Listmas 2025: Kingdom Hearts 2 World Ranking

Last week, I wrote a world ranking about the very first Kingdom Hearts game, and now it’s time to cover its even more impressive sequel, the aptly named Kingdom Hearts 2.  This game has some really good worlds…and some really dull ones.  I’ll be ranking these based off of everything, the general theming, the story,…

Listmas 2025: Kingdom Hearts World Ranking

One of my favorite game series of all time is Kingdom Hearts, a mashup of Disney and Final Fantasy that is surprisingly deep and works far better than you’d expect.  With memorable characters and lore that rivals that of Five Nights at Freddy’s, the first two numbered games of the series in particular will always…

Top 5: My “Deserted Island” First-Person Games

For this “deserted island” list, I strongly debated with myself as to whether or not to distinguish between first-person shooters and first-person games. Only then I remembered that I’ve hardly played any FPS’s, strictly speaking, so I opened up the floor to games that only feature the first-person viewpoint, whether or not shooting at things…

Ranking the Bosses from Donkey Kong Country 3

Donkey Kong Country 2 already had some perfectly memorable boss fights.  But the third game’s penchant for gimmicks meant the bosses tended to vary even more in their mechanics, from a snowball fight with a nightmarish snowman to feeding bugs to a giant sentient barrel until he burps himself off the stage.  Frankly, I found…

Ranking the Bosses from Donkey Kong Country 2

When you really think about it, the original Donkey Kong Country was fairly basic, especially when the bosses were concerned.  I mean, there are two battles against a giant beaver that basically just jumps back and forth across the stage and two more skirmishes against an oversized vulture that somehow spits nuts at you.  (Considering…

Top 10 Most Awful Levels from Donkey Kong Country 2

As much as I love Donkey Kong Country 2, that doesn’t mean this beloved entry in the franchise is without its fair share of flaws.  I can appreciate that this game is challenging.  In fact, several difficult levels feature in my post listing my very favorite levels.  But the levels listed below are just not…

Top 10 Levels from Donkey Kong Country 2

It is widely accepted that the second entry in the original Donkey Kong Country trilogy, Diddy’s Kong Quest, is easily the best.  With a great atmosphere, and without the need to rely on gimmicks to keep the gameplay interesting, this game just focuses on fun and solid level design and new concepts that don’t feel…

Top 7 Toughest Levels in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker

Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is a rather chill puzzle game with a wide variety of challenges and locations in which to goof around.  Last time, I talked about my favorite levels in the game, and for today’s post, I wanted to discuss the ones that I liked the least.  While this game is generally pretty…

Top 5 Worst Levels from Donkey Kong Country

I’ve already posted a little list ranking my top 5 favorite stages from the original Donkey Kong Country from 1994.  And now it’s time for the worst.  One surprising fact I had to face was that, after roughly three decades of playing this game, some levels are still surprisingly difficult!  I can appreciate a challenge…

Top 5 Best Levels from Donkey Kong Country

Seeing as the original Donkey Kong Country games for the SNES have a special place in my heart, it’s odd that I’ve never actually ranked any of the levels before.  And so I spent two afternoons replaying the very first game from 1994 for the purposes of some nostalgic research.  Keep in mind that when…