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4. Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
While Solid Snake made a major splash on the original PlayStation, the character hadn’t appeared on a Nintendo system since the days of the NES. Silicon Knights and Konami collaborated to bring Snake’s incredibly popular title to the Nintendo masses, and the resulting effort was a fantastic update for a game that most already considered a classic. The team kept the first game’s beloved storyline, while adding gameplay elements from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
While Snake’s appearances on Nintendo systems have been quite limited since, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes did set the wheels in motion for the character to appear as a playable fighter in Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Glad to see Super Monkey Ball so high on the list. (Although I prefer the second one) It’s a shame that Amusement Vision isn’t around anymore, because I really enjoyed what they were doing on the GameCube.
Great list. All are worthy of inclusion. I’m particularly glad to see Skies of Arcadia Legends get some love; it’s a very good RPG and filled a massive hole in the Cube library at the time of its release.
I have long thought Baten Kaitos Origins to be the best of the Cube RPGs — better than Symphonia, better than Arcadia. It gets little love because it was released so late and sold in very few quantities. Even in my own list I left it off, mostly because Symphonia was a more groundbreaking and important RPG, and because its combat was pure awesome.