Lurker > Inviso

It's friggin' bullshit I tells ya.

So my entire top twelve remains intact, and only my 15 is outside of that (though I must admit, I thought my 15 would go LONG before my 20). Nice.

Hurt Abacus

Hurt Luchador

Hurt KCF

Hurt Tom

Hurt GTM

Hurt Luchador

Hurt XIII (Sorry! Revenge!)

Hurt Strife

AOC

$750 for that one night of HQ Trivia.

See, I felt like the theme of grief came across worse in Over the Moon, because of just how muddled the plot was overall. Abominable, you have a girl who's become listless because of how her dad died and she hasn't quite gotten over it. The yeti showing up is a catalyst that drags her from her ennui and gets her to do the road trip she never got to do with her dad. It's logical storytelling. Meanwhile, Over the Moon has a strong opening premise: a girl who lost her mom and is now worried about her dad finding new love. But then it just becomes a complete mess through the entire middle portion, so that when the finale happens and brings everything back to the original plot, it doesn't feel earned.

Thena
Tobey Macguire Spider-Man

Evillordexdeath posted...

After the other dialog-free films got butchered I thought Red Turtle would be soon to follow, so I ended up being pleasantly surprised it ranked that high. Over the Moon on the other hand deserved to go way sooner, it has all the same problems as Abominable really, they're almost the same movie. It's another one that feels like it managed to sneak into this placement because everyone hated all the films below it.

I agree that they have very similar plot points, but Abominable at least knew how to tie those plot points together into a decent narrative structure. Getting from point A to point B to point C makes sense in Abominable. Whereas Over the Moon starts at point A, and takes a completely circuitous path before eventually arriving at point D.

Thank goodness.

Just need to boot my 29 now, and even that's not a high priority just yet.

Aaron
Actor Loki

Xeybozn posted...

Sure, but the weird thing is that Ghibli wasn't really that involved in making the film itself. They didn't do much more than help fund it. Calling it a Ghibli film would be like saying (insert any post-2000 Ghibli film here) is a Disney film.

It FEELS like a Ghibli movie though.

Xeybozn posted...

I like most artsy foreign/indie animation stuff, but Red Turtle just bored me to death. I feel like most of the acclaim it got was because people saw the Ghibli logo at the start and went in thinking "Oh, this must be a great movie".

Yeah. Ghibli is very hot or cold in terms of making either a whimsical and fun anime film, or making something dry and dull. This was definitely the latter option.

Okay, while I ranked this lower (and I'm genuinely happy it didn't rank higher, because I figured I'd be the only one to tank its score), I'm REALLY surprised that my 35 is still in at this point.

Wordle 222 3/6





MORSE
MOUND
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Okay, with THAT ranking, I'm genuinely surprised that my 35 is still in, especially with all the early trashing of similarly-toned films.

Aaron
Actor Loki

Also, I didn't mention this in my write-up, but I hate how "Into the Unknown" was the big smash hit song from this movie.

"Show Yourself" is a much better song, and works well with the themes of "Let It Go" as well. It's from a far more empowering part of the movie, too, rather than whatever the hell "Into the Unknown" was trying to be.

I'm going to enjoy a very limited time as the lowest outlier, before my 35 and 37 inevitably tank me back below Red and Karo.

Maria Hill
Yin Nang

1. ???
2. ???
3. ???
4. ???
5. ???
6. ???
7. ???
8. ???
9. ???
10. ???
11. ???
12. ???
13. Abominable
14. ???
15. ???
16. ???
17. ???
18. Ralph Breaks the Internet
19. Ferdinand
20. ???
21. Spies in Disguise
22. The Grinch
23. Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
24. Trolls World Tour
25. Croods: A New Age
26. A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
27. The Polar Express
28. It's Such a Beautiful Day
29. ???
30. I Lost My Body
31. The Secret Life of Pets 2
32. Despicable Me 3
33. Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
34. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
35. ???
36. Boy and the World
37. ???
38. The Illusionist
39. Anomalisa
40. Fritz the Cat

I didn't realize how well I was doing until noting the low outlier placement. Still wish my 35 was out by now though (I didn't expect 37 to go this early).

Damn. I'd almost overtaken Karo, too.

