This underlooked gem is one of the very best games on the Wii, Nintendo or otherwise.
Each Animal Crossing entry is different, but the core concepts have survived for nearly 20 years now for a reason.
Hey, guess what happens to one of Nintendo's all-time greats when it gets a proper update that respects the source material?
Three Houses is a stellar blend of Fire Emblem's past and its more modern incarnations, an all-encompassing game that brings the series to its beyond-the-battlefield peak.
It should say something about the franchise that a Mario game I have some complaints about still manages to be the 17th-best thing Nintendo has ever made.
The last F-Zero we got on a console was the best one, and it isn't close.
Link's Awakening was the best thing going in 2D Zelda even before its excellent Switch remake.
The first two Pikmin games were great, but Pikmin 3 took the concept to another level that justified the long wait between entries.
A game you need to play to understand, but I'm going to try to explain it, anyway.
Straddling the line between Mario's 2D past and 3D present is what made 3D World feel so great to play.
The game that fully sold me on 3D Mario by successfully shedding the conventions that Nintendo hadn't fully dispersed with before.
An excellent way to update a franchise as well as the perfect way to modernize a classic, and without losing what made either worked in the process, either.
