Kick ass post, Dissensus. You’ve got a bunch of stuff that I already recognize as classics in there, plus some that I know but haven’t really played, and then a couple I’ve never heard of. Nice mix.
Makes me want to seek out a copy of the DS version, which I never played. I had it on N64 way back in the day, but never beat it. I tended to just wander around and look at stuff, I remember how blown away I was by early 3D games like this and Tomb Raider.
I like your write up here, it’s almost more interesting to me to hear defenses of flawed games. It’s easy to love something like The Witcher 3 or The Last of Us or whatever. It’s the games that strive so hard and almost make it that seem to have a little more personality to me.
Been meaning to pick this one up for a while, need to bump this one up the list.
Anyway, nice one! Thanks for sharing your list, I mean it when I say each one is a revelation.