A launch title can make or break a new console release. A bad launch title can ruin an otherwise promising console, while a good launch title will likely skyrocket a new console’s popularity.

Nintendo has been around for quite some time so they’ve released a fair number of consoles, each with their own launch titles. Nintendo’s had some great launch titles over the years, but they’ve also had some not so great ones, and what better way to see how they stack up than by their Metacritic scores. Let’s take a look.

10 DS: Spider-Man 2 (61)

Starting off this list is a launch title that was released with the Nintendo DS, Spider-Man 2. The console release of this game still remain hugely beloved, so it made perfect sense to port the game over to the DS. Unfortunately, that didn’t go over too well.

Ports are generally hit or miss, but the DS port of Spider-Man 2 missed by a mile. While people mostly enjoyed the incorporation of the DS’s touch screen with the controls, many thought that the story just felt tacked on.

9 3DS: Nintendogs + Cats (71)

Love it or hate it, the Nintendogs games were a surprisingly big part of the early years of the DS and 3Ds. Using the touch screen and microphone in the DS, players were able to pet, train, and raise a virtual dog. When the 3DS was released, Nintendogs + Cats was released alongside it.

Nintendogs + Cats was more or less the same as its predecessor, but with the addition of being able to raise a cat as well. The game did about as well as you’d expect, and it was little more than a middle-of-the-road game with mixed to positive reviews.

8 GameCube: Luigi’s Mansion (78)

The Mario Brothers are such an integral part of the Nintendo brand but for a long time, hardly any attention was given to Mario’s brother Luigi. That is until the Nintendo GameCube came along and Luigi’s Mansion along with it.

Luigi’s Mansion followed Luigi reluctantly exploring a mansion and hunting down the ghosts within. People loved this game, from its graphics to its gameplay to its story, but they weren’t a fan of the game’s short length.

7 Wii U: New Super Mario Bros. U (84)

You can’t have Nintendo without the Mario Brothers and it’s rare for a Nintendo console to release without a Mario game being released alongside it. When the Wii U came along, it brought New Super Mario Bros. U along with it.

The plot and gameplay of this game should be familiar to anyone who has ever played a Mario game, but its colorful graphics and the addition of 4-player co-op made it a memorable addition to Mario games. It was a great launch title for an otherwise rocky start for the Wii U.

6 NES: Super Mario Bros. (84)

The game that started it all, exploding Nintendo’s popularity, Super Mario Bros. was one of the many launch titles that released at the same time as the Nintendo Entertainment System. It’s an undeniable classic and it revolutionized video games at the time.

You’d be hard-pressed to find a flaw in Super Mario Bros. and it was considered the number one reason to own an NES. Now, unfortunately, Metacritic didn’t have a Metascore available for this classic title, but it did have one for the Game Boy Advance port and that’s the score we went with. It’s just too important of a game not to include on this list.

5 SNES: F-Zero (8.9 User Score)

Most people know him as one of the more flamboyant fighters in Super Smash Bros., but Captain Falcon actually got his start in F-Zero, a futuristic racing game that launched at the same time as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Even though there were only four racers to choose from, it offered some intense high-octane racing.

Like Super Mario Bros., we couldn’t find a Metascore for F-Zero on Metacritic but we were able to find the user rating for it. With a score of 8.9, players loved the variety of tracks, fluid gameplay, and a steady increase in difficulty.

4 GBA: Castlevania: Circle Of The Moon (91)

Castlevania: Circle Of The Moon is Metacritic’s twelfth-highest rated game for the Game Boy Advance and launched at the same time as the popular handheld game console. Castlevania’s 2D side-scrolling style lent itself excellently to the Game Boy Advance.

Circle Of The Moon was met with widespread critical acclaim, though Koji Igarashi, the series producer, was critical of the game (incidentally, he wasn’t involved in the game’s production). He criticized the game’s controls, dark graphics, and DSS card system, but the people have spoken and they loved it.

3 N64: Super Mario 64 (94)

If you owned a Nintendo 64 but didn’t own Super Mario 64, can you really be considered a N64 owner? Not only was Super Mario 64 a launch title for the N64, but it also remained one of the console’s best games throughout its lifetime (and it’s the console’s best-selling game).

Super Mario 64 received near-perfect reviews all-around and is still considered one of the best video games of all time. It’s also the first in the Super Mario series to feature 3D gameplay, at the time revolutionizing how 3D games were made.

2 Wii: Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess (96)

When the Nintendo Wii exploded onto the scene, Nintendo was eager to showcase their Wii Remote motion controller, and what better way to do that than with a Legend of Zelda game, whose swords and archery gameplay seemed to be a good fit for motion control?

While it was also released for the GameCube, it was one of the Wii’s launch titles and was met with massive critical acclaim. At the time it was considered to be the best entry in the Legend of Zelda franchise, though there were some who criticized the Wii version’s wonky motion controls.

1 Switch: Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild (97)

Finally, the best Nintendo launch title according to Metacritic is Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with an almost perfect Metascore of 97. When it was released alongside the Nintendo Switch, it was one of the biggest contributors to so many shortages of the console worldwide.

Many critics have called Breath of the Wild a masterpiece, and we’re inclined to agree. Bringing open-world gameplay to the Zelda formula and blending them perfectly was really a breath of fresh air for the series.

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