God of War: Ascension?

yep.  Another correct guess!

39. Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

MP2 seems to be the black sheep of the Metroid Prime series and I can understand the criticism. The plot overall was kind of boring and the environments are no where near as immersive or beautiful as in Metroid Prime. The light and dark theme is also a bit over the top in this game. But does that mean MP2 is a bad game? Of course not, it's still a great game and a great Metroid Prime game. Dark Aether really makes the game for me, it's so dark, hostile and eerie, really gives you a sense of hopelessness and loneliness.  The bosses are great (yeah even the Boost Guardian) and it fixes the only flaw the original game had: MP2 now has the Screw Attack! I might be alone on this one but MP2 will always hold a special place in my heart.

It seems I haven't been too sucessful with my hints so I'll go for some eaiser ones.

Hint for #38. This game, when released in North America, got an eaiser difficulty setting than the Japanese version. The Japanese normal difficulty became the Difficult mode in this game.

indeed!

#38 - For a fully immersive experience, set audio options to Russian language.

One of the best games ever. And yes, I had language set on Russian :P

As was predicted, #38 was Pokemon Black/White 2. The games manage to improve on the original in almost every way, which is quite a feat when you consider the original was already a brilliant game. Having a different start to the game was a brilliant way to begin the game, which suggested that the title really would be more than "just another third game". Hopefully, this will follow suit for X and Y.

#37 is, again, a sequel to a previous game on this list. Isn't that strange?

Ok, back from another ban. Some catching up to do...

#41 - The start of a difficult 7th gen

#40 - PS1s real answer to Super Mario 64

#39 - Built-in platformer

#38 - 16 to save 1

#37 - Living on a giant

I love it when work gets too chaotic around the holidays for me to post and keep up with things! Caught up now though, thankfully. I am loving the diversity of all the lists so far! Of course it means that I now have a new list of games to try based on similarities in list to my own, and one hell of an "honorable mention" list for games that I forgot about while compiling my own!

Hint for #38:

Did you think there'd be a hint?