Items9The creator’s order
  1. 1Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2009)Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (2009) 7.0/10 on IGDBReleased Dec 8, 2009Harry Mason is still looking for his missing daughter, but the Wii retelling of Silent Hill gives that search a different rhythm. The game uses your answers in therapy and the way you explore to change things such as characters' appearance and behavior. When the town turns hostile, Harry has to get…0
  2. 2Ratchet & Clank (2016)Ratchet & Clank (2016) 7.9/10 on IGDBReleased Apr 12, 2016The 2016 PS4 game hands the story of Ratchet and Clank's first meeting to Captain Qwark. You're playing the version he tells, which makes his view of the partnership part of the joke. The retelling also rebuilds the route through the adventure with new boss fights and flight sequences.0
  3. 3Haunted House (2023)Haunted House (2023)Released Oct 12, 2023Atari's 1982 game sends you into a dark mansion to collect three pieces of an urn, lighting matches to see what you're doing. Orbit Studio keeps the urn hunt and rebuilds the house as an isometric stealth game. The rooms and enemy placements change between runs, so recognizing a room only gets you…0
  4. 4Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (2018)Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! (2018) 7.5/10 on IGDBReleased Nov 16, 2018This return to Pokémon Yellow sets wild Pokémon loose where you can see them on the map. For most catches you aim and time a throw instead of wearing the Pokémon down in battle. The hills, caves, and routes of Kanto feel different when you can decide which creatures to approach before an encounter…0
  5. 5Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (2010)Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (2010) 8.2/10 on IGDBReleased Nov 11, 2010The PSP remake lets you revisit decisions on two scales. The Chariot Tarot rewinds part of a fight so you can try a different move. The World Tarot later lets you return to a point in the story with your current party and see where a different decision takes you. It makes the branching history of…0
  6. 6Alone in the Dark (2024)Alone in the Dark (2024) 7.2/10 on IGDBReleased Mar 20, 2024The 1992 game and the 2024 reimagining both take you to Derceto with Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby. This version expands the mansion and uses it to tell a new story drawing on the original trilogy, with different scenes depending on whose side you play. The familiar house gives returning players…0
  7. 7Actraiser Renaissance (2021)Actraiser Renaissance (2021) 7.0/10 on IGDBReleased Sep 23, 2021The original ActRaiser divided its time between side-scrolling action and growing settlements from above. Renaissance makes defending those settlements a strategy game in its own right. Placing forts and deciding when to use miracles during real-time raids gives you a reason to think ahead about…0
  8. 8Mega Man Powered Up (2006)Mega Man Powered Up (2006) 7.5/10 on IGDBReleased Mar 2, 2006Capcom's PSP version of the first Mega Man pulls the old stages apart and builds a new arrangement, with two additional bosses. You can also play as the boss robots, whose individual moves change what a jump or obstacle asks of you. A mode based on the original layouts makes it easy to see how much…0
  9. 9Castle of Illusion (2013)Castle of Illusion (2013)Released Sep 4, 2013Sega's 2013 version brings back the Genesis game's trip through Mizrabel's castle and lets Mickey move into the depth of some stages. In stretches of the adventure you still read the jumps in profile. When the game opens up into three dimensions, you have to judge where platforms and obstacles sit…0