Of course, the Game Boy had more limited capabilities than a home console, so the number of copy abilities were lowered to seven: burning, cutter, spike, ice, spark, stone and parasol. Kirby’s Dream Land 2 adopted Adventure’s copy abilities, solidifying the mechanic as Kirby’s staple. Kirby’s Dream Land 2 arrived on the Game Boy in 1995, and although it is a fittingly small game due to its hardware, its overall quality has held up almost shockingly well over the years. Kirby had shown up in a few spinoff titles after his NES outing, but after three years it was time for the original Kirby’s Dream Land to get a proper follow-up. Adventure gave Kirby his synonymous copy abilities, which in turn gave the series a stronger sense of depth in gameplay. It was with the 1993 NES sequel Kirby’s Adventure where the series really found its stride. Kirby’s Dreamland, though simplistic, found an audience due to the popularity of the Game Boy. Maybe one day I’ll make the traditional top 10 list version of this, but for now, let’s just sit back and celebrate all of the 2s!īy 1995, Kirby had quickly established himself as one of Nintendo’s premiere franchises.

Perhaps it gave you a trip down memory lane or maybe even inspired you to check one of these games out that you missed out on before. But I can’t play everything!Īt any rate, I hope you enjoyed this list. I know, you’re probably going to bite my head off for “missing” one game or another. Because more Sully is only ever a good thing. Nathan Drake’s second outing was never short on thrills. Uncharted 2 really brought the Indiana Jones-like spectacle to life. The set pieces were bigger and more elaborate than before, the puzzles were more clever, and the action was non-stop. That wasn’t the case with Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, which realized the potential of the series to create one of the most beloved Playstation games of all time. While it did that, it did so with a number of hiccups (unpolished controls, enemies that apparently eat bullets, etc.). Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was Naughty Dog’s attempt at bringing the action and adventure of Indiana Jones to the world of video games. Combine the creative gameplay with the crayon-inspired visuals and epic boss fights, and you have one of Nintendo’s best games ever. It was fresh and innovative in 1995, and Yoshi’s Island has lost none of its luster in the years since. The time limit is gone, as is the traditional health system (protect Baby Mario!). Enemies become eggs, which are your ammo to reach far away objects and collectibles. Throwing Yoshi (rather, a tribe of Yoshis) into the spotlight was a stroke of genius, wildly changing up the gameplay from the rest of the Mario series (creating a spinoff series for Yoshi thereafter). Yoshi’s Island is another triumph for Mario, platformers, and sequels. But now we’re going to do something so different it could be an entirely separate series.” But hey, it’s got that “2” in the title, so it counts! While Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Portal 2 perfected already perfect formulas, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island took a flawless game (Super Mario World, duh!) and basically said “yeah, that was great. But we can consider all those games to be honorable mentions. In Japan those games are respectively known as Mother 2 and Seiken Densetsu 2, but since I’m writing from an American perspective, those games will always be EarthBound and Secret of Mana to me. Perhaps some day I’ll get around to making the originally intended “Top 10 2s in Video Games.” But for now, I hope you enjoy this list as it is.īefore we get started, it’s important to note that I’m not counting games like EarthBound or Secret of Mana here. As such, I didn’t bother to take the time to narrow down or rank this list, so I’ll just list all the games I thought of alphabetically (16 games total). I decided to resurrect this idea for 2/22/22, but did so pretty last minute. When I first thought of making this list, I intended it to be a ranked top 10 list, before it fell on the back burner. Not the best sequels per se – no strictly subtitled sequels (like Majora’s Mask), no 3s, 4s or any of that – just the best “2s.” Games with ‘2’ in the title.

Today is 2/22/22 Tuesday! To celebrate this profuse amount of twos, I figured I’d reach into my backlog and resurrect an idea I had a while back and highlight the best “2s” in video games.

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