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Ocarina of Time was the new benchmark for action-adventure games at the time, it created a new standart that it was impossible to think any game would do it again. When the game started I wasn't so sure of how good it would be, the games strenght was in its dungeons, having some real cool puzzles and sense of discovery. But then, the master sword + time sequence happen (I won't spoil) and the game completely blew me…
The idea of making Chrono Trigger started by a colaboration between three japanese "giants" in the industry: Hironobu Sakaguchi (creator of Final Fantasy), Yuji Hori (creator of Dragon Quest) and Akira Toriyama (creator of Dragon Ball) had an event to attend in the US and they traveled together, where they shared the idea of making a game together. Just by this history you must have a vision of how great this game…
Final Fantasy 6 has the most number of playable characters in the series, with each one having a meaningful backstory, plus, the game doesn't really have a main protagonist. That was something that the developers wanted, making most of the characters equal to the importance of the party and having emotional attachment with the player, and they succeeded. The game also has a diverse soundtrack that is considered a…
I loved Secret of Mana already, as it was. And this game improved alot on it, with a better pace for the combat, character customization, giving you the ability to distribute your skill points as you wish, on whatever you want to focus. But the main thing about this game is the fact that at the beginning of the game, you have a choice between 6 characters, and you have to pick 3 of them, one main character and two…
I'm just amazed by this game, how could they make a style of open world game in 1996? It's incredible, the evolutions in the graphic department and with the controls, having the analog stick on the N64, was great. Most of the time, the 3D games from that era don't hold up, but that doesn't happen with this one. You can play this game today and see how great it is, so just imagine how great it was at the time. I only…
Hollow Knight is the true modern metroidvania game, it's fresh, with really tight controls and it gives that atmospheric sense just like Super Metroid at its time. It's not hard to get lost in this dark world, full of intriguing bugs and curious places. The game is so rich in content and unexplored lore, the deeper I went into Hollow Knight, the more I was surprised at just how much content and freedom it has to…
The games in the 3rd generation of Pokémon had a couple of new things compared to it's predecessor. But most of it, it was still a traditional Pokémon trainer journey. You choose to play as either a boy or a girl, name your character, and then set out on a lengthy adventure as you attempt to become the greatest Pokémon trainer in the world. Along the way, you'll visit a number of different towns, compete against…
Cuphead was a game that caught everybodys attention when was first show just for a few seconds on E3. All that we heard was "what was that? we want to see more of that!" and the game went rogue for a couple of years. It was clear that it had a unique art style, a 1930s-ish cartoon, hand drawn, give me that. It's funny to look back and think: how did nobody else tought of that? huh! When the game finally came out, it…
Monster Hunter World was the first game in the series that I played for a huge amount. I tried the PS2 and the PSP games but only for a couple of hours. The game has a loop that the name implies, you hunt monsters, you go into the wilds, look for clues on where the monster will be, go find it and hunt it, killing or capturing it. You have tons of options for weapons and armor, that you'll craft throughout the game…
Shadow of Mordor was one of the biggest surprises in video game history. An action hack 'n slash game with the Lord of the Rings lincese, telling a side story, getting huge amounts of praise from the industry? What!? Everybody expect this type of game to be full of gimmicks and have a bad story to tell. Sure, Shadow of Mordor has that, a story that doesn't grab you and some fan services that makes no sense and don't…
Dead Cells is the perfect combination of genres, it makes you experience the thrill of discovery of games like Super Metroid and also the learning process of a roguelike, making you go through levels, learn the mechanics, probably die on the first couple of tries and comeback each time more prepared. The game has just the right amount of enemie variety, not giving you hundreds of different pattern to learn but also…
Final Fantasy 4 was the first in the series to combine a great gameplay with a great story, the first 3 lacked one of the two, you can call the first of the great ones. The character design and personality was revolutionary in a RPG at the time. The character driven plot making a dramatic narrative, going for things like search for morality, makes alot of fans of the series consider the 4th game to be the best in…
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is considered by many, as the greatest game of all time. Even if you ask people that don't necessarily agree, most of them can understand why. The game is what you can call a perfect sequel, picks up what the first game did great and upgrade it in every level. Better graphics, better soundtrack, more fluid gameplay, more secrets, more upgrades, more diversity and places to…
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TMNT: Turtles in Time is, in my opinion, a definition of how to perfect a genre. It's so fun, so balanced and with so much personality. The game looks amazing for its era, the soundtrack is one of the best of the SNES games. The game is a side-scrolling beat'em up, one of the best couch co-op games you can play. You can choose from all four Turtles, each one having their traditional weapons and fight style. The…
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Road Rash was a really fun game, for me as a kid was incredible to see a guys racing on bikes in absurdly high speeds while punching and kicking each other, even using weapons some times. I had so many laughs playing it, and it was one of the first games I've ever done everything that was possible on a "playthrough". It had a really nice system, you could buy better bikes and the game became even faster, but also…
1991 was a incredible year for side-scrolling beat'em up (or hack n slash) games. My three favorite games of all time from the genre, came out in that year. Two of them, are hidden gems that most people probably never played. And one of them is The King of Dragons, in my opinion, the second best game of all time in it's genre after Turtles in Time. It has a medieval setting, that gives you five different characters…
1991 was a incredible year for side-scrolling beat'em up (or hack n slash) games. My three favorite games of all time from the genre, came out in that year. Two of them, are hidden gems that most people probably never played. And one of them is Knights of the Round. The game gives you three characters: Arthur, Lancelot and Percival, in a medieval setting, you just go right and kill lots of enemies with your sword or…
After SEGA saw the amount of success Nintendo was having just by the fact that they created a character in a game series, that became a mascot and the face of the platformer genre, they only have one way to go and that was making a mascot of their own to compete on the market. They came up with the blue hedgehog wearing his red shoes and running as fast as a camera could possibly follow him (sometimes even breaking…
It was really impressive at the time to see Street Fighter 2, the character movement and variety was really good. Took full advantage of the 16-bit console, despite being really early at the console life cycle. But the controls were just not that good, and with time they became horrible. The game had 8 character for you to select from, plus the 4 (Balrog, Vega, Sagat and Bison) that were controled just by the CPU.…
In this game you run down a road, with the camera behind you, and you have to catch birds and avoid the other things like a bus, a car, a river, etc... The levels kept changing each time but the gameplay was always the same, I didn't mind as much the design. It was a great quick time killer, with some really cool graphics for it's time. The late game can be a bit boring but I played a whole lot of it.
