Kim Justice's Top 50 SNES Games of All-Time

we can't have a nest list and not have a snes list can we just like not having snes means that this group of lists of games featuring all my favorite consoles is incomplete the snes was my first nintendo machine back in 1992 and really while i probably played more snes games through the old rental shop than i did for having them it's in the old mega drive got as much time as each other it's still quite a special machine and still my favorite nintendo console by far so the same rules apply as ever we've got my favorite 50 snes games coming up i'll be quoting about them for a minute or so each we'll see some gameplay and they'll no doubt be some unconventional choices in there that you wouldn't normally see on any other person's list that's just how i roll after all so yeah let's do this already the number 50 game is actually quite an apt way to start jurassic park for me is kind of the epitome of a rental game i would have never actually wanted to buy this title for various reasons but i did rent it quite a lot as it's pretty perfect for that yes ocean's jurassic park is flawed in many areas despite being by far their most ambitious movie titan the game is stupidly unforgiving and will happily kill you immediately if you destroy off the expected path and those first person segments haven't exactly aged brilliantly these flaws are all pretty noticeable now and it's clear that sega's more straightforward action platformer is the far superior game in every way as a child who loved dinosaurs and jurassic park however the promise of being able to explore the place somewhat in this game was very alluring and kept me going back at least for another couple of nights of time here's the snes's own mickey mouse game now of course mickey mouse was far better suited to the sega that's just obvious really but magical quest isn't a slouch it is a lot like a 16-bit version of all the classic 8-bit capcom platformers with quite the similar feel about it such games take a bit of a back seat homelessness compared to platformers that are a bit less of a throwback in their design but the snes has still got the odd cracker line about and this is a good one even if you'd be silly to pit it against castle of illusion or whatever [Music] shoot em up sunlessness tend to get a bit of a bad rap sometimes mainly from people like me who are comparing them to sega's shmup collection it's easy to exaggerate the presence of slowdown and what have you but the snes is home to some awesome schmutz and it's the only place where you could find r-types excellent sequels super r-type is a fearsome brute the sort of bastard shmup that takes you back to the very start of the bloody stage even if you die on the boss but the classic play complete with all the charging and weapons and careful guidance you can eat is still there and it does set up for something even better later on [Music] top gear 2 is up next for a nice little bit of racing action since this is from the same guys who did the lotus games that are so bloody good on amiga it's not exactly a shock that this one's awesome it's pretty similar with more focus on doing laps as opposed to beating arcade countdowns there's the same great playability and the same fantastic barry leech music these games were quietly the best races you could get on 16 bits and there's quite a clear line from this game to excellent modern revivals like horizon chase turbo gremlin magnetic fields and kemko all did a brilliant job here [Applause] [Music] [Music] un squadron while it's a shame that the game's even better sequel the utterly stunning carrier erwin never really left the arcade i've certainly got a lot of time for un squadron on snitz it is one of the system's first shooters and as such there's going to be a bit of the old slow down when finns get really going but that does also mean the action is quite a big rush throughout with lots of fins to blast and enemies to avoid while also keeping your planes chock full of weapons and upgraded for the next battle capcom did a lot here to make a proper home version of the game rather than just converting the arcade to the snitz and it was definitely worth it [Music] it's time for an isometric racer and it's also time for konami's first appearance on the list and of course it will not be the last snes and konami like snes and capcom are simply matches made in heaven and they're going to be all over every inch of this list anywho this is the really cool and underrated biker mice for mars a racer made for a relatively short-lived but well-remembered cartoon and one that's got all you want from one of these games it's the sort of thing where there's so many power ups and weapons that it's easy to go from first to last and then back to first in a single lap the action can get pretty mad sometimes it's hard to even stay on the track in fact it's a bit of a riot and just the thing you'd want for a tie into this bodacious series and hey how about another konami game this is of course axelay it's another pretty early snes shooter and it's the one that is the mode 7 fist going all about with sprite rotation and zoom in to make something that's quite similar to the likes of seal feed easy not on your nelly good definitely even if it might take a few tries to get used to other different viewpoints it's a shoot em up with a lot to love about it once you get into its flow and it goes with some cracking music too [Music] there's something different by far the most recent addition to the top 50 coming courtesy of the latest japanese wrestling games video funaki matakatsu hybrid wrestler is as close to a firepro beta as you're going to find on here it looks cracking it's got all the moves including stuff like springboard moves that you don't really see in any other 16-bit wrestling title and it's incredibly easy to pick up and play way more so than firepro is it goes without saying that the influence of firequote takes that game up