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LinkMarioSamus posted...

I still think Majora's Mask won 2010 on its own strength with maybe a slight bandwagon at best, not that it suddenly got loads of strength out of nowhere. It swatted aside Pokemon GSC, Wind Waker, and especially Metal Gear Solid 3 like they were nothing. Do not bring up Super Metroid in 2015. Super Metroid is just that good.

I believe I had Majora losing to Wind Waker in my 2010 bracket. My logic was that Traditional Gamecube Zelda would defeat Non-Traditional Second-Fiddle N64 Zelda, and boy was I wrong. The MGS3 beatdown was especially surprising, although a Zelda > MGS outcome was expected at that stage of the bracket.

ctesjbuvf posted...

Majora's Mask reaches the semi-finals on its own strength, the last two matches probably not.

FFX was rightly favored to win the bottom half of the bracket. It was the dominant FF game of the 2000s, and there's no debate about that. If FFX and Majora met in Round 3-5, I believe FFX would've taken that match to the tune of 52-48. The late-game circumstances swung this match for Majora.

And Majora definitely needed the Brawl anti-votes in the final. Melee vs. Majora would've been a very different story if it happened.