As much as I know you'd like to believe that GameSpot hates Nintendo enough to legitimately vote Einstein over Yoshi (They don't), that also means that GameSpot apparently loves a random horse from Zelda games more than any other Nintendo character in the contest.
And that would be worse than here.
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