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Xenoblade Chronicles, for me.

X is a damn fine game and an underrated Wii U gem that I'm very glad is getting a chance at a 2nd life on the Switch.

And the trilogy itself is among the greatest, if not THE greatest, trilogy of video games of all time.



The 2D Wario games, World, Shake it, Land.



Bofferbrauer2 said:

Advance Wars

Also older Fire Emblem titles before Awakening really grew the franchise to new levels.

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Wario Land did some very out-of-the-box things with its level design and the way it redefined getting hit.debuffs. Especially when you consider that 2 and 3 were on incredibly weak hardware.

Sin and Punishment. Star Successor is a 10/10 game. It's in a very niche genre but I consider it one of the best games in its generation.



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KLXVER said:

Punch-Out!! and Rhythm Heaven.

This. Exactly this.



F-Zero, and it's not even close. Runner-ups could be Punch-Out, Star Fox and Dr. Mario (not exactly a franchise, though, mind you). Honorable mentions are the serious sports games that they seem to have abandoned, like 1080, Wave Race and such.



Animal crossing! ahahah

I go for Kid Icarus! that 3DS game was great!



Switch!!!

F-Zero. I really miss that series.



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I like Warioware. I dunno if Xenoblade can be considered "small" but the first one is really good.

Golden Sun used to be very good, at least the first 2 games were. The third one ehhhh.... not so much.