Non-Franchise SNES Appreciation Topic

[General Mostly Electrified Steel]

Let it be said that I love the SNES, madly.

In this thread, discuss (I'm sure most of you have been exposed to some sort of standardised examination vocabulary) your most beloved, hated, or otherwise appreciable or noteworthy non-franchise games.

By which, I mean no Mario, no Link, no Megaman, no Final Fantasy, etc. Japan-exclusive excluded, since I bet half of you don't even know what romhacking.net is.

 

[EnzoHonda]

The SNES was the greatest system of all time. I was a thin little kid when I got it, and a fat teenager during its twilight years.

I'm going to mention a few games that had (as far as I know) only SNES sequels. I don't think it's a franchise (in the spirit of this thread) if it didn't make it out of the SNES.

-Loved-

Inindo: Way of the Ninja. A little-known Koei game that looked like absolute shit. The visuals would have been weak on regular Nintendo. But the cool Japanese setting, the large game world, the relative difficulty, and the huge number of sidekicks you could have make this one of my favourite games. It just *clicked* for me. Plus I loved assassination missions.

Lufia and the Fortress of Doom. One of the first games I played where I appreciated the romance. I think it helped turn me into the romantic fiend that I am today.

-Appreciated-

Paladin's Quest. Neat game with a very different and interesting world and bizarre music. Plus lots of neat guys who could join your group.

Seventh Saga. RPG with very little story, but a neat world, cool characters to pick from (Go LUX!), surprisingly tactical battles, and for once it was a Japanese RPG that was freaking HARD. Depressingly large amount of leveling though.

-Hated-

Rise of the Robots. I mentioned this in the 'worst ever' thread. My opinion stands. This game sucked. Hard.

Brandish (I think). It was a Koei dungeon-crawl. I only remember the shifty-camera giving me mild seizures. It was probably a decent game.

 

[OmniRemix]

Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia.

If you haven't played them, DO IT.

 

[General Mostly Electrified Steel]

And just because you seem to think you're god, and I beleive myself to be Satan:

Mario had to be the best game on the SNES ever.
The gameplay may have been repetitive but level design came as obscure and confusing as ever. One would have thought that after Mario3 they would have tried some insane logic and non-eyuclidean physics. But NO! They took that same random formula, pimped it out, brought it back, prettied it up, and added a dinosaur who doesn't seem to mind being punched in the back of the head.
Super Mario World is the best game ever made simply because you don't want it mentioned yet you lack the courtesy required to post in other peoples threads. So screw your "rules" I love Mario. Not platonically. WHY WON'T HE RETURN MY CALLS!!!!11one
That, and Star Fox. Twas bitchin.

Being an asshole is being mean. Please do not be mean, you meanie.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Mario had to be the best game on the SNES ever.

I take issue with this statement. Chrono Trigger was the best game on the SNES. And you damn well know it.

 

[Necrohydra]

Mario had to be the best game on the SNES ever.

I take issue with this statement. Chrono Trigger was the best game on the SNES. And you damn well know it.

Let's not start THIS sort of thing up, shall we?

Non-franchise gems, eh? How about Seiken Densetsu 3? Were it ever brought outside of Japan, it would have been called Secret of Mana 2. Instead of being stuck with the same party, you picked 3 out of 6 characters to be your party. The story slightly changed, depending on which character you picked to be the main character, including the final boss you fought. The combat is the same style as in Secret of Mana, except tweaked to be faster *No more holding B to charge up specials *. It came out pretty late in the SNES's life cycle, so the graphics are great for the time. Oh, and the story's kinda intriguing as well.

@OmniRemix - how could you forget Terranigma? Also a great game!

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

Non-franchise gems, eh? How about Seiken Densetsu 3? Were it ever brought outside of Japan, it would have been called Secret of Mana 2. Instead of being stuck with the same party, you picked 3 out of 6 characters to be your party. The story slightly changed, depending on which character you picked to be the main character, including the final boss you fought. The combat is the same style as in Secret of Mana, except tweaked to be faster *No more holding B to charge up specials *. It came out pretty late in the SNES's life cycle, so the graphics are great for the time. Oh, and the story's kinda intriguing as well.

@OmniRemix - how could you forget Terranigma? Also a great game!

Great choices, I f*ckin loved those games. Though Gloating Swine is right, Chrono Trigger was and is one of the finest Rpgs ever made.

 

[General Mostly Electrified Steel]

@OmniRemix - how could you forget Terranigma? Also a great game!

Terranigma, ugh. I got hopelessly lost during the open world sequence, and never finished it. The inevitable plot twist could have been a bit better (Warrior of goodness and life gets born in hell? Nothing suspicious about that, no sir).

 

[Joe]

I'll never forget Uniracers. Each person played a sentient unicycle and raced around a futuristic, side-scrolling track with a bunch of loops, jumps and powerups. Then you could do tricks to boost your score and increase your speed. Each race circuit had balls-out speed levels, freestyle trick levels and really intricate courses. AND your unicycle could get better as time went on.

It was Excitebike on crack. We used to have tournaments and get in fights over the game.

 

[Necrohydra]

@OmniRemix - how could you forget Terranigma? Also a great game!

Terranigma, ugh. I got hopelessly lost during the open world sequence, and never finished it. The inevitable plot twist could have been a bit better (Warrior of goodness and life gets born in hell? Nothing suspicious about that, no sir).

*Spoiler Alert*

I viewed it more as the hero of life and such got reincarnated in the underworld, so to speak. You do find your own grave in Antarctica (think it was Antarctica). Not to mention the whole town replica thing, and Ellie.

Come to think of it, Enix was pretty big on reincarnation in the SNES days, weren't they?

 

[monodiabloloco]

I will second UN Squadron. That one I played through at least 12 times. I don't know that it counts as a franchise game, but Super Punch Out is still one of my favorite games too.

 

[Melty Blood]

I don't see why everyone likes Chrono Trigger. There were several Eye stabbingly frustrating boss battles, including the last boss, where the developers though it was a good idea to make you fight every single boss in the game before you actually start to take on the big bad. Every single characters is so "Been there, done that", with the exception of Frog and Magus, and after you pass the point where character X is *required* To be in your party, their character development just stops, and they're only contribution to the story is a few stale lines that change depending on who's in your party.

 

[knumpify]

has everyone forgotten Tales of Phantasia!?
it was an amazing game, by far my favourite.
I also remember this crazy racers game (I think that's it's title...). automatic favourite because the soundtrack included stuff like paranoid by ozzy

one UTR game that I really hated was weaponmaster. it was so glitchy and the audio sucked.

 

[Melty Blood]

has everyone forgotten Tales of Phantasia!?
it was an amazing game, by far my favourite.
I also remember this crazy racers game (I think that's it's title...). automatic favourite because the soundtrack included stuff like paranoid by ozzy

one UTR game that I really hated was weaponmaster. it was so glitchy and the audio sucked.

Tales of Phantasia bored me into a state of rigor mortis, and contains some of the worst game design choices I've ever seen.

 

[knumpify]

Tales of Phantasia bored me into a state of rigor mortis, and contains some of the worst game design choices I've ever seen.

I thought it was pretty creative, especially with the fighting system. I'll agree to the fact that some of the level design was freaking annoying, but I thought the good outweighed the bad.

just noticing that you don't seem to like the popular RPG's (chrono trigger), maybe it's just not your thing. what types of game do you normally get into?