Four Links from Zelda: Four Swords Adventures and Isaac from Golden Sun.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Game Boy Advance was a landmark achievement for Nintendo when it first released in 2001. As the successor to the wildly popular Game Boy Color, it had big shoes to fill, but its release heralded a few major design changes that would inform the future of Nintendo's handheld launches.
14 Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis Metascore: 88 Close Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis follows the knight Alphonse as he navigates the brutal politics of a war-torn land. It's a prequel to several other games in the series, and features an A+ ending that was so hard to get - and so needlessly obscure - many people likely don't know who Alphonse's identity in future games is .
12 Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire Metascore: 82 Close Perhaps the biggest criticism that Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire faced when they released in 2002 was that they were more of the same thing - somewhat hilariously now, given that's often a criticism Pokemon titles in 2024 face, too. What they lacked in innovation they made up for in refinement, however, adding 135 new Pokemon while honing systems that had already been beloved by fans.
One of the most important contributions Metroid: Zero Mission made to gaming was its rock-solid performance as a noteworthy remake for a handheld device. The Game Boy Advance was enough of a leap forward technologically that Nintendo was able to revamp an old classic, which proved two things: there's a market for well-made remakes, and handheld devices were perfect homes for them, allowing them to be taken on the go.
Critical reception, though, was quite another story. Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow's introduction of the Tactical Soul ability was near-universally praised as a breath of fresh air that stayed true to the franchise's identity, allowing Soma to absorb the souls of defeated enemies to gain additional abilities.
Metroid Fusion did mark a few departures from the series' norm that were controversial, however, with an increased focus on linearity and a shorter playtime as a result. While this was a point of contention for many critics, the game ultimately won most of them over in spite of these qualms - if they existed in the first place for the critic - thanks to stellar gameplay and environmental design, with particular praise given to the secret areas that were notably fun to find.
As one of the best GBA games ever made, Advance Wars also created a foundation for future releases to find fertile ground globally rather than just inside Japan. Developer Intelligent Systems made tactics RPGs that had been considered too alienating to consider launches in the West - the success of Advance Wars is frequently cited as a reason that another Intelligent Systems property, Fire Emblem, eventually got the same treatment and arrived as a global release not too long after.
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