DK was good, just a bit too "hard on purpose" (aka hard in totally fucked ways) for my taste. The MP trilogy was great, mainly 1 and 3, but I am in no rush whatsoever to see a 4, unlike so many other gamers (apparently). I want to see them make something different, something fresh.

Monolith is awesome, but if you just take them by what they've made since Nintendo owned them, they've made 2 games with a third on the way. Xenoblade was good, just not my cup of tea gameplay wise, and "X" looks even better, but probably still not my preferred style.


So I'd probably have to pick Retro. I just want to see them do something NOT DK or Metroid. They're not the "DK & Metroid" studio, and Nintendo needs to let them/encourage them to do other stuff. Hell, even an original IP perhaps.

I love the Baten Kaitos games, but I gotta give credit to Retro. They turn everything they touch into gold.

Retro easily. JRPGs aren't my cup of tea, especially not ones that try to combine turn based and real time combat, and Project X Zone was garbage.

Monolith talent developed Chrono Trigger,Chrono Cross,Xenogears,XenoSaga,NamcoXCapcom,Soma bringer,Xenoblade,Disaster Day of Crisis,Project X Zone and more.

Retro is great but their roots go back to Turok on N64 then Prime series and DK.


Monolith has far more experience and has made some of the greatest games ever made.

Monolith Soft are better than Retro were in their prime... And Retro today are awful. All of their talented devs left to work in other studios.

I liked them, but they don't compare to Xenoblade Saga. Metroid Prime/2/3 are the true masterpieces that Retro has, but their recent games don't match up to Monolith Soft's recent titles.

I really don't feel like that's a fair comparison at all. You can't chalk up games to a present studio simply because current members of that studio were involved in making said game in the past. That's like saying that the Cleveland Cavaliers have two NBA championships because Mike Miller and LeBron James play for them now.

Metroid Prime is the best game of all time.

Retro because they actually put out games from time to time.

Including Xenoblade Chronicles X, you have a half-dozen or so projects from Monolith Soft.

(Not that I don't care, the games they do put out are awesome.)

Monolith Soft, because the projects they have worked on which include the Xeno series, Legend Of Zelda Skyward Sword and A Link Between Worlds, Project X Zone, Baten Kaitos, Soma Bringer, Smash Bros Brawl, and Super Robot Wars (japanese mech SRPGs) OG Saga and Exceed.

Giving credit where credit is due, Rare WAS amazing. They seemed to have nose dived in quality though while Monolith is still one of the greatest devs around. If it were 7 years ago, Rare easily.