I don't even watch/enjoy the TV show Scooby Doo, but the Scooby Doo games on the Gamecube (ex. Scooby Doo Night of 100 Frights and Scooby Doo Unmasked) are fantastic, non-linear, and challenging, and they're overall really fun to play and the storylines in them are quite dark.
I also enjoy Kirby's Epic Yarn, and I feel that's a really underrated game that doesn't get much like.
New Super Luigi U is also fun and it's sad to see that it's so underrated.
Conclusively, Mirror's Edge is an underrated shooter game that's pretty good IMO.
Mario is Missing on SNES. People focus too much on the Geography part and push it to the side for what it really is- a fun going-around-and-finding-stuff game. The NES version is much worse and I'm not sure about the DOS one.
Similarly to Kep's answer, the licensed SpongeBob game Battle for Bikini Bottom (for the GameCube era consoles) is surprisingly awesome. It's a collectathon type platformer, and it really manages to capture the feel of early SpongeBob which is pretty cool.
SpongeBob, Timmy Turner, Danny Phantom, and Jimmy Neutron have to defeat their villains, who formed a Syndicate and are trying to take over like multiple worlds or something. I probably invested 500 hours into that with my best friends at the time, I was like 7.
Wow, seems like lots of people here adore the PS2/GCN era kids-ties in, and to be fair back then they were very enjoyable. I played Night of 100 Frights, games where Nick characters come together (like Nicktoons Unite), SpongeBob: Battle for Bikini Bottom and The Movie tie-in game (the best movie-tie in I have ever played) and really enjoyed them. Looking back it's easy to see where they may have aged, but they are awesome in comparison to the newer stuff. I have recently bought Unmasked and Mystery Mayhem for PS2 though I have yet to find the time to play them. I think part of these thoughts over our opinion of how awesome these games are is due to nostalgic thoughts associated with them.
Pseudo-dino wrote:Similarly to Kep's answer, the licensed SpongeBob game Battle for Bikini Bottom (for the GameCube era consoles) is surprisingly awesome. It's a collectathon type platformer, and it really manages to capture the feel of early SpongeBob which is pretty cool.
Dual Hearts. This game had the unfortunate luck of being released the same week as the first Kingdom Hearts so it is not nearly as well known. Its pretty much a Zelda clone, but the game is pretty fun. It has a mechanic where you enter people's dreams to solve their problems while at the same time, looking for plot important items. As you can guess, these dreams make up the majority of the games stages.
Blue Dread wrote:Zelda II. I don't even get the hate for it.
People hate Zelda 2??? I'm not a big Zelda fan but I liked Zelda 2 the most. I beat it on my Wii and I just had a really great time with it. The last part was challenging but I did it and the feeling was so rewarding.
Kep wrote:
GLDude wrote:castlevania 2 : simon's quest
You sure that's underrated?
Castlevania games are popular and are still mentioned and remembered even these days.
Castlevania 2 is hated due to its cryptic and generally tedious nature. I enjoyed it using save states. I doubt I could ever beat it without, though.
