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Banjo Kazooie is one of the all time greats and one of my favorites ever. Best soundtrack of all time, fight me. I did a replay of it in 2017 and it still holds up. Just pure quality.

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Remaining Eligible Games List:


1. Age of Empires (PC; 1997)
2. Banjo-Kazooie (N64; 1998)
3. Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean (GC; 2003)
4. Baten Kaitos Origins (GC; 2006)
5. Bayonetta (multi-platform; 2009)
6. Bayonetta 2 (Wii U; 2014)
7. Chrono Cross (PS1; 1999)
8. Civilization V (PC; 2010)
9. Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64; 2001)
10. Super Contra (multi-platform; 1988)
11. Crash Bandicoot (PS1; 1996)
12. Crash Bandicoot: Cortex Strikes Back (PS1; 1997)
13. Crash Bandicoot: Warped (PS1; 1998)
14. Crash Team Racing (PS1; 1999)
15. Dark Souls (multi-platform; 2011)
16. Devil May Cry (PS2; 2001)
17. Diddy Kong Racing (N64; 1997)
18. Donkey Kong Country (SNES: 1994)
19. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest (SNES; 1995)
20. Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble (SNES; 1996)
21. Donkey Kong 64 (N64; 1999)
22. F-Zero X (N64; 1998)
23. Fallout 2 (PC; 1998)
24. Final Fantasy XIV (all expansions included together; PC; 2010)
25. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (GBA; 2004)
26. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (GC; 2005)
27. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Wii; 2007)
28. Gears of War (X360; 2006)
29. Golden Sun: The Lost Age (GBA; 2002)
30. Halo 2 (Xbox; 2004)
31. Halo 3 (X360; 2007)
32. Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (PS2; 2001)
33. Jak II (PS2; 2003)
34. Kirby’s Adventure (NES; 1993)
35. Kirby Super Star (SNES; 1996)
36. Left 4 Dead (multi-platform; 2008)
37. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES; 1991)
38. Luigi’s Mansion (GC; 2001)
39. Mario Party 2 (N64; 1999)
40. Mario Party 3 (N64; 2000)
42. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (multi-platform; 2000)
43. Mass Effect (multi-platform; 2007)
44. Mass Effect 2 (multi-platform; 2010)
45. Metal Gear Solid (multi-platform; 1998)
46. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (PS2; 2001)
47. Metroid Prime (GC; 2002)
49. Mortal Kombat (Arcade; 1992)
50. Mortal Kombat II (Arcade; 1993)
51. Mortal Kombat (multi-platform; 2011)
52. Mortal Kombat 11 (multi-platform; 2019)
53. Mother 2/EarthBound (SNES; 1994)
54. Mother 3 (GBA; 2006)
55. Ms. Pac-Man (Arcade; 1982)
57. Persona 4 (PS2; 2008)
58. Persona 5 (PS4; 2016)
59. Pikmin (GC; 2001)
60. Portal (multi-platform; 2007)
61. Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (PS2; 2003)


62. Rayman (multi-platform; 1995)
63. Resident Evil (multi-platform; 1996)
64. Resident Evil 2 (multi-platform; 1998)
65. Resident Evil 2 (multi-platform; 2019)
66. Silent Hill 2 (multi-platform; 2001)
67. The Sims (PC; 2000)
69. Sly 2: Band of Thieves (PS2; 2004)
70. Sonic the Hedgehog CD (SCD; 1993)
71. Sonic Advance (GBA; 2001)
72. Soulcalibur (multi-platform; 1998)
73. Soulcalibur II (multi-platform; 2002)
74. Splatoon (Wii U; 2015)
75. Splatoon 2 (Switch; 2017)
77. Spyro the Dragon: Year of the Dragon (PS1; 2000)
78. Star Fox (SNES; 1993)
79. Star Fox 64 (N64; 1997)
80. Star Ocean (SNES; 1996)
81. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (multi-platform; 2003)
82. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (multi-platform; 2004)
83. Street Fighter (Arcade; 1987)
84. Street Fighter II (Arcade; 1991)
88. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES; 1988)
89. Super Mario World (SNES; 1990)
90. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island (SNES; 1995)
91. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (SNES; 1996)
92. Super Mario Sunshine (GC; 2002)
93. New Super Mario Bros. (DS; 2006)
94. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii; 2009)
95. Super Mario 3D World (Wii U; 2013)
98. Tekken (multi-platform; 1994)
99. Tekken 2 (multi-platform; 1995)
100. Tekken 4 (multi-platform; 2001)
101. TimeSplitters 2 (multi-platform; 2002)
102. Tomb Raider (multi-platform; 2013)
103. Rise of the Tomb Raider (multi-platform; 2015)
104. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (multi-platform; 2000)
106. Valkryia Chronicles (PS3; 2008)
107. Wario Land 4 (GBA; 2001)
108. Advance Wars (GBA; 2001)
109. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (multi-platform; 2015)
110. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (multi-platform; 2017)
111. Xenosaga I/II/III (PS2; 2002/2004/2006)
112. Xenoblade Chronicles (multi-platform; 2010)
114. Undertale (multi-platform; 2015)
115. Inside (multi-platform; 2016)
117. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (multi-platform; 2019)
118. Octopath Traveler (Switch; 2018)
120. Journey (PS3; 2012)
121. The Last of Us (PS3; 2013)
122. Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4; 2017)
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Spyro the Dragon 2: Ripto’s Rage! (PS1; 1999)
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I missed the whole 5th Generation of Consoles because I was too busy playing Pokemon on my Gameboy Color. Actually, I almost did participate in this generation because my Dad did buy me and my sister a PS1 with the original Spyro and Chrono Cross. However, our Chrono Cross game was corrupted and the dog chewed all the cords before I could play Spyro. And that was the end of my PS1 days. I'm mostly telling you all that because despite the fact that Spyro is an iconic Playstation character and that even though I owned a Spyro game, I've never been attached at all to Spyro.

