Kirby may be a great example of ignored and hated games without any good reason.

The only arguments I hear from people is that it's childish...so? Does that mean you'd prefer to play Devil's Third?

Kirby is actually a great platformer. Even though it is childish in nature and is not the hardest game in the world, the level designs and gameplay are very solid. I never stumbled upon a Kirby game(non spinoffs) that can be considered bad. Many Kirby games can be picked up for cheap prices, so it's always worth paying a few bucks to play the games.

Shadows of the Damned. Great humour, great dialogue, great level design and gameplay, one of the best homages to the evil dead and some real creativity that most games lack.

I'd play Kirby over New Super Mario Bros. anyday. Kirby is much more varied, better music as of late, a more satisfying journey, and new ideas that don't only revolve around 1 new power up. Kirby often introduces multiple new powerups.

Kirby is not hated but heavily underrated among many gamers specially in Europe, i understand why, they are very kiddie but they are also some of the most pure and unadulterated fun games that you can find in the market, they are a blast.

I would say DMC is one of them, is really well done gameplay wise, I think is among the best action games of last gen yet is often forgotten and gets a lot of shit.

Also Soma last year didn't had a lot of sales but it was a truly amazing horror experience, the story was actually really good.

Last I think Skyward Sword gets too much shit, once you get used to the controls it worked mostly fine and the game while not one of the best on the saga was pretty good.

Senran Kagura. If you go past its hometown, you will find that there is quite a lot of life in the game.

Sonic Unleashed is not a good game, but it doesn't deserve to be ranked amongst the likes of Sonic '06, Sonic and the Black Knight, or Sonic and the Secret Rings. The Werehog stages suck. A lot. But the game has exhilarating and snappy daytime stages, beautiful visuals, and a soundtrack that doesn't get a quarter of the praise that it deserves. So I'd say that it's an okay game. Like in the range of 5-6/10.

In the argument of Kirby, judging by its cover it looks very childish, get into it and you find a bunch of tragic backstories, fights against blood bleeding eyes/angels, betrayal, ect. That series stopped being simple after the first game. One of the best Nintendo franchises in my opinion, keeping a standard of high quality games on par with the main Mario games and Zelda.

Senran Kagura too, get past the fanservice and is a really charming game series with a likeable cast of characters.

Cannot think much of others at the moment.

DMC was very average compared to the best DMC games (1&3). It was also very repetitive in a different way with the combat, platforming sections followed by a boss. The thing which annoyed me the most was how the games most praised level and boss design aspects are ripped from Lollipop Chainsaw. All that being said, i still think DMC1 is still the best in the series and Heavenly Sword is still the best Ninja Theory game.

I disagree about the level design aspect, but you're spot on with everything else. Truly an enjoyable game. The only thing it lacked was some kind of NG+, because every subsequent playthrough removed everything you already had.

As games that shouldn't have been ignored as they were, Vanquish. Truly an enjoyable third-person shooter, that refined a classic score-attack system into a modern shooter progression structure, thus creating one of the most fast-paced, replayable and satisfying shooters ever made. The only downside is that it's short and the story finishes on a cliffhanger. I honestly don't know why that game was so largely ignored. Critics loved it. Sega pushed a bit of marketing for it. And while it eventually broke a million between two platforms, I just feel that game got more ignored than it should have been.

Deadly Premonition was unfairly ignored, though it eventually received a delayed appreciation.

The Talos Principle had enough sales to have its developer, Croteam, satisfied. But in all honestly, it's probably one of the greatest games I've ever played, without any kind of exaggeration, and it probably didn't even broke half a million with PS4 and PC combined. It's a huge shame, as its puzzle mechanics rival those of Portal (the comparison has to be made, considering how both games are structured), and while Portal has a more "wow" factor, I'd say The Talos Principle ones are more thoughtful, challenging and demanding of lateral thinking from the player, and the story is miles, miles better, although lacking some kind of antagonist/comic relief of those featured in Portal, which are highly charismatic. This game deserved more, much more.

I really liked this game, but I never hear people talking about it. Oh well, at least it's getting a sequel anyways, I hope it's even better than the first game!