It's so hard to quantify "obscure", especially as content creators who are super deep into gaming. Our perspectives are bound to be skewed and it's obviously a term that will mean something different to every individual.
That being said, here's five picks from each of us (mine are the top row, Larsa's are the bottom row) that can probably be considered obscure enough to the average gamer, listed in no particular order. Limiting this to just five each was pretty tough, definitely a fun challenge.
One credit clear longplay / playthrough / walkthrough & trueplay of Rapid Reload / ガンナーズヘヴン on the PS1 as Ruka Hetfield. The translation of her name may not be correct she was called Luka in Wild Arms 2 and some suggest she should be Rita Hatfield. This is a follow on video from our Axel playthrough, this time around we have edited the video to full screen to correct the PAL aspect problem, as the the true PAL aspect was shown in the Axel playthrough video. Ruka is the slightly harder of the two characters to finish the game with.
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Look I'll be real with y'all: I wanted to be super clever and evenhanded about these match ups, and not just pull names out of a hat. I had a whole schema in my head about how to balance shit and keep obvious fan favorites on opposite sides of the tournament, while also preventing any one game's cast, or even specific recurring archetypes to all be in the same bracket... and then I threw all that out because it got real complicated real quick....
And so I bring you instead this 4 division set up of mostly hand-picked match ups, only loosely curated, sometimes thematic, sometimes absolutely not, because to hell with balance!
More detailed posting schedule under the cut...
Each of 4 Divisions is made up of Two opposed Brackets, each Bracket(except for one) is headed by a Wild Arms primary protagonist. I will run each batch of polls for FIVE DAYS before clocking results (a single day still feels like way too little time, but a full week would take us forever and I'm not up for a months long commitment to curate this right now, sorry...) Despite my fiddling, it really doesn't look like there's any version of this that's "quick" that doesn't involve just an stupid number of concurrent polls running at the start... so I guess this is just gonna take a while...