Aaron
Actor Loki

That ranking's a bit sad, namely because there's a different, specific movie I feel deserved to be eliminated before this one for sure.

Druig
Makkari

I'm creeping up on you, Karo.

Batroc
Maria Hill

Ying Nan
Jack Duquesne

Aaron
Actor Loki

Yeah, Polar Express being as low as it was...is strange to me. I can understand the shitty Illumination sequels, but Polar Express being bottom 5 (and someone's 40, at that) is bizarre.

That put me up against Cynthia. With Spiritomb, I could only really send out Pierre, since he was my only Pokemon left with Fairy-type attacks, and Dazzling Gleam, while able to score over half Spiritomb's HP, didn't OHKO. A Sitrus Berry brought the Spiritomb out of 2HKO territory as well. Meanwhile, Psychic devastated Pierre, so I tried using Giga Drain, hoping it would do enough damage, and heal me enough, for a 3HKO. Instead, it was just weak enough for Spiritomb to finish the job, ending Pierre. Chase's Flamethrower took out the Spiritomb at that point, but I was in a ROUGH spot. Gastrodon coming out didn't help matters, since I no longer had a Grass-type. Butch took over with No Guard Cross Chops, doing a decent amount of damage, while Gastrodon Rock Tombed me with speed decreases. He switched into his own Roserade, so I switched to Chase again, dodging the worst a Dazzling Gleam had to offer. Flamethrower finished the job, putting me only down 4-3. RIP Pierre (Level 29 to 67).

At that point, Butch was able to finish off the Gastrodon, but I still had the toughest trio ahead of me. Initially, I sent out Amelia to Toxic Milotic, negating her Flame Orb, but after a Full Restore, the orb took effect, and I was forced to send out Butch again, and he just tanked every ounce of offense Milotic had. Scald and Ice Beam never did enough to bring him into the danger zone, and I just kept Full Restoring after every attack. Eventually, Milotic was forced to start using Recover, and I used an Elixir to restore my PP, before eventually managing to stall out Cynthia's Full Restores, Recovers, and forced her to uselessly throw out Mirror Coats until finally getting the KO to finally put me up 3-2 for the first time all battle.

Lucario went down to a single Cross Chop, because for whatever reason, he chose Flash Cannon over Dragon Pulse or Aura Sphere (though none would've gotten the OHKO). That left just Lucario, and though I no longer had Violeta, I still had Amelia with Ice Beam. I tanked one Earthquake, and Ice Beam was ineffective due to the Yache Berry, but at least I burned that berry early. From there, it was just a matter of Hyper Potioning against repeated Earthquakes until I got lucky and Amelia friendship-dodged one, leaving her at full health and able to tank another attack. Ice Beam finished the job, and with that, I successfully defeated Cynthia! 3 deaths en route to victory, but in the end, I stood tall with Amelia (Level 18 to 68), Butch (Level 36 to 67), and Chase (Level 13 to 67). Amelia and Chase were two of my weakest, really only brought along to deal with bugs and Mr. Mime/Bronzong (Chase) and dodging electric attacks from Flint's squad (Amelia), but in the end, both came out clutch to crown me the champion of Pokemon Shining Pearl!

First off, I forgot that there was probably going to be some sort of final battle with Brennus until I was just getting ready to face the Elite 4. I used my six strongest Pokemon (Butch, Stephen, Pierre, Violeta, Shay and Yuri, in that order) and swept him in six attacks. Then I swapped out to the group mentioned above to take on the Elite 4.

Aaron really wasn't a problem. Chase took the lead and OHKOed Dustox/Heracross/Beautifly with Flamethrower, and then Vespiquen tanked the attack, only to get burned and do minimal damage with her Aerial Ace immediately after. Butch went out to Earthquake Drapion, which didn't QUITE do enough for the kill, allowing Drapion to Cross Poison and poison Butch. Then Aaron Full Restored, Earthquake didn't finish the job, Aaron Full Restored, Earthquake didn't finish the job, and I finished the fight with a Knock Off to conserve Earthquake PP. Some Full Restores of my own later, I was ready for Bertha.

