"The Top 25 SNES Games?!"

[kane_magus]

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"What are the top 25 SNES games? We discuss a game list curated by journalist Seth Abramson."

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As always, lists like this are the opinion of whoever made the list (Seth Abramson, again, in this case) and nobody else. As such, Pat "throwing shade" (his words, not mine) for the list being "wrong" (my word, not his, but that's basically what he implied if not outright said) is kind of petty, as he (Pat) is not the arbiter/gatekeeper of that shit, any more than Seth Abramson or me or anyone else is. Basically, my enjoyment of this video was marred by Pat's constant "I don't think <insert game> should have been that high on the list" shit and his "well clearly these list-makers have only played the 'popular' games and don't know the full breadth of the library like me (even though there were several games on this very list that I myself knew nothing about) so their opinions are inferior" shit.

Additionally, to "throw shade" back at Pat, I've heard of all the games on the actual list, even if I haven't played all of them. The ones Pat called out as ones that he thought should have been on the list but weren't... not so much. And some of the ones on Pat's list that I have heard of and played, no... not top 25 for me. And I don't even have to have fucking played Tecmo Super Bowl to know that I wouldn't have put it anywhere near the top 25 on any list of SNES games, mainly because I don't give a shit about football games, no matter how "good" they are. See how my opinion, which obviously differs from Pat's, would inform how I'd rank things if I made a futile list like this? Yeah.

I absolutely disagree with both of their opinions about Castlevania IV, regardless of where it may have appeared on the list. Sure, Bloodlines is great, too, but Castlevania IV is one of my favorites. To say "it's not my favorite" is fine. To say "I don't like it" is fine. To say it "doesn't feel that much like Castlevania" is asinine.

And Ian calling Secret of Mana a "Zelda clone" is kind of ignorant and silly. *eye roll*

I mean, I still like these guys, and I agree with their opinions about 99% of the time otherwise, but sometimes they just get a little too hoity-toity for my tastes, such as here. And I don't even necessarily fully agree with Seth's list myself, either.

(I would've probably had Terranigma in my own such list somewhere, if I ever were to make one, but then, that game wasn't even released in North America, so it's not surprising to me that neither Seth nor Pat and Ian mentioned it at all.)