Top 10 Classic Video Games that are Great but Not the Masterpieces They are Claimed to Be
Introduced many of the infamous cliches that have consistently plagued all of the 3D Zelda games leading up to Breath Of The Wild ever since, but still a very good game even in retrospect
Yes, I like this game, but still...it's not the best ever.
I disagree. This game is a masterpiece.
Pretty good as long as you only do the New Game Plus sidequest once and then never bother with it again (so easy I could almost play it with my eyes closed and my arms tied behind my back, however; note that a lot of these other games have this exact same issue as well)
Also, the characters are basically just props, and the actual story itself is barely any better than they are
Banjo-Kazooie was just as good, enough said
Better than Chrono Trigger, sure, but still a VERY broken and deeply flawed game; between Kefka's atrociously executed "LOL, so evil" motivation and the combat system featuring glitches and exploits out the wazoo, I'm honestly not quite sure WHAT its most fatal flaw actually is
Mind-numbingly too easy even for the type of game that it is; soundtrack is overall pretty weak and forgettable outside of the Brinstar, Maridia and Lower Norfair themes; boss fights are excessively scripted and completely unchallenging outside of the Ridley one; Space Pirate AI is so bad it isn't even funny; game as a whole is once again treated as a sacred holy grail of its franchise when many of its later follow-ups (including the Metroid 1-2 remakes, which SM itself is more or less one of, mind you) were easily just as good as it was and in many cases (cough, Prime Trilogy, cough) better overall
Has pretty much the exact same insufferably irritating "LOL so random" style of humor as Undertale, but a 1990s version of it
Also, the combat system is a bad ripoff of Dragon Quest, the menu interfaces are needlessly slow and clunky, the saving system is incredibly poorly explained, the storyline is barely even existent, Giygas isn't even that scary of a boss overall when compared to his later Undertale counterparts, etc
Is really only worth actually playing for the True Pacifist run (as a whole) and the Genocide run (Sans/Undyne fights specifically)
Has an unbelievably massive amount of wasted potential and probably should have had at least four or five more actual legitimate bosses than it actually did (cough, Genocide counterparts of Toriel, Papyrus, Mettaton, Muffet and Asgore that actually put up a proper fight against you, cough) but for what it is, it's still easily one of the best games of the current decade regardless and is almost TOO charming and memorable for its own good
(Dragonborn meme hype aside) Skyrim is actually generally quite flagrantly BAD as a game, honestly, and overshadows Oblivion and Morrowind WAY too much for its own good
Good game for single-player, yes, but single-player wasn't even the POINT of the series in the first place (also, the graphics were horribly rushed and the character roster even MORE horrendously unbalanced than Brawl's)
Had a better story than the first game, but that REALLY isn't saying much, and all of the people saying that Gordon is the best video game character of all time probably have even WORSE taste in characters than the God Of War Trilogy fanboys (also, it plays much more like a generic modern shooter when compared to the first game and is overall considerably less strategic, challenging and varied to say the least)
Oh, and for its time, HL1 was easily, EASILY more innovative and ambitious of a game than this was (not counting HL2's popularization of Havoc physics)
It's a fair surprise hit that got massively popular, but I wouldn't say great, but good nevertheless.
It needs to die
Well, the CARTOON series was an underrated masterpiece for sure; I'll give it that much at least
Honestly, the whole "this is the only true sequel to Parappa" and "this game literally kicks Parappa's sorry butt to hell and back" business amongst this game's fans (not to mention Lammy's incredibly unwarranted immortalization as the Parappa fandom's Memetic Sex Goddess) is making it ridiculously overrated
Again, too easy (also has so ridiculously bare-bones of a story that it might as well just be called Cave)
Magic seal-scribbling nonsense aside,
Dawn Of Sorrow was an INFINITELY better game overall than this was (also disregarding DOS' quite literally abysmal joke of a final boss)
The Wii version absolutely DESTROYS the NES one and still isn't even that great of a game overall when you take away the irresistible charm and visual flair from it
Great soundtrack, great level layouts and design, coming from the casual "kid who grew up with a wii", this game really isn't all that bad.
Unpopular opinion, but I believe Odyssey is a far better game than Galaxy 1.
