Ocarina of Time was close to perfect - for its time. The visuals and sound have aged poorly.
Soul Calibur is a really good fighting game that's aged well, but it's far from perfect.
Vagrant Story is the most annoying, convoluted, counter-intuitive piece of crap that I've ever played. That game has so much micromanagement and vague stats and figures that you may as well be "playing" electronic spreadsheets.
Wind Waker, again, is a great game, but far from perfect. I'm thinking specifically of the sailing here as the major flaw.
Nintendogs is just about perfect, given the system and its target audience. Probably the only one I agree with.
Final Fantasy XII is a tedious grind of a single-player MMO that basically plays itself.
Smash Bros. Brawl, again, is an excellent fighter and party game, but far from perfect.
Metal Gear Solid 4 is barely a "game," let alone perfect.
Never played 428, but Wikipedia tells me it's a "visual novel." Hahahahaha.
Haven't played DQ IX, but given that Famitsu loves to suck Square-Enix's private parts, I don't doubt that the high score is due to massive hype.
All in all, mostly terrible list, and with not a single Western game in sight to boot. Any "perfect games" list without Portal, at least, is nothing.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
