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I'd be utterly stunned if Lyn weren't also more popular than Hector among women, which makes Hector seem relatively more popular on places like GameFAQs. Not sure on the Subreddit demographics there. I forget, did your poll ask any questions on age/gender? Would have been interesting.

The data about Fates being more popular among people who've played fewer games is interesting because it doesn't really fit with my experience on Serenes and RPGDL at all, where the players who've played lots of games hold it up for its gameplay/map design being so standout good while the more casual fans are less likely to care about this and thus judge it purely on other metrics where it's a mixed bag. I don't know Reddit nearly as well but it always comes across as much more toxic, the type of place where people hate on games for (inane, IMO) reasons like the localization changing things. Not that there aren't valid reasons to criticise Fates but yeah.

Echoes being so popular feels like the other big anomaly. It's not a casual game at all and it's already almost dead on Serenes. Love that artwork, though - I'm down with it winning that, for all that I suspect I voted for RD.

GBA emulation is quite a bit easier than Wii emulation... that might not be so true now but it was back when both those games were relatively newer, so BB having a higher playrate isn't totally crazy (although disappointing to me as someone who puts RD as his personal favourite). Also, RD has the issue of being "behind" Path of Radiance - people are usually encouraged to play PoR first, which consigns RD playerbase to being mostly a subset of PoR's, which is inherently limiting.
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