#18
- At the file selection screen, if you slightly misspell a prominent feature of the game, it’ll net you something good.
- If you want to find everything, you’ll have to opt for the worst possible prize at one point.
- As you conquer each world, the final boss’ stage draws ever closer.
- And the location of the final stage is the same sort of location that you start the following game in.

#17
- More action oriented to its predecessor, this sort of indicated where the franchise it took its cues from was going to head in the future.
- A more linear game, less focus on puzzles, and upgrading your arsenal via points accrued in combat are some other features that differentiate it from its predecessor.
- Features more outside areas than its predecessor - a more natural environment for the variety of enemies you face.
- Unlike its predecessor, it features two playable characters, who you switch back and forth between throughout the game. One of these characters was the playable character in the previous game.

#16 Okami
- A game that has been released on numerous consoles, I’d argue that it wasn’t until over ten years after initial release that combat felt intuitive and right thanks to the touch screen controls on one version.
- A HD version has been released, but, given the graphical style, the original still looks pretty damn good I’d say.
- Feeding the animals will help you on your quest.

#13
- This game introduces an audience that can help or hinder you.

#12 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- All that effort scouring the map to find every one of a specific collectible ain’t worth the shit you get.

My list so far

Guessed by drbunnig

Prince of Persia was far ahead of its time. With great animation in the sprite-work and a nicely illustrated story, this was something to behold and quite unique, even with it's original release. I played this game on a Macintosh halfway through the 90s, and I didn't know at that point that I was actually playing a rerelease and thereby the game's best version. The game might be short on at first glance, since you only have 60 minutes to reach the end, but a lot of it is challenging. When you die, you'll have to redo a whole level, but the timer does not revert meaning you'll have less and less time and at some point have to start over altogether, unless you get better and better. At one point in the game, you'll encounter a mirror that blocks your way. I tried everything imaginable, slashing at it, try climbing over it, finding ways around it that don't exist, but to no avail. For years, years, I didn't know what to do, and looking things up wasn't as easy as it would be today. One faithful day though, I tried another playthrough and I accidentally hit the '9' key while running up to it. The '9' key has you do a long jump to the right, and behold, I jumped right through the mirror! Creating a mirror double who would cross you later in the proces. I was stunned for a second. And then I ran downstairs faster than my legs could carry me skipping three steps at a time, screaming at my parents; "I jumped through the mirror, I jumped through the mirror!" They didn't know what was going on, but they knew what I meant.

Unguessed

My love for the simulation genre continued with SimCity 3000. This game was a huge upgrade over predecessor SimCity 2000 (#41), so I had to have it. The initial game was already good enough and immediately worthy of being among my all-time favourites, and actually, at release it probably was my all-time favourite for a short time, but after the release of the expansion World Edition this game really soared. Now, buildings and landscapes could have a European or an Asian theme aside from the default American theme, and as a European this made everything much more recognisable and I was able to make cities and towns much more lifelike to my own surroundings. I made some huge cities over the years, one with over 400 thousand inhabitants, which is quite big in this game. I often wanted to make a whole 'country' though, with a main city and a landscape with a few more towns and things all interconnected. I kind of made this work, but this wasn't really the game to do it in. Luckily though another would come along a couple years later that was much more suitable for this.

Guessed by Lylat Wars (Star Fox 64)

I have played through Lylat Wars, or, Star Fox 64 in most of the world, more times than I can count, and it is definitely the game I have seen the credits sequence of most of any. In fact, I can replay the tune front to back and note for note in my head right now if I wanted to. The game is just exciting, every second has action or suspense, and this plus the fact that there's a lot of different ways to reach the end and that there are two endings makes that this game is pretty much endlessly replayable. And so I did. Together with my Rumble Pack. Plenty of years later, Nintendo remade the game on 3DS and I was happy to see that the game was still as fun to play as it ever was, it's timeless, just with way better graphics because if it's not broken there's no need to fix it.

He is right, that was what I was thinking.

Sorry I was out for like a day or three, so big hint-dump now. 13 was already guessed, but 12 can have a second hint and we're entering the top 10.

13 - The American name of this game quite accurately describes what this ball does. Guessed by drbunnig - Kula World (Roll Away)

12 - Even though you are remembered as a great hero by the people and the history of the land, the spirits of the other, real, heroes continue to mock you for being nothing of the sort.
Hint 2: This is because, instead of heroically leading your army to victory, you actually took an arrow to the eye and died during the very first charge. Guessed by Darashiva - MediEvil

11 - I'm not sure you'd want to go here when you're sick. Guessed by drbunnig - Theme Hospital

10 - When you finally get every collectible, you get a reward that very much drives home that doing so was pretty pointless and not necessarily meant to be done. Guessed by Darashiva - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

9 - This game for some reason, has a lot to do about llama's.

12: Medievil

10: Breath of the Wild?

11 Theme Hospital?

9 probably wrong, but I can't help but think of that Tomb Raider game (Shadow?) where you can pet the llamas.

Both right! In Breath of the Wild if you get all the Korok Seeds you get what looks like a turd, and its description also says that "it smells pretty bad" so yeah.

Theme Hospital is correct!

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is not, great game though, had more fun with that trilogy than I had with Uncharted past 3, not in the least because it did collectables way better with them being relevant to the story and location, and actually providing extra info about things. Also loved the puzzles in the tombs and the exploration in some parts.

But yeah anyway, not Tomb Raider.

#12 is the same hint as S.Peelman, but for you it wasn't guessed: Breath of the Wild.

16) Okami?