Topic: Your Least Favorite Nintendo franchise & why + Explain it's qualities to the poster above

Well the desolate, barren atmosphere is part of the appeal. The other part of it is the exploration, it's a game that's built for you to explore your surroundings and try different paths to figure out where to go.

There's a couple I don't like, some because I simply don't like the genre, but what really stands out are the Mario series and the Donkey Kong series. Both of them have very vague gameplay identities and lack distinct mechanics and tend to feel very repetitive and similar to each other, especially the recent ones (NSMB, 3D Land/3D World, DKCR and Tropical Freeze). They're big contributors to the feeling of Nintendo rehashing.

This is the best game in the entire Legend of Zelda franchise in my opinion.

@Geonjaha: Thank you for the advice kind sir!

I would disagree a bit about the theming of Metroid. What I have always liked about the series is the contrast between Samus' rigid, apparently impenetrable metal armor and the outside environment, which is teeming with oozing, crawling life, all of which wants to kill her. It's anything but desolate, it's just all of the intelligent life forms that are dead or hostile. That contrast makes things particularly interesting in games like Prime 3 Corruption and Fusion where that outside life tries to, well, corrupt her. And, yes, some of the enemy designs in Prime 1 were a bit basic (looking at you rainbow space pirates,) but they improved, becoming more complex as the Trilogy progressed.

As for the dislike rebuttal, just refer to Bolt_Strike's post above.

No part of Animal Crossing is particularly appealing to me.