further in this list of course but this game is the absolute best wrestling title on the system that isn't named fire pro meanwhile in the west we were stuck with wwf world wumble and wcw super bowl jealousy intensifies [Music] if there is one thing that's regrettable about super ghouls and ghosts is that you wish it had come out from the snes a couple of years later than when it did if only because it might have lacked the slowdown that's solved and present in early snes titles and does have a fair bit of effect here otherwise yeah this is obviously great an all-new sequel to arthur's previous adventures where he's learnt how to double jump his golden armor is more valuable than ever and the game goes to many places where the series had yet to trit you'll still have to do it all twice if you want to win mind you once again the presence of ghouls and ghosts on the system sets up for something even more epic later on in the list [Music] arkanoid it's here it's arkanoid and well it's the same juiced up breakout action you've long come to expect but it's always nice to see from taito as a sequel of sorts do it again doesn't try to reinvent the wheel or anything like that and it's mostly just like its predecessors but then arkanoid is a hell of a lot of fun an almost relaxing game of high difficulty especially when you actually get into a sort of zone with it of course it's easy for that zone to break usually when a power-up suddenly tempts you away from watching the ball and you realize all too late that you're not going to make it back to that ball in time it should be so simple to just hit the ball back and forth but greed is unquestionably your greatest enemy that's the hidden secret behind this legendary game's appeal really silicon and synapse make the first of three appearances in this top 50 and it's another isometric racer their excellent rock and roll racing the appeal of this one is obviously quite similar to biker mice from mars it's wild there's lots of power-ups that make you feel as though you're never really out of a race it's a lot of quite casual fun presentation is what gives it the edge of course this is the stunner with a micro machines-esque squad of memorable characters a bunch of commentary and killer tunes when you've got the likes of paranoid or highway star pumping out of the snes's sound chip that's definitely going to make this game the kin of the 16-bit isometric races that's for damn sure [Music] capcom are back once again and this time it's with another disney tyne the quite different and pretty cool goof troop while this game is very clearly designed with two players in mind it's still quite fun with the single player there's a little bit of puzzling a little bit of exploration and a little bit of careful timing as you try and bash those enemies with your blocks and other assaulted items before they catch up with you block moving games like this are always quite appealing to me and goof troops variety gives it a nice edge as opposed to it being just a puzzle or an action game [Music] batman returns as good a film as it is represents a rather mixed bunch of tines a miserable effort on the mega drive for sunsoft some actually interesting attempts on the 8-bit consoles a better mega cd title where you could just focus on the driving a shambolic and unfinished amiga game but it's quite clear that konami's beat him up on the snes smashes the lot of limb it may not be the most imaginative approach but a batman beat em up from the guys who utterly ruled loose when it came to licensed time em ups this is such an obvious winning formula it's no real surprise that batman returns is great it's not quite konami's best beat-em-up on the system but it's not all that far behind [Music] we have some sport next there's only a couple of timeless sports games this time around oddly less than there were from the nest list but the two latter here are great and super tennis is still one of the best emulations of the sport nearly 30 years after it originally came out it shouldn't be all that hard to do tennis really how video game started by emulating tennis so how come so many managed to screw it up this one doesn't it's got all the shots of course but it's also got a varied set of opponents and a pretty challenging ai that's always going to give you a bit of a test no matter how good you get at the game and of course it's got that little bit of kind of unnecessary but still welcome mode 7 flashiness that you should expect out of an early snes title brilliant little game play it's a game by human it's got fire in the title but it's actually not firepro at least not yet this is the firemen a rather odd top-down game that only saw a western release in europe japan does seem to have this fin four action-packed titles based around being a fireman and while it might be odd to see conflagrations that are essentially sentient or moving around in patterns you get used to it pretty quickly and here in the firemen they're the basis for an excellent top-down game much in the same vein of something like gremlins 2. the frequent chatter helps too as your team continues to battle their way through this skyscraper shelby's playing fahrenheit or watching backdraft doesn't it capcom once again disney once again and it's aladdin now my heart will very clearly always be with sega's aladdin game for me that's obviously going to be the better title but in no way does that mean this game is bad in fact capcom's aladdin is really good and if anything a wee bit underrated what i really enjoy here is how acrobatic good old prince ali is the fun in this game is seen just how often you can vault on everything from enemies to platforms and even power-up containers here at kim towers we love platformers where speedy and flashy players generally rewarded and aladdin's got a nice bit of a line in that in the end both this and the mega drive title are really good [Music] smash tv is one of the greatest arcade games of all time and