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Round 3 Division 6 Day 30
Persona 5 67.89%
Sonic Mania 32.11%

Prediction Percentage 63.69%

It was perfectly clear after this match what an awfully weak four-pack Sonic Mania came out of. The game clearly didnt belong in round 3. It did however serve the purpose of giving people hope that Persona 5 stood a chance to reach the semi-finals, which gave us some more fun in the latter half of the contest. Persona 5 had just the right opponents to look better than it possibly was in round 2 and 3 and it was second place in our GotY polls in 2017 on top of that, where everything looked to be stronger than expected. If its match in the division finals were ever in doubt, it definitely wasnt any longer.

Sonic Mania feels weird, honestly. If it wasnt a Sonic game, Im sure a lot of people would praise it a good bit more. Its a pretty fun game. I like to think of it is an equivalent to if Super Marios only good games post the 90s were New Super Mario Bros games. Theyd be enjoyed, but Mario overall wouldnt be the same because the newer games had nothing on the classic ones. Sonic Mania is probably stronger due to its name than it would have been without it. It would need to drop a lot to not reach this point, but Im sure it performed better because of Sonic still has an iconic status. I think its funny to think of what games our Noble Nine comes from and see where they are today, obviously not counting Smash Bros which features seven of them. A lot of them havent kept up the level, in fact only two of them has games as good as ever, but unlike most others, Sonic actually had a better Game of the Decade than the previous one where only Sonic Adventure 2 got in and somehow managed to lose to lose to Street Fighter IV. So hey, Sonic actually moves forward!

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