It's Dark Souls III, the whole game, DLC included.

Back then I didn't use the internet. I didn't know what anyone else thought about it except for a friend who saw the box and said he also really wanted to get that game. Similar to Sunshine prior to that I couldn't even fathom someone hating it. When I first saw hatred against Skyward Sword on the internet years later I was genuinly shocked. I do not know how and why the motion controls didn't work for you. I wished they worked for everyone fine.

And another reason why the 3DS is one of the best systems of all times is Kid Icarus: Uprising. Created by Masahiro Sakurai (Kirby, Smash Bros) this game was the sequel for the nearly two decades dormant Kid Icarus IP. Sakurai modernized the gameplay and added some stuff, and some more stuff and even more stuff. This game is filled with endless possibilities.

The single player mode sees you playing through missions, which each consists of a flying part in which you are restricted in your movements to the screen and the main flight path controlled by Palutena, while you shoot enemies. Then a ground part, were you move more freely. And finally a boss fight. Sakurai throws in enough stuff to keep things fresh though.

The story is long-winded and includes an enourmous cast of mythical characters. This includes a whole bunch of gods and their champions. And all of them are constantly talking in some banter, mostly at the expense of Pit, the playable character.

The difficulty of the missions can be adjusted, but you risk more hearts on higher difficulties, but may get bigger rewards too. The game also has an enourmous amount of weapons and other stuff. A multiplayer mode is also included. This game blew me away and kept me glued to the 3DS for a long time. I think this game would be a great candidate for a remake or even a sequel on Switch, so Nintendo take the hint!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGR8wXl4QTM

Here's how people have done so far in guessing my #11-50 games.

So, it's time for hints for my top 10.

10.  This arcade game is based on the most popular RPG of all time.  First in the series.

9.  This is the first time an entry of this handheld console game was released in North America.  However the series started in Japan over a decade earlier.

8.  You can get a certain type of invulnerability either from getting stoned or living in a shoe.

7.  "If he fails you can always hit the reset button."

10: I'm not sure if my reading of the hint is correct, but Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom? 

Super Mario Bros 3?

#20

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (PS3, PS4)

YoY: +18

By far the biggest jump any game made on my list compared to last year. I've mentioned it before when I talked about the other Cold Steel games on my list that I played through all seven Trails games earlier this year, and while doing so I realized that Trails of Cold Steel II is even better than I had remembered. It effectively ends the first half of the story arc that had been set up in the first game, bringing that part of the story to a close and doing so brilliantly. I still have difficulties putting these games in a specific order, and when the 4th game is added to my list next year I'm sure I'll have to think about this all over again.

I've already talked about these games aplenty, so figuring out more things to say is getting really difficult. Somehow these games just managed to hit the exact right tone for me, and while the first two Trails in the Sky games are still better overall, these aren't far behind. The story is really well told, the writing is clever, each character feels unique and interesting, the multiple layers of the story are handled brilliantly, the music is great, and the gameplay is a lot of fun. I really don't have much negative to say here.

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Wow, I thought I gave difficult clues, but you guys got 3 out of 4 of my games pretty quickly.

Another set of hints.

#8:

• Greater understanding of the world allows for the truth to be revealed.
• Dream, or a nightmare. Maybe both.
• At the end, will you accept the offer to wake up, refuse and take up the mantle, or defy even the nightmare itself?

#7:

• The English script for this game is longer than the entire Lord of the Rings-trilogy (455,125 words) by over 260,000 words.
• Picks up immediately after the first game, after a surprise reveal at the end of the first game leading one of the two main characters to leave and disappear.
• A proper Bracer now.

#6:

• To revive, you must kill.
• An abandoned, forbidden land.
• 16

Guessed by drbunnig

This quite obscure game, is actually one of the best games on a PlayStation console. It is also the best puzzle game. Maybe that's nostalgia talking, I don't know, but it felt like it was at some point and I never really got a reason to think otherwise so 'Kula World' still is. In the game you control a beach ball across a set of floating beams trying to grab keys and reach the exits. You can move back and forth, and at the end of a beam you can wrap around or change to the side. You can also jump from beam to beam or over hazards. All-in-all it gives you an amazing cerebral 3D experience in an age where the 3rd dimension was still mostly used for the graphical novelty and the awe. If there's one game I'd try in Virtual Reality it would be this.

The game was huge though. I mean, the levels are small and you really only see one big skybox beside the beams but, there's like a billion levels. So I never actually beat the game. I don't even know if I got far! Sadly I never had this game legally. At this time, pirated versions of games were the standard for PlayStation, and later also for SEGA Dreamcast. Decades later, I was browsing the digital store on PlayStation 4. There, you could download, as a "PS1 Classic", Kula World. I figured, why wouldn't I. These developers could finally get some of my money.