naturally it got ported to quite literally everything seriously you can even play the game on zx spectrum if you really wanted to it fails there as it generally failed on every other platform but certainly not on snes this is brilliant i suppose the reason is obvious the snes has the perfect control pad for the game meaning that playing it is dead simple certainly much better than playing it on mega drive i mean it would take 25 more years for a crack squadron to create a superb smash matching arena shooter experience for your mega drive that being zeno crisis but super smash was the champion for a long time it just completely nailed the legend just two entries ago i spoke of how i love platforms where you can be flashy and really it's hard to look past hagane for flashiness this is another one of those poster children for rare and brilliant snes games it was only ever available in the west as an exclusive in blockbusters and as such it's quite expensive but yeah it's very cool our hero here has an utterly ridiculous arsenal of moves multiple weapons dodging dashing smart bombs double jumps a wall jump screw attack elongated acrobatic super attacks there's so much coolness it's a real joy to play this game as ridiculous and as flashy as you possibly can although this is obviously what ends up getting you in trouble you do something stupid and you get hit or killed or fall into a pit or whatever still an utterly magic title mind you the soon-to-be blizzard boys are back again and this is most definitely their most famous 16-bit title we all love the lost vikings a trio of north small orders taken completely out of their time all of which have a very specific and necessary skill swift can jump all over the shop baleog has his sword and bow and olaf's shield could deflect a cruise missile you're gonna need all of them to get through just about every stage and avoid a viking funeral of course but the absolute ton of character that the game has is what takes it from being just a really good puzzle platformer into a work of genius now i suppose that this is the main odd entry in this list sim city 2000 really people would probably accept the original simcity on snes because that was pretty acclaimed but this certainly wasn't so hear me out back in the mid 90s i wanted to play sim city 2000 for the longest time i saw it in magazines and it was utterly bedazzling but i didn't have a pc and my bog standard amiga 1200 just wasn't up to play in it because i think you needed a hard drive didn't have one so eventually i turned to this version and sure it doesn't exactly look an awful lot like the computer version it's more than a little paired down but as far as playability goes it's still a sim city game meaning that it's endlessly addictive i loved this game back then and played it for many hours and you know what as a console conversion i think it still holds up nicely i can still spend a bit of time constructing a city here while it is no surprise that this got nowhere at all in 1995 i think it's perfectly good here's a pretty cool game that i don't think is too well known fire striker another game that's very much designed with multiplayer in mind but works just fine in single player fire striker is a different sort of take on the breakout formula quite similarly also rather underrated devilishly next possession on mega drive you move your fell around the screen as opposed to just on the bottom and smash your ball as much as possible trying to get to the next screen before the balls and enemies take you down there's also things like boss battles and lots of power-ups to be had and it all makes for a really excellent title that i've seen very few people talk about i highly recommend this one as a good old-fashioned metal jesus rocks standard hidden gem we've had some cool shooters so far but when the almighty compile comes raw in interview it's safe to say that finns kick up a notch space mega forces of course known as super released in other parts of the world and is another very cool entry in compile's complex power up and lots of spectacular weapons type series with big death ray lasers a particular speciality is it quite the perfection of blazing lasers maybe not but it's well uplay with the other released titles like moosha and power strike and as with most every compile shooter playing it is in the words of the late great robert palmer simply irresistible geez that was a bad one it's so bad that i've had to put that was a bad one into the bloody script anyway it was as bad as this game is really good [Music] it is obvious that we'd be seeing a couple of donkey kong country games on this list they're pretty high up there with the system's best platformers at least in my opinion as far as euro platformers go with all their various idiosyncrasies they're amongst the best and i still appreciate the old pre-rendered look that the games have even if not everybody is necessarily a fan dkc2 here is generally the one that's regarded as the best although i did spend an awful lot more time with the first game back in the day and so naturally that's going to be higher not that i would argue too hard with anyone who says that dkc2 improves on the origin and a great deal with more creative levels and plenty more little secrets to be found it's a jolly good one certainly better than dkc free at any rate [Music] and now here's an appearance by kirby i don't have an awful lot of experience with the little pink ball of plumptitude in fact this is shockingly the only kirby game i've actually played and it's not even one of his main games kirby's dream course is this very odd little perverse take on mini golf where you hit our hero very hard and try to knock out all the enemies before getting the ball in the hole he does have a few power-ups to help him along at various times but generally you're going to be relying on your ability to correctly plan and judge a shot just like any other good golf game as you would expect with