-God of war: Left me wanting the future games which is a good sign. Kratos is the best, love that guy, 8/10
-Katamari damacy: Very odd game, good, but odd. Not sure giving this game a score does it justice, so let’s just say, king of all cosmos/10
-Pikmin 2: The game hates you and I love it, 10/10
-Pikmin 4: The game loves you and I love it, 10/10
-Sonic frontiers: Rough draft for a future masterpiece. Core gameplay is amazing but we need better worlds, story, voice acting, cyber space/ traditional levels, -graphics, models, and like 50 other things. 8/10
-Dynamite Heady: Like the heads, head/10
-Tekken 1-3, street fighter 2-3, killer instinct, mortal kombat 1-3, KOF 98: All of these have what I like to call “fighting gamitus”. Fun games, but ones that I can’t see myself coming back to. That being said, tekken is my favorite, 6/10
- Pepsi man: Unironically love this game. Very underated, kinda prefer it to any crash game, 7/10
-Metroid 2, Return of Samus: Oddly good for a GB game, very ambitious. It was really cool having played the remake and seeing locations and puzzles from that game pop up here. 7/10
-Mario land 2. Best 2d Mario. Every level goes on for the perfect amount of time, and every level has a new theme from the last. 9/10, Mario land on NSO when?
- DBZ, budokai tenchiachi 2. Lots of fun goofing around with friends. Only issue is the controls, and how many crazy combo moves you have to input 50 buttons for. Like I would have to study this game to fully understand a single character. 7/10
-Metroid prime remastered: Biggest thing keeping me from getting far into OG prime is how muted the colors were. Weird, I know, but it’s just hard for me to play a game that makes me have to squint to see any of its (admittedly beautiful) environments. So seeing this remaster give this game so much color made me actually really get into it, and I have to say it was incredible! So beautiful, love the mechanics, love all of it. 9/10, not perfect but still great
-Kirby’s return to dreamland deluxe: The OG return to dreamland was great, but I wished I could play the game portably. I also think Kirby games are far better portably. This remake proves my point, and playing the game in my bed made me want to beat it so much faster. The new graphics are so good, and them being an idea from a cancelled gamecube Kirby is awesome. Magalor Mode is really fun, and merry magoland is slept on as a new addition. 8.5/10, will never forget me and my friends all wearing the Mr. Dooter Outfit and calling ourselves the dooters
-Kirby super star ultra: The perfect remake. Great new graphics, great new modes, VASTLY improved great maze, and MASKED DEDEDE IS SO GOOOOOD. 9/10, 3rd best Kirby
-Kirby and the amazing mirror. Actual masterpiece, like how is this game so good. The fact that they made a 2D platformer plus an Open world game and it turned out as good as it did is insane. AND IT CAME OUT IN 2004, LIKE WHAT? HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE, 11/10
-Zelda, the minish cap. Really like the music and visuals, very fun and thematically interesting dungeons. Probably my favorite 2d Zelda. 7.5/10
-A link to the past. Very fun, not as good as the minsh cap but still impressive for an SNES game. The 2 world gimmick is also cool, 7/10
-The legend of Zelda. Fun, underrated and unlike any other game. Was really interesting seeing how breath of the wild and tears of the kingdom took inspiration from this game, 6/10. Speaking of TOTK….
-The legend of Zelda, Tears of The Kingdom. I knew going in that this game wasn’t gonna be my favorite game. I had far less personal experiences with Zelda than I do with franchises like smash, Mario, an animal crossing. But the fact that this game could crack through so many all time classics while using so much borrowed DNA from breath of the wild is insane. Everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING) is improved. The dungeons and bosses are back to being like the older games, the mechanics are insanely good, the music is better, the depths are an awesome addition. The only issues I have are the lack of enemy variety and the story. Why have the last 2 games had the main story take place in a different time? Like I kinda want to enjoy the story, and not watch on from the future. Regardless, 11/10 masterpiece
-Apes escape 2: Making monkey noises whenever I caught a monkey made the game far more fun. 422/10
-Gran turismo 2: Fun. Fun/10
-Grand theft auto, Vice City: Enjoyed role playing as a down on his luck taxi driver who barrels through any other taxi/ yellow car on the road to ensure he stays on top of the taxi hierarchy. 7/10
-KuruKuruKururin: Right after I heard the name in the February direct I knew I needed to play it. Good time, made me very grateful for rewind. 6/10
-Yoshi’s Island DS: Not as good as the first game, but still hold up in its own right. The baby swapping mechanic was cool, they just needed to can the stork stops entirely and let you change baby’s on the fly. 6/10
-Yoshi’s wooly world- Incredible. Best yoshi game since the first and an amazing game. Art style, level design, music, all stellar. 9/10
-Flicky: Fun game, should get the 99 treatment as a NSO exclusive game. I mean we got an NES game (Mario bros), an SNES game (F-Zero) AND a GB game (Tetris) get the 99/ multiplayer treatment, why not flicky? MAKE FLICKY 99 NINTENDO. 5/10, (starting to realize nobodies going to read this far and this is just a waste of time)
-Mario party 8: God awful, this is why we got that god forsaken car for the next 8 years. The boards suck, it’s visually bland, the mini games are mid. 4/10
