#4. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

As much as I gush over Link's Awakening (#7) and Ocarina of Time (#10), Skyward Sword is my favorite Zelda game. You see, before it came out, I made a wishlist of things I wanted in the next Wii Zelda game:

1. A more compact, denser overworld.
2. WiiMotion Plus controls.
3. Simple parkour system.
4. Simple upgrade system.
5. A painterly art style.

And on some level, I got everything I was dreaming of. Do I think Skyward Sword perfectly executed on every front? No, but it's a unique and inventive experience within a series usually praised for straightforward (albiet polished) action/adventure fare.

Goddamnit you guys are good. Yes.

I know scoobes no 1 is deus ex... :P

Oh look, I've reinstalled it

(that's a lie... I never uninstalled it)

4. Super Smash Bros. Melee (3 last year)

First Impression 10/10: The goodness of Smash Bros along with more than doubling the cast and adding a massive amount of extra modes and features compared to the original game, added along with the fact that this was my GameCube launch game of choice, so my first experience with Gen 6, it left one of the strongest first impressions.

Replay 10/10: Smash Bros, 'nuff said.

Technical 8/10: Balance drags the score down, unbalance that played into the hands of the hated tourneyfolks (to avoid a three-letter epithet). Nerfing Kirby sat poorly with me, too. Otherwise as solid as a Smash game can be.

I'll do hints for my top 10, if anyone wants to have fun.

1) Scoobes
2) Disasteriffic :) <--- I've spent years denying this, but it's crept up, and lol screw it!
3) Water Temple
4) Bomb-omb-omb-omb-omb
5) Best game of PS3 gen!
6) I never asked for this
7) ...
8) Since no one knows this. RTS on computer released 2006, not blizzard.
9) Pervert
10) stick a needle in your eye

Oops, sorry for not anwering in time :-|...

Sadly you're incorrect. You are correct that the company is Nintendo, and that the legendary game designer is Miyamoto. However, that decision I was talking about had to do with another game. On the SNES, Donkey Kong Country had just been released and leadership wanted the next game to look just as good. Miyamoto however thought a crayon-drawn styled art was better suited for this game and went for that. The correct answer was thus Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. Which I think is way, way better than Super Mario World even though that one is usually the one mentioned among the best games of all times.

My #3 game should be easier to guess, but the easiest is probably my #1 game.

#04

'Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'

for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System released in 1995.

At the end of the Super Nintendo era came one more masterpiece, to complement the already stellar software library of the system. Even though the system doesn't have many entries in my list, objectively it probably had the best line-up of all systems ever. 'Yoshi's Island' however, is a classic that deserves it's place in the list and likely won't be overtaken by any new game ever.

Standing in the tall shadow of it's predecessor 'Super Mario World', 'Yoshi's Island' is actually the better game. In fact, this game makes it to #4 on the list while 'Super Mario World' doesn't have a spot at all! Personally, I don't see how anyone could take that game over this game. This is probably the most underrated game of all time. It's not like 'Super Mario World' is a bad game though, still I find it to be one of the weaker 2D entries in the Mario series.

Not 'Yoshi's Island'. It's the best 2D Platformer second to none. Level design is perfect, gameplay is perfect. The challenge is just right, dare I say; perfect. The music is catchy, and the graphical style is beyond timeless. If a new game looked like this it would still look modern. The graphics were actually more advanced that what they would appear because of some impressive effects using the Mode-7 chip. Needless to say, I can't wait for 'Yoshi's New Island' on 3DS, hoping it could have something of the brilliance of this game.

#03 Hint:

This is probably the most impressive game ever at the time of it's release. The game opened our eyes to gaming in a new perspective, or at least, was the first that did that right and got major mainstream attention, sales and praise because of it.

I'd also like to say that it's cool to see that everyone's games get more and more epic towards the #1, it's such a celebration of gaming-greatness !

All right, here are the last two hints I've got:

#6: Rotating LSD trip mindfuckery, incompetent sidekick, red and blue balls.

#4: A reenactment of a scene from a previous game, the blooper reel of a reenactment of a scene from a previous game (with an ill-tempered director), an awesome rock concert, a (completely accurate) depiction of evolution, and the only thing I would want to watch on an American football field.

All that for saving a tree.