I actually really love Star Fox Adventures and Assault. I totally understand the issues people had with them, with Adventures literally being a game that was forced to have Star Fox characters slapped on it at the request of Miyamoto (was originally Dinosaur Planet, and the gameplay was almost indentical). For what it is, it's a very well made game, easily one of the better Zelda clones I've ever played, and visually looked amazing at the time. It's also probably the last game Rare made that I really got into, as their Xbox era stuff did nothing for me, so I look at it as Rare's swan song for Nintendo. (sorry Nuts & Bolts and Viva-Pinata fans). As for Star Fox Assault, I really didn't mind the on-ground missions and thought the game was a lot of fun, though the lack of branching paths was kinda of a bummer at the time.
Resident Evil 5 gets a lot of hate these days, not to the same level as 6, sure, but it was definitely a turning point for the series that left a bad taste in people's mouth's. While the lack of puzzle's and tedium of dealing with Sheva's inventory was annoying, and the scariness was thrown out almost completely, I really loved the game as a whole, it's definitely not some masterpiece the same way I would classify RE 1, 2 and 4 as, but a totally fun and well-made game that I thought closed off the Wesker storyline in an entertaining, albeit ridiculous in a fun, big-budget B-movie kind of way.
Kid Icarus: Uprising was surprisingly fun with really great humor and visuals. As someone who has no nostalgia for the original Kid Icarus, I got really into it, but can totally see why others hated it. It was also a bad portable game.
I loved Twilight Princess and find it has some of the best dungeons, boss fights, and characters of any Zelda game, even if I agree with others that the Wolf Link stuff isn't great, I find everything else about the game awesome, even if it does play it a little too safe in terms of pushing the Zelda series forward. I also really like Skyward Sword, though am a little bit more mixed on Skyward Sword as a whole despite liking it overall (FUCK FI!!!).
Metal Gear Solid 4, Mass Effect 3, Grand Theft Auto 4, L.A. Noire and Bioshock Infinite are all games that were critically well-recieved but are super contentious and divisive these days for various reasons, yet I love ALL 5 of them immensely and would easily rank all of them among my favorite games of all-time.
Last but not least, I'm one of those weirdo's who LOVES Shenmue, even in spite of the recent endurance run. I totally understand the issues people have with it, and I definitely think it's not an easy game to go back to today unless you get swept up in its ambition and let yourself get immersed in its weirdness and embrace all of its miniutiae and find it's mundane qualities charming, but I love it just the same, and CANNOT WAIT for Shenmue 3.
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