Pierre kicked things off with Magical Leaf to take out Quagsire (I was trying to conserve Giga Drain for stronger opponents). Magical Leaf didn't finish the job on Whiscash though (due to a Rindo Berry), getting Pierre's speed down via Bulldoze. THAT made me Giga Drain, knowing Bertha would Full Restore, and I switched over to Amelia to take on Sudowoodo. Earthquake didn't quite OHKO, forcing me to tank a Double Edge, but at least the next hit finished the job. Then it was time for Golem. Aqua Tail hit hard, but Sturdy prevented the OHKO. Knowing Bertha would full Restore, Amelia hit Golem with Toxic, ticking off JUST enough health for a second Aqua Tail to get the (essentially) OHKO the next round. And then Hippowdon went down in one shot from Pierre's Giga Drain to finish the fight. Simple as that.

Flint was the first really DIFFICULT battle. I started things off with Amelia again, healed up from the previous fight, since I wanted to save my stronger Pokemon for later battles. Earthquake OHKOed Rapidash, before failed to do the same on Steelix. But, if their use of type-specific berries wasn't bad enough, this elite 4 understands switching Pokemon out. I tried to Earthquake again, only for Flint to switch into Drifblim and avoid all damage. At that point, I switched to Violeta, who got Will-O-Wisped immediately, and is apparently slow enough that she couldn't hit first with Crunch before Drifblim minimized and avoided the attack. Thankfully, BDSP's friendship mechanic allowed Violeta to power out of her burn, just in time for Drifblim to Baton Pass that minimize to Steelix again. And it dodged not only the Crunch meant for Drifblim, but also the potentially-KOing Waterfall, allowing it to Thunder Fang Violeta down to 5 HP. I switched to Amelia to give Flint a taste of hhis own medicine at that point, and Thunder Fang was useless. Despite its inferior accuracy, Aqua Tail was enough to finish the job, forcing Lopunny into the fray. Butch went out and Vital Threw her to death, since High Jump Kick just wasn't good enough. Drifblim came out again, but Stephen was ready for it, and a Shadow Ball finished the job. That left just Infernape, and though it outsped Stephen to use a Fire Punch, Stephen's Psychic scored the OHKO. Everyone survived the first three battles, and I just needed to heal up in preparation for Lucian.

Lucian is where things went off the rails. I specifically sent Chase out first because he has Smart Strike, and I did not want to risk Stephen against a team of Psychic-types. Turns out that Smart Strike didn't do enough to a goddamn Mr. Mime to even bring him past half health. Enough time to put up a Reflect, for sure. So I'm stuck, fighting a Mr. Mime with Chase (who is my second-weakest Pokemon after Amelia), and I managed to take him down, but not before getting crippled by Psychic attacks. Then Medicham comes out, and I'm debating how to do this, because it's got a lot of good coverage moves, plus Pure Power, and decent defenses. At THAT point, I go with Stephen, because my best alternatives are Butch and Pierre, both of whom are vital for Cynthia. Stephen successfully takes the Medicham out, and next up is Alakazam. Again, this is a Pokemon with extremely good coverage moves. I could've easily sent out Violeta, but I was worrying at that point about Cynthia, so I decided to keep Stephen in. After all, he's my strongest Pokemon, and he's probably my fastest Pokemon, right? Turns out, he's not faster than a Timid Alakazam, and Psychic OHKOed Stephen. However, Stephen's Cursed Body ability disabled Psychic, which meant I could send out Butch without fear. Even with Reflect still active, an Alakazam holding an item is gonna be hit HARD by Knock Off, and though he managed a Future Sight, I OHKOed Alakazam.

Next was Girafarig, and my options were limited; I realized how many of my team were weak to Psychic, so I was forced to send out Violeta for the Intimidate in hopes of Crunching it to death. I don't remember the exact sequence of events, but I feel like what happened was I used Crunch and that didn't OHKO due to the Reflect still being active. It didn't use Thunderbolt, but instead used Trick Room, so I switched to Amelia to dodge the Thunderbolt the next round. Then I believe I got one weak attack in with Aqua Tail, while tanking a Psychic, and then got the notification about Reflect ending. So I sent in Violeta, since Girafarig would've Thunderbolt a Quagsire...but when I tried to Crunch and finish the job, Trick Room made it move faster, and Thunderbolt killed Violeta. At that point, I think I took advantage of Trick Room to let Butch move faster and win via Knock Off. Finally, Bronzong was more annoying than anything else. Butch used Knock Off to take out the Sitrus Berry, and just kept using Knock Off as Lucian used Full Restores over and over, before finally having to resort to ineffective Earthquakes. At least I won in the end. RIP Stephen (Level 12 to 67). RIP Violeta (Level 20 to 66).