I've never felt the love for the NES games of the franchise like a lot of fans did. Super Castlevania IV was the first one to caught my eye, making it some very interesting changes to the look and gameplay. The better graphics to the platforms and the ability to swing your whip was a very important upgrade to the fluidity of the game. Really diverse and engaging level design was the biggest strenght of the game, you…
The main concept that Mega Man 4 had was to introduce us to the chraged Mega Buster. What was a great idea and later would become one of my main positives for a Mega Man game, but in their first try it made the game slow, and took too long for you to charge it. After Capcom perfecting the formula with Mega Man 3, in my opinion. And Mega Man 2 being a big step up from the original, and having amazing…
I never played the first two Ninja Gaiden games, all that I herd was that they were very difficult but good. And I can say that this is how I would describe Ninja Gaiden III. I really enjoyed the game and it's style but it was really hard. The game is still a solid and impressive action game from the NES era, but it's also a game that missed out on capitalizing on its early potential. As a result, this game that…
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Alot of people consider the first Monkey Island game to be better, because it was original. It's usually hard for a sequel to succeed, because it has to improve without losing what made the original good. And I think LeChuck's Revenge did that, it's a better game, in my opinion. The humor is as good if not better, and it doesn't have the slow start that the first game had. Obviously it's not the start of the…
Sunset Riders is a really weird shoot'em up. It has lots of style and A WHOLE LOT of colors to it. It was so funny to see it for the first time, a cowboy wearing some pink blanket and a pink hat? Another one wearing a combination of yellow and pink clothes? The shots you fire being green, pink and other really stand out colors and you riding some really colorfull horses. It was just so weird, in a good way. It felt…
It was kind of easy for this game to stand out amongst a very popular and competitive genre at the time, by having a very unique license to it, who in the world doesn't know The Simpsons? And then you put then on the street to brawl and beat some bad guys up, with very funny animations and clever weapons to pick up. Just a amazing idea that grabbed so many people when they were walking by a arcade machine and saw…
Street of Rage is the basic setting of what you can think when someone says side-scrolling beat'em up. Some fighters walking right and beating up bad guys. So whats that mean? It's really fun, really good especially if you have a friend to play couch co-op with. But this game biggest problem is the year it came out, it was on the same year as so many good side-scrolling action games. Beat'em ups that would become…
Total Carnage was great at keeping alive what Super Smash TV started, a crazy idea for reality, to become a very fun twin stick shooter, with bullet hell and some crazy animations. A setting that makes you laugh for how out of this world it is compared to reality, a very good couch co-op game that has hours and hours of fun for you to have with a friend, if you enjoy this types of game. Very deserving of being a…
Paperboy 2 is one of those games that you don't really expect too much of it, because of the simple idea. But it has you laughing and having a good time, at least for short bursts of time. It was also a game that people who don't usually play video games liked it, or at least watch it someone play. For being a normal day to day job with some crazy twists.
