Hint for my #29: A classic platforming sequel that introduced a now famous sidekick (whose name will 'ring' a bell).

Sonic the Hedgehog 2?

SoulCalibur

• SEGA Dreamcast
• 1999
• Fighting
• Namco

The only fighting game on the list. 'SoulCalibur' is without a doubt the best one in the genre, and with a decent margin at that. It is probably the concept of the game that drew me towards the series initially. Instead of the usual 'martial arts' type of fighting, the characters in this series specialize themselves in weapon proficiency. So the fighting will be done with swords and staffs and a couple of fantasy weapons for the most part.

And that works, gameplay is absolutely excellent here. The game came out during the time in which it was still popular in our family to sit around a console playing local-multiplayer. During the peak of this time, we had entire tournaments together. Personally, I was always the character "Nightmare" and I got fairly good at it. It's a time that's pretty nostalgic to me, and a time I wouldn't mind it coming back.

Besides the fighting, the game had a fun single-player mode where the player must complete missions, a concept which still holds up today. It was really a game that turned heads when it came out. In fact, I should credit the game's Dreamcast version which I played, as being the game that made the PlayStation 2 'unnecessary'. Graphically, it was years ahead of it's time and to me it made the newer system seem like it wasn't much of an upgrade over the Dreamcast. And I never got it. I didn't get the best selling home video game console of all-time, by far, because of SoulCalibur.

I figured that one would be guessed... Anyway;

#27: Finally, building two roads next to each other doesn't just create one big mess of junctions.

Jagged Alliance is a great game. At core it is a very well working tactics game. As long as no enemies are aroundin the sector, you play in real-time, for the action it switches to turn-based, so you can really think through what you wanna do. And then see your guys missing the target, getting angry and doing stupid shit and bleeding out on the battlefield.

One major point here is, you don't get some generic guys from a certain class or so, each single mercenary is unique. And they have their own will and wishes. You can very well have picked up a team, in which each member prefers to shoot one another, because they wanna take revenge or simply can't them. And well they do sometimes. But if you pick your team well and choose your challenges wise you win back sector for sector pretty fast.

The game offers you the map of the island, separated into sectors by overlaying a raster. You start off with control over one sector only and can attack neighboring sectors. So at the beginning you can choose between two sectors to attack, but the more you own, the more neighboring sectors controlled by the enemy you can attack.

You can attack multiple sectors in a day, but also the enemies are not sleeping. They might counter-attacking on one of your sectors. Also you need to loot, craft stuff, heal the wounded, repair stuff and so on. This game offers so much gameplay, every playthrough is different, the characters are interesting. It is just a great game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjszlOL3RrM

Some more hints.

#26
a) Dwarfs and elves on a hexfield.
b) Win with fewer turns to have more gold for the next level.
c) The game gets updates and additional content for over a decade now.
d) Control your armies one turn at a time.
e) Fight in a Tale of two brothers Under the burning Suns for The heir to the throne.
f) The Battle for ...

#25: Guessed by The_Liquid_Laser: Starcraft/Broodwar

#24
a) Control a red blob.
b) Eat PCB (printed circuit board).
c) Explode floppy disks.

#23: Guessed by Landale_Star: The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

#22
a) Gameplay switches between real-time strategy building up your bases and turn-based fights.

#23 Majora's Mask

All of the above are correct!

Correct.

Another hint, though with this it should be a give-away. Don’t forget the first hint;

#27: Finally, building two roads next to each other doesn't just create one big mess of junctions.
Hint 2: I don’t know why things are numbered in the thousands, though I guess the devs realised this themselves as well with the fourth game.