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Best Super Nintendo games of all time

Counting down the best system of all time's best game

Words: on April 17, 2012
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  • charles-matherly - April 17, 2012 8:39 p.m.

    Lufia 2 Rise of the Sinistrals was my favorite game on the snes. Iloved mario and killer instinct but Lufia had an awsome story, great puzzles, and a great battle system. I still love to play this game today.

  • BladedFalcon - April 17, 2012 9:43 p.m.

    Yoshi's Island has far superior graphics, far more personality, better bosses, Original and new gameplay ideas and concepts that worked beautifully. Don't get me wrong, SMW is a great game, but in what area is it supposed to be way ahead? aside from maybe the core gameplay differences that might make the came more appealing to different kind of people?

  • BladedFalcon - April 17, 2012 9:46 p.m.

    Except many of the games listed here still hold up really well. Several of them I played them for the first time just recently, without nostalgia involved, they are are pretty compelling games. Super Punch Out, Castlevania IV, and Final Fantasy VI are games I played no earlier than 2 years ago, and they are all phenomenal. So no, I honestly don't believe nostalgia is coloring things unfairly.

  • Person5 - April 17, 2012 10:07 p.m.

    SMW didn't have the annoying aspect of keeping baby mario intact, the graphics weren't the thing that was superior but the art style, it definitely was original though, I'll give it that

  • Person5 - April 17, 2012 10:08 p.m.

    Super Mario All Stars was just a collection, can't be counted

  • Person5 - April 17, 2012 10:09 p.m.

    woops that should be for forestfire55, comment screwed up and fanfundy, I completely forgot about Secret of Evermore, that game rocked

  • Person5 - April 17, 2012 10:10 p.m.

    As much as I love Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger is probably a better game but just barely

  • Person5 - April 17, 2012 10:11 p.m.

    Star Fox 64 is probably a better game, thus disqualifying Star Fox from this list

  • BladedFalcon - April 18, 2012 12:43 a.m.

    I honestly think the whole baby complaint is overrated, his crying wasn't nearly as bad as popular media loves to claim, and you almost always could catch him quickly if you knew what you were doing. I actually liked the mechanic because it gave you a chance to recover if you made a small mistake or got careless, but still made you work to get that chance back. And sorry, it's not only the art-style, the amount of graphical power, pixels, and colors that went into YI was vastly higher than what SMW offered, even without the handrawn animations. And really, SMV is actually pretty austere when it comes to graphics, even by SNES standards. It's by no means an ugly game, but there isn't really much in the way of it's character or stages that made you go "wow..." I mean, I know it all boils down to difference of oppinion. But considering I hold SMB3 as better than SMW, for me the definite Mario related game in the SNES is Yoshi's Island, hands down.

  • BladedFalcon - April 18, 2012 12:46 a.m.

    Maybe... but I can't remember, did SF 64 have branching paths and stages? memory's foggy, but I have the impression that the original star fox was the one that did it, and SF 64 did away with it. If so, I'm probably sticking with SF then, since I have a special love and respect for games that dared to have branching stages that made the game feel different each time you played it. It's something you don't see a lot anymore these days...

  • ncurry2 - April 18, 2012 6:49 a.m.

    No, SF64 had branching paths with different stages too. There was always some sort of hidden objective in the stages to do. Doing them led to the harder difficulty stages.

  • ncurry2 - April 18, 2012 6:50 a.m.

    I agree 100%. As someone who just finished both of them last year (YI for the first time, SMW for the second or third), YI is just so refreshing. But SMW is still a fun game for sure.

  • Pruman - April 18, 2012 7:16 a.m.

    Come on man, Star Fox should be on there. Sure, it was a tech demo for the Super FX chip just like Pilotwings was a tech demo for Mode 7...but what a glorious and fun tech demo! I can still remember playing it for the first time on a display kiosk at Toys 'R Us, and having my 10-year old mind totally blown away. Sure, the graphics are pretty austere, and if you're playing on an actual SNES, the game runs like absolute ass. It's still a blast to play, though.

  • mothbanquet - April 18, 2012 8:14 a.m.

    I only played Chrono Trigger three years ago via emulator and never would I have imagined that a 16-bit game would grip me in this day and age like that one did. I played it solidly from start to finish over the space of two weeks and was gobsmacked to learn from a friend what I'd missed! It was, quite simply, a piece of RPG perfection and still stands as a game that many devs today could learn from.

  • Hig1134 - April 18, 2012 8:47 a.m.

    SNES was so awesome! So many fond memories...I wanna play right now!!

  • BladedFalcon - April 18, 2012 9:06 a.m.

    Ahh, cool, then yeah, chances are SF 64 IS the definite better game XD I mean, i remember loving the original SF, but it sure looks dated now XD

  • sirdilznik - April 18, 2012 10:31 a.m.

    How dare you put ANYTHING ahead of Final Fantasy VI (FF III originally in the US), the greatest jRPG ever made.

  • Bawheidbob - April 18, 2012 10:51 a.m.

    I was starting to panic a little but it was there in the end loved Super Metroid. Now that i think about it this was the game that started my obsession with buy games if they have nice big boxes. Still have not played Chrono Trigger though or Link to the Past /hangsheadinshame One day though - So many games here in fact i never played and no Street Fighter II Turbo /shock - I suppose we all had it on the Megadrive

  • babyhenchy1 - April 18, 2012 10:54 a.m.

    Oh my god, I actually agree with you on something. Super Metroid is the best game I've ever played.

  • alexandre-bret - April 18, 2012 12:16 p.m.

    Illusion of Gaia. Starfox, Turtles in Time were one of my all time favorites

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