The original Spyro trilogy on Playstation (and most of the subsequent games) are platforming games. You solve puzzles and collect items and fight against enemies using abilities like gliding, breathing fire, and his charge attack. Throughout the game you can learn to do things like swim, climb, and headbash which open new areas up to you. Spyro and Sparx, his dragonfly friend, both return from the first game.

In the game, Spyro is summoned from his world to the fantasy world of Avalar. He learns that the group who summoned him accidentally summoned a warlock named Ripto who is setting out to conquer Avalar; thus, they summoned a dragon to defeat him. And playing as Spyro you collect talismans throughout the world in order to beat Ripto's cronies and eventually Ripto himself.

The Spyro games do seem like a lot of fun so maybe I can borrow my friend's Reignited Trilogy to play them eventually. And I do know from my experience that they play more fun and more fairly than Crash Bandicoot (the other major Playstation platforming trilogy of the day). But I'm cutting Spyro because of the choices I had, it was one of the easier cuts to make.

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Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (PS2; 2002)
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I guess since all my favorite 2D Platformers and Metroidvanias are getting cut, I'll just cut some beloved 3D platformers. JK that's not really my strategy, but it almost feels that way since I'm cutting Sly Cooper and Spyro back-to-back. So like I mentioned in my Spyro write-up I spent all of Generation 5 playing my Gameboy Color. Well unfortunately for the Playstation 2, best-selling video game console of all time, my loyalties pretty firmly lied with Nintendo and I got a GameCube. This meant that not only did I never play Sly Cooper, I didn't even know that Sly Cooper existed really until this rankdown.

Unlike other a lot of other platforming games and like the title might suggest, Sly Cooper is a stealth-platformer. It makes sense, he's a thief. While Sly can attack enemies with his cane, he is killed by a single hit and therefore there's a lot of encouragement to make their way through levels via stealth rather than brute force. Throughout the game you can collect pages from the titular Thievius Raccoonus that Sly is working to recover from the Fiendish Five to learn more moves that can help you throughout the game.

The the game was released in 2002 for the Playstation 2, from screenshots and gifs it still looks like a really good game. That's likely due to its cel-shading and stylized animation. And though I've never played it, it does look like a fun game and it did get really good reviews when it came out. Maybe someday I'll get around to this game but for now it's looks like one of those really good games that I might never play.
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Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter (multi-platform; 1997)

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I don't play fighting games unless they are designed specifically to appeal to a crowd that doesn't really play fighting games (like Smash). I grew up on largely handheld games that don't really lend themselves to the type of precise controls that you really need for fighters (or large enough screen sizes) and I never got along with my siblings well enough to play them on consoles. I didn't grow up playing games in arcades. I like playing fighting games casually with my friends who also don't play fighting games if we go to a hybrid bar/arcade but that's about it. So I apologize for the large amount of apathy I have towards this genre.

Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter is really the second game in the popular and enduring Marvel vs. Capcom series. The first game was X-Men vs. Street Fighter. It was originally released in the arcades in 1997 and founds its way to consoles in 1998 with the Sega Saturn and 1999 with the Playstation. In the arcade and perfect Sega port, each player selects two characters to play in a tag-team battle. The memory limitations removed the tag-team aspect in the Playstation version which was cause for a lot of criticism.

When the game was released Capcom first sought to "fix" what was "broken" in the X-Men vs. Street Fighter game. Namely things like infinite combos and an unbalanced roster. However, that wasn't a popular change among fans and Capcom decided to just embrace the broken-ness and insanity of the series going forward.

That's about all I have for Marvel vs. Capcom.
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Undertale

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I know Dee is big fan of Undertale but I've never played so it was an easy cut to make at this point. Undertale is a role-playing indie video game that was originally released on 2015 for several consoles (Windows, OS X, Linux, PS4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch). While playing the game you are able to control a nameless child who has fallen into the Underground, a realm where where monsters (previously humans) were banished to after war broke out between them. The Underground is sealed for the surface by a magic barrier whose only entrance is located at Mount Ebott. In the journey to reach the surface, the player will encounter different monsters who he might engage in fight. These monsters will attack the player with mini-bullet attacks and the player can chose to either resolve the fight pacifically or kill them, with these choices affecting the outcomes of the game. Several endings are depending of the players actions in the game. The game received critical acclaim on release and has since become a classic cult game. Like I said I haven't played this game and dont look like I would enjoy it but then again I though the same about Celeste and I ended up loving that very much so who knows.





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Sly 2: Band of Thieves

 

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Jk, I have time for one right now. I'll get this one out of the way since I haven't played it or any of the Sly series so might as well get it out of the way first.

 

Anyway, not sure who brought the Sly games in here but if the other PlayStation platformers are taking hits than this certainly deserves to. It is a platform stealth video game that was released in 2004. It brings several new gameplay elements, such as the player being able to play as Bentley and Murray. Sly remains the main character though. The ultimate goal of the game is to acquire Clockwerk parts, one or more of which can be found in each level, or "world". Skills are unlocked by opening safes in each world and also are possible to be acquired by collecting coins and purchasing them from safehouses by means of Thiefnet. It's considered one of the greatest PS2 games of all time but out it goes.

 

 

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