There aren't many franchises that are much bigger than Zelda. The only game I can think of that sort of fits your description is Pokemon X/Y.

#34

Cartoony islands

#35

The first entry in this series that can't count to 3

#27 is correct, Hyrule Warriors. #30 is no Star Wars game.

Spiderman?

Is it a GTA game? 

As Slarvax guessed, this game is Resident Evil Revelations.

This game combined a pretty good shooter with a scary atmosphere and puzzles, so basically it did right what many games in the series fail to do. And if done right, Resident Evil is a great game.

In many regards the game is a move more towards the original Resident Evil, while not exactly the same and having newer controls and mechanics. it is especially a back to the roots regarding the scares and building up a dark atmosphere. Which worked all very well.

The game introduced an online coop-mode. Two people together go through the levels with enemies much stronger than in single player.

I played through it on my 3DS and played later a bit on WiiU in HD. But the HD version released on a lot of other consoles too, so it can be played nearly anywhere. Switch just got it's port of the game.

There was a follow-up-game (Revelations 2) which missed Nintendo-consoles but now also released on Switch.

Wikipedia, MobyGames, OGDB, IGDB

Zero Mission I believe.

GTA San Andreas I guess? I don't play GTA, but I know that that one isn't based on a specific city.

Right on both.

And Phantom Hourglass is a fantastic game. With horrible, horrible controls

game #32

Hint 1: Why does the earth rumble?

Hint 2: I make a hat out of my defeated enemies!

Hint 3: The city at the edge of the desert is replaced by a port town in the remake.

Hint 4: Something Devilish can turn up unexpectedly in other battles.

Hint 5: Cha-Cha or Kayamba?

Hunt 6!

Hint 7: The franchise for this games makes people on the internet angry each time it switches the platform. With this game it switched with the original AND the remake to Nintendo.

Hint 8: Really? No one got it yet? Well in this series you go on a hunt and meet Monsters.

game #31

Hint 1: Each hour think about what you've achieved.

Hint 2: Can your current job lead you to discover the events that lead to your removal from police service a few years ago?

game #30

Hint 1: Play the rebel army. Not one rebel, the rebel army.

Hint 2: No, not Star Wars.

Hint 3: Press everything out of your captured enemies - even personal stats.

game #29

Hint 1: Everything land or everything water, which is too much?

Hint 2: The wise tree leading you in this game is Birch.

game #28

Hint 1: The original game played in a Villa.

Hint 2: Do you want to pick locks or take more damage?

game #27

Hint 1: This mash-up between two franchises let's you single-handedly defeat hordes of enemies, while for some big monsters you may need the help of certain items.

Guessed correctly by LiquidLaser: Hyrule Warriors.

#34 Mortal Kombat

This is the first of three fighting games that appear on my list. Modern fighting games have four problems. Combos are too hard to learn. Combos deal too much damage. The publisher usually nickels and dimes you with rushed DLC characters. The character roster is usually so huge that there's bound to be one broken character. Luckily Mortal Kombat is easy to learn. Damage isn't too ridiculous outside of X-Ray setups. And best of all the game was released as a mostly complete game with only 4 DLC characters. Despite having 32 characters in the game, none of them are broken. Add in MK's unique and interesting cast with fatalities and you have a recipe for excellence. It's too bad that WB games switched to the boring old DC characters, and it's too bad that they nickel and dime their playerbase with rushed DLC characters. Oh well.