Good GBA games to pick up

Ace Attorney

Recently seen a lot of love for the gameboy advance on here latlely and decided that i might go and pick my one back up and play a few games on it. Any genre welcome.

Games i own for GBA already - minish cap & pokemon red version

ERG89

From what I played:
Advance Wars 1 & 2 are a must.
Metroid Fusion & Zero Mission.
Pokemon Emerald.
WarioWare Twisted.
Mario Golf.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater is also better than it has any right to be.

Also heard praise for Fire Emblem, Castlevania Aria of Sorrow, Final Fantasy Tactics, Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga (which got a 3DS remake)

A lot of Snes ports on it; Super Mario World, Zelda: LTTP, Final Fantasy 6 & Donkey Kong Country. NES got a classics line too.

sligeach

I echo much of what's listed above, just wanted to add the Golden Sun games.

Ol' Donie

Loved that console.

Think I might root it out for a fee weeks.

Mr E

All of the Castlevania games are great - Circle of the Moon, Harmony of Dissonance and Aria of Sorrow.

Mr.Saturn

I'd throw a nod to Wario Land 4, as it is a deadly puzzle-platformer and has a bit of depth to it to keep you come back.



I'd also recommend F-Zero: Maximum Velocity as it's a much smoother game than its SNES predecessor while keeping the challenge.

Ace Attorney

Lots of good suggestions, have been looking at footage of the games mentioned, they all look great!. i kinda want a GBA mini now for the tv

CastorTroy

There's a GBA version of Mario Kart if you want it

Retr0gamer

Drill Dozer
Ninja Five-O
Klonoa 1 and 2
Astro Boy
Mario and Luigi (might be better off getting the 3DS remake)
Boktai 1 and 2 (It's fantastic but hard to play with Irish Weather)
Kuru Kuru Kururin
Warioware Twisted

Len_007

I saw something on YouTube recently regarding the Donkey Kong Country series on GBA. Apparently, Rare built those games from the ground up, & gave the characters more frames of animation making them appear more smooth in motion. That’s some dedication, & has made me itch to check out those particular ports since.

My other suggestion would be the Wario Ware game.

Metroid Zero Mission is king (Queen really)

Mr.Saturn

Fred The Red wrote: »

Metroid Zero Mission is king (Queen really)

So, so short though. Even with the GBA bonus stuff, you're pushing it if you get 6 hours out of it.

Len_007 wrote: »

I saw something on YouTube recently regarding the Donkey Kong Country series on GBA. Apparently, Rare built those games from the ground up, & gave the characters more frames of animation making them appear more smooth in motion. That’s some dedication, & has made me itch to check out those particular ports since.

My other suggestion would be the Wario Ware game.

Can confirm the DKC games on the GBA, for all their graphical cutback, play like a dream. On a similar note, Capcom handed off porting duties of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo to Ubisoft and Ubisoft, for their credit, just rebuilt the game from the ground up to optimize it for the GBA. It plays fantastic, even with being short 2 buttons.

megaten

Wasn't released in Europe but the Summon Night: Swordcraft Story games were great.

ebbsy

Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Islands, Parasol Stars.

CiDeRmAn

The first of the Rhythm Paradise series, Rhythm Tengoku, was on the GBA and pretty great.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_Tengoku

RobbingBandit

Tales of Phantasia, Sword of Mana, Lunar Legend, Lufia, Megaman Battle Network, Boktai

Retr0gamer

Sword of Mana is not good. When the characters have a discussion on whether the main villain might not actually be evil for 15 minutes you know it's an animified **** show..... The main villain is called Dark Lord, FFS.

TrustedApple

The crash bandicoot games are really good on the GBA well worth a play

CiDeRmAn

TrustedApple wrote: »

The crash bandicoot games are really good on the GBA well worth a play

Oh, we'll have to agree to disagree!
Those and the Spyro games on the GBA I didn't enjoy at all.

But, I am a man of simple tastes, as long as there's a decent version of Mr Driller I'm sound as a pound!

Retr0gamer

The Megaman Zero games are great is insanely tough. Might be better off with the Zero collection on DS though.

Greyfox

Rock n roll racing, still one of the best racing games ever

764dak

Onimusha Tactics

BadTurtle

Golden Sun 1+2, Advance Wars 1+2, Mario Kart.

If you're looking for a very immersive RPG that will take forever to beat, Medabots is good. Requires huge patience though, it's very unforgiving.