zombies (2009, Mobile/PC)
4
67%
 
Total votes: 6

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BOTTOM 320 — Week 4 — Poll 7

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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!

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It's a darn shame that Plants vs Zombies isn't Plants vs Zombies anymore - it's either a free-to-play shell of its former self, or it's some kind of team shooting game. PvZ still holds up as a kind of actiony defense game - a good evolution of Insaniquarium, which was a little too clicky.

PopCap made some great stuff in the mid-to-late '00s before they got acquired by EA. (Actually, they probably started their fall after PvZ got really popular - reading up, it seems like they started acquiring other companies, angling towards more F2P stuff, and then got bought).
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Niahak wrote: 19 Dec 2023 14:56 It's a darn shame that Plants vs Zombies isn't Plants vs Zombies anymore - it's either a free-to-play shell of its former self [...]

PopCap made some great stuff in the mid-to-late '00s before they got acquired by EA. [...]
A tale as old as time.

In addition to PvZ's actual gameplay merits, I also gotta hand it to games like this, Bejewelled, Peggle (incidentally all PopCap games), Candy Crush, and Angry Birds for turning a generation of moms into gamers, a generation of gamers into whiny gatekeepers, and helping kickstart mobile gaming as a huge platform.
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Epic Yarn is my favourite Kirby game. So adorable, and if going for highscores, can actually get kind of difficult. Love that game too much.
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