-Metried fusion: was quite fun. Liked the graphics, liked the SAX, liked just about everything. I thought the game holding your hand was actually a cool subversion from the usual Metroid fare, and it made the moments where you forged your own path SO much cooler. 8/10
-Ocarina of time: Masterpiece. The story is so good, and melancholy is a very rare emotion to get in a nintendo game, so getting it here was nice. The music goes to so many unique places and has so many unique tones, but the game manages to still make them all bangers. The gameplay is tons of fun, love the dungeons in this game. 11/10, what left to be said
EDIT: more games y’all
-Sonic 1: Of the classic 2d Sonic games,(and 2d Sonic games in general IMO), the worst one. Still very fun, and gets too much hate for what is really just an above average platformer. Though I will concede that I played on the Sonic origins anniversary version, which saved the game after every act. 7/10, would recommend
-Sonic 2: Good improvement over the first game, but not AS much of an improvement as many lead on. The levels are better, the music is better, and the spin dash is amazing, but I got roughly the same enjoyment from the two games. 7.5/10, the real improvements come with-
-Sonic CD: Oddly good, like why did no one every tell me how good his was? (Except Fadel gamescage). The level design is the worst part, and can sometimes feel AI generated, but the levels are still tons of fun to go through. The atmosphere in this game is SOOOOOOOO GOOD. So many stand out levels in both music and theming, with stardust speedway and metallic madness being the best ones. The past and future mechanic was interesting, but I wish it was a bit easier to actually save the future. Having to find some bum metal box in every level is tedious, and they should’ve just had a boss at the end of every past/ future version of a zone that saves it. The anime intro and outro are such nice cherries on top of this amazing game, and for me are the first things that comes to mind when someone says Sonic. That’s something I feel in general about this game, it defined so much of what makes Sonic. The amazing levels, animations, music, atmosphere, all of it got its start here. 8.5/10, never though I would have so much to say about this game going in
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-Sonic 3 and knuckles: 2nd best classic 2d Sonic (3rd best overall, tied with advance 1). Would for sure recommend as an amazing platformer. I think the biggest thing it has over any other classic Sonic game is the level design and pixel art. The level design in this game is so good, mania pretty much copied it for the stages it remade, (flying battery and lava reef respectively). The Pixel art is also amazing, and it’s really cool seeing how much better the pixel art here is compared to the first game. Only issue is that coming from Cd, which added a lot to the Sonic formula, to this game being 2 but better was a bit disappointing. 8/10, must play for any fan of 2d platformers
-Joy mech fight: Good fun. Nothing I can see myself coming back to, but above average compared to most fighting games I’ve played this year. Looks pretty damn good for an NES game, and has a fun gimmick with the characters having detachable limbs. 6/10, Sukapon should’ve been in arms
-Kirby’s super star stacker: Star stacker for the GB but with better graphics. I appreciate that Hal went out of their way to make a unique puzzle game, but I kinda would’ve liked it better as a puzzle league clone. 5/10, decent puzzle game
-Excite Bike 64: MUCH better than the first excite bike, and a fun time. Would never say I understand the game at all, but it was fun racing around. 6/10
-F-zero 99: REALLY GOOD. I low F-zero, and was a tad disapointed we weren’t getting a GX remaster, but this is good appetizer. Racing to the death against 98 other players online is an incredible idea, and I’m so glad they didn’t make it like Mario 35, which felt like waste potential. All I ask for is Zelda 4 swords for the GBA to get made into Zelda 99 swords, a team based game with 25 teams trying to complete a dungeon while fighting against each other. 7/10, another reason to buy NSO
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-Lego marvel super hero’s 2: Game literally soft locked itself on level 16 of 20, so I quit. 4/10, what happened to Lego Star Wars level quality? Speaking of which….
-Lego Star Wars, the complete saga: Perfect star wars AND Lego game. Has all the mechanics a Lego game needs, and has tons of fan service for Star Wars fans. All the characters play really well, the levels are fun and have cool gimmicks, and the game has a sense of humor while also being serious at times. 8/10, an all time classic
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TF2: Very fun game, really enjoyed it. You can see how it inspired so many other FPS game that came after it, and yet it still has its own unique style and attributes that sets it above and beyond competitors. 8/10, can’t wait to play more
Left for dead 2: Another really good game. Has a quality more multiplayer game should strive for and is actually fun in Single-player, The multiplayer is tons of fun, with the zombies all having really unique moves that work well together. 8/10 (man I should play more valve games)
Brawlhala: Garbage, so bad that putting it next to Left for dead 2 is an affront to that game. The game is free and yet somehow I feel like I was robbed for having to play it for more than 3 minutes. 1/10, the price really tells you all you need to know about the games quality
SCP the escape: Good little time. Obviously not the most polished game, but running around the complex with the squad is still fun. The best parts are when the statue comes out and everyone mad dashes to get away. 7/10