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Round 2 Division 3 Day 19
Devil May Cry 5 28.69%
Super Mario Odyssey 71.31%

Prediction Percentage 76.50%

Super Mario Odyssey had yet another round of looking really dominant. It seemed to finish a little bit higher as a result of the rallying in Octopath Traveler vs. Shovel Knight, but its a bit hard to tell. It would probably still finish above 70% and thats a really good showing. The goal for Super Mario Odyssey was to do the impossible for a post 64 Mario game; beat the Smash Bros game of the same platform. This round definitely taught us the least of the three rounds leading up to the clash because Ultimate was against a Zelda game, but Odyssey still did what it needed to do and look impressive enough to make us doubt the hierarchy.

The board actually went even higher on Super Mario Odyssey on average, probably because it went so high on a game with a name everyone knows last round. I suppose we just have to acknowledge Devil May Cry had a release worth something again for the first time in quite a while. Its not fantastic, but Devil May Cry 5 looks to have more strength in it than most of us thought and it explains why it took so easily care of Tropical Freeze when we all expected the Donkey Kong game to be alright with its Switch release.

We didnt have that great a read on the Devil May Cry series before this contest actually. The only time theyve appeared in a contest in the past was in the previous Game of the Decade where the first and third one made it in. Neither looked particularly good, but they ended up being alright in the stats, not as much as one might have thought. Perhaps they wouldve looked better earlier in the decade, thats when Dante looked best in the character battles. At this point the fourth game had come out and wasnt as big as the third and DmC: Devil May Cry had just been revealed, so I think we had seen Donte already, which might have caused some backlash if we did. This contest, we fifth one just came out and it was well liked again. It has a big enough name that I could see it having good footing on franchise name alone and with the most well-liked Devil May Cry since the third, finishing where it did isnt so bad. Of course, its buried behind some layers of SFF, so its exact placement is hard to tell.

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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.