ActRaiser is one of the greats, and its recent remaster does it justice while adding in a whole bunch of new wrinkles that are (mostly) in the spirit of the original.
Say what you will about Kirby's Dream Land 3, but the soundtrack is a vital piece of the franchise's history.
It's fishing, but it's also an RPG. A fishing RPG!
For a number of reasons, Bahamut Lagoon is a game in need of a modern-day release.
Can a game that kicked off a franchise that's spanned 15 years and sold well over 30 million copies be underrated?
The original Phantasy Star is very much an old-school JRPG even in its more updated forms, but it remains a piece of genre history worth experiencing.
A time-traveling JRPG with very specific rules about how time travel works, that plays as well in 2021 as it did when it first released a decade ago.
One of the finest releases on the N64, by anyone, remains a stunningly playable classic over two decades later.
I am on the right side of history.
Before there was Rockstar games and the GTA empire, DMA Designs developed a wonderfully charming game about murdering cute animal robots so that you could then take control of them.
A pre-Sly Cooper Sucker Punch developed a 3D platformer on the Nintendo 64, and it's one of the best games on the system.
Squaresoft and nearly everyone else took their JRPGs and ran to the Playstation, but the Nintendo 64 was absolutely loaded in plenty of other genres.
