by undeadpool
Was watching Jeff play and rank old NES games after realizing he wasn't sure he could come up with 10 he thought were "actually great," and wondered if I could come up with 20 SNES games that I think are "actually great." Turns out: I can! The list is unordered, and some are definitely more "favorites" than "great," but WOW! What a console to have growing up.
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It's a perfect game and has aged like fine whiskey. My partner played it on the SNES Classic and absolutely adored it.
This game made me feel things before I knew videogames could do that. The part where it just murders the main character is still jaw-dropping.
Honestly a bit over my head at the time, but I grew to really love and appreciate the complexity of it.
Foundational to the genre and medium as a whole.
My GOD, we played this game forever as kids.
I always got stuck, but I just couldn't stop playing this. The fact that your dog changed with the time period did a lot to ingratiate this game to me.
What Mario World was to platformers, this was to home console fighting games. Didn't actually play it much back in the day, but absolutely loved it.
Boy, I really DID play a lot of RPGs as a kid, didn't I? Almost like I didn't know a lot of people who played videogames until the N64. This one suffers from a bit of "being very generic" at the end of the day, but the character designs do a LOT of heavy lifting. Oh and the music is tremendous, I think that sells the epic story better than the actual writing.
Genuinely think this game gets a little too much credit (and my GOD, that box art couldn't be trying harder to rip off Conan) but it's mostly dragged down by difficulty walls requiring way too much grinding. The story and characters are top-notch.
Didn't actually play it back in the day, but going back to it, it's REAL damn good. I have no idea why I bounced off it or didn't give it a chance as a kid, it's entirely up my alley.
