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The “Best Game Not Available on Any Digital Service” side-event finals includes the winners of the previous rounds. There is 1 poll of 10 games.

• You can vote for one (1) game in the finals.
• The top game will be the official “BEST GAME NOT AVAILABLE ON ANY DIGITAL SERVICE EVER!!!”
• You can’t change your votes once they’ve been submitted, so click carefully. Voting closes on Saturday at midnight ADT.

VOTE HERE

Best Game Not Available on Any Digital Service:
Batman: The Video Game (1989, NES)
Contra: Hard Corps (1994, Genesis)
E.V.O.: Search for Eden (1992, SNES)
Panzer Dragoon Saga (1998, Saturn)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004, GCN)
Shadow Hearts: Covenant (2004, PS2)
Skies of Arcadia (2000, DC)
Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader (2001, GCN)
Super Mario Sunshine (2002, GCN)
Super Monkey Ball (2001, GCN)

Not sure whether to go all-in on Panzer Dragoon Saga, or whether to vote for a more accessible but probably overall better game in E.V.O. I bet Enix has lost the golden master copy of the latter, too...

This was easy. I voted for Shadow Hearts: Covenant. One of the finest games I’ve ever played. Great story, great gameplay, a fun and engaging world, and likable characters. I can’t express how much I like this game properly. I miss it, and wish I could get to it somehow without having to buy a PS2.

Super monkey Ball

Incredibly unique gameplay. Easy to play very difficult to master. Great level design and controlled perfectly. Brilliant soundtrack and some class minigames including the beloved Monkey Target. It had a lot of content and great for single player and multiplayer and was incredibly fun and charming to boot. I still boot up my Wii to play my GameCube copy from time to time. Wish I could get Super monkey Ball deluxe (original Xbox ) on Xbox one for convenience

Kong Wen wrote: ↑08 Apr 2019 20:01 Not sure whether to go all-in on Panzer Dragoon Saga, or whether to vote for a more accessible but probably overall better game in E.V.O. I bet Enix has lost the golden master copy of the latter, too...

I settled on E.V.O. here. It's too unique not to get support, and the SNES graphical style has aged nicely, which can't necessarily be said for the Saturn...

I really don't like going off nostalgia as it has been many years since I played it, but from what I remember of Paper Mario Thousand Year door, it was a gem. And at the very least the soundtrack is still amazing today.

Prepare to chow down on another finals tie-breaker:

E.V.O.: Search for Eden (1992, SNES)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004, GCN)

Coming soon.

Well, that makes this significantly easier.