WaspRanger
2002
2002
1994
All time classic with THE best final act of any video game I have ever played. A culmination of 3 games worth of story only silent spoken and it beats everything from Final Fantasy 6 all the way to The Witcher 3 in terms of impact. Still the best Metroidvania game, proving RPG mechanics are a (fun!) crutch to this core style of game
The first game i ever beat, the first game to scare me, to make me understand storytelling in games, and the first game to make me cry. A truly fantastic final boss of an angry mother trying to protect her last child and a uniquely beautiful ending afterwards. This was 1991 and it was pushing the medium of storytelling forward light-years without saying a word
1986