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Round 1 Division 4 Day 7
Red Dead Redemption 78.87%
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective 21.13%

Prediction Percentage 94.77%

Red Dead Redemption was an exciting entry to have back again. It looked fine in 2015 all things considered, and it recently got a very well received sequel which could boost the franchise name. Unlike in 2015, it did not have a predictable a path. Any possible Rockstar hierarchy is not something we have seen before as the games usually dont get far enough to meet. Before that there was Persona 4 Golden to worry about. P4G vs. RDR was one of the most discussed round 2 matches both before and during the contest, though most of the discussion centered around the potential P4G had. Today they had similar enough high percentages against super weak games for us to not be any closer to a conclusion of that match.

The board vote today was of course nothing short of hilarious. On one side we have a Rockstar game, which is not board 8s cup of tea. On the other side, we have a game from the developer of Ace Attorney in the same genre, which is as much board 8s cup of tea as it possible gets. It has always been amusing how it is so. Perhaps there is some overlap between interest in contests and interest in those games. Of course, Ghost Trick is not as big, but its still right down our ballpark.

Ghost Trick has the honor of being one of only three games from the DS to make the bracket, the other ones being Pokemon HGSS, which is a remake and from 2009 in Japan, and Call of Duty: Black Ops which I can say with certainly that not a single person nominated because of its DS port and Im sure it being released on DS is news to some people too. So congratulations to Ghost Trick I suppose! The DS is a wonderful console no doubt, but its a long time ago by now. Even the representation of the 3DS is quite limited. Its not like were missing out on much. 2010 was the last year of DS before the 3DS released. The biggest snub is easily generation 5 Pokemon, which couldve made it in. Then theres a Golden Sun and a Harvest Moon, but Im not surprised they didnt make it.

The real surprise to me is that there is no Ace Attorney game in the bracket with Ghost Trick being the closest thing to a representative. Did we forget or what happened? Board 8 controls the nomination to such a big extend that it sure feels weird. Metacritic matters too, but games of worse critics have made it in. I have never played Ace Attorney myself despite being here for so long, so I dont know much about them. It might simply be that the more recent ones arent as well liked, so we did not care enough for them, but I still cant help but be a bit surprised.

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Guinness Book of World Records is the name of the diary that belongs to azuarc, the winner of the Game of the Decade II guru contest.