Notes on SNES Games
| Cacoma Knight in Bizyland / カコマ☆ナイト | |
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| Basically it's a 16-bit-erised Qix clone. あのSHIMIZU (Ano Shimizu)'s illustrations are really nice though! | |
| The Firemen | |
| Front Mission | |
| Kirby's Dream Course | |
| Live A Live | |
| Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie | |
| マリオのスーパーピクロス / Mario’s Super Picross | |
| Metal Marines | |
| Metal Max Returns | |
| 新機動戦記ガンダムＷ Ｅｎｄｌｅｓｓ Ｄｕｅｌ (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Duel) | |
| The system's best fighter, behind Street Fighter II Turbo. The characters feel suitably heavy, and the fighting system is rich: there's a really satisfying meshing of the (extensive) air and dash systems, downed attacks, range attacks, and juggles. The game has large, well-drawn sprites; Capcom should have paid attention to this game when they were making a hash of their Street Fighter Alpha 2 port. | |
| もと子ちゃんのワンダーキッチン (Motoko-chan's Wonder Kitchen) | |
| Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen | |
| Picross NP series | |
| A series of neat nonogames released via Nintendo's Nintendo Power service. They have a slightly colder feel than Mario's Super Picross, but compensate with two player modes (whos features vary between volumes), and some charmingly awkward reward images. | |
| Shadowrun | |
| Probably a bit overrated, especially compared to the Mega Drive game. But still has a great atmosphere and soundscape. It's pretty short, and not so interesting towards the end. Really feels like it could be a good base for something bigger. | |
| SimCity | |
| Really benefits from playing in an emalator with a fast-forward key ;) I think it's my favourite version of the game. The soundtrack's lovely. | |
| Star Wing | |
| Star Fox 2 | |
| Stunt Race FX | also on: Switch, Wii |
| The low frame rate might make it a little tricky to get into now, but the soundtrack's terrific, and the stunt mode's lots of fun. An interesting thing I read in an interview (  ) is that is was actually running at a much better frame rate, but Nintendo kept requesting extra stuff get added which slowed everything down. |
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| Terranigma | |
| A grand action adventure by Quintet. People complain of its length, and consistency, but I'm always sufficiently charmed by the way the character feels in motion and in combat. The game's a pile of little stories spread over a massive time period. Lots of variety, lots of neat details. Good soundtrack too. |
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| 海腹川背 (Umihara Kawase) | also on: 3DS, DS, PS, PSP, Vita, Windows |
| Unirally | |
| DMAs curious, very fast, programmer-graphic-ed, side-view racing game. Courses twist and loop, and you perform mid-air tricks (and there are lots of them) to gain speed. Multiplayer is great, providing both players are skilled at the game. | |
| UN Squadron | |
| This is my second favourite SNES shooter. Its structure feels unconventional, and its difficulty is just the right amount of hard. | |
| Wario’s Woods | also on: GC (in Animal Crossing) NES, Switch |