But where to start this surprise batch? First Landstalker: King Nole’s Treasure by his full name, zelda killer in front of the eternal and first stone of the Climax Entertainment-verse continued until the Dreamcast generation. No matter the controversies (still current) on its isometric controls, its gunshot perspectives and its sequences of platforms to shoot itself in the ciboulot, the title of Kenji Orimo will forever be engraved in the memories.
But maybe not as much as Ghouls’n Ghosts, the Mega Drive port of Capcom’s game of the same name by the fine team at Sega R&D2 and none other than potential future jailbird Yuji Naka. A masterful feat for its time, this version is awfully close to its arcade counterpart, complete with all the beeps and squeaks that only the Yamaha YM2612 chip is capable of generating.
It’s much stronger than you
Let it be said: The Revenge of Shinobi is not the best of the license (this honor is reserved for its sequel), but good God that it is still among the best action games on the console . It now remains to be seen if the Japanese version retains the few small inspirations drawn from the seventh art, such as Godzilla or Rambo…
The best for the end, it is obviously Sun – aka Crusader of Centy across the Atlantic, excellent action-RPG and certainly the masterpiece of Yayoi Onda, comet of Japanese industry. We were talking about zelda killer later, certainly, but allow us to put forward the comparison by necessity; but also to advance what games like to call a hot take : Sun is, of course, infinitely more interesting than A Link to the Past. To do and redo.