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| Topic | my 5 best and worst picks in contest history |
| LeonhartFour 03/17/20 2:17:43 AM #271: | #8 Bad Pick - Super Mario Galaxy > Super Metroid (2015) https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/6137-best-game-ever-day-22-round-2-super-metroid-vs-super-mario This was a strange match because these were two Nintendo games that were supposed to be highly respected but had very unimpressive contest resumes. Super Mario Galaxy had lost to friggin' Call of Duty 4 twice in 2009 and was easily disposed of by Twilight Princess in 2010. Super Metroid had been tripled by LTTP in 2004 and got beat down by it again in 2009 after two narrow escapes against Super Mario Kart before that. I went with Super Mario Galaxy based on those Super Mario Kart results alone because I thought there's no way it would drop that. Plus, it's freakin' MARIO and Mario just doesn't lose to Metroid, right? Well, after the first round made it abundantly clear that '90s games were here to curbstomp this contest (including Super Metroid quadrupling the very same Call of Duty 4 that had beaten Super Mario Galaxy in 2009), it felt like the writing as on the wall, but I thought it could at least be a good match. Nope, Super Metroid jumped out to a 60/40 lead and pretty much held steady there the entire match. I don't know where in the world this version of Super Metroid was in the first two contests, but it wasn't messing around this time! It nearly beat Majora's Mask the next round, which then nearly beat LTTP the round after that. I used to think that Metroid Prime would beat it in a match if it came down to it, but that doesn't look to be the case now. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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