I've gotten my full team to 65 at this point, and I'm trying to pick what Pokemon I want to use to take on Cynthia. It's tough, because Cynthia is tough in her own right, but Lucian has an annoying collection of Pokemon as well, and then my strongest six don't cover Aaron in ANY way.

Right now, I'm thinking Chase (Fire beats Dustox, Beautifly, Vespiquen, Heracross, Bronzong, Smart Strike beats Mr. Mime), Pierre (Grass beats Quagsire, Sudowoodo, Hippowdon, Whiscash, Gastrodon, Milotic, Dazzling Gleam beats Spiritomb), Amelia (Water beats Golem, Rapidash, Infernape, Steelix, Ground beats Drapion, Rapidash, Infernape, Steelix, Lucario), Violeta (Back-Up Water-type, Crunch beats Drifblim, Girafarig, Alakazam, Ice Fang beats Garchomp), Butch (Fighting beats Lopunny, Lucario, Steelix, Sudowoodo, Golem), Stephen (Back-Ups across the board)

It's weird, seeing that much of a split in opinion on this movie, while I'm right in the relative middle. I think Beautiful Day is really weird, because I can totally understand both sides of the argument. It feels like two movies put together in one for me. So the trio who ranked it bottom 2/3, That's how I felt, watching the first 1/3 to 1/2. It was just weird, gross-out humor that was on a similar level to Anomalisa or Fritz. But then the back half, when the movie found its voice and really started using its platform to tell a story about mental illness, it hooked me and I started really enjoying it. If I split the movie in half, I think I would've ranked the back half in my top 12, and the front half in my bottom 3. So...yeah...makes sense that it's polarizing.

Zithers posted...

are the rankings you submitted different from your 'objective' rankings?

also... you only consider seven of these forty movies to be artistic?

Probably, yeah. I can acknowledge that something like Jimmy Neutron is objectively awful in its animation, writing and voice acting, but I still found it subjectively more enjoyable than a handful of "artistic" films on this list. Meanwhile, it's still an awful movie, and it did not take much for the six "artistic" films not in my bottom 5 to be more enjoyable than trash like Jimmy Neutron, Secret Life of Pets 3, Ice Age 3, Despicable Me 3, and at least one other film that hasn't shown up yet and inspired such a bizarre level of animus from me that I think it turned out my longest write-up on this list.

And I would consider 11 of these films to be artistic. Maybe 13, depending on how you classify Soul and Toy Story 4. But there are 11 films that I would say are, despite being animated, either maybe by "outsider" animation studios, or they do not come across as marketed specifically towards children.

I'm sorry, but I DID spend a month watching all of these movies, and I was FAR more entertained by the stupid-ass inanity of Blue Sky/Illumination than the uncomfortable production of Anomalisa/Fritz, or the utter boredom of Boy and the World/Illusionist/one other film that has yet to be ranked.

If an artistic movie provides entertainment on top of being artistic, then I'm more than happy to rank it highly (as I would consider at least two of my top ten). But this isn't some "objective" movie ranking where I'm obligated to rank things highly out of some cinema snob hipster sensibility.

thesmark posted...

#27 will be My Life as a Zucchini, Inviso will call it "too artsy, looks and feels pretentious. Boring"

Keep fighting the good fight Evilord

Not to give too much away...but it IS possible for a movie to be "artistic" and NOT be so far up its own ass that it forgoes plot in favor of pretentiousness. Just saying.

