Results[]
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Ulti's Analysis[]
| Division | Division 1 |
|---|---|
| Match # | 67 |
| Match Date | Sunday, April 12, 2020 |
| Oracle Expectations |
Monster Hunter: World - 51.57% 35 for - 18 against |
| GameFAQs Prediction |
Monster Hunter: World - 53.48% |
| User Votes |
Monster Hunter: World - 5235 Sekiro - 3951 |
| Anonymous Votes |
Monster Hunter: World - 4201 Sekiro - 3720 |
This match absolutely destroyed me on a personal level. In a contest where all of the Souls games -- even Nioh -- looked good, Sekiro is the one Souls-like that crapped the bed. I don't know why or how, either. Was it the "too hard" memes? Was it the lack of weapon options? I truly do not know, and I would love the opinion of anyone reading this who doesn't like the game to hit me up. This one has me stumped. The game has some issues, no doubt, but to fall this flat while all of the other Souls-likes did so well blows my mind. Not to keep plugging my reviews, but I think this will give you guys an idea of my love for the game: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps4/241004-sekiro-shadows-die-twice/reviews/168443
Yes, the camera work is a joke. Yes, the game is obnoxiously hard. Yes, the rope swing is effing goofy. So what? It makes the journey so rewarding, and it's what made this match so hard on me. Of all the Souls types to choke, it had to be Sekiro?
By the way, none of this is a slight on what Monster Hunter World accomplished or the respect that it's earned. Did you guys know it has 16 million sales, which is almost a third of sales for that entire series? It deserved to make waves during its long-awaited contest debut, and make waves it did. Just not at Sekiro's expense. Jeez :(
At least it was a 55-45 type loss to a very, very strong game, and in skipping ahead a little, maybe Sekiro didn't choke after all. Monster Hunter World would end up having a very respectable exit, and the game that beat it would itself have a very respectable exit. Here's hoping Sekiro just got unlucky instead of choking.
I will say this. If any game needs to die and come back for our sakes, there isn't a better example. The code must indeed be determined by the individual, my friends.
Ctes's Analysis[]
This was a hotly debated match before the contest where a lot of people took the Sekiro upset because it looked to be pretty good in the Game of the Year polls. When round 1 happened, a lot of people agreed Monster Hunter: World looked better, since it was hard to think Ni no Kuni could be better than Bravely Default, but a third of the oracles still went with Sekiro today. You could argue that console games tend to do better than handheld games, so that Bravely Default wouldn’t be much better and you could argue that Sekiro had a worse opponent for it than Monster Hunter did, but you had to stretch things a little bit.
Monster Hunter won pretty, but there was a bit of excitement in the first minutes. Monster Hunter burst ahead with the early bracket votes, but Sekiro quickly got very close. The were about dead even until the freeze happened where Monster Hunter was ahead by only 11 votes. Then it got one of the biggest jumps in percentage all contest by jumping more than 5% to lead with 110 and the match was over from there. Monster Hunter quickly went up. Sekiro got a final glimpse of hope when it after half an hour cut from 257 to 228, but it was just that one update where Monster Hunter fell off, it took it all back and a bit more next update and proceeded to quickly shoot for 1000 votes.
It’s the first time Monster Hunter ever really looked that good in a contest and I think it’s part of the reason why many went with the Sekiro upset. I regret picking Sekiro more than most mistakes I made personally simply because I completely failed to realize what its opponent was. I knew it was a bigger Monster Hunter, but just how much bigger I forgot despite knowing it beforehand. This game isn’t just the biggest of franchise, it was huge and sold loads of copies.
Most people never gave the winner of this match a chance in the coming round, but Monster Hunter would do so well that I felt it redeemed the Sekiro upset pick quite a bit. Sekiro would end up actually looking pretty good, it’s just that Monster Hunter also looked better than anticipated. It makes sense considering how the other games from FromSoftware (missed pun opportunity) ended up looking. That company is doing well in these contests. I think it’s worth having Sekiro back another time. Then more of us might just have played it to, it’s one of the newest games in the bracket and we tend to be slow at getting through such.
Safer777's Analysis[]
Another debated match here. Even the crew was split here. Both games did as expected in Round 1. I mean no matter which game you picked to win you would be correct because as I said they have similar strengths and did as expected in Round 1.
So for the match. Well even though the match was really debated and we thought it would be close MHW won easy actually and even broke 55 too. So I wonder why. I do believe that we just like MHW better. That game had even an expansion and it was very well received too. So in the end both games did fine. Fine to see a MH game in Round 3! Also these matches are always nice because we don't really know who will win. So there you go. Also once again a prediction percentage in the middle. Also I believe that MHW is the best selling Capcom game of all time so yeah people really like this franchise it seems.
Tsunami's Analysis[]
The "Soulsborne" boost evidently doesn't extend to Sekiro, because this match was expected to be close and it wasn't close. Remember, this is the same series whose only previous outing involved being upset by Suikoden II. (Yeah, I know, not the same game.) More importantly, this is Capcom, whose last win in a debatable match was probably Mega Man > Charizard in 2013. (Oh, right, the DMC5-DKCTF match in round 1. There was that.) The idea of MH:W actually being strong seems ludicrous, but here it was, reaching R3 and still being the favorite to do so. Well, at least it'd be facing something strong next round.