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Post by 🧀Son of Suzy Creamcheese🧀 on Mar 15, 2019 17:36:57 GMT -5
Ubiquitous SNES classics. If I'm going to try and experience what the SNES has to offer, I want to go beyond the games that most people tend to bring up when making recommendations. Okay, but you're still gonna play the classics, though, right? That said, Axelay (and any other Konami shoot-em-up you can find), Tetris Attack, Kirby's Dream Course and Rockman & Forte would be my recommendations.
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Post by eatersthemanfool on Mar 15, 2019 22:09:33 GMT -5
Oh shit yea, Kirby's Dream Course is one of my favorite golf games.
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Post by windfisch on Mar 18, 2019 11:46:44 GMT -5
Out of curiosity, will you let us know which games have peeked your interest?
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Post by Apollo Chungus on Mar 18, 2019 17:56:17 GMT -5
Thank you all for your replies and recommendations so far. It's really cool to be given all manner of suggestions for obscure games and even developers, and I really appreciate it. In the meantime, I thought I'd take the time to answer a couple of questions.
Ubiquitous SNES classics. If I'm going to try and experience what the SNES has to offer, I want to go beyond the games that most people tend to bring up when making recommendations. Okay, but you're still gonna play the classics, though, right? I've had a SNES emulator on my PC since about 2010, so I've played a good few of the quintessentials - Final Fantasy IV, Super Metroid, the Mario platformers, the first two DKCs, EarthBound, Super CastleVania IV, etc.
Most of them are fine (though Yoshi's Island is the only one that I genuinely adore), but I really want to go off the beaten path and find the games barely nobody talks about. The main reason for this was inspired by a Mega Drive game I recently played for the first time - Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure. I downloaded and played it on a whim when I heard someone talk about it, but I'd never actually heard of the game or anything about it. The lack of knowledge or expectation meant that everything in that game was a delightful surprise, and it left me constantly giddy and excited to see what was around the corner in a way I haven't felt in a long time.
I feel like there must be plenty of games on the SNES I know nothing about that can potentially provide similar feelings in their own way, and that's why I want to find out about the unusual, the forgotten, and the unique.
Out of curiosity, will you let us know which games have peeked your interest?
I really should answer this, huh?
To be honest, I haven't actually touched the Wii recently - I'm trying to download Metal Gear Rising off of the 360 so I can run around, cutting up gentleman and shouting "RULES OF NATURE!" at the top of my lungs. But I decided to check out a couple of games based on the first few posts, and I'll likely check out more in the future.
Prehistorik Man (by mainpatr) - A pretty decent platformer by Titus of all folks; it's got an arcadey charm to it and I'm curious to try more. I think the thing I find most interesting about it is that the main character's voice effects are ripped straight from old cartoons. He has a special shout power that's just the Bill Hanna Tom scream from the old MGM Tom & Jerry cartoons, and the yelp he makes when he gets hurt is a Daffy Duck scream from Looney Tunes.
Prince of Persia (by windfisch) - I haven't played more than the training level so far. I find the controls to be a bit unintuitive, but hopefully I can either change them in the menu or through the emulator into something comfortable. (On that note, I love how many 16-bit games offered customizable button mappings - it really helped to future-proof these games for emulators and make things much more convenient for the player. Even Super Metroid - a Nintendo game, for crying out loud! - lets you map every command to whatever buttons you find most comfortable!)
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It's not been suggested by anyone, but I'm thinking about playing an adventure game called Ihatovo Monogatari. It's an adventure game based on the works of pre-war Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa (whose works have been adapted countless times, particularly in anime - most famously are the 1985 Night on the Galactic Railroad by Gisaburo Sugii and 1983's Gauche the Cellist by Isao Takahata; yes, THAT Isao Takahata). It got a fan translation fairly recently, and I'd like to use playing the game as an excuse to finally check out some of Miyazawa's work.
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Mar 19, 2019 7:59:11 GMT -5
If you end up liking the PoP-style controls then you might enjoy the previously mentioned SOS as well. It's an early survival/catastrophe sim game with multiple endings.
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Post by wyldesyde on Mar 20, 2019 19:13:00 GMT -5
I was reading up on this thread when I saw this link. I had no idea this site has been around for that long!
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Post by edmonddantes on Mar 25, 2019 20:29:54 GMT -5
IIRC the SNES POP controls can be remapped in-game. I agree the defaults were a little strange and uncomfortable (same is true for Super Metroid actually... why exactly is A jump and X shoot by default when every other SNES game maps those to B and Y?)
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Post by cacao on Mar 26, 2019 15:41:19 GMT -5
I have to second most games here, especially Umihara Kawase and Kirby's Dream Course.
I haven't seen it mentioned yet so I'll recommend Sutte Hakkun. It's a puzzle game and an interesting one.
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Mar 26, 2019 18:29:14 GMT -5
It was mentioned twice but yeah, good game.
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Post by jorpho on Mar 30, 2019 0:28:05 GMT -5
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Post by steven on Apr 13, 2019 14:18:29 GMT -5
I was reading up on this thread when I saw this link. I had no idea this site has been around for that long! Thanks for linking me, bumpy! And yes, Wyldesyde, my site RVGFanatic has been around for over 12 years now. Time flies! Crazy to think all my reviews I wrote prior to 2010 are now 10+ years old. I went from dot com to RVGFanatic.com/Wordpress as of January 2016, and that is where you can get the latest updates. I can no longer update the original site (though the material is still viewable). Back to the topic at hand, I recommend Claymates as a under the radar solid platformer. Coincidentally, it is my latest review and said review features an interview I conducted with the game’s programmer, Brian Greenstone. rvgfanatic.com/wordpress/index.php/claymates/
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Post by kingmike on Apr 14, 2019 17:18:54 GMT -5
Seems like I was the only one that liked Claymates as a kid. I only heard from people that said they hated it. I don't know if it's because of the puzzle-solving to move from one level to the next. or that the last level is a shmup of all things
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Post by fuckdavidcage on Sept 1, 2020 14:22:43 GMT -5
Metal Max Returns, Tiny Toons Adventures: Buster Busts Loose, Dark half, Tin Star, The Firemen, Joe and Mac: Cavemen Ninja, Lufia 2, Energy Breaker,Umihara Kawase, War of the Gems--nothing like the arcade game--Sunset Riders, Spawn, Spiderman: The Amazing Lethal Foes, Shin Nekketsu Kouha: Kunio Tachi No Banka
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Post by spanky on Sept 2, 2020 6:19:48 GMT -5
Now that the entire Goemon series for the system has been translated, there's no excuse not to play them!
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Post by xolta on Sept 13, 2020 0:34:27 GMT -5
Will always recommend Terranigma. It is probably one of the most underated 16 bit rpgs around.
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