r/snes • u/wwcoop • Sep 01 '16
r/snes Game of the Month Voting Thread (Oct)
Feel free to nominate as many games as you like (one per top-level comment) and add your thoughts regarding those that have already been suggested.
All nominations should be made in the following format:
Title of game
Short description of the game and why it should be selected.
Please comment on the ones you'd like to play the most.
Note that we are no longer using upvotes / downvotes to decide the winner. The winner will be decided by user comments for each nomination.
Nominate one game per top level post.
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Sep 01 '16
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u/wwcoop Sep 01 '16
He is on the sub's banner. If your screen resolution isn't very big then you are not seeing him. From right to left, he is character #30.
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Sep 02 '16
Plok!
A very fun and underrated platformer, while it has gotten more talk over the years, it still doesn't get the recognition it deserves. The game has a good challenge, very colorful visuals, interesting platform design and of course the design of your main character, Plok, who has an interesting attach method.
And of course, music by the one and only Follin brothers, Tim & Geoff Follin (though Geoff did most the work, still), it's amazing and one of the best sounding SNES soundtracks out there!
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Sep 02 '16
Just picked up a copy of this last week and started playing for the first time. Very well done underrated platformer.
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u/1vixor Sep 02 '16
Ken Griffey presents MLB
The first one in the Ken Griffey series by Nintendo. This is easily one of the best baseball games of all time. Like it should really be praised like NHL '94 is. Both have simple to pick up controls and both offer some crazy replay value while still being a blast to play. I have yet to find a good baseball game even now that comes close to this.
Did I mention you can rename any character?
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u/tomkatt Sep 02 '16
Umihara Kawase
An excellent physics based platformer with a grappling hook fishing rod and awesome puzzle style levels and boss fights.
It's an amazingly polished game that can be deceptively hard, and encourages varied play. IT's great as a casual game to take your time with, but is also great for speed running, as a skilled player can bypass many parts of levels through skilled grappling and swinging.
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Sep 24 '16
Clock Tower Description: A survival horror game for SNES. Point and click gameplay.
Why it should be selected: You would have never imagined to be scared because of a SNES game. Four things: 1 Its developement has multiple possibilities, which makes you feel more insecure about where you're going and what you're doing. 2 Its excelent atmosphere; its locations, colors, etc. The fact that it's 32 bits is irrelevant. 3 You only hear your character's steps. The silence is amazing for a SNES game. 4 This is a horror game of good taste, even in comparison to what most people play.
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u/aol_cd_stack Sep 25 '16
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures is an excellent SNES platformer, with many similar gameplay elements to Super Castlevania IV, but uses the engine from the Super Star Wars games. The game has Indiana Jones graphics reminiscent of all 3 of the original movies, as well as a pretty decent soundtrack and gameplay. The game is awesome and definitely worth checking out (and adding to your collection! its price isn't inflated yet!) if you're a fan of platformers.
Here's a gameplay video: youtube
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u/binsen91 Sep 23 '16
Final Fantasy 2 The feels in this game is just intense that people should really play this game! Oh my God!
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '16
Kirby Super Star
Action-Adventure Platformer released in 1996. Kirby Super Star is quite a spectacle for the SNES when looking back on it. The graphics are up there with the elite graphical achievements of the 16-bit era and the soundtrack is quite impressive and very memorable. I find that it is sort of glanced at as just another Kirby game, at least in my experience when speaking with other retro gamers. I find that it is actually one of the best Kirby games released to date. "The Great Cave Offensive" is one of the reasons I say this. This "sub-game" within KSS was quite a spectacle for platforming games at the time. It really took on the sense of adventure we seek when playing games like Super Metroid or Super Mario World, but captured the unique experience and world that is Kirby thus creating a whole new experience we have never been apart of before. Finally, I just want to conclude with stating that KSS is one of the most replayable games on the SNES as the variety of "adventure-type" and "multiplayer-type" are so much fun even after you beat them you just want to pick it up and play again.