#40: You really love the Legend of Zelda it seems.

42- While the story isn't on par with others in the series, this game wins hard in crafting, combat and atmosphere. There are futuristic robots along with 1950s architecture. In this game there are 4 factions to choose from and many companions.

41- The theme of this game is revenge. Many worlds are being destroyed by a big bad, but the leaders of each world eventually band together to beat this devastating force. The game also features a lot of humor in the story. The game lets you switch the home base theme song at will.

#42: Fallout 4

#41: Disgaea 5

Great! Correct on both.

Correct! Although it's still technically not my #1 franchise, since I have 13 Mario games on my list.

Yeah, I guessed if your hint is how often you have it on your list it is probably Zelda or Mario. Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest could also be a possibility, but people tend to love a few entries of these franchises, not so many.

#42

Mega Man 4 (NES)

Change From Last Year: -2

The Mega Man game that I have played the most in my life, and also the one that introduced me to the series. I usually see people argue that either 2 or 3 is the best game out of the original NES Mega Man games, but for me it has always been Mega Man 4. While later games in the 8-bit series began to lose steam and were largely just rehashing ideas the previous games had done better, Mega Man 4 was still able to add new and interesting twists to the formula. The level design was still excellent, the gameplay benefited from the new elements, and the music was still as memorable as ever.

The Mega Man franchise has produced some of my absolute favourite platforming games of all time, and Mega Man 4 is still the peak of the series in my opinion. I still need to find time to play some of the more recent entries in the series, most notably Mega Man 11.

Twilight Princess was the first Zelda I tried, as my roommate at the time got the Wii at launch because he was enticed by the revolutionary input scheme. Another friend of mine had told he liked Zelda and I saw that a Zelda was a launch title, so I gave it a try. And yes, this was a great game. I played for hours at a time and had a blast.

Fighting was fun, but the real great thing was exploring the regions, talking to people and solving riddles. The story was fine. I liked movement and fighting in wolf form the most, it had just the right feel of agility, so as I could freely change form I often roamed around as a wolf.

Graphics-wise it was obviously a big improvement to have a HD-remaster on WiiU. The artstyle was fine, although I often like more stylized unrealistic art more. But as Hyrule is a fantastic country with interesting unreal architecture and supernatural stuff happening, this was fine.

My star in this game is Midna (in her imp-form). Her attitude, her helpfulness if it serves her goals but always mocking Link, her emotions as she gets connected to her companions, this was great. Her design is also working in her favor and the sound design of the sound-bites made for her (instead of voice acting) are great. I just love her and that she is the companion instead of some annoying tutorial replacer that always jumps in and patronizes you with stuff is a good thing. Think about it, then Navi got annoying over time, Midna is always fun. It might be a bit her attitude. If she is used to explain stuff (as a tutorial helper should), she isn't patronizing, but instead mocking like: "even you could do it, just try". In theory this should be annoying, but in actuality it felt a lot better.

There are some great boss fight, although some of them could be a bit on the puzzle side. I think fights and puzzles shouldn't be mixed. If there are optional puzzles on the way ot get more heart pieces (and this was the case) that is great, but if I have to solve a puzzle to beat the boss it feels off. Anyways, still many fights were great fun. Exploring and finding these heart pieces fulfilled my collector-heart. Or finding bugs for Agitha.

The game had also interesting places and a good feel of a magical plane with different people and different factions of power. Exactly like a fantasy setting should work.

This is a great game which deserves praise, although there are entries in the series which are better. Does that hint of upcoming games in the coming days? Wait and you'll see.

Also as a note: @S.Peelman  also guessed this game last year, he is the Twilight Princess expert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CfW2hpHoNI

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