Current Ranking:

1. Half-Life 2
2. Portal 2
3. Silent Hill 2
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
5. Resident Evil 4
6. Mass Effect 2
7. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
8. Portal
9. Persona 5/Persona 5: Royal
10. Chrono Trigger
11. Final Fantasy VII
12. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
13. New Pokemon Snap
14. Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
15. Left 4 Dead
16. Paper Mario
17. Kingdom Hearts
18. Super Smash Brothers: Melee
19. Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations
20. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
21. Tony Hawk's Underground
22. Spyro: Year of the Dragon (The third game in the Spyro series and I had a lot of fun with this one. The gameplay is largely the same across the franchise, but it feels like by the time the third game rolled around, Insomniac had managed to nail down the things that worked, and improved upon the things that didn't. The skateboarding stuff was actually pretty fun in this game, and I admit that my furry side very much appreciated Bianca as a cute antagonist who turns good when she realizes that she's the bad guy and likes Hunter. Overall, the whole game just tied everything together in a perfect little bow.)
23. Pokemon Black/White/Black 2/White 2
24. Silent Hill 4: The Room
25. Bioshock
26. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
27. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
28. Final Fantasy XIV
29. Batman: Arkham City
30. Halo
31. Pikmin (Pikmin 2 tried to do a bit too much and was a bit too open-world, but Pikmin 1 nailed its concept in one go. I love the fact that you are introduced to this world where you need to protect your Pikmin as they carry lost parts of your ship for you, and you have to strategize how to use the three varieties to best defeat your foes. I'm not the biggest RTS fan, but this is simple enough (and the time limit is wide enough) to not feel overwhelmed when you're trying to achieve every aspect of the game. It's really enjoyable.)
32. Shadow of the Colossus
33. Left 4 Dead 2
34. Burnout 3: Takedown
35. Wario Land 2
36. Banjo Tooie
37. Detroit: Become Human
38. Super Smash Brothers: Ultimate
39. God of War (2005)
40. Batman: Arkham Asylum
41. Donkey Kong 64
42. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
43. Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land
44. Resident Evil
45. Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
46. Final Fantasy IX
47. Diddy Kong Racing
48. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
49. Tetris
50. Age of Empires
51. The Sims
52. Kirby's Dream Land
53. Jackbox
54. Super Paper Mario
55. The Bouncer
56. Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum
57. Super Mario 64
58. Banjo Kazooie
59. Wario Ware: Touched! (When it comes down to it, I didn't have a ton of games for the DS that really took advantage of the system's capabilities. Now, is Wario Ware: Touched! the most immersive game ever? No. But it's a fun game that has a bunch of little mini-games to breeze through. If you don't like one, you're not stuck trying it for hours on end. It's just wacky and zany enough to work for me, and I have fond memories of it as a time waster when I wanted to play something handheld.)
60. Super Mario Brothers
61. Phoenix Wright: Justice for All
62. World of Warcraft
63. Dino Crisis
64. Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
65. Enchanted Arms
66. Star Fox Adventures
67. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
68. Half-Life
69. Klonoa: Empire of Dreams (I love the Klonoa franchise, so having a game on a handheld console was always going to be a positive for me. That being said, one of the positives about the series is the 2.5D gameplay, which is somewhat lost in translation when going from console to Gameboy Advance. The gameplay is still very similar, and I still love Klonoa's floaty style of platforming, but this is just a very standard handheld platformer overall.)
70. Final Fantasy X
71. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies
72. Star Wars: Battlefront
73. Soul Calibur II
74. L.A. Noire
75. Minesweeper
76. Final Fantasy IV
77. Phantasy Star Universe
78. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl
79. Half-Life: Opposing Force
80. Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal
81. Gunbound
82. Team Fortress 2
83. Final Fantasy XI

Haven't Played:

13 Sentinels
Among Us
Angry Birds
Animal Crossing
Asteroids (I've played this a little bit, but not enough for me to judge it properly. I know it's not the most complicated game, but still.)
Baldur's Gate 2
Beyond Good & Evil
Bomberman Hero
Breath of Fire II
Bugsnax
Bully
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Celeste
Chibi-Robo!
Chrono Cross
Cuphead
Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls
Dark Souls
Dead by Daylight
Devil May Cry 3
Devil Survivor
Disgaea
Doki Doki Literature Club
Donkey Kong Country
Doom (1993)
Doom (2016)
Dragon Quest VIII
Dream Daddy: Dad Dating Simulator
Earthbound
Elite Beat Agents
Fatal Frame
Final Fantasy VIII
Fire Emblem 7
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Ghost Trick
God of War (2018)
Gran Turismo Sport
Grand Theft Auto V
Harvest Moon 64
Hey You, Pikachu!
Hitman (2016)
Hollow Knight
Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Kirby's Adventure
Life is Strange
Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart 8
Mario Party
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Max Payne
Mega Man Legends
Metal Gear Solid 3
Metal Gear Solid 5
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Prime
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
NieR
Ori and the Blind Forest
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures
Peggle
Perfect Dark
Persona 4
Persona 5: Strikers
Pikmin 2
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
Pokemon Colosseum
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky
Pokemon Ranger
Pong
Prince of Persia
Psychonauts
QWOP
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Resident Evil: Village
Rocket League
Shadow of the Beast
Shovel Knight
Sonic the Hedgehog
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Star Fox 64
Star Fox: Assault
Star Wars Episode 1: Racer
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Starcraft
Stardew Valley
Suikoden 2
Suikoden 3
Super Mario World
Tales of Symphonia
Tekken 5
The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
The Talos Principle
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Trails in the Sky
Undertale
Virtue's Last Reward
Warcraft III
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Xenogears
Xenosaga
Zero Time Dilemma

