Underrated/Overlooked games that became overrated

[theRepublic]

I am not sure it quite fits the topic, but I am going to go with Zack and Wiki. After it came out it made a bunch of "Best Of" lists for the Wii, and it even got talked up around here quite a bit.

It is basically like an old school point-and-click adventure game. You walk around each level solving puzzles to try to get to the end. It makes great use of the Wii remote too. It has a cute story that doesn't get in the way, and nicely stylized graphics. The formula holds up very well over 20 out of 24 levels.

Then the last four levels come and I question if anyone that recommended this game ever got that far. It becomes a shitty action game with terrible controls. But wait, there's more! It still thinks it is an adventure/puzzle game. So you still have to figure out what you need to do, usually just making a guess. When you are wrong, you get sent back to the beginning of the level to replay some terrible action sequences with terrible controls to try and get back to where you were before and make another random guess.

Yeah...I guess I am a little bitter about that one.