Thoughts on your favorite obscure Nintendo games

Shikamaru Ninja

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A nice little pro-nintendo thread about the reason why I really love Nintendo.

Fire Emblem 4
It's not the first game that popped into my head, but once i remembered what this game meant I had to mention it first. A lot of American/Euro gamers are just now getting aquainted with the Fire Emblem series. It is unfortunate that the GBA game just pales in comparison to the greatness of Fire Emblem 4. What makes this game so great? In my opinion Sigurd (the lead character) is right up there in my all-time favorite characters. He is sort of a mix of Leonardo (TMNT), and William Wallace? (Braveheart). There is also Cygnus, your right hand man. Anyway, the game just features a ton of badass characters all marching to the beat of some really freakin epic music. The strategy involved in the game is also alot more intense from the begining, as opposed to Fire Emblem GBA where it really is sort of a snooze-fest for a while.

Detective Club 2 SNES
Another Japan-only game for you. It is a shame many of the non-Miyamoto developed games did not have a chance to reach American shores. Okay, let me introduce this series by giving you a name. Yoshio Sakamoto. Yoshio Sakamoto is mainly responsible for two series. Two franchises where he has bled his passion. Metroid and Detective Club. We are all quite familiar with Metroid, but Detective whut? The Detective Club series is what basically created Team Shikamaru. Team Shikamaru was a group within Nintendo's famous R&D1 sector who had a passion for new ways of story-telling. Detective Club being the flagship game for Nintendo R&D1's Shikamaru group, was an interactive mystery where you played a young detective attempting to solve a murder case. While I never played the original Famicom versions, I played Sakamoto's 1998 remake of part 2. All I can say is that it truly is an experience. While the game has drastically less gameplay than any Mario, Metroid, or traditional Nintendo game.. it appeases your senses in a dramatically different way. It's very Hideo Kojima like. The game has everything from suicide, murder, cross-dressers, pedophiles, pimps, hookers, to ghosts.

My rant on two games that I wanted to share. Anylove on Star Tropics, Earthbound, Marvelous, Mole-Mania, Sutte Hakun, or other obscure Nintendo games welcome !
 
Pikmin 2 is polished to hell, cute, charming, and funny.
Therefore, I love it.

Now where is my exclusive news about the inner-workings of Nintendo EAD?
 
I loved Stuntrace FX back in the day, i don't think it has aged well, but in those days we loved everything that wasn't 2d.

Love to see sequel though, they should focus on the stunt/star-trax, they are still pretty fun to play.
 
Obscure games ? Nintendo ?
That claims for some R&D1 action !!!

Tracia 776 is one of these games. Awesome soundtrack and graphics...what a pity it never arrived here.
Super Metroid is another one but not obscure...Oh shit...how much I miss the old Super Metroid style. I think that both the GC/GBA titles lack something it had...
 
Yeah Stunt Race FX was great, but the framerate for that sucker was really bad. I would guess my PAL version ran at somewhere between 5-10pfs. How I could play that game without going blind is still a mystery. Really liked the style of the game and the super-happy music though. :)
 
ourumov said:
Super Metroid is another one but not obscure...Oh shit...how much I miss the old Super Metroid style. I think that both the GC/GBA titles lack something it had...

Agreed. Sense of exploration, adventure vs being turned into FPS.
 
There's a Famicom fighting game that Nintendo released toward the end of the system's lifetime that utilized a lot of Vectorman/Earnest Evans-style segmented-joints...obscure and sorta fun. Oh yeah...otherwise, Urban Champion.
 
MightyHedgehog said:
There's a Famicom fighting game that Nintendo released toward the end of the system's lifetime that utilized a lot of Vectorman/Earnest Evans-style segmented-joints...obscure and sorta fun. Oh yeah...otherwise, Urban Champion.

Your description reminds me of Ballz. although that game wasn't released by nintendo or on the famicon.


...I don't really know why i'm posting this.
 
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