Bad art direction aside this is a great Treasure-like run-and-gun with awesome mobility and a really fun parry system

Nice, humble racer that captures the pod racing feel well and arguably one of the best things to come out of the phantom menace

It has some good qol improvements to OG Gunstar and it's the complete posterchild for raw GBA visual FX but man it feels so half-finished and it's got too many gimmicks that take away from the core shooting instead of enriching it

still a nice time tho

A very strong revival of the EX series that fixes most of the original trilogy's archaic issues, it's not hard to learn and all of the characters feel really fun to play as

It's a hard fighter but the sheer amount of tech and playstyle variance each character has makes losses much easier to stomach since there's always a new approach you can take

Multiplayer's as good as ever and single-card play with up to 8 people is amazing. I have really great memories of playing this in car trips with my brothers and cousins.

Arcade mode's good too.

Think LttP with summons instead of dungeon items and more beat-em-up-styled combat. There's little to no worldbuilding and story here but its unique gimmicks are strong enough to make up for it.

Superior to Battle Network 4 in most gameplay terms but carries many of the same problems along with new ones. There's so much repetition to the game loop and locking events behind times and dates is just a hassle through emulation.

Also the 'real operation' mechanics are flat-out terrible, there's luckily mods that let you play with the classic battle formula but it ends up feeling kinda hollow?

bullet hell with a cool melee attack gimmick but it's one of the uglier entries in the genre and just not as fun or engrossing as other genre entries. It doesn't ease you into the difficulty very well at all and was definitely made for genre purists.

Unironically kino, you get a lot of offensive and movement-based techs that feel really good to master. Don't mind the rabbids, but i wish Mario and co. had more stage presence in the cutscenes.

Man this game's a MESS but the ambiance and tone is my favorite of the AA series and its intro case is my favorite non-final case in the series too

Shame that Apollo and Trucy kinda don't do anything in this game tho

OSFE is the best roguelike I've played in my life on top of being a great BN successor and I think every roguelike needs to try imitating the sheer oomph of its rewards system

A lesser version of OG F-Zero with very awkward, loose turning. Maybe it's not terrible relative to other racers but there is zero reason to ever play it over the other F-Zeros

It's a snowboarding game. You can race or do trick competitions. Everything's alright about it, but nothing more.