Guest Post by Lukas “I Totally Got Banana Sniped but Deny It Ever Happened” Johnson

1. Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising – GBA – Not actually a close call. 30/30 war room S-ranks, and SUPER CO Power music.

2. RE4 – GCN – Probably the most well put together single player adventure I’ve played.

3. Metroid Prime – GCN – Held the single player title until RE4.

4. Super Monkey Ball – GCN – Best puzzle game of the generation, as well as the most difficult.

5. Disgaea: Hour Of Darkness – PS2 – I ‘only’ leveled my guys into the 300s, far from the 1000 level max.

6. Fire Emblem – GBA – The first in the series released outside of Japan, and has several things that work even better than AW2.

7. Katamari Damacy – PS2 – The simplest, best game concept ever.

8. Ikaruga – GCN – The most difficult game I played last gen.

9. Winning Eleven 9 International – PS2 – FIFA is a fun game, but playing Winning Eleven is so close to watching top-flight soccer it’s uncanny.

10. Shadow Hearts: Covenant – PS2 – Interesting story, terrific battle system.

Notable Mentions:
God Of War – PS2 – (very close to breaking the Japanese-Dev only top 10 list).
Mega Man Battle Network 2 – GBA – Surprise Megaman, it’s your birthday!
Front Mission 4 – PS2 – If it were harder it would have made the list.
F-Zero GX – GCN – If it weren’t impossibly difficult it would have made the list.
Super Smash Brothers Melee – GCN – Was the final nail in my college dropout coffin.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic – Xbox – The only great Xbox game I completed worth mentioning.