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TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2026 – Week Nine and Resident Evil Requiem
We are not only done with week nine of the season, but we’re also into a new month, with a new slate of titles set to release. But we’re still looking back into February, into last week, and what happened then. First though, the scores as they stood at the end of week eight. Things […]
TAGN Fantasy Critic League 2026 – Week Nine and Resident Evil Requiem
We are not only done with week nine of the season, but we’re also into a new month, with a new slate of titles set to release.
Fantasy Critic League – Like Fantasy Football, but for Video Games
But we’re still looking back into February, into last week, and what happened then. First though, the scores as they stood at the end of week eight.
Week 8 Scores
Things were quiet until Wednesday, when Resident Evil Requiem, the week’s one release, finally started getting some review scores.
Resident Evil Requiem
I guess the blackout window was over and sites were able to start talking about the game. And the initial score was excellent.
- Resident Evil Requiem
- [Picked by S Class Warfare Studios (p0tsh0t)]
- Now has a score of 90.2
A couple of titles at 90 will put you in contention in the league, as we learned last year.
It couldn’t quite hold that line. This is a title launching on all platforms which has 110 reviews on Open Critic as I write this, so it is going to get hit by sites that do 1-5 star ratings with no half stars. But you cannot make sites us 1-100 rating schemes, so you have to put up with consolidation sites like Metacritic and Open Critic needing to translate stars, or thumbs, or whatever. I mean, I grew up with this as my movie review rating guide in the paper, a little guy showing various levels of enthusiasm.
The little man in the SF Chronicle theater reviews
Of course, even this octogenarian comes under fire, a symbol of the patriarchy or some such… though when we get to the nub of it we’re just back to artists being angry about somebody trying to boil their work down a score.
How to you do you indicate about whether something is worth seeing without boiling it down something like a score or stars or thumbs up or the little man in the chair or whatever it was that Joe Bob Briggs used to use back in the day? You don’t, because most people won’t read your 500-1500 word review, they will just go see what the little man is doing.
Anyway, some filler there about reviews as a lead-in to a score change.
- Resident Evil Requiem
- [Picked by S Class Warfare Studios (p0tsh0t)]
- Score has gone DOWN from 90.2 to 88.3
88 is still a damn good score, even if it lacks the cachet of being in the 90s. But such titles are fairly rare, both due to the variety of reviewers and the need to translate their odd scoring methods into a 100 points continuum.
And once the game hit its release window in the early hours of Friday morning (or the late hours or Thursday night Pacific time), that was enough to push Potshot up into second place.
- Publisher Score Updates
- S Class Warfare Studios (p0tsh0t)
- Score has gone UP from 11.1 to 29.4
- Moved from 7th place to 2nd place
- Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)
- Moved from 2nd place to 3rd place
- TAGN HQ (Wilhelm)
- Moved from 3rd place to 4th place
- Green River Gaming (Nimgimli)
- Moved from 4th place to 5th place
- Corr’s Creative Collective (Corr)
- Moved from 5th place to 6th place
- Anthania Interactive (Ula)
- Moved from 6th place to 7th place
At the end of the week that one release, plus whatever minor score updates that happened, left the scoreboard looking like this.
Week 9 Scores
Shintar and Potshot are very close, but the league’s predictive model has them ending the year in these positions. But it is still a long way from now to that destination. Meanwhile Arhanta went from being estimated to land in 10th position to a prediction of dead last. We’ll get to why in a moment.
There were also some release date changes that popped up over the week for the league.
- Marvel’s Wolverine
- [Picked by Frabjous Day Enterprises (Archey)]
- Release date changed from ‘Fall 2026’
- to ‘Tuesday, September 15, 2026’.
- Mouse: P.I. For Hire
- [Picked by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane)]
- Release date changed from ‘Thursday, March 19, 2026’
- to ‘Thursday, April 16, 2026’.
- Esoteric Ebb
- [Picked by TAGN HQ (Wilhelm)]
- Release date changed from ‘Spring 2026’
- to ‘Tuesday, March 03, 2026’.
Marvel’s Wolverine got narrowed down from Fall to September 15th, which I want to point out isn’t quite calendar Fall, even if it is emotional Fall for some of us.
Esoteric Ebb, a rather random pick of mine got an update moving it from Spring to… next Tuesday! Again, not really Spring yet on the calendar, but also I had to make a choice on Thursday as to whether to keep that pick I grabbed on a whim or ride with it. I decided to ride with it, so we’ll see how that plays out.
And then Mouse: P.I. For Hire got pushed out a month. That could be do to problems with the game, or it could be that they just don’t want to launch in the shadow of some other title.
Then there were bids this week.
- Bids in TAGN League
- Squadron 42 (Star Citizen)
- Won by TAGN HQ (Wilhelm) with a bid of $1
- Unannounced Assassins Creed: Black Flag Remake
- Won by Rodent Entertainment (Arhanta) with a bid of $6
- Kiln
- Won by Neutical Publishing (Cyanbane) with a bid of $10
- Dropped game ‘Witchbrook’ conditionally
- Persona 6 (Unannounced)
- Won by Rodent Entertainment (Arhanta) with a bid of $6
- RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike
- Won by Rodent Entertainment (Arhanta) with a bid of $21
That list almost feels like there is some counter pick bait in play. I mean, I bid a buck on Squadron 42? Will that even ship in 2026?
Meanwhile, Arhanta got in there with three fresh bids, two of them for unannounced titles. If there is anything the league prediction algorithm dislikes with a passion, it is a title that isn’t even promised for the current year, that isn’t even announced. Those get weighted as zero… while an empty pick gets a 15 point estimate. That is how Arhanta ended up in last place in the league’s estimate.
All of which leaves us with the following titles coming up.
Coming up for Week 10
Next week will be a big week, now with six titles going live, starting out with the Monday release of WoW Midnight. I expect the scoreboard to change quite a bit with that many titles landing.
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