Certainly not the faithful reproductions of the original films the marketing might have led people to believe they were, but they're still quality run-and-gun games. And absurdly challenging, too.
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.
