I loved Legend of Mana, and used to play it a lot with one of my cousins; but we never got very far. I should try again someday.

Legend of mana looks really cool. Unique games like that makes this list informative.

#25. Darkest Dungeon

When I first heard about Darkest Dungeon in Game Informer I was intrigued. It was described as a Lovecraftian RPG where you had to manage your party's physical health as well as their mental health. When I played it though, I was completely taken in by it. Every other game I had fell to the wayside because I needed to play this delightfully depressing game. And god damned was it ever depressing. You've been tasked with bringing a once glorious town back from the edge of despair and making it great again. Basically an old ancestor got involved with some cult and utterly ruined his lands while drinking, having orgies, and trying to bring Cthulhu back into the world. Definitely really fucked shit up. So now you manage a troupe of adventurers (often leading them to their demise, but that's fine because you can always find more) in attempts to kill off troublemakers and reclaim lost treasures. Sounds easy. It's not. Lots of video games feature flawed heroes, and Darkest Dungeon is no different. But in this game those flaws affect your fighting. Greed, fear of the dark, fear of other teammates and lots of other things can lower your morale and once that happens your team members can turn on each other and become as dangerous as the monsters your fighting. If it drops too low then may just up and kill themselves. It's all delightfully morbid really.

I logged over a hundred hours into this game. The first 40 hours were me just learning how to play the game and essentially starting over once I learned that your party should be treated like pieces of meat rather than valuable team members that you should care about. But at no time did I grumble when I started over. Darkest Dungeon was fun from the get go, but once I really got a handle on what I was doing it really became an entirely different experience. And no matter how bleak and depressing my surroundings or team got I never stopped having fun with it. In fact, it's actually kind of fun at times hearing how badly your old ancestor fucked up his village.

And just in case anyone is reading this and making notes, this is a game that is a much better experience on the PC rather than consoles due to how you control your party members. That said, the Switch and tablet version are likely also a very good versions due to the touchscreen controls. So get it on any of those.

#24. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

Zelda Through the Looking Glass. Zelda on Acid. Whatever you want to call Majora's Mask, it inevitably has something weird attached to it. And hey why not? It was a Zelda game that required you to explore the world and explore it through a 72 hour window. Plus when you throw in aliens, the world's most dedicated mailman, a creepy moon crashing to earth, and all those wonderful and bizarre masks.... well weird is ultimately the only word that really does the game justice. But as weird as it is, it's pure quality the entire way. Every strange idea plays into the overall theme of the game and makes it absolutely wonderful.

I've picked it up a couple different times over the years. I bought it at launch when it came out on the N64. I still have my VC copy that I also bought the day it was released.  But my Gamecube copy was probably the best example of how much I loved the game. When I first got my Gamecube it came with the Zelda collection that included Majora's Mask. Unfortunately it didn't come with a save card. And since it was Christmas Day I didn't have a lot of options on getting one. But even knowing I wouldn't be able to save my game I still popped it in a proceeded to play for most of the afternoon and evening. It didn't matter that my progress would be tossed out the window. I was getting to replay my favorite game in the series, and having to replay the first 6 hours of Major wasn't going to be much of a chore.

Ocarina of Time Master Quest came with my copy of The Wind Waker. I wish it came with Majora's Mask as well.

As a result i've never played it in full.