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Bofferbrauer2 on 26 October 2025
curl-6 said:
Alex_The_Hedgehog said:

Star Fox is one of those games that didn't aged very well for some people. I like it though, revolutionary for the SNES.

I don't think Kirby 64 is that overlooked, but I never heard about Excite Bots.

Excitebots was the 2009 sequel to Excite Truck; crazy in the best way and highly enjoyable:

Excite Trucks itself would qualify.

I'm still mad at Nintendo to not bring Excitebots to Europe, but either way that series definitely needs a new entry.



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Cobretti2 on 26 October 2025

Star Fox Adventures



 

 

firebush03 on 26 October 2025
Cobretti2 said:

Star Fox Adventures

(!!!) Maybe I’m biased, having replayed this games at least a dozen times since I was 2yo, but this is a very good answer! SFA is one of my all-times favorite games. It’s a shame that people have rejected the game for being a Star-Fox-game-in-name-only.



Leynos on 26 October 2025
Wyrdness said:

Pandora's Tower, this really needs to be made into a consistent franchise it's essentially a good 3D Metroidvania, it was over shadowed by Xenoblade and The Last Story.

Good game but not made or owned by Nintendo but it is forgotten. I imported it from GameStation to the US along with The Last Story and Xenoblade. Worth modding the Wii and paying extra for imports. This game has a great OST as well.

Last edited by Leynos - on 26 October 2025

Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

BasilZero on 26 October 2025
sc94597 said:

This and Golden Sun for sure.



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Wyrdness on 26 October 2025
Leynos said:

Good game but not made or owned by Nintendo but it is forgotten. I imported it from GameStation to the US along with The Last Story and Xenoblade. Worth modding the Wii and paying extra for imports. This game has a great OST as well.

It's actually it's co-owned by Nintendo, they asked Ganbarion to work on a new first party IP and Pandora's Tower ended up being the winning pitch.



curl-6 on 26 October 2025

Battalion Wars 1 and 2 on GC/Wii are hardly ever talked about but were fun little games. 



CaptainExplosion on 26 October 2025
shadowii said:

never actually played Stunt Race FX

I did once, but the frame rate was so low it killed the sense of speed. Still impressive for the Super NES. If it had a higher frame rate it would have been a better game.



Soundwave on 27 October 2025

I think Kid Icarus Uprising should have elevated that IP at least into the B-tier of Nintendo character IP alongside Kirby, Donkey Kong, etc. It was really quite good.

I liked Pilotwings Resort quite a bit too.

The NBA Courtside (Kobe Bryant) games back in the day were pretty good too but didn't get as much love as I think they deserved.

Advance Wars: Days of Ruin is flat out my favorite Nintendo DS game period. And yeah I said what I said. 



curl-6 on 27 October 2025
Soundwave said:

I think Kid Icarus Uprising should have elevated that IP at least into the B-tier of Nintendo character IP alongside Kirby, Donkey Kong, etc. It was really quite good.

I feel like the convoluted control scheme kinda kneecapped Uprising from being as good successful as it could have been, if it had released say on the Switch with more straightforward controls I think it would have found more of an audience.