(1)The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past vs (4)Dark Souls 2015

Ulti's Analysis
Dark Souls made a pretty good run this contest, but then it goes and gets 29% on Link to the Past and it makes me wonder if anyone on this site has played any game released after the year 2000. It's not like Dark Souls is even a weak game, because it clearly isn't, but games don't just break 70% by accident in round 3. What in the world happened here?

It's not like Dark Souls was ever going to win, but man, round 3 is supposed to be the round where top tier games beat midcarders respectably. This was maximum disrespect if I ever saw it. There is some serious old > new beatdown stuff going on here, and a game and series of respectable strength was given the ass-whipping of its life instead of being allowed to bow out of this contest with dignity. This put a small speed bump onto the "Zelda is off" road, though really it was only Link to the Past that looked like it was in old form this contest. The other ones were off, which we'll definitely touch upon in the next writeup.

There is a definite Zelda fatigue on this site, but Link to the Past is the one game immune from it. Unless it's facing a Zelda game from the Nintendo 64, anyway.