the draft lads we did it um if you'd like to vote on the winner you can go to the announcements a bit of the discord um just the long torturous process of reminding people of your picks to go here so category one capcom street fighter two resin evil 2 2019 resin evil seven ghost trick phantom detective konami castlevania symphony of the night i picked metal gear solid three subsistence i picked metal gear solid five which was a steal from meppie i picked silan hill two after two steelings steelings robberies or…
then we come back to you ash you got two bits oh gosh uh let me just remind myself what matt have you picked just gone i just let me have some pics please i've got some good titer picks but we've had some titers i'm gonna mix it up uh i'm gonna go konami and i'm gonna go castlevania symphony of the night hmm definitely on my short list you know this is it's not where metroidvania has come from but certainly where the term comes from you know this this was konami reinventing the kind of action platforming of…
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... there's like an there's an artistry to it that uh you can't really capture with with realistic visuals it's um it's something really special and it hasn't aged yeah which is um you know a lot of ps1 games definitely feel like they have so um feels like a dependable pick in that respect then we come back to you ash you got two bits oh gosh uh let me just remind myself what matt have you picked just gone i just let me have some pics please i've got some good titer picks but we've had some titers i'm gonna mix it up uh i'm gonna go konami and i'm gonna go castlevania symphony of the night hmm definitely on my short list you know this is it's not where metroidvania has come from but certainly where the term comes from you know this this was konami reinventing the kind of action platforming of castlevania in in the metroid style doing it on playstation when everyone was moving to 3d and they were like no fuck that you we're going to make the best 2d game of all time with like hours and hours of exploration secrets to find put your you know put these glasses on to see what the boss is really doing so you can get past him finish it but oh no the castle's upside down and you've got to do the whole thing again just like endless inventiveness and surprises i think this is a game you can return to like literally decades later and still find ...