While Weaponlord featured only a few characters, they each had tons of special moves and “death combos” that put many of Mortal Kombat’s fatalities to shame. While accessible fighting games like Mortal Kombatand Street Fighterruled the roost in the mid-’90s, the team at Visual Concepts set out to create an extremely deep fighter focused on weapon combat, countering, and parrying. Weaponlord is the definitive example of a game ahead of its time. If you’ve ever wanted to see where some very early Resident Evil ideas got their start, this is the game to check out. Sadly, there are no zombies or gore, but there are some surprisingly strong survival elements, like having to defeat enemies with objects in the level rather than facing them head-on. This was a time period when Capcom could do no wrong, and the company put Shinji Mikami, who would later go on to direct much of the Resident Evil series, in charge of Goof Troop. Goof Troop was a fairly forgettable Disney cartoon starring Mickey Mouse’s talking dog pal, but at least it gave us a surprisingly good Super Nintendo game. These are the 25 most underrated games on the SNES: 25. There’s a lot more to the SNES library than just Mario, Samus, and Link, and more than two decades later, many of these games are still criminally overlooked. And that’s not even counting games made by outside studios, such as Capcom and Konami. It’s not difficult to see why: Super Mario World, Super Metroid, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past are the very best games in their respective series. From third-party titles to Nintendo’s own franchises, this was an era-from 1990 to 1996-that showcased the platform’s total dominance over the industry, even as the Sega Genesis proved to be a strong competitor-and we all know who won that console arms race in the end. Much of the console’s success has to do with its roster of games, of course.
Even though the Big N has released five more consoles since the Super Nintendo, many Nintendo fans would say the SNES is still the best console that the House of Mario has ever released.
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