kirby the presentation is ridiculously cute and jolly and the game itself is just as good i probably ought to play more of this little fella's main games we're very much staying in the cutery netherlands next one konami's awesome jikyo oshibari parodius is one of the best shoot maps on the system and a bloody brilliant late system title now i have to confess that i'm not too big on a lot of konami's shooters i'm honestly not a massive fan of gradius at all but when you trust it up in weird japanese cuteness that allows you to play as a penguin shout obscenities at enemies and become really fat and destroy everything in your path all while there's some crazed commentary in the bargain and that's the game i can most definitely get behind the parodius series represents some of the most outlandish and hilarious shoot-'em-up fun you can have and this is definitely the best of them but enough of cuteness it's time for a big tonal shift and it doesn't get any harder than going from parodius to silicon and synapses black thorn or black hawk if you're in europe for me this is lesnar's premier entry into one of my favorite genres the good old cinematic platformer you can play flashback on here of course but to me that's better suited to the mega drive whereas blackthorne ah that's one for the snes thoroughly moody and grim you play as a badass hero with a shotgun he's so badass that he can shoot finns without even looking at them aside from the usual trappings of the cinematic platformer the cover based shootouts and puzzling make this a definite hit one of those games i could happily play for a good long while there are a few games on this list that shock of horrors i haven't actually completed however i've certainly played enough of them to deem them worthy of a spot even if playing through them would definitely give them a higher ranking we'll be seeing some famous rpgs along these lines as well as this one here mega man x as mentioned before i don't have a lot of mega man xp as i never used to be a fan but i am grown to enjoy the games an awful lot more for my somewhat basic understanding of the x games and their differences to the regular mega man games these are a fair bit darker in tone and they tend to chuck a few more abilities out heroes away lots of charging lots of dashes apparently you can even do a hadouken it's all quite relentless and there's lots to do i need to really properly sit down with it someday and give it my completely undivided attention clearly [Music] axe razer one of the system's first games and for a first game it is kind of an odd one you play as a god and while you've got some very fun action stages to play through complete with yuzo kashiro's excellent soundtrack and all that you've also got those rather odd interludes where you help the people build up their settlement and do away with those evil spirits for good honestly i prefer the straight action mode these days but this is some truly excellent action it's just a bit of a shame that the sequel was a bit of a sluggish stinker as we could have really done with some more x-rays of games [Music] it's time for another sports game and this time we go into good old-fashioned football and a 16-bit footy game that's actually worth playing along with sensible soccer iss deluxe has certainly held up better than the early 16-bit fifa games it's a lot smoother looking a fair bit like a more arcadey game but quite a bit deeper than your football champs or super sidekicks you've got presentation that still holds up which isn't always the case with the sports title and the match play is still quite hot even if the commentary is rather cheesy it's nice to even have it at this time konami seemed to like having commentary in their snes games i have to say that honestly it's even fun to just go into the bloody free practice mode and screw around a little with this game happily heading the ball back and forth piggy in the middle style lovely stuff go we're starting to get more and more serious cybernator is here now also known as the sultitudes falcon and one of the all-time great mech games sure as hell beats out target earth on the mega drive in any case i mean that game's not too bad but this is just a huge improvement it can be a little tricky to get to grips with mecha games sometimes to know what weapon is going to be best for a situation master all the moves you've got and not just dumbly rush into a situation because you're in a gigantic robot and you feel invincible only to then get pelted by a million shots and die in record time cybernator is one of the best introductions out there to a pretty tricky sub-genre more than worthy of a spot this high up [Music] okey dokey it's time to start the top 20. and again even if i've not played this game all the way through and i most certainly will someday as this list would just be incomplete without it now i suppose that begs the question why haven't i played final fantasy 6 or 3 or whatever all the way through sometimes i'm just a bit foolish i suppose i start something have a lot of fun for a good few hours and then for whatever reason my attention span goes and before i know it i've moved on to something else by the time i go back i've kind of forgotten everything and need to start again do i have some sort of block when it comes to lengthy rpgs uh perhaps i have little doubt that if i played this food would be easily in the top 10 or higher [Music] konami are here for yet another entry in the list and it's another game that's a kind of obvious inclusion in this nest list i almost get the feeling that people think of turtles in time as more of a celeste game than it is an arcade conversion weirdly enough it just fits on this platform so well and although i do also enjoy hyperstone heist on the mega drive this is better probably because you can't throw people into the screen in hyperstone heist something that quite simply never gets old in this game right here this is without question the best