Welcome to the the semi-finals round of the People’s Champion Tournament! (See here for details and ground rules.)
This post is for fifth round matchups to determine which two games will go on to the championship match. All matches are based on the competition ladder and previous wins, with each contestant being the champion of its respective division of 16 games.
Vote in the matchups above, and show your support for your selections on this thread. Voting will close and Round 6, the championship match, will begin in one week.
This segment’s contestants were nominated by the following people (in alphabetical order):
dfranke
Morningstar
simpsong00
… along with three anonymous fans who submitted their candidates by PM. Among the contestants are a triple nominee, a double nominee and two single nominees.
These are going to be some hard-fought matches… the humor of “Augmented Fourth”, the atmosphere of “Sand-dancer”, the expansive space of “Never Gives Up Her Dead”, and Emily Short’s puzzler “Metamorphoses”… better settle in for a long battle!
I don’t have much to say about here matches. Metamorphoses is one of my favorite Emily Short games (along with City of Secrets). The other two games feel like opposites of each other in some ways to me, with Sand Dancer being a lot more serious (with light hearted moments for sure) and atmospheric (like Gregory said) and Augmented Fourth being more goofy and puzzle focused.
And since Brian was too humble to mention his own game, Never Gives Up Her Dead… I’ll say it is a masterful, massive, multi-dimensional, space puzzler… well loved… 5 stars on IFDB… and currently leading against Metamorphoses!
While doing some analysis on tournament stats, I discovered an error in my data entry that has affected the reporting of nominations of games by @simpsong00. He publicly nominated Never Gives Up Her Dead, but my spreadsheet had that marked as an anonymous nomination.
Past lists of nominators have been updated to correct this oversight – sorry about that, simpsong00. (And: good picks!)
