Topic: Games Critics hated, but you enjoyed?

Gonna go with Other M as well.

The Dark Spire for DS.
It's not that it's bad, it just that it's a 30-year-old game that came out 25 years too late for most people.

Of course not, it's the terrible design choices that make it a bad game.

I checked, and Critics didn't seem to hate this game, it just wasn't well-advertised. Like, it was Demon's Souls before Demon's Souls - it sold terribly at first, then the price dropped, a few people started picking it up because it was cheap, realized it was good and spread the word. Unlike Demon's Souls, it got rare and then the prices shot up, which caused fewer people to buy it, so interest faded before Atlus could get out more copies. Retro Game Challenge went through the same thing, too, btw.

That's not it. If you're the kind of person who'd go back and play Ultima on the PC, you'd love it. If you can't stand a game that doesn't tell you anything (even weapon stats), if you don't know what AC is and why putting on armor makes it go down, if you can't deal with anything remotely unbalanced: you will hate it.
You either love it or hate it. It doesn't do anything new at all. Nothing. It's from a lost era, where the last 20 years of game design suddenly went out the window.

It's rated about the same or less than RE6, The Conduit, Code of Princess, and like half the other games people are mentioning.
Reviews are very mixed, and I can't really fault them.

New Super Mario Bros series. So much dislike for being so similar, but they are all so much fun!

Its design is archaic and confusing. To progress it takes memorization through a trial and error process.

_{Nonetheless I enjoyed it thoroughly.}

Wario Land Shake It! comes to mind. I cannot fathom how it wasn't loved by platformer enthusiasts.

I guess that explains why it's one of my favorite games of all time.

The Dark Spire is ridiculously hard

I guess I can add Harvest Moon The Lost Valley to my list of unpopular games I liked.

Sonic Lost World was the best thing to happen to Sonic in a long time.

Shadow the Hedgehog

Sonic and the Black Knight and Modern Warfare 3 Wii

Urban Champion. I don't know why everyone hates that game so much. Even Nintendolife hates it.......

Resi 5 was definitely enjoyable. It's still most likely my least favorite Resident Evil game (though I still haven't played Resi 3 yet), but I liked it a lot, especially when I had somebody to play with that I knew well.

RE 5 is still one of the worst games I ever played. Especially the ending is probably in my top 1 worst videogame endings ever.
That being said critics didn't hate the game. It clearly outscored Revelations and a lot of other non-numbered RE titles.

It's not difficult to imagine why a game that appears (from the initial trailer) to be about some buff white dude mowing down hordes of crazed black people in an African village would inspire some kneejerk reactions.

Obviously the game is not racist, but it did make a pretty bad first impression.

Most recently, Mario Party 10. I can honestly say the same about every Mario Party I think though. Reviews aren't great but I've always enjoyed the series since the original, even with the changes.