turtles game even better than the original arcade and quite possibly konami's greatest beat em up of them all which is saying quite a lot [Music] and now it's time for the system's best shooter and this one can happily match up to near enough anything on the mega drive that's a tall statement but our type 3 is just that damn good the r-type series is pretty damn famous of course but i don't know i'm not sure if irem really nailed the concept of just what our type was supposed to be until this game the third lightning feels like the one where they just got it absolutely right the focus on charging shots the often quite maisy stages the weapons that are usually a little bit different from just giving you tons of power in the front our type 3 nails the whole lot and it's by far my favorite entry in the series it does all the usual things that a good schmuck does giving you that adrenaline rush and all that but our type 3 does it in quite a different and very welcome way i said many entries ago that super girls and ghosts set the scene for something even better on here now i suppose that's not the whole truth you also have the old gargoyle's quest spin-off titles to thankfully gothic legend that is demons quest those games were pretty damn good but this is a whole different level for firebrand it's it's certainly very super nintendo now that's a bit of an obtuse statement but i can't really imagine this game been on anything else like if it was a mega drive title it wouldn't have been the same there's a certain type of very atmospheric and very open platformer that only really works on this platform you can probably guess what the signature example of this game is of course but even if demon's quest isn't quite as open as a metroid title it's pretty close in feel [Music] in the last video when i did the nest list i said that super c was my favorite contra game and i have to say that wasn't something i put down without thinking about it it's really close between that game and this one contra or again pro detector if you're european doesn't lose anything in 16 bits i suppose the only real issue here is that those mode 7 horrific top down stages aren't yeah they're not all that great really that's the only reason why i'd have picked super c as my favorite the classic contraction however my goodness just how bloody good is this it's all that you could ever really want in a contra game and even if there have been some other superb entries in the series or in its spin-offs after this one this small classic early contra is still hard to top i wouldn't say that cut racing games are amongst my favorites and i'm not all that big of a fan of the rest of the mario kart series but the original super mario kart absolutely fantastic and my favorite in the series by far why this one i don't know maybe because it doesn't have that annoying blue shell that certainly counts for a lot this is just the one that i always had the most fun with i love all the power-ups in this the satisfaction that comes with a perfectly aimed shell or a perfectly timed mushroom that gets you from the middle of the pack to first place right at the end of a race other entries in the series may look way flashier but this is multiplayer racing fun in its purest form and now of course it's time for fire after years of cruddy 16-bit wrestling games i finally came across this in the early 2000s coinciding perfectly with my newfound love for proess and it was a complete revelation a classic deep timing based system and matches that actually felt like proper wrestling matches you'd see in real life with a huge roster chock full of all my new favorites the misawas kawadas kabashi's jushin thunder ligers they're all here you don't even have to play this if you don't want to you can just watch the computer go at it and still have fun because the simulation of wrestling is that bloody good the first game i played in a series that since then i've dedicated thousands of hours too it is essential for any wrestling fan [Applause] the original ninja warriors had a foley killer soundtrack but it was a little simplistic and more gimmicky best remembered for having free screens more than anything else this nest game is a different matter also known as the ninja warriors again it's more single plane beat em up action but with tons more moves and the gameplay kicked up by several dozen notches at least the result best beat them up on the system by a country mile the greatness of the game has further been proved by a switch-only sequel that people seem to absolutely adore and i wish i could play it doesn't even need to look all that different to this nest game because this game was already brilliant enough i know before you start completely having my life in the comments that me not playing chrono trigger all the way through is basically a capital crime i'm sorry about that i know that if i had played this game all the way through it would be way higher even than number 12. now what i have played of the game is enough for it to be this high up it says a lot about how great it is everyone is clearly right about that one day i will write the one for now even my simple recollections of what i have played thinking about secrets of the forest the rather different battle system that on its own is enough for the game to get very high indeed i suppose that star fox or of course star wynn if you're in my neck of the woods looks like a fair bit of old hat now all that super effect stuff that was hyped up so much and we have a game that's mostly bear polygons and doesn't even run all that fast but none of that technical stuff matters too much when playing the game cause even if it is basically a rail shooter it's still a wonderful blast into the cosmos it wowed me when i was younger because i'd never had anything in the home that was close to like it before and i still love it now because the blasting dodging and bowel rolling has actually held up pretty damn well regardless of concerns