Ezio Auditore da Firenze – Guest Character from Assassin’s Creed series – *NEW*.Elysium – Angelic woman who looks like Sophitia – Fights with all female characters’ styles (mimic) – *NEW*.Edge Master – Fights with all characters’ styles (mimic).But hey, tt least my favorite game from the division won it all. Starcraft just seemed worn down by the time the divisional finals rolled around. Starcraft had to face off against entire fanbases, while SSBM got little chunks. This wasn't an easy task, but PS2's fanbase is beatable when they're isolated. ![]() Which, I might add, only had to go through the three big Playstation 2 hits. I also find it interesting that Starcraft had to go through the Xbox mascot, a Square RPG, and the Zelda game of the generation before finally bowing out to the Gamecube mascot. There was also another Link vs Samus match that seemed somewhat forced in Prime vs Wind Waker. And this was a division in which a game that wasn't even from the 128 bit era dominated the headlines. This was the most stacked division, as well as the strongest overall, in the contest by far. Never in my life did I ever think I would see a division in which only 7% of people thought that the 2 seed would make it out. Sadly, that irony was the only entertainment this division had to offer. I don't know if this happened on purpose, but it made for some wonderful irony in the end. FF7's half was loaded with Playstation titles, while OOT's half was stacked with Nintendo gems. It also featured the closest match of the entire contest, and it also seemed to be a division split in half. Thanks to Final Fantasy 7 and Ocarina of Time, this division had the highest prediction percentages in the entire contest. Great story, great gameplay, decent characters and a great game. I couldn't necessarily agree with Chrono Trigger being the definitive game of the 16 bit era, but it was still a good representative all the way into the finals. Either way, it was the best division in the contest, complete with its final being the best match of the entire contest. That's quite the odd pair of coincidences. The same goes for Sonic 2 vs Mario World. Something tells me that the match between LTTP and Super Metroid was forced. I still can't bring it to myself to believe LTTP was only a 6 seed. It made for legendary games going down early, most notable of which are Doom and Super Metroid going down in the second round. ![]() All 16 of these games belonged here for one reason or the other, though some of them were obviously doomed in a contest setting. This division had the best games of any division in this contest. My favorite thing about this division was that the game which won the division - Super Mario Brothers 3 - was definitely a proper choice the game representing 8 bit gaming. That, and FF7/ OOT was in that division as well. Far too easy a division to call in my opinion, though I would suppose that Phantasy Star vs Contra was the sole reason 32-64 wound up being easier to predict according to percentage. From the beginning, this was about Mario 3 vs Zelda 1, which was an anticlimactic as could be. A good chunk of the games here didn`t deserve to be in the contest at all, and the lack of Mega Man upset a large number of people. The idea of the brackets being split up by division was nice, but Division 8 suffered the most from it.
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