Post by Nester the Lark on Jan 25, 2022 12:20:29 GMT -5
Do you have any favorite Nintendo games that aren't part of a series or franchise? What standalone games do you think Nintendo should revisit with a sequel or remake?
There aren't as many as I thought there might be because 1) Nintendo often sticks to making games in established franchises, and 2) if an original game is reasonably successful, it will likely get a sequel. So, we're looking at a relatively small and niche selection of games (and a lot of them are digital-only), but there are definitely some interesting examples.
Here are the games that come to my mind:
Pandora's Tower and The Last Story
These were the other games that were part of the Operation Rainfall campaign, and they seem to have become a bit forgotten while Xenoblade has gone on to become a popular series. But both are excellent games, and Pandora's Tower, in particular, I like to think of as “the best 3D Castlevania game.” I'd like to replay them at some point if I get an opportunity.
Neither one is likely to get a sequel, however. Even at the time, Hironobu Sakaguchi said he had no interest in making a sequel to The Last Story, and the premise of Pandora's Tower doesn't seem like it would lend itself to being turned into a series.
Other games I enjoyed playing a lot at the time were The Wonderful 101 on the Wii U and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem on the GameCube. They seemed worth mentioning, however I don't have a lot of desire to revisit these games now.
As for a standalone game I would like to see Nintendo revisit, I want to say Ice Climber (assuming we don't count the arcade version as making it a “series”). I have a soft spot for it, but I think I appreciate it more for its concept than its execution. The jumping controls don't have enough of a horizontal arc, making it overly difficult to jump to higher platforms, exacerbated by poor “hit detection” (not sure if that's the term I'm looking for) that makes it easy to fall through those platforms. But address these flaws, and I think there's a lot of potential to expand the gameplay.
I might post this question on Twitter, as well, to try to get more responses.
There aren't as many as I thought there might be because 1) Nintendo often sticks to making games in established franchises, and 2) if an original game is reasonably successful, it will likely get a sequel. So, we're looking at a relatively small and niche selection of games (and a lot of them are digital-only), but there are definitely some interesting examples.
Here are the games that come to my mind:
Pandora's Tower and The Last Story
These were the other games that were part of the Operation Rainfall campaign, and they seem to have become a bit forgotten while Xenoblade has gone on to become a popular series. But both are excellent games, and Pandora's Tower, in particular, I like to think of as “the best 3D Castlevania game.” I'd like to replay them at some point if I get an opportunity.
Neither one is likely to get a sequel, however. Even at the time, Hironobu Sakaguchi said he had no interest in making a sequel to The Last Story, and the premise of Pandora's Tower doesn't seem like it would lend itself to being turned into a series.
Other games I enjoyed playing a lot at the time were The Wonderful 101 on the Wii U and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem on the GameCube. They seemed worth mentioning, however I don't have a lot of desire to revisit these games now.
As for a standalone game I would like to see Nintendo revisit, I want to say Ice Climber (assuming we don't count the arcade version as making it a “series”). I have a soft spot for it, but I think I appreciate it more for its concept than its execution. The jumping controls don't have enough of a horizontal arc, making it overly difficult to jump to higher platforms, exacerbated by poor “hit detection” (not sure if that's the term I'm looking for) that makes it easy to fall through those platforms. But address these flaws, and I think there's a lot of potential to expand the gameplay.
I might post this question on Twitter, as well, to try to get more responses.