Shuper Ghouls 'N Ghosts is a mixture of run and gun shooter with platformer. Set in a medieval-like setting that you are a Knight with an armor and spears to throw. If you take a hit, your armor breaks, then you get hit again and you die. Not much to be done with that. Unlike most peole, I've never felt like the difficulty in this game was that fair, I hate when games make you suffer a cheap death so that you can…
Tiny Toon Adventures had two things going against it from the jump. The game as a platformer, where we were in the beginning years in one of the biggest rivalries in video games, Mario vs Sonic. Games like Super Mario World and Mega Man 3 had just came out a year earlier. And this one hit the market on the same year as Sonic the Hedgehog, it was a tough going to stand out amongst all the competition. The second…
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Mega Man 3, for me was the best game in the original series. They introduced the dash/slide, giving some clever level designed to be added in the game. The good soundtrack was kept, almost as good as the one from the 2nd game and the bosses, as well as levels received some great improvements on their design. The formula was kept, having you choose which level to go, stealing weapons for the bosses and using them to…
Smash TV was a chaotic game with a really funny idea and well deisnged style. It was good enough to be port to basically every system that existed at the time and was for sure one of the highest levels of fun to be had in a game like this, still is. A TV show where you put a couple of guys in a room and unleash waves of enemies on them, making them have to survive at any cost, is a really crazy idea. It's a hard…
F-zero was a very cool idea, a futuristic racing game published by nintendo. With a very unique style and gameplay, one of the best soundtracks ever made and lots and lots of fun to be had. You could choose between 4 characters and race your way through lots of well designed tracks with lots of variety. It was also a good game to just goof around, like launching yourself over the track and creating an explosion.…
After the first 3 Dragon Quest games and the first 3 Final Fantasy games, none of the games had being able to combine a overall package like fans were waiting for, Dragon Quest 4 was a really nice upgrade tho, taking us a few steps closer to that goal, it was able to combine a really good story, well designed and thought out, with interesting and diverse gameplay. Making you have your own character, and then play…
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I really enjoyed when I first played games like Final Fight and TMNT, and then when I saw that there was a 2D side-scrolling beat'em up game with a medieval setting, made me really pumped to try it. I had a really nice time with it, it had different characters to choose between and some cool enemies design, despite lots of repetition, what was a common thing at the time.
Warlords is the first game I remember playing with a 4 player multiplayer, it was a great way to have fun with other people, despite being a simple design. It wasn't anything close to bad at the time, I had lots of fun. The game since has come out in various versions, I hope younger people have a chance to check it out.
Duck Hunt impressed me alot when I first saw, the fact that you could use a gun shaped controller to point to the screen and pretend like you were shooting in the game. That was awesome! But the game itself was very simple, it was really fun to play for short periods of time. And Duck Hunt has a unique look to it, everybody remembers the look of the game, with the dog that laughed at you. Really decent for the time
Mario showed up for the first time on Donkey Kong, but the first game he got for himself, the first Mario Bros, was this one. It was well designed for its time, having some nice and challenging gameplay. With a nice pace increasing the difficulty with very cool changes from level to level. It's a classic with the most recognazible character in video games history.
Excitebike is a really simple designed game that always made me smile while playing it, and some times having some laughs at the crazy crashes your biker can have. I had a hard time being completely serious throughout the game, and not trying some stupid stuff that ended up making me fall. I still have it on a handheld device till this day and some times just give it a go. Still awesome.
Punch Out is a game like no other, you can't really say it's a fighting game. You might say it's a sports game, for being a boxing game, but what it really feels is like a puzzle game. A game that you have to find the combination of movements necessary for you to win the fight, being very patient, as well as having some good reflexes for when you don't know exactly what's is coming next. I've never managed to beat…
R-Type is one of the best of it's genre, being a 2D side-scrolling shoot'em up, and I had it for my Gameboy, on a cartridge that came with a collection of 20ish games in one package. It was one of the games that I played the most on the system, it was really well designed, with good controls. People who like the genre really should give it a try, is one of the best ones out there.
UN Squadron is one of the best 2D side-scrolling shoot'em ups ever made, and it was made so long ago. The game felt so pretty when it first came out, as well as having amazing controls and a really good balance overall. You can select from a few different characters and buy different fighters (planes) as you progress throughout the campaing. A really clever game that might be the best of it's genre. A underrated…
Maybe the first game I've played in an arcade, this was awesome and really fun at the time, but it became really hard in some parts. At least it gave the blueprint to what was to come in the series, and probably what would be the best game in the genre. A arcade classic that made me love the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the years to come.
Final Fight was my first game on the side-scrolling beat'em up genre, and made me realize that I could really enjoy some more games like that. It had some characters that stuck around for a long time and made spend lots of hours trying to finish and I'm not sure I was ever able to do. But I really enjoyed it, and I'm glad I saw it, that was the first step for me to try other games like this, having a sense that the…
Volleyball isn't a sport that we see alot of games try to make it. And for a simple device as the Gameboy, you could think this would be a disaster. But that wasn't the case, Malibu Beach Volleyball really gave me alot a fun on my GBC when I played it, had simple controls and fair gameplay against the AI. Very easy to pickup, but hard to become great at it. I have to give props to this game to come out when it did,…
Just like Zelda 2 and Super Mario Bros 2, Final Fantasy 2 was a very different take on the series compared to its predecessor. I really enjoyed the game, unlike the 2s on the other two franchises I mentioned before, but FF2 took a strange road. They went for a training system, meaning that, you upgrade the level of something the more you use it. To improve your magic, use that magic. To improve your normal attack,…
Super Mario Bros 2, in the west, isn't really SMB2, it was a re-skin of Doki Doki Panic, a japanese game. Nintendo thought that the true SMB2, that after came to the west as Super Mario Bros Lost Levels, was too hard for the public outside of Japan, givinng us this different take on the series. When I first launched the game I was so hyped that you could choose between 4 characters from the Mario Universe, those…
