Gregory
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Super Metroid--To hell with the best game of the series, this just might be the best game of its genre.
Metal Gear Solid 1--MGS2 was not a good game; I don't care if I'm the only person in the world who thinks this.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night--Everything a Castlevania game should be
Shadow Hearts 2--Then 3, with 1 being the worse (but still good; kicks the pants off of all the recent Final Fantasy games). Actually, in technical areas such as combat mechanics, the series has been getting continuously better, but I feel 2 still has an edge on 3.
Mega Man X--Really, the first three were great. After that, it became sort of gratuitous.
Resident Evil 4--takes every thing that was good about the series, ditches every thing that wasn't; the result is one of the best games out there
Silent Hill 2--All the Silent Hill games have pretty poor gameplay (they need an RE4-style update), and some of the puzzles in 2 are just infuriating, but it takes it by having one of the best plots of any game, ever. In terms of scares, 1 would take it, with some great moments and reveals.
Clock Tower 1 (which is really Clock Tower 2, because they didn't release the SNES game in the USA)--I tried the SNES game in emulation and couldn't get into it, while 2 is one of the worst games I've ever played, so it's down to 1 and 3. And although 3 certainly has more polish (being a PS2 game where 1 is for the PS), I feel it lacks 1's charm. Cool cutscenes, though. I hear Haunting Ground was originally going to be an entry in the Clock Tower series; if it were, it would have taken it.
Lufia: Rise of the Sinistrals, for fun, vaguely Zelda-esque puzzles.
Zelda: Wow. This is a hard one. I know that some of the newer games have a lot of fans, but I still see this as coming down to Link to the Past or Link's Awakening; I'll give it to Link to the Past, although Link's Awakening gets points for a hard-hitting, bittersweet ending.
TMNT: I give it to Turtles In Time, although it may just be the nostalgia talking.
Mario: Super Mario World. And that's not nostalgia; it just so damn good.
The Suffering: The first game takes it. Ties that Bind was good, but the private army was annoying without being scary, and they lose major points for just retooling the monsters from 1 instead of doing anything genuinely innovative.
Chrono Trigger: I have never understood the extent of the praise heapen on this thing, and I never will. But it's sure better then Cross, where the only difference between the dozens of characters is what accent they talk with. Not that that's Cross' only problem.
Final Fantasy: I don't know; Tactics? I want to say 3 (or whatever people are calling it now) just on nostalgia value, but it's not like it didn't have major problems. Not 7; FF7 is right up there with MGS2 and Chrono Trigger in the ludacrously over-rated games department.