Topic: Your top NSO titles but w/o any nostalgia factor?

Hi Im really curious to hear about some NSO games that you loved but never really played before.
I had been a PlayStation player mostly and have switched later to Nintendo.
To me it would be games like Kirby some Marios, Donkey Kongs plus few other platformes mostly, also Fire Emblem and Mario&Luigi on GBA.

Also i spent like 100hrs+ on Dr Mario and Mario Picross haha

I really wanted to get into some Zeldas (mostly n64's) but mostly just to check it out not finish on the spot + unfortunately I didnt enjoy them because flt stuck 90% of the time (totally new formula 2 me Im an RPG/Platformer kinda guy)

Whats yours?
Cheers

Recommendations for games we hadn't played previously to their availability on NSO?

No? games you played on nso for the 1st time

DONKEY KONG 94 and KIRBY STAR STACKER spring to mind for me. These were never played, but some of my favourites on NSO that got a lot of time put in.

I would say Cosmogang the Puzzle.

But I’ve played Pac-Attack before. And it’s basically the same game.

I was going to say Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade but then I remembered I also played Banjo-Kazooie for the first time on Switch. That game holds up really well but it was bit annoying at times due to NSO's button mapping. I still find it weird that NSO apps didn't provide button mapping when Wii U VC did but at least it's here now with the Switch 2.

@Eel I just tried out Cosmogang for the first time yesterday. I played couple of rounds but that was enough for me. I'm not the biggest fan of these kinds of puzzle games. I can't plan ahead for actual combos.

Any NSO game I've played for more than a half hour that I hadn't played before I think are just kinda ok. The closest exception is Dr. Mario 64, which finally made me kinda like Dr. Mario (or at least for the first time since I first ever played a version of it in the unlockable Warioware game back in 2003), but even then its...good enough.

But I will say that Mario Golf and Mario Tennis I've not played once since the year they came out and I absolutely think they hold up, no nostalgia needed. They are just very good golf and tennis games that probably hold up better than most games from that era tbh.

I grew up on a Wii and a 2DS, so most of these are new for me. So far, I haven't beaten any games lol, but here are some I've been enjoying!

• Super Mario 64
• TLoZ: OoA/OoS
• Dr. Mario
• Donkey Kong Country
• TLoz: OoT

@Late the real meat is in the puzzle mode!

It’s pretty fun, even if a little luck based on some of the levels.

DKC2, Wild Guns, Metroid zero mission were some of my favorites

As for games I didn’t play until NSO, some of my favorites are DKC trilogy (SNES), Kirby and the Amazing Mirror (GBA), Banjo-Kazooie (N64), and Mario Picross (GameBoy). That’s one thing I really like about these libraries, it gives me the chance to play games I otherwise probably wouldn’t have.

Three games just came to mind... Mario's Super Picross, Kuru Kuru Kururin, and Sutte Hakkun. Played all of those for the first time on NSO and I loved them. I've spent so much play time on Mario's Super Picross, haha. I do love a good Picross puzzle.

I didn't play much of Mario Party 3 on the N64, and I've been coming back to it on NSO's expansion pack - I even played a round with a bud online recently - and it's such a good game. At the very least, I like it just as much as Mario Party 2. (Landing on a Game Guy space gets pretty scary, though...) I've also had a similar situation with The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. Didn't play too much of it until I played it on NSO, and really liked it. A very solid 2D Zelda game.

That's pretty much all I can think of at the moment. Honestly, there's still a few games on NSO that I'd like to try out, like a couple of Rare's games (besides the DKC and Banjo games) and The Mysterious Murasame Castle.

I'm not old enough to have nostalgia for anything on the service currently, but my favorite I've played so far is Metroid Zero Mission. Just a really compact and fun Metroid experience and my favorite of the pre-Dread titles. (Not better than AM2R though, just for the record.)

Metroid Zero Mission is one of my faves. First Metroid I played and finished.

None really, even though I do play NSO. Games

For me, F-Zero X and WaveRace 64. I never played them back in the day, but they're both incredible fun racing games I keep coming back to. I just wish WaveRace had more stages.

Also the Fire Emblem games. I had a GBA in it's heyday, but this was a series I missed out on. I was immediately hooked once I dived in, it's exactly the kind of strategy RPG I get invested in. Levelling up your units to more bad-ass versions of themselves is incredibly satisfying.

NES (there may be more)
VICE: Project Doom

SNES
Panel de Pon (yes, I played Tetris Attack but never the original version with Lip and co.), Wrecking Crew '98, Super Punch-Out!!, Kirby's Star Stacker (SFC version), Mario's Super Picross, Sutte Hakkun

N64
Dr. Mario 64, Pokémon Stadium 1 and 2 (Ok, I did play them back in the day but they were always rentals that I never beat by myself, not even when I got Japanese N64 cartridges of both back in 2021)

Game Boy + Game Boy Color
The Mega Man games, particularly Mega Man II

Game Boy Advance
F-ZERO Climax, Densetsu no Stafy 1 (haven't played 2 and 3 yet). I'd include games such as Super Mario Advance 4 and Metroid: Zero Mission but I played those for the first time during the final year of the Wii U eShop.

When I play Gamecube games by the time I get a Switch 2, I'll already have nostalgia for Super Mario Strikers, Super Mario Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, Pokémon Colosseum and XD, so those will be out. But I'm sure Chibi-Robo! will be on my top non-nostalgia GC games on NSO.

For the record, I'm someone that already has nostalgia for games as recent as Super Mario 3D Land from late 2011.

Some NSO games I've liked which I hadn't played before, starting with most liked:

1. Super Mario Land 2
2. Donkey Kong Country 3
3. Kirby Super Star
4. Kirby Dream Land
5. The Mysterious Murasame Castle
6. Psycho Dream
7. Wario Land 3