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Advokaiser posted...

Sure, Crash: N Sane Trilogy and DKC: Tropical Freeze may not be worth much, but I definitely see them as direct boosters for Crash and DK respectively.

To be fair, we've never seen N. Sane Trilogy in any sort of relevant poll, but given how it first came out barely a year before CBX and that it seemed to be a huge hit, I have no problem believing it boosted Crash. On the other hand, Tropical Freeze was pretty close to 5 years old by the time of CBX, and it subsequently proved it had no strength to speak of in GotD 2. And frankly, DK's CBX results weren't that much better than what he had shown before, it's just that a previously known choke artist scoring two big upsets tends to skew perceptions. Unlike Crash, DK's boost falls well into the realm of difference covered by forced apathy and doubled registered user votes.

Advokaiser posted...

I forgot completely that FFX nearly doubled FFIX 10 years ago, and then OoT had a similar result against it 5 years later.

The former is a clear SFF match relative to the other GotD results those two games put up. For a more direct comparison, FFIX went from narrowly beating KotOR to narrowly besting Kingdom Hearts in those five years, which is a pretty clear boost even if it merely proved transient for Zidane.

Also, I'd say Crono, Frog, and Magus have all put up distinctly better results in the past two character battles than their early SB-era nadir, it's just that none of them improved nearly as much as CT itself.

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