I feel like me and Evillord are gonna be not very compatible. >_>

Wordle 217 4/6

It says a lot about Fritz the Cat that I was able to overlook how unpleasant and uncomfortable Anomalisa was in comparison to it. But yeah, that movie just disturbed me. Even removing the fact that the main character is shitty, you have a guy who buys an antique Japanese sex doll for his young son--who by sheer virtue of the Michael's mental illness, has the same face and voice as everyone else in the world, including multiple women that Michael either tries to sleep with, or DOES sleep with--and the movie ends with this exposed sex doll releasing like...stored up, antique semen at the kid's birthday party. That's the sort of imagery this movie felt comfortable providing, and I'm sorry, but there are certain things that just come across as exceptionally gross.

Current Ranking:

1. Half-Life 2
2. Portal 2
3. Silent Hill 2
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
5. Resident Evil 4
6. Mass Effect 2
7. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
8. Portal
9. Persona 5/Persona 5: Royal
10. Chrono Trigger
11. Final Fantasy VII
12. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
13. New Pokemon Snap
14. Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
15. Left 4 Dead
16. Paper Mario
17. Kingdom Hearts
18. Super Smash Brothers: Melee
19. Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations
20. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
21. Tony Hawk's Underground
22. Pokemon Black/White/Black 2/White 2
23. Silent Hill 4: The Room
24. Bioshock
25. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
26. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
27. Final Fantasy XIV
28. Batman: Arkham City
29. Halo
30. Shadow of the Colossus
31. Left 4 Dead 2
32. Burnout 3: Takedown
33. Wario Land 2 (While the original Wario Land was fun, it still felt like a standard Mario game, starring a different character. Wario Land 2 was a fully-realized game in its own right. The whole game gives you an immeasurable number of options to take the story. You can play all sorts of different levels, face different bosses (depending on your choices within the individual levels), and you don't even need to worry about dying. That's one of the most unique takes this game has to offer: you can't be killed. You take damage, sure, but that just serves as an inconvenience and loses you money (Wario's one goal is to get rich, and/or die trying). It just makes the gameplay feel a lot more fluid in the best way.)
34. Banjo Tooie
35. Detroit: Become Human
36. Super Smash Brothers: Ultimate
37. God of War (2005)
38. Batman: Arkham Asylum
39. Donkey Kong 64
40. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
41. Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land
42. Resident Evil
43. Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
44. Final Fantasy IX
45. Diddy Kong Racing
46. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
47. Tetris
48. Age of Empires
49. The Sims
50. Kirby's Dream Land
51. Jackbox
52. Super Paper Mario
53. The Bouncer
54. Pokemon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum
55. Super Mario 64
56. Banjo Kazooie
57. Super Mario Brothers
58. Phoenix Wright: Justice for All
59. World of Warcraft
60. Dino Crisis
61. Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
62. Enchanted Arms
63. Star Fox Adventures
64. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (I don't have the strongest memory of this game, but I remember loving being able to create a character and play as a Twi'lek as I got to run around the levels with full access to force powers. I know that's common sense nowadays, in Star Wars games, but at the time, the only Star Wars games I'd really had the chance to play were either first-person shooters, or X-Wing games, or KotOR. Despite Jedi being awesome, they hadn't really gotten the hang of making a fun game to play as a superpowered Jedi. Jedi Academy did that, and it was great.)
65. Half-Life
66. Final Fantasy X
67. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies
68. Star Wars: Battlefront (This is another one from the Star Wars franchise where it's not the MOST memorable game ever, but it was still fun to play. If I recall correctly, this was Star Wars shooter equivalent to Dynasty Warriors, where there are just a massive number of enemy units, and you had a huge map to run around and kill whatever enemy forces got in your way. Sure, you could play as Vader or Luke or whoever. But it's more fun to play a more normal PC.)
69. Soul Calibur II
70. L.A. Noire
71. Minesweeper
72. Final Fantasy IV
73. Phantasy Star Universe (I don't exactly remember the story of this one, which is a rough indictment of a JRPG. I remember there being cute elf girls, but that's about it. The gameplay, for what it's worth, was fun enough, as it wasn't standard, turn-based stuff. You could go through and enjoy a more Kingdom Hearts-style battle system, which I think adds a certain level of skill to the proceedings.)
74. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl
75. Half-Life: Opposing Force
76. Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal
77. Gunbound
78. Team Fortress 2
79. Final Fantasy XI