about the graphics or the speed and we can't forget about the secrets either like the first time i discovered a black hole or even managing to go out of the dimension i will always have plenty of time for star fox [Music] i suppose we're sticking with technical showcases for this next one the early title pilot twins is primarily designed as a mode 7 showcase one definite purpose that the game has is to be shown on monitors in shops and to show off all this fancy rotation and zooming stuff the system can do and yet pilot twins is also perfectly great as a game simply because it is such a soothing and relaxing and comforting experience a great simulation without having the ridiculous amounts of controls you'll usually find in a simulation all the game's rule the parachute section that was such a staple of games tv shows the light plane the rocket belt even the hand gliding once you get used to controlling it it's kind of a shame that a pilot wins game didn't become something of a standard a game that demonstrated what the new system could do while also actually being very very bloody good every moment oh geez is mario ever gonna top one of these lists already you'd think that arguably the most famous video game character of them all would have a pretty good shot of doing it especially on his home turf but super mario world only gets to number nine now weirdly enough i never actually played this when i was younger my snes didn't come with super mario world it came with street fighter 2. i played it later on and well yeah it's obviously a fantastic mario game not only is one that's absolutely chock full of secrets far more than any other mario game had been class like this is always going to be there no matter when you actually get around to playing the game through but yeah it's only number nine sorry [Music] amusingly enough a lot of what i said about pilot wins could apply to f-zero even if they're very different games this is another one that's very much got the gameshop monitor in mind look how fast this game is sure is a lot smoother than anything on the mega drive thanks to that mode 7 isn't it and again if f0 was nothing but a technical showcase it wouldn't be all that much to shout about but no all the speed and mode 7 is in service of a classic breakneck tracks with death-defying leaps endless savage twists and turns and a race and game soundtrack that for me is perhaps only beaten by out one such was the case with this game and indeed every other fsuo game they're all brutally hard of course but they're just so much of a rush even if failure happens quite often and even if sometimes that failure can be the result of some involving those bloody moving chicane back markers you have to always dodge you just dust everything off and go [Music] again [Music] and here is the entire reason why i just had to get a sniss in the first place there was no doubt about it for a time at least snes was the only way you could play street fighter 2 in the home i'm sure i could have gone with any one of the excellent sequels street fighter 2 turbo is great super street fighter 2 is great help street fighter alpha 2 is a fairly credible effort even on a system that's way underpowered for it not number seven but still good but i played none of those on this nest as much as i played the original world warrior street fighter 2 in the home was everything i hoped it would be i didn't have another snes game for months and months but it didn't matter i played it to death and managed to get the proper ending game for every one of the characters despite that i'm still actually not that good at street fighter to this day this may well have been surpassed by many other games in the series but world warrior was where it all got [Music] started [Music] i know that some people may be shocked to see the original donkey kong country up so high a lot of people do seem to think that this one just hasn't held up well at all either you don't care for that very 90s pre-rendered look which for sure hasn't exactly aged as well as a regular well-made sprite has you may wonder how the hell list gets so high when most everybody thinks dkc2 has much better design across the board for many dkc1 is just too simple or it relies too much on those bloody minecart or otherwise sorted track stages for its difficulty and yet only a bit of this high ranking is down to nostalgia while this was a definite must-have at christmas in 1994 which usually was the only time i could get a new snes game it has to be said i still love playing the original dkc did it deserve to make rare such a darling at least for a short while maybe not but maybe it is that little special place i have in my heart for the euro platformer despite its failings that makes me love dkc and think that it's just about the best of them i suppose the david wise soundtrack also has a lot to do with it but thought or not this will always make me smile [Music] so now we get into the top five and well it's all very close from here on out as you might expect the big n itself is gonna dominate proceedings it'll be no surprise for me to say that four out of the five slots here belong to nintendo because yeah they're kind of good at making games games like this the greatest of all zeldas in the opinion of this person here who hasn't actually played most of them i suppose at least there aren't too many folks who'd disagree with that link's 16 bit outing is pretty bloody high up there isn't it i barely need to say a thing when so many people have bestowed this with greatest of all time status it has everything you could ever want from one of these adventures there will probably be people shouting and going all gung-ho about this game not being number one but whatever the world warrior christmas 92 donkey kong country christmas 94 and super mario all stars was christmas 93 the first time i'd really got to play the mario games that everyone waved about so much i didn't have a nest when i was growing up