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Designed and directed by a previous Capcom visionary, Tomba! was meant to be a unique game that defies description. While ostensibly being an Action-Platformer, it also included several RPG and Adventure game elements that it is closer to describe it as a 2D Legend of Zelda than anything else. So, in effect, the game does succeed in being a unique genre-defying title, which partially explains its critical acclaim and cult-favorite status. However, in playing it years later, it has several pacing and direction issues that are difficult to ignore, and these flaws keep it from becoming the masterpiece that it's designed to be. #59(S): Tomba!:- Year: 1997. 1998. Genre: Action Platformer Adventure. Publisher: Whoopee Camp, Sony. Developer: Whoopee Camp.

The PlayStation 1 had such a massive library of games that it is impossible to do it justice with a simple top 100 games list. As such, I decided to supplement my usual review of a top 100 games list (this time, I used the top 100 PS1 games list from Retro Sanctuary ) with other games picked up from different lists. This parallel "Additional List" is not numbered in any ordered way, so the quality of the titles theoretically varies from top to bottom with no rhyme or reason. In this report, ten franchises are featured, with the prequel of three of them, for a total of thirteen games. Of these games, I fully reviewed eight and casually played the rest. Based on these reviews, I find that it's absolutely criminal that no Mega Man Legends game is included in the Retro Sanctuary list. Also, three games are heads and shoulders above many of the selections in that list: Legend of Mana, Kartia: The World of Fate , and Brigandine , with Incredible Crisis deserving a spo...