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@batmanbud2 a world where the proliferation of a game is more important than its quality.

this list is a collective failure, assuming it's done by vote.

ranking by popularity is always a crap shoot, because the first WarioWare is a snoozefest, & the third is sort of like a bland ugly 2d version of Super Mario 64; but Wario Land Shake it is clearly better than the original 3.

wish they wouldn't.

give me back my virtual console!

@Excalibur_120 separate locations in pteradactyl land often felt the same to me. I had the same problem with glittery gulch (or whatever the mine level is called.

This game adds a metroid-esque lock & key component to a collectathon & it does not work at all. It is so common to make so much ground, & then be forced to leave because of an item you don't have, thats in the world after the next world. Alot of the one-off gimmick mechanics suck, such as the stone guy soccer game. Additionally, these worlds feel less iconic in set up, & two separate locations in the same world will feel the exact same. & all the separating & transforming makes this game feel like it has more busy work than DK64. This is a 5.5/10 game.

not to be a negative nelly, but Smaller Devs really need to hire better character artists.

I care as much as the developers do, not at all

9 out 10; please!

The controls are as good as they get for an N64 shooter but thats not saying much; auto aim is heavily relied upon. The levels are directionless with no real level design, instead relying on 4 pages of briefing to provide that lacking direction, which is a clumsy substitute. The single player is also filled with lots of dumb ways to fail or get stuck, my favourite being running out of grenade launcher ammo in the final level; also the part where you have to install software on one computer console, but then need to launch it on a different computer which is just a baffling lack of streamlining. There is more besides, & though some of these issues are unlikely to occur in a second playthrough, its still bad design. Multiplayer is better, but is ultimately inferior to any other notable multiplayer that came after.

played this a few months back; found it simplistic in its design & ugly. I also found the controls to be bad, but that may have been because of the conversion to Xbox analogue sticks

look at all that mediocrity near the top

Seeing as WW was intended to look like a cartoon, the superior art style is the one that facilitates that. Anybody with recent experience with the GCN version knows it is a more consistent art style.

@EaglyPurahfan Apparently I misunderstood which Pikmin games you were referring to, my bad

@EaglyPurahfan what you described is in fact the opposite Metroid Zelda Design

Boy! Do I love when minority camps of a fan base show up for polls.

@mlt those are fine points, but aside from hero modes which is often just a bandaid, all those other examples given are multiplayer games, so not really what I'm referring to.

@YoshiF2 those dungeons did feel like a huge distraction from the Pikmin game loop.

@PJOReilly can't they?

@mlt One of those came out 9 years ago, on the Wii U, another two are platinum developed, & another still I beat with 8 hearts & no champions(not too difficult to picture doing it with three), even so its irrelevant that you can make a go for the end from the go. That leaves Metroid Dread; not seeing a need to make any revisions to my previous statement.

@BLD Amen, by a long shot

@steely_pete screw fans, bring in the casuals, that's how I like my sequels

@SuperWarioWorld New Nintendo baby, no bite but lots of bloat

"Then 2013’s Pikmin 3, as fine as it was, added a few too many moving parts to the mix, removed the dungeons and, overall, ended up feeling like the best-looking but least focused experience of the bunch." These preambles to the review are always so ludicrous; but what better way to tell me that this reviewer has wrong opinions? Also once again, according to NL, the newest game is the best one, imagine that!

Eww! Modern Nintendo design is made for babies and people with babies.

Tentalus nullifies this entire list

no room for original ideas or content anymore

@link12684 the results are on the voters, the words are on them

so much said in this article is complete nonsense, why would I expect anything different from NintendoLife?

Whoever wrote this feature was out to lunch

@Moonlessky paying for a game that disappears in a year is a scary prospect

@-wc- the arbitrary reasons a person plays SHOULD have no effect on the score.

It is laughable to call this game a masterpiece, masterpieces are good yesterday, today, & tmr. The fact is that n64 FPS' were always a bad idea, you can tell by the amount of auto-aim they slapped on to them demonstrates that that controller interface couldn't cut it. Also the level design of both Goldeneye & Perfect dark is mediocrity, punctuated by both occasional quality & total trash. People's favorite levels in goldeneye are train & Silo which are just murder tubes, hardly brilliant level design. Meanwhile, Doom64 despite its wandery nature was coherent throughout. GoldenEye is not terrible, the weapon feedback is still a highpoint in this game, but its 6.5/10 for sure.

Still have my Wii U, sold my switch in 2020

@Oscarzxn both the first-party support & 3rd party support of the switch is bad, especially considering its the only product that Nintendo is selling (as opposed to the old days of handheld & console.) So I'll the Wii U anyday

I like how unnecessary & tangentially related to your article that dig at twilight princess is. An inflammatory but pointless remark.

@meleehunter or you know you could just develop a full-featured game in the 5 years allotted to you.

wow, that actually looked real nice......if only I didn't know better

@andyg1412 the fact that people don't consider the switch a successor to both handheld & console, (& therefore should have a proportionate output to both) is mindblowing to me. The last gen (2011-2017) they had 2 MarioKarts, 6 Mario platformers or related products, (including captain toad), 4 Mario RPGs, 4 Zelda remakes/remasters, 3 original Zelda games, 3 kirby games, 4 pokemon games (pokken), two metroid games (including Botw, on account of the time period, 2 smash games, 1 Pikmin game (& a spinoff), 1 DKC game, 2 yoshi games, 1 mario maker, 1 splatoon 1 Wario ware game, one pilot wings game, 1 xenoblade game, 1 Star Fox game, (take it or leave it), 4 Mario Parties or so, 3 fire emblems (but really 4), 3 or 4 casual/mii games like Tomodachi life & Nintendo land, & a bunch of smaller puzzle games or double aa budget games from their smaller studios; not to mention 6 or so exclusives from capcom, 3 from platinum games, a handful from square enix, & from factor 5 & from sega as well, & whoever else. How can the switch's output even compare, I guess it has more pokemon games, hooray?

Hardly extraordinary at all, when u consider their 1st party outputs Wii U & 3ds.

@Moistnado consider the excerpts in the article, & make observations accordingly.

If popularity & quality were truly best buds, then systems like the Gamecube, the 3ds, & Snes (which lost NA market share to the genesis),& dare I say the Wii U, would be king. Instead, Nintendo's more middling systems like the Gameboy, the Wii, & the switch take center stage (I've yet to delve into the ds library, but at a glance it might have the weakest 1st party offerings, after the gameboy).

@LinktotheFuture just poking fun, no offense intended, tho for myself I actually liked cycling, the action made sense in my brain, but more importantly it was a vehicle for exploring wuhu on the ground level, which any chance to explore wuhu is a win.

but you & I both know airsports was the best!!!

@LinktotheFuture of the 12 sports, one was a dud, & you describe that as a mixed bag? Gosh dang masterpiece compared to this rehashed uninspired pile.

@Joeynator3000 well they look significantly worse than prior tracks in eight, so its not random, but hey heavy is the cross that is standards

@BongoBongo what an immensely simplistic metric by which to judge quality. Great Going!

@Franklin Like GOB & you!!

@SNESDisney dude (dudette?), go make war with someone else, I acknowledge your frustration with people who are greedy with overrepresentation, but in terms of content creators, & yes, forum contributors, the CORE enthusiasts highlight Majora's Mask. & judging by sales as well.....well let's not do that because of all the remasters, it seems SS HD the "worst" remake of the worst 3d Zelda (perhaps worst mainline Zelda), is on track to resell the most.