Haven't Played:

13 Sentinels
Among Us
Angry Birds
Animal Crossing
Baldur's Gate 2
Beyond Good & Evil
Bomberman Hero
Breath of Fire II
Bugsnax
Bully
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Celeste
Chibi-Robo!
Chrono Cross
Cuphead
Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Girls
Dark Souls
Dead by Daylight
Devil May Cry 3
Devil Survivor
Disgaea
Doki Doki Literature Club
Donkey Kong Country
Doom (1993)
Doom (2016)
Dragon Quest VIII
Dream Daddy: Dad Dating Simulator
Earthbound
Elite Beat Agents
Fatal Frame
Final Fantasy VIII
Fire Emblem 7
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Ghost Trick
God of War (2018)
Gran Turismo Sport
Grand Theft Auto V
Harvest Moon 64
Hey You, Pikachu!
Hitman (2016)
Hollow Knight
Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Kirby's Adventure
Life is Strange
Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart 8
Mario Party
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Max Payne
Mega Man Legends
Metal Gear Solid 3
Metal Gear Solid 5
Metroid Fusion
Metroid Prime
Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
NieR
Ori and the Blind Forest
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures
Peggle
Perfect Dark
Persona 4
Persona 5: Strikers
Pikmin 2
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale
Pokemon Colosseum
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky
Pokemon Ranger
Pong
Prince of Persia
Psychonauts
QWOP
Rayman 2: The Great Escape
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Resident Evil: Village
Rocket League
Shadow of the Beast
Shovel Knight
Sonic the Hedgehog
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Star Fox 64
Star Fox: Assault
Star Wars Episode 1: Racer
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Starcraft
Stardew Valley
Suikoden 2
Suikoden 3
Super Mario World
Tales of Symphonia
Tekken 5
The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
The Talos Principle
The Walking Dead: A New Frontier
Trails in the Sky
Undertale
Virtue's Last Reward
Warcraft III
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Xenogears
Xenosaga
Zero Time Dilemma

Adjusted the list in chronological order of catch:

