Do you know how many times I had to do this giraffe level as a kid? The Lion King video game looked great, despite my obvious flaws while playing it. Fans of the Disney film will know the storyline and love the tunes that feature through the game too, as well as cameos from other lovable characters.
Players control Simba as both a cub and a fully grown adult as the game progresses. Cub Simba can only roar and jump on stuff, but adult Simba is a bonafide badass.
Kirby never gets a day off. This colourful, once peaceful world is about to be the torn asunder by the forces of evil right before your very eyes! This title is a puzzle fans dream. Compared to Lufia and the Fortress of Doom, Rise of the Sinistrals feels like a much more polished game.
Rise of the Sinistrals is a prequel to the original Lufia adventure. It follows the story of Maxim, the ancester of the main character who finds himself mixed up in a fierce battle between mankind and a bunch of all-powerful gods. In true RPG style, players delve into dungeons, kill baddies, and level up. Save up cash and items to buy spells and weapons or search the vast levels for them instead.
Dixie won the hearts of gamers everywhere in Donkey Kong Country 2. So much so, in fact, that she was given a chance to take the limelight along with her cousin, Kiddy Kong. The game is very similar to the first two adventures as far as looks and gameplay mechanics are concerned.
The pre-rendered graphics that Shigeru Miyamoto hated so much make a return, as do King K. Rule and his Kremlins. Rool himself. Animals play a big part in the game too, with Enguarde the Swordfish returning alongside new animals such as Ellie the Elephant. Job done. Double DK! Seriously, K. The pre-rendered 3D-esque graphics look brilliant, in my humble opinion. Take it turns to fight bad guys and then wait while they pummel you as you battle it out to see who will come out victorious.
Mario can team up with three other characters, and the whole thing feels so familiar to an RPG nerd like me. What is there to say about FF3? With 1. The game follows four orphans who are given powers by a mysterious crystal of light. Leaving their floating continent, the four young warriors must delve into the world below. FF3 remains one of my favourite games to kick back with. The storyline is superb, the graphics are great, and the camaraderie between the four orphan main characters is fantastic.
This game is a must-have for fans of the Pink Peril himself. The games are brilliant and this compendium brings new moves and never-before used abilities to the table.
It was the home of not only the best platformers of the day but also a console that brought the best RPGs Japan had to offer. The SNES was the birthplace of the Metroidvania as well as the first console to let us kart race with Mario and friends. There are so many classic titles on the SNES that a few have fallen by the wayside over the years.
Here are the 25 best SNES games of all time:. We all remember the classics of the bit era, but it was also a time when every single cartoon, movie, and toy line had a questionable video game attached to it.
Ad — content continues below. The SNES version also added a bunch of new enemies, bosses, and levels over the arcade version, making it the preferred way to play Turtles in Time. It even plays better than the 3D remake released on the PS3 and Xbox Plus, it came out well after the release of the Nintendo 64 , PlayStation , and the Sega Saturn — a console generation that introduced 3D graphics to gaming. Those who stuck with the SNES to check out Harvest Moon found a charming life simulator about managing crops and livestock while making friends in a new town.
Long before remasters were a regular occurrence, Nintendo took its already classic Super Mario Bros. To top things off, the package included a then-rare save feature and the super difficult Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. The first three Super Mario Bros. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! If you do want to experience Secret of Mana again, or for the first time, just remember to stick with the SNES version.
The title has been remade twice now, but neither of those versions has the same charm as the original. Nintendo, did you take the idea of my favourite Zelda game from Crystalis?! Use weapons and equip different armour as you prepare to uncover the mysterious of the mysterious watchtower.
Learn magical skills from wise people and gather magical swords to pull off extraordinary attacks. Like every other RPG ever made, the player must improve their stats through points garnered from battles. While I was never much of a huge RPG gamer myself the roots of this storied series started with this title and for good reason. Metroid cements itself on this list because it was able to so harmoniously dovetail multiple styles of games into something fresh and new.
As a platformer alone it would have been fun. As an adventure game where you gain new powers as you go along it would have been great.
But as a non-linear, suspenseful, sci-fi, platformer, adventure game, that executes on all aspects, that etches its place in history. Metroid and Castlevania are historically always tied to one another for their many similarities, in structure and gameplay but Metroid lands higher on this list for me because of how smoothly it plays.
Crawling through caves and noticing details only to discover you were on to something but need to gain an ability later, will pique your curiosity and sense of exploration. This game is worth your time. It was such a breath of fresh air because it foreshadowed games to come from the Super Nintendo in the mid life cycle of the best NES games.
Many say this is the strongest Mario title on the system but I would argue, because you cannot have Super Mario Bros. THE puzzle game period.
Tetris remains one of the purest puzzle games of all time and is undoubtedly aone of the best NES games of all time. It reached a legendary status matched only by game giants that transcend the video game world and have lasted for hundreds of years. The game is so ubiquitous it can be found in some form on nearly any type of computing device and is recognized worldwide.
The story of how Tetris got where it is and with Nintendo is utter madness and yet still it pales in comparison to the game itself. Tetris tournaments like the Classic Tetris World Championships are still going strong and new riffs on the game are alive and relevant to this day. I would be shocked if you have never played Tetris because of the ubiquity of the Gameboy version, but many have never played it on the NES, do yourself a favor and check it out. What can be said of The Legend of Zelda that has not been said before.
You must have expected this one in our best NES games list1. The Legend of Zelda, a close second to my number one pick, set a level of excellence for an emerging genre and launched a storied franchise.
With The Legend of Zelda, again Nintendo took something that had been done before and polished it to a mirror sheen. While titles like Final Fantasy were exceptional, many see The Legend of Zelda as a formative title bringing adventure RPGs from the computer world and into the living room for the masses. Another title among several on this list touched by the brilliant mind of Shigeru Miyamoto, it introduced new ideas to the genre, was challenging, looked great and sounded unforgettable. If you are looking to get into adventure style RPG games, this top down style game is where you should start.
We are currently waiting for a new Zelda game to play too! Super Mario Bros. It was as crisp and pure as the corners of the pixels it pushed. The game was tough but not punishing and you could play it at your own pace, albeit blistering, snail or anywhere in between as long as you nailed the jump. In this iteration Mario grew into the Mickey Mouse of video games and there has been no going back. Almost everyone is familiar with him and likely played or seen someone play Super Mario Bros.
The Mario games have a unique quality to them, an almost kinetic connection with your controller and Mario on the screen. Super Mario World in particular is the game I probably played the most growing up, and to this day it remains my absolute favorite in the franchise. But in my opinion all 4 of these games are absolute classics that everyone should play at some point. My first experience playing Super Metroid was ironically not growing up.
It came much later, when I was in my teens and had just started getting into emulation and exploring games that I had never had the chance to play growing up. And Super Metroid became the strongest experience I had coming from this time in my life. The only enduring image I had of Super Metroid was from an ad poster that came with one of our games growing up, and it was the image above, the statue of the four bosses.
This image evoked a lot in me when I looked at it, most of all it envoked a deep curiousity. What type of game was this, who were these creatures, what was it about? All of these questions became answered much later when I finally sat down to play Super Metroid after a decade of waiting. I had probably never felt so deeply engrossed in a 16 bit game before. The atmosphere. The story that was told exclusively through visual cues, without a single word of dialogue.
The amazing soundtrack filled with industrial sounds and haunting melodies. Foreboding levels that seemed daunting yet inviting. The unforgettable boss fights that had all kinds of hidden strategies in them.
It feels purposeful, like nothing is wasted.
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