Pokemon Diamond/Pearl.

40 is Tomb Raider...is 39 Vice City?

Same applies for your 38 Kapi 

So 39 was Professor Layton and Pandora's Box. The game takes the whole principle of the first game and makes it bigger and better than before. If you haven't played it yet then I won't spoil the ending, but it's great!

Speaking of which, my 38 is a direct sequel to another game on my list. And when I say "Direct Sequel", it's the first time in the series that there was a direct sequel!

Need for Speed Underground 2?

Clues not yet guessed:

#46 - Released as a 10th anniversary celebration of this JRPG series, the 5th numbered entry and currently last entry in the series (not counting a spin-off)

#45 - Kitty Kibble shortages and broccoli everywhere.

#43 - After swapping green lands for a murky city, this second sequel traded both of the above in for the desert.  Featured a "wizard of oz" esque ending.

#41 - The final boss of this fighting game was a young woman who beared a startling resemblance to a missing character... who had been possessed by a phantom spectral wolf.

And here's a clue for my next one:

#39 - Third person shooter where you play as a police mech and fight "sky captain" in a bizarre but awesome base-defence game

Hint for the #38: I think the hint will have to wait, just need to make some calibrations.

Also, one of the characters' name means someone that leads the way for a large group of wooly animals.

Couldn't be anything else ;)

I never know how to do the clues for that game.  If you know the title, you'll probably get it instantly from anything I said, but if you don't, it's quite an obscure game to be listing.

And yeah, I love that game as well.  Still play it ever now and again!

That's right. Not bad!

39

Prince of Persia

• System: Mac, Mobile
• Genre: Action
• Year: 1992
• Rank last year: 39 (=)

Prince of Persia is another game tied to memories. This difficult game is timeless, it's just as fun and challenging to play today. The player gets one hour of real time to complete the game's 13 levels. It doesn't sound so hard, if not all these levels were quite long. Myself I never got past level 5, either because time ran out or because that's when the difficulty gets insane. I heard that in the final level, you're supposed to throw everything you've learned about the game mechanics away, and take a leap of faith. I intend to do it one time though.

In those 60 minutes, the player traverses a labyrinth of platforming levels. Without a map to speak of, these levels are mazes indeed. Along the way there's the occasional enemy to defeat, hazards to avoid and obstacles to overcome. One such obstacle is the Mirror. It's infamous, because I didn't know how to get passed it for years. Slashing at it, running into it, trying to just get around it, nothing could be done. Until on one faithful day I found out it was as simple as jumping through it. The mirror creates a mirror image of the prince though, which subsequently proceeds to make the following levels even harder. He closes doors in front of you and steals health potions for example... The bastard. The sequel is equally cool though, however I found it even harder and more frustrating when there were flying Medusa heads swooping down at every turn in level 6.

Game #38

Keeping with the mirrors-theme, this game features a puzzle that has one guessing what the meaning of a few markings are reflected in a pool of water.