Sandgem Town: Turtwig->Grotle->Torterra (Rafael, Level 5 to 53) *DEAD*
Route 201: Starly->Staravia->Staraptor (Edgar, Level 3 to 55) *DEAD*
Lake Verity: Bidoof->Bibarel (Erin, Level 3 to 50) *DEAD*
Route 202: Shinx->Luxio (Cecilia, Level 4 to 21) *DEAD*
Route 204: Kricketot->Kricketune (Roberto, Level 4 to ???)
Ravaged Path: Zubat->Golbat->Crobat (Sumara, Level 5 to ???)
Route 203: Abra->Kadabra->Alakazam (Yuri, Level 5 to ???)
Oreburgh Gate: Geodude->Graveler->Golen (Sylvester, Level 5 to 49) *DEAD*
Route 207: Machop (Gordon, Level 7 to 18) *DEAD*
Oreburgh Mine: Onix->Steelix (Jemma, Level 9 to ???)
Floaroma Town: Mew (Zelda, Level 1 to 40) *DEAD*
Floaroma Meadow: Wurmple->Cascoon->Dustox (Lucas, Level 15 to 38) *DEAD*
Valley Windworks: Shellos (Sally, Level 7 to 21) *DEAD*
Route 205: Buizel->Floatzel (Samantha, Level 8 to 51) *DEAD*
Eterna Forest: Buneary (Tiffany, Level 10 to 14) *DEAD*
Route 211: Ponyta->Rapidash (Chase, Level 13 to ???)
Mount Coronet: Chingling->Chimecho (Nicholas, Level 13 to ???)
Oreburgh City: Shieldon->Bastiodon (Percy, Level 1 to ???)
Old Chateau: Gastly->Haunter->Gengar (Stephen, Level 12 to ???)
Route 206: Bronzor (Uncaught) *DEAD*
Route 208: Machop->Machoke (Ivan, Level 16 to 32) *DEAD*
Hearthome City: Happiny->Chansey->Blissey (Joy, Level 1 to ???)
Route 209: Bonsly->Sudowoodo (Woody, Level 16 to 51) *DEAD*
Lost Tower: Misdreavus->Mismagius (Hermes, Level 18 to ???)
Solaceon Ruins Unown (Effie, Level 15 to ???)
Route 214: Goldeen->Seaking (Elvis, Level 20 to ???)
Ruin Maniac's Cavern: Hippopotas->Hippowdon (Jordan, Level 22 to ???)
Valor Lakefront: Girafarig (Patrick, Level 21 to 43) *DEAD*
Route 213: Wingull->Pelipper (Louisa, Level 20 to ???)
Route 212: Wooper->Quagsire (Amelia, Level 18 to ???)
Great Marsh: Psyduck->Golduck (Colleen, Level 21 to 47) *DEAD*
Trophy Garden: Pikachu->Raichu (Ashley, Level 19 to 23) *DEAD*
Pastoria City: Remoraid (Barbara, Level 15 to 20) *DEAD*
Route 210: Meditite (Uncaught) *DEAD*
Twinleaf Town: Magikarp->Gyarados (Violeta, Level 20 to ???)
Route 219: Finneon->Lumineon (Jennifer, Level 18 to ???)
Route 220: Tentacool (Gillian, Level 23 to 29) *DEAD*
Route 221: Roselia->Roserade (Pierre, Level 29 to ???)
Fuego Ironworks: Luxio->Luxray (Reynold, Level 29 to 45) *DEAD*
Route 218: Shellos->Gastrodon (Larry, Level 28 to 32) *DEAD*
Canalave City: Tentacool (Uncaught) *DEAD*
Iron Island: Riolu->Lucario (Jackson, Level 1 to ???)
Route 216: Meditite (Uncaught) *DEAD*
Route 217: Medicham (Yasmin, Level 36 to 46) *DEAD*
Acuity Lakefront: Machoke->Machamp (Butch, Level 36 to ???)
Wayward Cave: Gible->Gabite->Garchomp (Shay, Level 16 to ???)
Lake Acuity: Sneasel (Dani, Level 35 to 52) *DEAD*
Spear Pillar: Palkia (Uncaught) *DEAD*
Acuity Cavern: Uxie (Uncaught) *DEAD*
Valor Cavern: Azelf (Uncaught) *DEAD*
Lake Valor: Noctowl (Eileen, Level 36 to 41) *DEAD*
Route 215: Mesprit (Flora, Level 50 to ???)
Route 222: Chatot (Polly, Level 41 to 43) *DEAD*
Route 223: Tentacruel (Uncaught) *DEAD*
Sunyshore City: Mantyke->Mantine (Irwin, Level 31 to 52) *DEAD*
Victory Road: Graveler (Creed, Level 45 to 46) *DEAD*
Pokemon League: Tentacruel (Tyana, Level 39 to ???)

Well, my efforts at grinding levels (I'm still only 60 across the board) in preparation for Cynthia have caused another casualty. I was fighting a Machoke and sent out Edgar, thinking that his Aerial Ace would be enough for an OHKO. But Edgar has plagued me this whole Nuzlocke, since he's Bold nature, and thus his Attack power has been weakened this whole time. Aerial Ace got him low, but not KOed...and the Machoke used Counter. THAT killed Edgar, for sure. Lame, but I'm not losing any sleep over it, since Edgar wasn't particularly amazing. RIP Edgar (Level 3 to 55).