Top 10 Nintendo-Related Video Games that are Both Terrible and Overrated
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Super Mario Kart
Some of the worst drifting controls of all time, graphics that have aged about as well as those of the original Star Fox, ridiculous track designs, nearly impossible to beat without save states, etc (seriously, if you HAVE to pick one specific Mario Kart game to hate on, please make it this one and not 8)
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Conker's Bad Fur Day
Stupid, tryhard and boring in the humor department in my opinion; utterly infuriating in the gameplay department, basically just being Banjo-Kazooie but without any of the exploration or actually good level design
Some parts of this game are weird, and downright creepy. Good in some parts to be honest.
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Ice Climber (NES)
All you need to know is that this is by far one of Nintendo's worst games but also one of its most popular (and, at least in the case of Brawl, most ridiculously overpowered) Smash Bros characters
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Star Fox (SNES)
Un-necessary and downright inhumanly strict "limited lives" feature, graphics that have aged so horribly that you can barely even see where your ship is going, made solely to promote a console gimmick, unironically considered a good game by nostalgia purists, et cetera
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Super Smash Bros.
One of the few actually genuine pre-Wii examples of a "baby game" from Nintendo
(not to mention its INCREDIBLY bare-bones single-player mode, god-awful tank controls, absurdly minimalist playable character roster, stupidly easy Master Hand fight, terrible soundtrack when compared to those of its sequels, etc, etc, etc)
Not gonna lie, pretty good remakes (ultimate) but it's this smash I just don't like. The graphics and the controls aren't that great.
Smash isn't terrible, Smash is gaming coming/going home to/for peace prosperity & unification
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Radiation's Earthbound Halloween Hack
Now, don't get me wrong; the game that Radiation made right after this one (Undertale) is hands-down one of THE ultimate pop culture, story telling AND game design highlights of the indie game scene...but this one, on the other hand...yeah, not so much, to say the least.
The storyline tries WAY too hard to be edgy (arguably even by Creepypasta standards), the difficulty level is both unfairly extreme and HILARIOUSLY unbalanced (see Hard Levels, Easy Bosses), the overall length of the game is laughably short (yes, even more so than in Undertale), and overall, it's just a plain mediocre piece of trash...but I mean, hey, at least we got Megalovania out of it, I suppose
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Animal Crossing
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Hotel Mario
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Wii Sports
Completely forgettable aside from the fact that it was packaged with the system
(honestly should have just already been Wii Sports Resort right then and there)
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Earthworm Jim
Easily one of the most egregiously massive cases of "style over substance" in video game history, Earthworm Jim looks like something straight out of the 1990s (Ren & Stimpy / Rocko's Modern Life) Ren-aissance of western animation, sounds like a classic Looney Tunes episode mixed with literally all of the best things about 1980s music...and plays like an absolute turd from start to finish (oh, and don't even get me started on Tube Race, For Pete's Sake, Intestinal Distress and Buttville)
Needless to say, the cartoon adaptation was pretty much the only good thing to ever come out of this series (again, the music, sound design and art styles of its first two games aside)
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Super Smash Bros. Melee
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Super Mario 64
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Donkey Kong (Arcade)
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Bionic Commando
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Banjo-Tooie
Just the name says it's a spinoff.
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Banjo-Kazooie
I don't like how the graphics work and the controls aren't great. I can't even design my car thing.
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Donkey Kong 64
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F-Zero (SNES)
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Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
Annoying and unfunny stereotype characters, absolutely no depth whatsoever, WAY too easy up until the second boss of the World Circuit, way too HARD once it reaches that point, etc
(seriously, just play the Wii version instead)
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Mario Kart Tour
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GoldenEye 007
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Final Fantasy VII
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Yoshi's Story
Another one of the few actually genuine pre-Wii examples of a "baby game" from Nintendo
(also one of the lamest sequels ever, considering that Yoshi's Island was its direct predecessor)
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Metroid (NES)
I once saw a meme declaring that this game literally aged about as well as that one Ganymede Rock Lobster refrigerator from Cowboy Bebop...and yeah, I'd say that's about right
(some of the worst boss fights ever, lack of a proper beam-switching function, no map system, over-reliance on bad controls and harsh death consequences to generate difficulty, extremely lame escape sequence, dull-as-dirt graphics even for its time, etc)
For the record, Return Of Samus barely aged any better
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Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time
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Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
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Super Paper Mario
