The first Battalion Wars for Gamecube is one of my favourite games of all time. The second one? Not so much. I attribute this to the shifts in controls. While the 2nd one handled well, I was so in love with how the controls were first time around that it kinda messed up my enjoyment of the game overall. Plus, it became impossible to win conflicts online. The people I'd play against would have their strategies down to a T, and I would get my ass handed to me in a matter of minutes.
Anyway, more focused with the topic, a few other underrated/overlooked games that I've had over the years that I enjoyed playing were as follows:
Gamecube
- Tales of Symphonia If I knew how rare it would become in Gamecube form I woulda kept it after finishing it! The shame!
- Ty the Tasmanian Tiger My first game for GC, so perhaps nostalgia blinds me. Fun little 3D platformer! Awesome boomerangs like the multirang, where you could throw several boomerangs at once, were one of my favourite parts of the game.
- 007: Nightfire Yeah, Goldeneye's good, but hey! Multiplayer in this is pretty good, too! Spent most of my time with friends shooting rockets at each other in Skyrail.
- Chibi-Robo Last game I got for GC before mine broke down. Love it so much. Pretty much Toy Story: The Game.
- Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie The game based on the movie! Yeah, it was short! But that was the first time I had played a FPS! Was good while it lasted!
- Ultimate Spiderman More people prefer Spiderman 2 over this, and I would agree. But there is something cool's about racing the Human Torch through town or having a bar fight with Wolverine, then exploring the city. Carnage is a flippin' ***** to fight!
Wii
- Kororinpa As soon as I saw the cover, I wanted to buy it. I mean, it's so cute [http://cdn-static.gamekult.com/gamekult-com/images/photos/00/00/81/16/ME0000811609_2.jpg] I can't stands it! Fuzzpigs aside, the mechanics were cool. I liked Monkey Ball and this was very much in line with that!
- Wario Land: Shake It! Dang! This game looked good! To this day, I regret trading it in. I think that falls to becoming bored of 2D platformers. Still, even if the controls weren't great, I enjoyed looking at things! That counts for something! Right?
-Boogie First dance game I enjoyed! (Mario Dance Dance Revolution was too short.) Good bunch of songs (at the time). Cool 'Alien' concept.
-Heatseeker Despite not being that interested in planes, I thought this was a pretty fun air-combat game! I particularly liked being codenamed 'Touchdown'. Awesome. And the slowmo rolls you could do to avoid missiles? Pretty cool.
-Little Kings Story I got Little King's Story at a time when I was obsessed with Pikmin. This seemed like an ideal supplement before the inevitable Pikmin 3 (this was in 2009). It was a fun game with good controls. I was sad to hear the company shut down.