(2)Final Fantasy VII vs (15)Journey 2015

Ulti's Analysis
People will assume I hate Journey because of my opinion on Shadow of the Colossus, but no Journey is actually an outstanding game. It deserved better than getting fed to FF7 in round 1, and it's everything Shadow of the Colossus wishes it could be -- simple, artistic, and extremely touching. The whole game is about 45 minutes long with no spoken dialogue at all, but has such an amazing message of friendship in it. Actually I suppose it could mean whatever you want, but I enjoy the friendship route.

I'm also a HUGE fan of Final Fantasy 7 and will never understand where the hate came from or why it's still here today. It was a great game when it came out and it's still a great game today. can't wait to play the PS4 port and get dat platinum!

Regardless, not much to say here outside of "thank god we had four matches per day". Can you believe we used to enjoy sitting through blowouts one at a time for 24 hours each? With this format, we got to see FF7 just godsmash a poll and prove it was a top tier championship contender, we got an intriguing Halo/Minecraft poll, we got Smash U proving it was for real, and we got a great Mass Effect upset. If this took place over four days it would have sucked, but as-is we got the Mass Effect poll to distract us from two boring blowouts. Thank god for this format, and man I hope it stays. Best idea these contests have had since they started. 12 hour matches suck and this is the best way of doing things. You all know it's true.

Regardless, seeing FF7 go godmode was awesome. There was no ridiculous anti-voting to give Journey a lead for 5 minutes, no silly nonsense that showed FF7 would lose to Smash U or something... nothing like that. Just FF7 being a beast. It was nice to see for the time it lasted.