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Best Rereleases of 2015

by themasterds

This year has had many rereleases. Here is a lot of the top 9 (where did #10 go) of them.

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Rare Replay

1. Rare Replay

This is the best game collection on any platform ever ever ever.

Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

2. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

This is just a VC release but damn it it's still one of the greatest games of all time and its rerelease is still significant.

Donkey Kong 64

3. Donkey Kong 64

This game isn't great but man I didn't think it'd ever be rereleased. It didn't happen on the Wii, it happening on the Wii U basically makes it the Earthbound of the N64 Wii U VC. Except it's not great.

Paper Mario

4. Paper Mario

Can never go wrong with Paper Mario, this game is phenomenal still.

Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!

5. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!

They did a smart thing here deciding they couldn't beat DKC2's perfection so they just did weird experimental stuff instead. It's still a great game and very worthy of this list.

Donkey Kong Country

6. Donkey Kong Country

The Original.

Donkey Kong Land

7. Donkey Kong Land

I love that they released all 6 Rare DKC/DKL games. This is the most novel of the DKL ones. The other ones tighten up everything but this one has the most going on.

Grim Fandango

8. Grim Fandango

Fairly good remake, very well done. Loved the addition of commentary, shame the puzzle design is so archaic. This is the perfect encapsulation of the best and worst of adventure games.

Earthbound Beginnings

9. Earthbound Beginnings

I didn't play it, but I appreciated that they did this. Releasing games that never came to America... That's great. Technically this isn't a rerelease but whatever.