after all now sure i do know that the versions of the games on mario all stars aren't exactly the same as the originals just with a graphical upgrade there are odd little differences still it's not like i knew anything about those differences back then to me this was the first time that i played and beat mario 1 2 3 and even the lost levels this was before the car came with super mario world by the way and of course i loved every single one of them those games with the fat plumber that people had shouted about for years even sometimes in the ear of me the die hard sega and sonic fan who would happily get into any sega vs nintendo argument yeah they were absolutely as brilliant as everyone said they were shocking right [Music] in the last nest list the biggest shock for most people was undoubtedly a total lack of a little game called metroid i tried with that game i really did but it's tough to get into if you didn't play it back in the day mind you i didn't actually play super metroid back in the day either that came much later sometime in the early 2010s when i finally decided to see just what the bloody hype was all about here and yeah that hype was warranted it's almost a shock to me that the game's at number three actually i did come to this list fully expecting to put the game at number one far more than the original metroid this is the game that defines the intricacies the exploration the mood the openness everything that you come to expect from these open platforms that there are now so damn many of is taken from the book of super metroid more than it is the original there's the story telling through the gameplay too an area where this game is kind of hard to beat you almost can't measure the game in hours you could spend an absolute age on planet zebes if you wanted to exploring every inch of this world and trying to find every last one of the secrets and of course you could spend enough time practicing and practicing to get all those secrets in one or two hours or use all manner of tricks to break the game over your knee and run it in reverse still simply playing this game for the first time was one of the best gaming experiences i've ever had the classics quite often are up there for a bloody good reason [Music] castlevania was number one in the nest list of course and yet it's not my favorite castlevania super castlevania iv is my favorite and yet here it is at number two in the snes list some might have a little giggle i guess this is certainly one of the more forgiving fainias seen as how simon can whip in all directions which makes a huge difference even if this game does get quite vicious in the later levels it sure doesn't have anything on the likes of dracula's curse or wonder of blood but high difficulty is only one thing that makes a castlevania to me it's not quite as important as the gothic horror aesthetics the all-time great soundtracks and actually having wonderful levels and boss battles every second of this game is just so compelling and that ending that final freeze when the music comes in is quite possibly the most beautiful moment on this whole platform but before then you've taken simon on a truly epic journey something that takes the original castlevania and expands on it massively making everything better it was this close to the top spot we could have easily had castlevania on top of both the nests and snes lists and today only just fell short [Music] well i suppose i almost gave the game away when i wondered aloud if mario could ever win anything didn't i i knew going into this list that number one was going to be either castlevania metroid or yoshi's island and i probably gave this least chance of the trio but when it came to actually putting this together this just seemed like the most natural fit why well sometimes you've just got to go with the game that best defines the platform and on a system where the best platformers and games are often less about direct action and more about exploration secrets and wonder the best fit is a game that in a way lets you explore the mind of a genius now of course it would be totally wrong to say that the game is purely shigeru miyamoto's creation he's the producer but many other brilliant people had a big hand in this still the game's appearance a whole load of childish scribbles essentially is his direction and there is nothing else like it on the system the hand-drawn look is one thing of course but play-wise the game's got everything your usual mario game offers and lends some tons of great platforming tons of secrets tons of creativity yoshi the little dinosaur who wasn't necessarily welcomed after his debut in super mario world is thoroughly legitimized here with his ability to eat everyone and then chuck those porcelain everybody else in egg form which obviously never gets old some may think that the yelps of baby mario may get old pretty quickly but they do add a necessary bit of panic you are supposed to be taking care of this little scrote after all again i never played this back in the day and again that just didn't matter at all for me this is the best mario game and really that's enough to give the plumber the number one that he most probably deserves at least by way of the dinosaur that everybody hated at first sight hopefully you've enjoyed this nest list for now that's probably going to do it for console specific lists it will soon be time to go back to the world of documentaries once more however i do have one last list for christmas and no we won't be playing good games like yoshi's island we'll be going entirely in the opposite direction oh bye for now thank you all so much for watching hopefully you are all doing very good indeed if you like this video please do like it please do leave your comments have a look at my social media my twitter also have a look at my patreon you 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Length: 55min 10sec (3310 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 04 2020