The Alternative GOTY Awards 2025

larger game. Category seven is bonus level bonus stage, I guess. Category eight is boss battle. category nine is worst level and location I'd do my worst enemy to live in my worst enemies day Scarborough, by the way, in case there's any doubt for the listeners out there. And category 10 is free pick. So any level that you like. So yes, and I suppose it's important to point out the rules as well. The kill and steal rules return stolen level from a game cannot be killed or stolen again, it's pretty useful thing to use the old steel token. And yes, killing it just takes it off the board altogether. No one can pick it again. And a really crucial rule is that picking a level from a game takes that entire game off the board, which again, heightens the amount of competition sort of going into it really could you though, take say, DK jungle from Mario Kart 64 and then pick it again for Mario Kart, we or whatever one it turned up in later. I think that maybe the rule there should be you can pick a different level from a different game, but it can't be

If you didn't have that context, the categories where you got stolen from, it's not like there was a shortage of games in each one. So if you'd have had if you've had the Astro box stolen or killed,

A game can only be stolen once, so once it's taken, it really does belong to you. So it's a very powerful thing to use in a draft like this.

but I guess we didn't decide turn order well no I was gonna they they have to do it in their next turn surely or in a subsequent yes that's that's the key thing Matthew it's where your turn comes back around so there's actually I've actually put four but maybe there should be eight extra turns in there to account for when we each have to repick for the things where we've been we've had games killed or stolen I think that makes it the most makes the most sense you know so you don't have to steal and kill you don't have uh yeah I guess I guess you don't or are you literally forcing our hands this is this is your too nice persona Matthew I got your your your wife I spoke to a developer and she told me I have to be a dickhead to you as well like this this is it's gonna make it harder for me to do when you're when you're trying to appeal to the good-natured audience with with you know I don't want to kill I don't want to steal off anyone that's me no I'm