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Due note this article came out in 2020 and was updated in 2021.

Okaaaaayyyy...huge problem with this list. First: it's more of a top 8, because two of the games are not brawlers: They're either a Smash Bros. clone or an Arena Fighter. So TMNT (Ubisoft) and Billy & Mandy do not belong. Second: Where the hell is Batman - The Brave and The Bold and Red Steel 2? The latter is more so a FPS Hack n' Slash hybrid, but it still fucking counts. Third: Spyborgs should not even be that high on the list (unless you're playing the Japanese version). I never played Rage of the Gladiator, but the fact they put one first person hack n' slash shows they had room for another. Whoever or whomever wrote this in the office really needs to look at a gaming dictionary.

Personally, Mad World would be my #1 spot, but I understand why NMH2 got #1 for them.
 

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Took me a while to get the joke about the Rice kid, then I remember that was totally a thing.
Yeah I had to wait for that part of the video to get the context lol.

About the swamps though, I love this line -
“In terms of how the player feels when they encounter this area that is a different story,” says Miyazaki. “But when making the game I rediscovered my love for making poison swamps. I know how people feel about them, but you know, suddenly I realize I'm in the middle of making one and I just can't help myself. It just happens.”


That basically put “this area” at the top of my most anticipated places list for the game.
 
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Yeh, I saw. Will pick this u sometime, perhaps for Switch, tho I'll check out some reviews for how well it runs. Maybe DF will do a rundown. Weirdly priced too. €17.72? It's $19.99 in the US. Guess they just directly converted.
 

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Stumbled across this. Having just played the aforementioned area in Majora's Mask I gotta say this theory feels like it works pretty well. The Tower definitely feels like an interloper and doesn't belong there and the fact the boss arena is in a completely different place entirely only adds to this.