Feature: 18 Best Credits Sequences And Loading Screens That Let You Do Stuff

I completely forgot about the NSMBWii credits game! I beat that one at least 10 times as a kid and I loved this sequence every single time.

The SMG2 one is really fun, too. Also, Squid Jump needs to return for Splatoon 3.

You could've literally just put all 6 Smash games there and the list is done

Not a Nintendo game but I love the credits from Nier Automata Ending E
One of the best moments in gaming ever imo

I think Splatoon 2 should deserve a mention. On its ending credits, you need to shoot the screen with ink in order to reveal the names of the developers written in grafitti art

@TioRogerio I forgot about that one, too! That one absolutely deserves to be on this list. It's super unique and yet fits in perfectly with Splatoon

I remember the days of waiting for a commodore 64 or spectrum game to load. I think the earliest example I can remember was a game called Barbarian from the midish 80s where you could play space invaders whilst it loaded.

For those too young to remember, we had to wait 5-8 minutes for a game to load provided it didn't crash and you had to start again.

No mention of the entertaining end credits sequence in WarioWare: Smooth Moves? Tsk tsk.

Hehe I imagine some older brother in FULL RAGE while watching the Smash Bros Ultimate credits, shouting "CAN YOU JUST HOLD IT FOR A SECOND I'M TRYING TO READ THIS!!!!!!"

Not a Nintendo game, but the end credits sequence in Splosion Man on Xbox 360 is still one of the greatest things ever.

This has got to be the most specific list on this site lol.

But to add Warframe lets you fly your ship around when loading into your mission.

I always find Super Monkey Ball 2 credits pretty enjoyable to play, to dodge letters and get bananas.

@Duncanballs The dreaded "R: Tape Loading Error"! It's the main reason I loved the NES. Carts! They were the Rolls Royce of gaming at the time. Never been bettered.

In Super Monkey Ball 1 or 2, you could still roll around and smash into the credits whilst picking up as many bananas as you could. (2's credit themetune is just amazing)

My favourite is MARIO 64 where you can pull on Mario's nose and other appendages.......

Another good one is BANJO TOOIE where if you collect everything 100% you get to control the dung beetle and roll the poop around the circuit during the credits

There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension has the best in-game credits sequence.

@USWITCH64 yes love it, completely forgot about the dung beetle in Banjo

@Tyranexx Literally came here to say that the complete lack of WarioWare titles is shocking

If we go a bit broader on loading screens, I still think the GameCube is the best start up screen of all of the consoles. IGN have even pinched it for NVC.

@Markiemania95 Most of the WarioWare titles I've played have a very entertaining credits roll. Smooth Moves sticks out the most in my memory since I played that one recently.

Playing mini Gradius between periods during Blades of Steel is the grandfather of this.

Squid jump is the actual game and Splatoon is the time filler. How do you not know this?

NieR Automata, and it's not even close.

Splatoon had the best waiting game. These things should be in more games

I forget if it's Splatoon 1, 2, or both, but spraying ink all over the credits is pretty satisfying. And not sure if it counts, but I remember Pokemon X/Y's end credits having no vocals in the music, but lyrics written out in a bunch of different languages for you to sing along with, which I thought was a really nice touch.

@iLikeUrAttitude You must have missed the one ranking every version of Great Fairy Fountain from Zelda, which by the way is STILL missing Light Spirit's Elegy from Twilight Princess.

@Duncanballs "Just when you thought it was safe to make a cup of tea, it's....INVADE-A-LOAD!"
Yes, remember doing that on the C64!

One thing that still confuses me somewhat with the Switch is, given that it uses cartridges, why does it take so long to load something? I'm convinced my disc spinning PS4 Pro (with internal SSD, admittedly) is faster to load stuff?

For me I really liked fire emblem three houses loading screens, tilting the switch back and forth was fun.

Yeah, that was nice about Rayman Legends. Thank you for including that game.

TVC (Wii) had to collect all the letters on a bike ride during end the end credits. Can’t remember what the reward was though.

Also ridge racer

Rayman Origins let you run around during the loading screen. I always tried to see how far on the loading map I could get before the actual level started.

The WarioWare Get It Together one even awards with a trophy for getting a perfect score on the credits.

I really miss shooting the credits 64/Melee style. It just isn't the same in the newer games.

Squid jump was great, I also enjoyed squid volleyball

No super monkey ball???

@GrailUK Yep, this was what I was going to say. My favorite part was that the "ending credits game" actually tracked how many bananas you collected and then you would earn a nickname, usually simian based, depending on how many you collected.

Yeah, as someone else commented. Super Mario maker let you play a random level before the game even began. I still play these despite myself. "I'll just play it for a second." Proceeds to beat entire level.

Oh wait! How could we leave out Mario 64! Which let's you pull and stretch on Mario's face before you start the game.

In Human Fall Flat you fall through the credits. You can use the letters as platforms or grab them to drag them down with you.

Pretty sure Splatoon is my favorite - both the inking gimmick in the end credits for 1 and 2, and the Squid Jump mini-game mentioned in the article

I must have finished Okami on all its platforms and I never knew about that mini game!

I'd also like to nominate the sparkle screen from PSO that you could move around the screen and the Teleporter loading animation which you could change direction with the left stick but alter the speed with the right.

@RadioHedgeFund I was just going to say PSO.
PSO2 has it too, but it doesn't look like the Switch version is coming to the States.

@Asaki I think Sega have an exclusivity agreement with Microsoft on PSO2.

TBH I found PSO2 to be a lot more bewildering than FFXIV and a hard game to get into.

One great thing about PSO1 was its simplicity. It wasn't full of F2P mechanics and finding people to just dungeon with was easy.

@RadioHedgeFund Switch version would be cool, I actually modded the game to use the Switch button graphics on the UI, since I use my WiiU Pro pad to play. But I think the Switch version is some kind of cloud thing, so performance probably isn't that great.

I think a lot of it's fun, especially the player customization, "photo" opportunities, concerts in the lobby, etc. The first time I played it, I was like "Wow, this is just like a virtual anime convention." Just needs a room where you can actually browse player merchant booths.

But yeah, the F2P stuff is just not for me at all, and there's a LOT of it in there. And a lot of grinding for drops, so you can grind for more drops, so you can craft an item, that you can collect 100 of, to use to craft a weapon that's 1% better than the one you currently have...

I never had trouble finding other players. I usually played with friends (they all lost interest when New Genesis game out), or just ran solo...but even when you run solo, if you don't explicitly set a password to lock everyone out, random people will come and go.

I still need to finish story mode. It is looooooooooooong.

@Asaki I imagine if you come in fresh its a bit easier to swallow. My problem will forever be comparing it to the original which is wonderfully streamlined.

Which is strange because I enjoy my time dipping in-and-out of FFXIV which is arguably just as complicated, but I find strangely familiar because the battle mechanics aren't too dissimilar to Xenoblade 1.

I'd take PSOBB but with an endless list of sega-themed cosmetics to purchase. They'd rake it in with something like that.