#21 - Spyro the Dragon (Kudos to Truckosaurus for guessing this)

It's hard for me to talk about Spyro without gushing, so I'll try to keep it short and sweet.  The Spyro trilogy is my favourite trilogy of games ever.  The first game is the title that gave me a lifelong appreciation of 3D collectathon platformers.  Stewart Copeland's soundtrack was perfect.  The levels were colourful, fantastical and a blast to play through.  On revisiting this game recently, I had as much fun with it as I've ever had.

It has a few small niggles to do with difficulty and it's not as polished as the second or third games, but by god it's an enjoyable experience.  If you've ever played a Banjo Kazooie/3D Mario/3D Rayman/Ratchet/Jak/Sly game and haven't played the original Spyro, go back and do it now.  You really won't regret it.

Clue for my #20 - a western RPG with a female lead.

Think carefully before you answer. I could've put some inverted commas in my first sentence to give the game away.

21. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Wii (2008)
Sora Ltd.

Super Smash Bros. had one of the greatest hype trains to ever soar through the heavens. Thanks to the Smash Bros. Dojo, a new tidbit of information was given to us gamers every weekday. Some days it'd be an item... another day a brand new character (Like say... Sonic the Hedgehog!). Could a game live up to the incredible expectations given to it? Well Super Smash Bros. Brawl certainly did, and with flying colors. More awesome charactes (King Dedede! Toon Link! Solid Snake?), more awesome levels (Smashville! New Pork City! Pictochat?), an even more expanded single player adventure, one of the greatest music collaborations of all time, and oodles and oodles of options and ways to play. Brawl brought it all. Though some may scoff at the more "noob friendly" changes (Okay... the tripping did suck), I thought it allowed for a more even playing field, which meant more fun for all. And while the online was pretty terrible, it still led to us Smashing around the world (Curse you Peach!!!). Can't wait for the next one. ^_^

Top 20 everyone! Now we're getting to the legendary games. ^_^

Hint for #20:

Back in the day of tighty-whities, this guy made tighty-yellowies cool.

What commas? There are none. Also there's only one sentence in your hint. Something's fishy.

Peach will prevail!

That one sentence must've been my first sentence then!  (I actually typed 3 sentences in the whole thing, so thought I needed to clarify).

Bolded regarding the commas.  

Virginia is not the lead character.  All four characters are the lead.

I'm picking Wild ARMs 3.  Western RPG as "western" RPG.

*edit*

I just wanted to sound smart, though you could see it as either way.  They lean more towards her being the lead character than towards everyone being the lead with her having rivalries against some of thte bosses and being the forefront in every battle against Janus.

21. Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors (37)

This is a wonderful visual novel wrapped around a room escape game.  This game uses the Nintendo DS and its medium in some of the most creative ways I've ever encountered, and surprisingly, for a story-telling purpose.  Never before have I turned my handheld upside down because it made sense in the context of the story.  I also loved that the story also breaks through the fourth wall to the player and gives reason for multiple playthroughs.  The puzzles themselves provide a variety of interesting challenges and information.  The mystery keeps you intrigued throughout the game and I was only annoyed that because I played through the route for the true ending the first playthrough I had to do the same set of doors twice.

20: A return to the original formula after something of a failed experiment with its predecessor. Widely beloved, and introduced many of the mechanics present in future games in the series. Too vague? Think of a Polish game inspired by Oblivion (which isn't The Witcher). The name of that game is a hint for this game.