curl-6 on 05 February 2023
My picks have already been highlighted; the Donkey Kong Country trilogy, but man, if you weren't there, it's almost impossible to descibe how far ahead of the curve they looked, it was like if Crysis had come out on the PS2 looking like it did on PC.
Super Mario RPG was also a stunner, as were a lot of Square's games for that matter, like Trials of Mana and Chrono Trigger.
Rendering Ranger R2 also did some really crazy stuff technically:
